The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1865-11-29
The Negro and his Friends.

was said of them, long ago, that They hated
slavery more than anything else on earth,
except the slave" They have abolished the
first, and are now laborine diligently though
perhaps ignorantly, 10 exietninate the sec-
ond. If they Go not succeed, il will be be-
cause hall miracle is wrought in behalf OF
the much abused African, whose best hope
is in the exierminalion OF his champions.
While fugitive slave laws were in force,
they passed sea and land 10 evade and
resist Them aud the unhappy victims of
their cruel charity, when delivered from uf-
holy bondage in The sunny land, were left
by the Aboliionisls 10 starve upon cold, Tree
soil. And now that all legal obstacles are
removed, and freedom reigns from the Cam
adas 10 the Gull, there is but one problem
presented for them 10 solve which is, how
TO obtain possession of whatever portion of
Southern resources was annually consumed
and ed in the suslen;alion Of four MILL
ions of their proiege'
Let il not be supposed that they avow
this purpose. For nearly half century
they have been perfecing themselves in
the ar, OF covering evil deeds with goodly
names. They have invented high-souuding
titles icr lhe adornmenl of principles which
would be hideous in their naked deformity.
Protesting 10 love the "Union" more than
all things besides, they advocated and en-
coUGaged a war which they al first insligai-
ed. and when all resistance TO the national
auth tori,y was al an end, they interposed the
same inevitable negro, preventing The re-
union OF the divided sections. ready 10 heal
with the first intention. Little reck they, ii
the obstacle is crashed out OF existence, as
The frai skiff crumbles TO powder between
the vast foes Of the Arctic seas. And as
the unseen currents, moving with resisiless
force, always bring the divided ice fields
together, so the sound sense of the Anglo
Saxon race will overwhelm and obli,era:e
all traces OF both African and Abolitionist
If they tsnd in the way Of national pros
peri:y The signs of The times indica
some such denoument 10 the drama.
The Jamaica insuueciion, which, il not
insigated by American Radicals directly, or
by their congeners, is, al least, precisely in
pies. To place The negro in his normal
state, il is indispensable that The dominant
race should be destroyed. Even the mad-|
ness of Abolition frenzy has never formally
predicted or advocated entire equality be-
! tween the slave and his late master. 1t Isl
many rumors OF an approaching uprising
of The black population oil the South, III
there were no foundation for the reports. Ill
is not possible that assemblages OF these
ignorant savaees, guarded by armed sent'-
nes, could convene for any good purpose
And, if any considerable body OF them can
be deluded by lheir white friends from New
| England 10 rise in armed oulawry, il Is
positively certain that the conflict will end|
with their exierminalion. Concerning theI
| trouble in the English island, we have oulyI
! The beginning of the end. Since the abol-|
| ishmeut of slavery there, This island hasI
dwinded down into a mere spot on ihel
! map, and now The British Government hasI
| TO decide, either 10 expairiale the negro, ioI
reduce him 10 something like his old bond
/ age, or 10 abandon the island 10 him en- rely
| In The first or the las, event, the result will
be very much the came. The poor Airicanl
relapses into his original barbarism, or dts
| appears from the lace of the earth.
While the "peculiar institution" existed
! in the Southern States, the negro was n|
with Christian civilization, and his cond'-l
lior, morally and physically, was far supe-|
nor 10 that of his kindred al The North. Hal
has always been peculiarly susceptible oil
! religious training, and The examples OF con-
sistent Christian profession have slways
been as Numerous in Virginia as in Ma~sa-
chuseus. The cultivated denizan of B Il
ton required somemote intellectual .hems|
! than the simple story OF the cross -
] while the debased slave of the Sonth was|
content to regulate his life BY the easily ap-|
pretended precepis of the gospel. The|
5ai:h of Uncle Tom wouli scarcely suit DIR.
! Oliver Wendell Holmes. In this enlighIen-|
ed age, il will hardly do TO institute conf
parison between The breakfast table Pro i
fessor and the Black witch, who Eever readI
or heard oil the Atlantic Monthly. But iheI
learned doctor, and those who have acted
with him, have e1ecually deprived iheI
ireedm an OF the comforts of religion soI
plain in its teachings, that the wsyfarins.
man, though fool, need not err therein.
The conclusion is nearly reached. Deliv-
cred from all wholesome restraints, The mel
gro is swiftly subsicing into heathenism /
He is delivered from bondage, and sromI
home, family ties, shelter, food, fuel and re- !
| ligious training also. Few cares for his
soul excepting his former master, who Isl
too impoverished 10 aid him, or 10 arrest or
even retard his doom. As he meis away