Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-07-23

krougnness IN things not seE.MINIsCENCEs.
oseses The st fers morn nf Gritty of hanged
I'd TO walk over the who'll great antipathy
nd ascertain from sctus is their abomina'
ything Is secure, ane in their presence
line Is carefully lev nsver hear the
re the train passes
stock is subjected to, :, ~ re-
Fhlness. When an eufor the same reason
HeS It's work Tor trip it 10 feel outraged when
,Ssrv dsfs VINO Is rsqdiPious and undeniabls
man az su uJis Il he fnh negro slavery on the
ed by the driver.zent had Is origin in the
erWard it is eYAies, and that the slave trade
.sa 70 mas on mainly by Northern
Ined. ara Northern spectators and capital
saw The South is continually denounced
fti16r engaging in the crime of trafhcking in
human fesh. Bat is it Bourbonism,
disfoyal, rebellious-an effort to perpetuate
sectional hatreds, to intimate that slavery
once existed in the Northern States. The
allusion by Colonel Falkner in his novel,
The Lille Brick Church, 10 fact which no one
: denies-thst the Northern people were once
the most cruel masters and extensive slave
dealers, has heen the spark to FIRE the magazine.
The only answer made to Colonel Falkner's
reference to unpleasant facts, is that it sis
too late in the day 10 taunt the Northern
people with slavery, when they abolished it as
soon as they discovered it was sinful" This
discovery WAS net made until experience DEM
onstrated that slave labor was improbable.
Nor was slavery abolished so soon as it was
pronounced sinful, as we propose show
ing that slavery was abolished by slow and
gradual emancipation in order to enable the
siaTe-o=srers to remove their property to the
Southern States where they were sold. YER
mont claims the honor of having first pro-
posed TO exclude slavery by her Bill OF
Rights in 1777 in anticipation of her sepsrs-
tion from New York, but the census of 100,
the year before the separation took effect,
shows that her frosts and SHOWS had efiectual-
y done the work before, as there were, IN
fact, but seventeen slaves in the State to be
emancipated. Slavery was introduced into
Massachusetts soon after its first settlement,
and was so TOLERATED" there that as late as
1888 her Supreme Court could not say by
what act particularly this institution was
Abolished. New Hampshire did not think it
worth her while to- pass an act to free
the 15S slaves which only remained in
that State in 1890, and so one of them
lived a slave in that free State as
late as 1S40 In the plantations OF Rhode
Islaud slaves were more numerous than in
the other New England States, as, indeed,
thew well might be, when the merchants and
sailors of this little State were the greatest
fraffickers IN the slave trade; but
as the negro could not live In
her latitude, the Rhode Islanders
the great negro traders-provided scheme OF
Emancipation which took lifetime to work
~-<I Leaving in 1910 FIVE slaves still In that
State. LoAjec. mt was too much interested
to indulge her philanthropy at the expense
of a sudden emancipation. In 1870 there
W ere 275O slaves, and so, like Rhode Island,
she adopted gradual plan Of emancipation
by the slow and prudent workings OF which
seventeen only of her slaves remained as such
in 1910. Pennsylvania was IN the same sit
nation, having 3737 slaves in 1890, and she
too provided for gradual emancipation. The
census of 1910 showed sixty live negroes still
in slavery, and in this State of Brotherly
Love, as late as 1928, negro woman was
sold by the sheriff to pay The debts of her
master. In New York, in which in 1870
there were q, 1924 slaves, a similar act of
emancipation was passed t1799), by the ope-
rations of which in 1910 all but four slaves
had been gotten rid of-whether by emanci- |
patton, death or shipment for sale at the |
South, can only be conjectured. New Jersey, |
although adopting the came scheme, was |
slower in getting rid of her slaves, 674 still |
emsiuing in 1910. As slavery decreased in
the Nortn, there wss a corresponding de-
bussse in the negro population, which shows
Extraordinarily that the slaves were not
liberstss- and permitted to remain among
their former owners, but that they were sx-
ported to the South and sold into bondage.
IL was considered expedient, as matter of
economys % &c. rid Of slavery. But the