Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1863-03-26
.E'Os'tRe2'2l Wears.
Abolition Philanthropy --Sambo
North and SambO South.

'HE THAT GIVETH TO THE POOR LEND
ETH TO THE LORD"
New YORK, January, 1868.
Dear Sir:-You have it in your
! POWER to render the cause of human.
ity and religion important service
Will you allow this appeal to reach
those under your influence, and
make such use of the facts here en-
bodied, as to call forth from the be-
uevoleut around you substantial aid
for this increasingly important work?
Truly yours, &c,
CHARLES G. LEIGH
To this the .ucasian replies,
Showing up the philan Nhlopy Of the
Abolitionisls, aud the condition of the
uegro North and South
We quite agree with Mr.. Leigh
hat we ',have it in our row er to +, n
der the cause Of humanity and reli.
gion an important service, and We
do not know how We can better do it
than by exposing the absprdi'y and
lOlly Of bis hole scheme. Mr.. Leigh
and his associates seem to be a very
well-meanipg, but very silly Set Of
people, who suppose they are doirg
God service by freeing the negroes,
aud then, after they bave removed
these poor creatures from the care
and protection Of their masters, at
once setting up terrible cry as TO the
pitilul condition h witch their Own
acts have placed them. The practic-
al question is, if these negroes are
suffering for want of clothing, food,
sc. &c, why did Leigh & 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 and paupers, until
Leigh & Go. first made them pau.
pers. lie informs US in bis circular,
that "the Government" do the most
towards supporting them; but still
they need many things to render them
comfortable, especially the omen
and children. That may be. If so,
then let those who made them pau
pers, support them. That must be
a most extraordinary philanthropy
which, not content with the usual
misery incident to society, insists up
on manufacturing psuperS upon which
TO bes.ow It's beneyOlence. The Alb
olitionists get the negroes free and
then right about and substantially
& clare that they are in worse con-
dition than they were when, they
found them. If not, why besiege
the Northera people to relieve their
Gesiintiou? The people Of the South
formerly took caie Of their negroes
without calling upon Northern be-
nevolence, but the Abolitionists ac-
knowledge they cannot. A lot of
poor, silly women have gone down to
Port Royal. Newbern, and ether pla-
ces, to teach these negroes, They
are sustained, ii seems, by what Mr.
Leigh calls "the Governmeur-that
is the Administration of Mr.. A. Lin
coin and the sum for the support
of these teaching spinsters is taken
out of the sweat and toll of white
working men. 1t may be "humani-
Ty," MIR. Leigh, it may be your sort
Of "religion'' to do this, but it is not
ours. The negroes we're better of
morally, physically, and intellectu-
ally, before you commenced this ab-
surd effort to turn them into white
men. You say nothing about the
horrible diseases which your 'phI.
lantbropy'' has INTRODUCED among
these poor creatures, nor of the beast.
ly immortality well known to exist at
Port Royal, and other "contraband,
depots. That you keep in the back
ground, of course. You have got
The negroes free, and you must do
something; but, be assured. that ev-
cry step you take in your direction,
only tends to kill the negro, and if
that is yeur "humanity" and your
religion" we wish no part nor lot in
it. We advise everybody 10 give
you not one cent. lie that giyeth