Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1863-09-24
For the journal.
MeSsrs. FultO7a 8. Price i:

MeSSrS. Fulton Price -
Until lately, ever since the Yankees came to New
bern the negroes in this quarter have had the Adolf
ton fever but their ttUer has turned to ague
since they have found that i.stead OF having been
carried the North and set free and noec living in
brick houses and riding In line carriages and eating
ham and turkey aud drinking French Brandy and
! Champaign every gro that mas of to Newbern
since the Yankees came there, is there yet IN most
ragged and beggarly condition, working On tcrtltlca-
tiops and railroads for dollars per month"; which pay
them sou Themselves they have received and that
| Abraham Lrcoln's crdfrs are, that the Captain of
every vessel that sails from Newbern to the North
shall before leaving that port take OATH that he
has not negro board, and the reason why tbs Or
der has been made s the Northe people have found
out that every negro that stolen from III the
wars of l776 aid 1872 by the B,Sh, had to be pad
for and they have idea Of being taxed pay Tor
negroes especially about threefourths OF the people
there opposed to interfering with Institution
of slavery. For instance, about halt of the North
ern people democ ats end IF opposed TO
Abotionism aud for tue other haLf-the Black Re
publican pdrty-ony one halt OF them Abolition
ists whilst the other half high tariff men, who
noAing about our negroes but promise the Abolition
lists to assist them to free negroes, if they would
eist them to pass Their high tariff laws. Yes,
groes have ou1d out all this also, that the NeW York
Herald has cd scd A braham Lincoln 10 hunt up all
the free negroes at the North and send them doy1
South and put them in the front of battle and have
half of them killed, and let tie other half run of and
| hide in our swamp5 the most enectual means Of
/ getting clear of them, which plan abraham not
slow to adopt, as his own State has pissed NV to
prevent free negroes from going there, Eld he himself
having said that the difference between the white and
black races broad that it is impossible for the tot
! Ter to ever aspire to moral, socic! and political
equality with the former and that he would rather
slavery extended from the RIO Grdnde to tie Saint
Ld1Cye nce, than to gee the Union dissolved (which
proves how much he thinks OF the negro
Yes, our negroes, having tuund out all this
noaU sau they have got enough of Yankee freedom
satisfied, especially they have also heard that the
London Times says, "no matter which whips the North
the South, the negroes doomed TO either nUery
or erterminGOn, and that the Times us1ihes our sa
very institution Bible grounds Also that the Lon
don Dispatch says the negroes In LOUISIANA are bet
ter of in state of S0Uery, than they in DdhOmy
free that the day the British government set their
slaves in their West India POSSESSIONS ree tire day
both the blacks and the rhltes went to ruin; that every
Journal IN London, except few under the influence Of
the Ereer Hall clique, opposed to abolition sm
and that the great big Black Republic of Liberia is
total failure has completely f22led out Messrs.
Editors this has caused the whole civilized world
to enquire into the condition of slaves and the re-
suit OF their enquiry s that the negro the Southern
Conederacy, in state Of slavery is better off than he
is at the North any where else earth free. The
truth s it would puzzle the wsest statesman, Philoso
pher and Phlanthropist on earth to determine which
the negro most stands in need ofGn OUerSeer, the
account of his idLeness, or a guardian, account
of bis anprovidence-he being proUerbiaI for both
tdieneSS and improvidence We believe that if our
Legislature was to pass q law today to nclpate
our slaves that II would not oe nVe years before hey
would desire the law to be repealed Look at the free
negroes all over the State, nc half as we'll provided for
the slaves are and frequently giving their ndeatures
for life to some white man. applying to the Lglsla
ture to be made slaves. The negroes Themselves have
got sense enough to know that two superior
and inferior one, cannot live in the state
on terms Of equality that the latter obliged to be
slaves to the former an fact if not in a10 And the
only difference in being slave in lav, and in fat
is this the former has but MASTER and the latter
has Dozen every man in the neghborhOod-and it is
easier to serve one master than it is to Dozen
Look at the free negroes at the North99 out of 100
Of them the poorest, raggede end meanest vagabonds
this EARTH half OF their time in the daily work
houses and Pententiaries And why is this the
Why rst because of their iIleness and improvidence
second, because the Yankees cheat them out of what
little they do work for.
TUCkAHOE.