Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-07-18
SE4TERT RE-ESTABLISHEU
GEORGIA.


from the Georgia Appeal
RAsAwAY-From the subscriber on the 18th
instant, Lewis Springer, who had contracted
to work for the present year. Said freedman
il about twenty-five years old, five feet. four |
or five inches high, black complexion.
Also, Blake Gaulding, sixteen or seventeen
years old. about Ave feet high. yellow COM
plexiou-.an away about the 20th of April |
The above freedmen were under contract with
me for the present year. and l hereby lore
warn all persons from hiring or harboring the
same, as / will prosecute any so doing. Any |
Information of their whereabouts will be
thankfully received \. T. CRoziER.
A Georgian writes to the Washington
Chronicle stating that under the laws OF
that good Democratic State it is penal Of
tense for any one to harbor negro who
has contracted to labor and runs away from
his employer II seems that n. I. Gro
Zier had made such contract with man
of black complexion, % years old, five
feet and four or iiveinches high, named
Lewis Springer, to labor for on, year, and
who ran away from his benevolent en-
ployer, and that the said Crozier had a
contract also with minor 10 or IL years
old, of yellow complexion, and about five
feet high, named Blake GauldIng, to Ia
Dor year, and that said minor ran away
also, contrary to the dignity of the Com
monwealth of Georgia, and the provis-
ions OF the statue in such case made and
provided and the said black man and
yellow boy may need shelter, food, and
raiment, and possibly feel inclined 20
work rather than starve. And it was
deemed possible that some Georgian might
be willing to make a fair exchange of
bread and meat for days work to the Diet
riment of the interests of said Crozier.
Hence the necessity off penal law to pro-
tect the said Crozier by preventing such
runaways from obtaining subsistence by
hard work elsewhere.
The cause of the departure oil this hired
man and boy from the hospitablo roof of
their employer is not stated. 1t may be
that he logged them oftener or more Sc
yerely than accorded with their IDEAS oil
justice and equity. They may not have
been fed and lodged as comfortably a;
they wished. And it is possible that sale
Crozier may not have fulfilled his part o
the contract by making prompt payment
according to the tenor of the agreement.
They may have had ample cause for run
ming away from this Samaritan. And we
are not advised whether. under the gem
erous laws of that great State, the said
black man and yellow boy could avail
themselves Of the use of the criminal
courts to starve him into tulfllment of
his part of the contract. Probably not
The said Crozier is supposed to he a white
man. And Georgia is at present demo
cratic State. Hence the said Crozier has
probably the protection Of Il white mans
government.
This distinction furnishes Il practical
lesson for all freedmen to ponder. Just
now the democratic leaders are making
appeals to freedmen to aid in ousting the
republicans from power. Their efforts
have been crowned with success in Geor-
gia. In Georgia We have peon slavery
already re-established, in the mode ind-
Gated by the foregoing advertisement.
Were all the Southern States restored 10
democratic rule slavery in this form would
be speedily re-established in all of them
Can 1t be wondered that colored men con-
tlnue to distrust the Democracy
THE FOR TRADE OF ALASKA.
30 much has been said of the probable and
possible value Of the products of Alaska. an
authoritative statement is desirable NJ. BEN
dell, u gentlemrn who has made himself ia
miliar with the territory, gave in late lee.
ture in Sacramento, the following facts and
figures
The fur trade of Alaska is OF such an in
portance and of such magnitude that al
other resources are Insignificant when com
pared with it. The furs brought annually in
to the market are worth, not thou sands, bu
millions of dollars, and it is safe t, assum
that their value exceeds the fur produce q
the rest Of North America and Siberia com
bined. BY far the most of these furs are tx
ported to England, whence they are dstrihu
ing reimported into the United States in
manufactured condition, forcing us to pay
duty of 40 per cent, on one Of our own pro
ducts. OF all the wealth in furs which Alas
Ia annually produces, over one-half is fur
nished by those two small islands in the
Behring Sea which, as | have explained,
have been leased to the Alaska Commercial
Company. ST. Paul and St. George are each
inhabited by about.300 Aleuts, who have at
tained state OF civilization but little inferior
70 that OF the lower classes of the country
and Who under the management of the pres
en-. company, enjoy an unusual prosperity
Inc company pays them SAC, 600 per annum
ss wages, furnishes them with everything
needed at San Francisco prices, supports
schools, erects comfortable buildings for ,her,
and even has physician to care for their
health. The Alaska Commercial Company
has been frequently accused Of cruelty toward
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