The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1861-11-08
BEDFORD, PA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8 1861.

lection of lunatic asylum. II would desire
lto do the thing completely that some, 1000,
00O OF slaves should be emanclpated in one
! day II possible, even in one hour But il has
never thought what is TO become of these un-
| fortunate people after emancipation. They
would not have square ofthls globe that they
could call their own. Wherr could they
sleep on the first night after their C hams had
been broken! Either on the land of their for
mer owners, which would be respass, or on
the highway, which public convenience could
not tolerate. Where are they to go, gentle
men Abolitionisls? SupPosing they sleep
somewhere the first night, where are they to
get food for the next day! You would have
destroyed the relation between them and their
masters. And after having done this mischi ef
TO both parties you could not expect their mas
tiers to still provide them with food, clothing,
medicine and medical attendance. Whose
business will j! be to see to all this?
Will IT be yours simply TO look on-rub
your hands at the triumph of your inconsidef-
ate Pollcy-and, having disrupted the whole
social FABRIC IN the Southern States, 10 have
the emanclpated negroes and the white poDu-
| lation TO fight it outl Is this what you mean 2
Are you honest in your theoriest II so, WHY
not have proposed 10 the nation the setting A.
pant OF some portion Of our yet unpeopied ter-
| Fltory, say patch of land as large rs Eng land,
to be settled by these Rmancipated slaves. If
emancipation Were possible. WIZ not pnt
your hand IN your pockets ard invite your
nrIghbor to do the somp for he erection of
huls, or the procurement D even ipS rude
agricultural Implements for s51I,tloniz-d me-
gFoes, at least during the first year. iar the pro-
curing OF seeds Of various EindA agricultural and
horticultural, to be planted and cultivate by
their own hands IN view of the second wear.
when they should beve to depend 10 great
measure upon Themselves 2
But we nave seen another part OF your scheme.
which is, that the negroes once emabc,pated
might diffosp themselves throughoa. the tree
States, and especially in the North. Well. YOU
have had them in the North, and there are some
still remaining, but they are becoming few in
numbers, and dwindIng down after the .,yla
OF the Indians. How do you treat those that
you have Are their feelings not outraged on
every corner OF our streets ? Are they not call
ed black niger" with taci. approval even
OF those who NAV have had hand IA their rnn-.
ni6s GF.sy Even "a thls great cHy % NfW
York, though their Money is just thu same as
that which white people use, they cannot be ad-
mitted into an omnibus or railroad car occu-
pied by white people without being reminded
bv printed sign that it is privilege and not
right. Are those the benefits which you in
tend 30 bestow on the liberated negro population
OF the South What Else In the South free
blacks are sometimes the keepers OF respectable
hotels, and wealthy planters choose 10 pstronize
them. In the North, If black man were rich
enough to buy the AstoT House he would have
no white guests. A II these things should have
been foreseen and looked TO by philanthropisis
before attempting to inaugurate a second massa-
ere like that Of Saint Domingo. Now, before
concluding, one general word about slavery
We know from sacred writ that Abraham DOS
sessed slaves that Job, in his plaintIve mood,
pleaded before the mighty his kindness to his
slaves that Moses did not strike at the root of
slavery, but only mitIgated the hardships to
which the bondman was otherwise subjected
that our Divine Savior did not teach or prescribe
any law in reference 10 that especial tonic
that the Church, n the exercise Of her influence
employed only religious and moral suasioa to
remove the dangers which surrounded both the
masters IN their mutual relations TO each other
Now, not 10 speak OF o;her legislators, the Cath
0IicS OF this country, and perhaps the Catholics
OF Christendom at large, have made IL a rule 10
initiate the example of our Lord, and TO avoid
except in the way OF the Church, as above
referred to--all interference with slavery where
1t Is once established and constitutes an element
in social and civil life. For this the Catholics
have been praised, and no article iu Dr.. Brown
sons Quarterly Rcpiew can induce them 10 for
sake the wise and good old paths OF their Divine
Master and of HI Church.
The author whose works the writer in Brown
soE's Rer'ew processes to criticise--viz Angus
TIN Cochin, knows nothing OF what slavery is
IN the United States. No European, unless he
shall have lived long time IN this country, Is
qualified TO write on this subject as il Is known
here. There IS no analogy between the slavery
known among pagan nations, whether of Greece
or Rome, and ha: which is recognized in our
Southern States. Ia the former cases the slaves
were, if not altogether, at least generally of the
Caucasian race. They were oftpntimes the
countrymen of their masters. speaking the same
language, and not Onireqnen'ly bv far the SUI
peFior of their masters IN education and refine |
ment of manners. For them the transition from
bondage to freedom, under the auspices of the
Church, was an easy and almost imperceptible |
Slavery is derivable from The earliest annals |
Of the human race. The first necessity of |
man, not being himself the head of a powerful
family, was to cling for protection to some such !
head. He became slave voluntarily, but on
condition that he should be protected for il he ,
'trayed from The family, he became immediate
y an outcast and foreigner, and liable to be /
seized and brought into servitude By those who
chose to take advantage of his unprotected con-
iitlon. AS time went on families, especially un-
der the Mosaic disDensation, were aggregated |
INTO communities, cIvll rights became recogniz-
ed, and the whole social system, including the |
RIGHTS OF slaves and masters. was surrounded and