New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1863-03-06
1.-THE NATIONAL FREEDNAN'S RE-
LItF ASSOCIATION"

put forth hy the alovr Association. to
! ge'her with the fllowi'g polite invita-
ton;
He that girith to the Poor lendeth to the Lerd.
New YoRK. Jam. 1853.
DEAe SIR :-Ynu have ii in von'
power to render The canse If humanit,
and religion important ser, vice. VIII
,ou allow this appeal to reach those
under Your influence and make such
use of the facts here cmLodied, as IT,
call forth from the benevolent arou q
ven substantial aid for this increasing
" important work.
Truly yours, &c CHas G LEIGH
We a,ite agree with Mr.. Leigh thai
| we shave it in cur power t" render tie
causc IF humanity and religion an i'm
portant service and we do not know
how we car ctter d, it than hv expos
ing the ahsur'i'y and folly Of his whole
scheme. Mr.. Leigh and his associates
seem to be very well-meanirg, but a
very silly set If people, who surp"sr
they are doing Gods service by freeing
the negroes, and then, after they have
removed these poor creatures from care
and protection of their masters, at once
80 ting up a terrible cry as to the pitt
ful condition in which their own acts
have placed them. The practical
enes'ion is. If thcsn negroes are suffer
ing for want of clothing. food, &c, &c.
why did Leigh T. Co get them in this
condition ? Aye, why do they want to
get some millions more in the same
situation ? The North were not called
upon to support these negroes as paup
ers, until Leigh a. Co. first made them
paupers. He inf rms US in his cir
culnr, .ha. ".he Govsr. e-si,'' rfa the
most towards supporting them but
still they need many things to render
them comfortable, especially the women
and children. That may be; if SO.
then let those who male them paupcrs,
support them. That must be most
extraordinary philanthropy which, not
content with the usual misery incident
to society, insists upon manufacturing
paupers upon which to hestow it's be
neyolence. The Aboll'ionists get the
negroes free, and then turn right about
and substantially declare that they are
in a worse cndition than they were
when they found them. II not, why
be.'ege the northern people to relieve
their destitutiqn -? The people Of the
South formerly took care OF their negroes
without calling upon nor'hern benevo-
lence, but the Abolitionists acknor,l-
edge they cannot. A lot If poor, silly
women have gone down to Pnrt R 'yal,
Newl ern, and other places. to teach
these negroes. They are sustained, it
seems, by what Mr.. Leigh calls ''the
Gnvernment,'- that is, the Admins
tration Of Mr.. A. Lincoln-and the
sum f,r the support Of these teaching
spinsters is taken out of the sweat sn|
toll of white working men. It may be
'humanity,' Mr. Leigh, it may be your
sort Of religion" to do this, but it is
not ours. The negroes were better off
morally, physically, and Intellectually,
before you commenced the ahsnrI eff 'rt
to turn them into white men Y,n
say nothing about the horrible disease.
which your philanthropy has intro
duced among these poor creatures, nor
Of the beastly immortality we'll known
to exist At P .rt ROYAL. and other "con-
trahandp aep,ts. That you keep in
the back ground. of course. You have
got the negroes free, anil YOU must Go
something but beassured that every
step you take in your direction, only
tends 20 kill the egro, ani if that is
your 'humani,y' and your ''reIi ion,'
we wish no rart nor lot in it. We Al
rise everybody to give you not one
'ent, He. tfat giveth money to tn
anatic lendeth to the devil.-Caucas
sian.