Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1883-11-10
AMERICAN SLAVERY.

gro's Present Condition.
London Telegraph
The year 1927 was somewhat of an
eventful one in the history OF American
slavery. The American government
had begun tentatively to send freed ne
groes back to Africa. The settlement
of Liberia, on the coast of upper
Guinea, had been founded in 1922 by
the American Colonization society, es-
tablishcd by Henry Clay, and in 1927
went to great expense In fitting out YES
sells for the conveyance of enfranchiSed
slaves to the land of their fathers. At
Baltimore the capital of the slave state
of Maryland, u party of abolitionists
had had the courage to set up IL news
paper entitled The Genius of Universal
Emancipation, with u motto taken from
the Declaration OF independence: eve
hold these truths to be self-evidcnt-
that all men are created equal, and en-
dowed by their Creator with certain in
alenable rights; that among these are
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-
ness" Baltimore at the time was doing
II lively trade in human flesh with the
south, and the Genius boldly quoted an
advertisement from n New Orleans
paper, in which the subscriber offered
niuety-eight negroes, including black
smiths, bricklayers, carpenters,
seamstresses, house servants and
waSherwomen, 'iHst received by the
brig Lady Monroe, from Baltimore, for
sale, low, for cash, or on short credit
for good paper" Meanwhile the Re.
formed Methodist church of the United
States had adopted rule that no per-
Clu l,n it. .ol
as member, and that any member
buying u slave shoul be Immediately
expelled from the society. Yet for ali
the assaults of the religious bodies and
the philanthropists on the grim citadel
of slavery, the black man, whether in
bondage on enfranChised continued to
90 to the wall The same number of
the English newspaper in which the
final abolition of slavery in the state of
New York, on the 4th OF July, 1927, is
announced, with Il description OF q
grand procession of the black people in
honor of the Occasi iOn, contains Il para
graph TO the effect THAI lady at BoS-
ton had gone distracted in consequence &c
of her daughter having contracted a
clanLe tine marriage with negro. A
Boston journal is quoted in connection
with the affair in the following terms:
eve have never known more gross
outrage on common deuency and the
usageS OF society: and the minister who
becomes an accessory to this black
transaction deserves to be held M to
the apprehension OF the community" "
a hundred years ago the supreme
court of Massachusetts declared slave
holding to be barred by the "free and
equal passage in the Declaration of In
depeuden &c. - The American negro is
now universally free; but have the doc
trines OF social equality made any mp
preciable progress in his caseP He
votes, and may become Il legislator on
3 Judge; but is be any higher in the
social scale than he ever was? Has the
"misce4enaliou" movement como tC
anything? No white American citizen
wonld venture to appearin society with
black wife No white girl who mar
red even n mulattO would be received
in society; and if negro elopcd with OF
betrayed Il white girl the chances would
be ninety-nine to one in favor of his
being Immediately lync1ed. There
were four millions Of slaves in the
union when civil war set them free
They enjoy precisely the same poltica
liberties rs their white iellOw-citzenS
do; but socially they continue to b,
looked upon with contempt and repul
sion, rs "oiggers" and "darkies," ant
''the black seed of Cain"
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