New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-04-01

Several dave since our troops took pofsssion OF Tue
railroad from Memphis 10 Charleston, at point near
black man was taken up in August, 1871, and i'm
prisou ed As a runaway 405 DAYS. In this time yer
min, disease, and misery had deprived him OF the
nse Of HIS limbs He rendered cripple Tor me-
and finally discharged, as no one would buy him.
More than 1000 of the citizens Of the District of
Columbia on the 24h Of March, 1913 in memorial
TO Congress declared, "that IT wss Lot alone from
the rapac,y of slave traders that the coored race IN
this District were doomed TO sufler; that the laws
sanction and direct procedure unparalleled III gar
ing Injustice by awning among the Governments
of Cbristendom." They state that in the Summer
Of 1877 "a colored man who stated that he was en-
titled TO freedom, was taken np as runaway shNe
and lodged in the Jail of Washington City: lie was
advertised. but no one appearing 10 claim hln' ne
WAS according to law put up At public auction lot lhe
payment of lis Jail fees, and sold as slave Tor NE
He was purchased by a slave.trader, who was not
reouired to give security for bis remaining ~ the
District and he was, after, shipped TO AleXan-
dria for one of the Southern States An attempt
made by some benevolent individuals 10 have the sale
postponed until his CLAIM To freedom coud be lnNe'-
iigaed but their efforts unavailing, and thus
wac human being sold into perpetual bondage At
the Capital of the fTees Government on earth. with
ont even n pretense of Trial. or an ALLEGATION OF
crime" The men of New England, New-lork snd
PENNSYLVANIA OF that generation We're Responsible
before God for such deeds Of inhumanIty.
Rut we OF this age in America, are not guiltless
Of like enor,nities. Senators Will remember that
when Congress assembled in Deoenb, last, we found
nearly sixty human beings immured in our jail, un-
der the authority Of our Marshal and his officials, as
fugitive eaves, and that OF ths number one man, adj
mil ed by all to be Free had been confined more Than
six months. Colored men OF the Free States, WHO
have come with Northern regiments to The defense
of the national capital, have been seized ana ini
prisoned in our isil as runaways by constabes, and
4 of, he
OF this doctrine. that color II presumpuve evidence
of Slavery. Men who have escaped from the camps
of armed treason, who have given cur military com
manders important intelligence OF the movements OF
Rebel forces, appearing IN the streets Oh "aSninS
ton. are seized and thrust into jail by the
creatures who see " slave written on
the forehead Of every man through whose veins
courses & drop of African blood In this national
capital turks race OF official and unofficial NAH
hunters greedy, active, vigilant, deX'erous, ever
ready BY falsehood, trckery, or yioeoce, to Gluten
the bapless black man who carries not with him L
title deed of freedom. Only few days ago, tLese
harpies of the land merciless than the wreck
ers OF the seas, bounced upon and burned 10 Your
! jail two men your officers IN the ieli had sent 10
Warrington 10 give important intelligence TO your
generals. For these deeds OF Ibumaniiy and H. JUS
lice the intelligent patriotic, and Christian fresmen
Of America are responsible before man and before
God Aud if we, their representatives,, who now,
for the first line bave the power do not end these
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rest upon our souls, and We shall he consgned to
the moral Indignation Of Chiistendom.
Justice 10 wroDged and oppressed race demands
that this corrupt and corruptng doctrine that color
ia presumutive evidence Of Slavery IN the Capital Of
the Republic shall be condemned drowned, repudi-
ated by tie Government of the United States. For
two generations il hes Iresst with mercllers toTcc
upon = race who mi, ged their blood with the blood
OF our fathers on the stricken fields OF the War OF
Independence. In tboeo days Of trial, black men,
-. - sfbs mil. Uplf ia. La
eide with our lathers TO win for America "a place
among the nations. They rallied at the tap OF the
drum Oh the morning OF the lth OF Allli, l'o, 70
meet the shock Of the first battle OF the Revoution
They uoured their unerrng shots into The bosom
of the veteran troops OF England ss they moved up
the slopes Of Bunker Hill. They met and three
times by their steady vslor repused the charges OF
British veterans on the battlefield Of Rhode Island
which Lafayette pronounced 1.-The best-ioughi bat
tle of the Revolution"
They fought aud fell by the side Of IedyaEd 1T
Fort Griswold They shared In The glorious de-
Tense aud victory at Red Bank, which viii live II
our L!siory as long a. the Delaware shal! flow by
the spot made immortal by their vslor They Ell.
pIiystiOrs Of the batlc-felds and bivonacs Of the
i.vesrs CAMPAIGNS Of the Revolution from Lexington
20 Yorktown, TO found in America Il Government
which should recognize the rights OF human mature.
For moie than sixty years uDmiaoil OF their Fights
and nngra eu for Their services in our hour OF weak
ness we have recognized in the capital Of the patton
The wicked and insulting dogma whch writes
slaye" on the brow Of all who inherit their blood
Let us Of this see hasten 10 atone Tor tins grei
wrong, by erusiug that word IRON The brow oil tb''
presciibed race here, and making manhood, here q,
least forever hereafter presumptiye evidence Vi
! freedom.
BY the act Of the 9th Of February ls0l, Congress
continued in force in this capital tie statute Of Ma
rylsnd enacted In IVY, that no free negro o. mn
la0 Shall be admitted and received es good and valid
- aI.nr tlafu f.x
wherein any Christian white person is concerned"
This statute enacted nearly one hundred and fifty
years ago, re-epacted by Congress on the 9Th OF
February 1901 il the law ia the capital Of this ma
iOn that processes to recognize the sublime creed OF
bunan equality. This law places the property, The
liberties tue lives of twelve thousand free persons OF
color in the District Of Columbia, Of the mercy Of the
ayaricious the violent, and the abandoned. II puts
in peril the rights of property and OF person OF every
free coloTed man IN America whose feet shall
press the sol! OF the District Of Columbia. Hore the
oath Of the black man affords protection whatever
10 bis property, 10 the fruits OF his toll 10 the per-
sonal lights Of hin SELL bs wife, his children biz
race. Greedy Gyarce may withhold from lin tho
fruits Of his toll clutch from bin his little acquisi-
tons: the brutal NAY visit upon him. his wife, his
children insults, indignities, blowsi the kidnsppeF
may enter his dwelling and steal from biz hearth
stone biz loved ones tho assassin may hover On his
track imperiiDg the lives Of lis bOusehold-eye' y
outrage the depraviiy Of man can yihit upon his
brother may be peTpetrated upon him, upon his
family, upon his rsce--but be oath upon the EvnIi
eelists Of Almighty & cd, though his name may be
written in the Book Of Life, neither protects BIN
from wrong nor puDishes the wrOngdOer. Tbs
Christian nation ia solemn mOckery enac;s that The
free black men of America shall not bear testimony
in the judicial tribunals OF the District OF Columbia.
Although the black man is thus mute and dumb be
fore The judicial tribunals Of the capital Of Christian
America, his wrongs, which We will not have rghteo
here win 70 up 20 hig her tribunal where tie oath
of the prescribed negro is heard and bis story regis
tered BY the pen Of The recording angel What
wronps what outrages, may not be perpetIaied upon
a race OF men where color is legal Iresump.iOn Of