Litchfield enquirer., 1868-03-26
WHITE AND BLACK FHrEDNEE.

. tion. Mr. Johnson has prophesied a .swa E or races, and good many other weak sis Q ters, and grandmotkers of both eexee. trena
 change. : We'll, we iberate less than four millions
 Of slaves; the Emperor of Russia set fres
 with stroke of his pen over twenty-twc millions. It will surprise many persons tc pc told that the Russian Empire still ex ) lsts; that 1t is even doing well; it has net , become ''prey to an anarchy" that in dustry does not languish, but on the con ) trary has increased since the act of enamel patton, that, in short to open the safety valve has not burst the boiler, as good many simple persons imagined il
 would. ---
 The Russian Emancipation act dates from 1861. The slaves in the southern states did not become actually free until lo65. The Russian experiment. began real. ly ln 1863, and is over two years older than ours; 1t IS found there that schools have rapidly increased, and the freedmen have gradually and peaceablyn settled down to steady industry; and the experiment. ap- proves itself, even to it's opponents.
 ''but the Russian serfs were not black.
 put white, some one one will perhaps say. That IS very true; but it is remarkable that the advocates of slavery in Russia imputed to the white slaves there precisely the same bad and weak qualities which the adyo- cates Of black slavery here imputed to the negroes. An article in the current num- Der of the North American Revieo on eman- oipatlon in Russia gives some curious in- not work except under compulsion? Free him, and you ruin the country, they con- stantly exclaimed. So the Russian master said of his white slaves, ''No stick, no 1 work" The negro as a slave, we were told, was docile easily attached to his mas ter, indolent, wasteful, improvident, un- grateful, given to lying; the negro men are confirmed thieves, the women unchaste. but all these virtues and vices were attrib- uted in like manner to the white slaves of Russia by their masters. Thus says the North American RecieaD. = o -..
 Sheep like docility,' 'an incomparable sweetness of temper, affection for superi- ors, strong family and religious feeling, hospitality, are allowed them; but friYolity, ial traits. ''They appear to have sucked in the propensity to steal with their moth ers milk. and can only be driven to in- dustry by the whip or the burden of a heavy tribute; while servility abounds, the sentiment of gratitude is almost unknown. According to the author of Russia by re- cent Traveller (1859), the physicians give evidence equally discreditable in regard to the purity of the women. The familiar re- frains are also heard. These qualities be- long by nature to the Russian peasant and emancipation would certainly cause the ruin of great number" -A...-.9
 Does not this read like parody of the southern argument against the humanity of the negro? Finally, the Russian slave was even said to give out 8 peculiar and disagreeable odor; just what was said of the negro slave of the south. $ --.
 We need not wonder at this. The mas ter of slave always seeks to justify fl his wrong, even before he is accused; he feels it; and his plea for slavery is often only an unconscious answer to his own conscience, rather than reply to special accuser. no doubt the Egyptians argued that the Is- raelites would not work without the lash and would starve if they were set free. In Germany, up to a very recent period, the Jews, hated as Q subject and outcast peo- pie. were charged with the same impurities and moral defects which were imputed to the black slaves in the southern states and to the white slaves in Russia The Jew was said naturally to give out @ disagreeable odor; he was by nature dishonest; he was treacherous, ungrateful, but abjectly ser vile and kcunning-al which was urged against him, to prove that he ought not to have equal rights with Christians" and the equal protection of the laws.-N r. l Foe. Post.
 ] FEMALE LABoR.-One business reason why women's labor is cheaper than mems is the always impending possibility of mar riage, which removes her from her post, but not the man. Another is found in the fact that but few avenues of employment being open to women, the supply of female can be had cheaper, and so long as this is the case, will be paid so. But finally the great burden which weighs down the work ing g-woman is the social discrmation which exists again her, and for that her own sex is responsible. Every man in this coun- try worthy of consideration is working man. No woman is allowed by society to work. It is not respectable. Many wo- men of otherwise common sense pretend to deny the fact that they manage their own households, or do anything toward increasing the comforts or lessening the expenses of their husbands and fathers. Perhaps the bulk of young women in what is called good society attempt to create the impression that their time is purely end I wholly spent in doing nothing. Outside of home the demands of responsibility are still more exacting and arbitrary. Work, clerical or banking, or ribbon and crino. line selling, which would be perfectly re- spectable for brother, ostracise his sister from every parlor and sitting room in the state. The laws of society are enacted and enforced by women, and when the pear hard on her the battle must be fought in- .l side her own biladelph'a FreSS' t'--3
 The woods in the vicinity of Scosssnile: Macoupin county. IL, were set on nIe ias. .ks : fall and among other combustibles m the way of devouring element was an ola tree whose roots extended into 2 vein of coal ten or twelve inches in thickness and 1yang
 naar the surface The seam of coal took fire ire from the burning roots of the tree, and hos been in a state of combustion ever since, % emitting smoke and melting snew for considerable distance around. ., -,,o,.
 Said nearsighted Congressman to Til ton. "What would you do, MT. ITilton, il YOU could not distinguish your friends iu FRN ~