St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-06-06

imaginable, incomprchensible, unfathoma-
bic maeanness Of Shareholders. We have
often said that stealing hens off the roost
at night, purlolning coppers from dead
negroes eyes, or robbing colored preach
er's saddle bags Of his cold pone are re-
spectacle crimes compared to that of whip
ping old women for living-one main
branch Of Southern gentlemau's business
in life, and does not this confirm our
words? One week these Montgomery dig
nitaries sell free colored sailors, like cat
tic, to pay the expenses Of the white sail
ors, whom they had robbed. Next week
they are Guiding and cajoling colored men
to defend them in their deadly peril; and
recounting the obligations under which
their race have been laid to free negroes
Of former generation both in this and
foreign land! Could any men be guilty
of such tyranny and fawning whose ma
lures were not an unfathomable sink of
cowardice and mcanness?
Talk about their chivalry! We never
saw an average Northern farmer or me-
chanic who had not more chivalry and
manhood than twenty Of their best apollo
GIGS for men.
But the free negroes Of the South will
very likely, nine-tenths Of them, be willing
to fight for the Confederacy and Slavery.
There is nothing in negro blood which
protects man from the faint of moral pol
luton. We never could discover that
the colored people of the South were very
greatly superior to the whites. The
blacklist freeman is as ambitious to own q
"nigger" as any body else, and as ANXIOUS
to preserve his property as the whitest
proprietor in the States.
One Of the haughtiest shareholders we
ever knew was Jerry Wade, mulatto of
Louisville. He had bought himself, his
wife and family and accumulated $4,000
of real estate. He held his oldest son and
his mothers sister as slaves, although he
had emancipated his wife and his younger
children were born free. He was superb
looking old gentleman, more gentlemanly
and more humane to his slaves than most
white masters, but with enough of the
Southern pomposity to give him strut
He once cowhided, on the street, white
tenant, MIR. Fullerton Of Pittsburg, who
had presumed on what he fancied his priv
ilege as a white man, and struck Jerry
with Ratchet when he went to collect
his rent. Jerry was sued and fined St
cents. we rented a house of him, and
his daughter-in-law was our maid of all
work, free born and one who lived in
a constant dread lest in some fit of passion
he would sell her husband. Some thought
it very cruel in Jerry to hold his son a
slave, but he was fat and sleek and we'll
dressed to boot, and VIC could not see that
it was any worse for Jerry Wade to keep
his son a slave than for his white neigh
Dor John Jacobs to keep his three daugh-
tiers. If the one-fourth negro blood in
Green's veins should have moved the one
half negro blood in his fathers veins, so
that he should emancipate him for its sake,
why should not the seven-eighths white
blood in their veins have moved the all
white blood of their fathers to emancipate
them? True, they were worth in market
twenty-five hundred dollars apiece, and
Green would have brought thousand !;
but that 81 500 would have been less out
of Jacobs $500, 900 than the one thousand
out Of Jerry's $4,000. Yet, people who
would have been quite shocked at Wade
turning his one thousand article into cash
would have looked upon it as quite mat
ter of course if Jacobs had sold his daugh-
tiers into Southern seraglios as he had
sold their mother. Now, why would it
have been worse for Jerry to have sold his
son for barber than for Jacobs to have
sold his daughter for prostitute? But
Jerry did show himself better than his
white neighbor, and emancipated the boy.
before his second child was born.
Why is it worse for colored shareholders
to fight for slavery, than for white slave
holders to break up the Union for it p
Why is it worse for black non-slaveholders
to fight for it, than for poor whites to do
the same? The free black of the slave