Year: 1863

stop the rebellion, he may liberate slaves
for the same object, but not for any
other. He may not do it because he
thinks that slavery is wrong. This is
admitted by the President himself; for
he has said repeatedly that he should in
terfere with slavery only to stop the re.
bellion, and only so for as that object
required. Men may say that the object
Of the war has been changed, but there
is no ground for it, any more than for the
ten thousand other lies which scces sion.
sympathizcrs are constantly repeating,
and which some fools have been made to
believe.


Many think that if the slaves in the
south are liberated, they will come to the
north. But there is no such thing in
the book. Negroes like a warm climate,
though they sometimes leave to avoid
slavery. There are nearly 100000 free
negroes in Maryland, and they might
have come north long ago, if it had been
their desire, for in most of the States
there is no law to prevent it and in
some States they would have had all the
rights and privileges Of white men yet
negroes in the free States have dimin-
ished instead Ct increasing. Slaves
when emaacipated will be needed at the
south as much as tney are now, and no
doubt but that as a general thing they
will stay there; though they may gradu-
ally 60 farther south and finally get into
the torrid zone where they naturally be-
long.


The poor whites at the south, in many
respects, are worse off than the slaves.
They cannot get half as much for their
labor as is paid for slave labor, and even
the slaves look down upon them with
pity and contempt. They are usually
called "poor white trash" As they are
the only white laborers at the south,
from them the southern nabobs have
formed their opinion of white laborers in
general, and no wonder that they should
think that laborers, whether black or
white, had better be slaves than free
Probably We should think so too, were
We in their circumstances.


Some contend that negroes are natu.
rally inferior to the whites, and it may
be so, though l have no evidence of the
fact. But allow that it is so, that is no
reason why they should be misused, or
deprived of their rights. For the very
object Of civil government is to protect
the ignorant and the feeble. The wise
aud the powerful can more easily protect
themselves. NJ. B. C.


MAGNAN1MITY- Some officious police
officer in Philadelphia, not long ago, ar
rested man named Pool-Mr. Marcus
Pool. The officer found Mr.. Pool, who
is described as a man "six feet long, and
broad in proportion" sitting on a door
step endeavoripg to mend his tattercd
corduroys with needle and a piece of
twine. His head and feet were bare,
and the only article Of clothing about
him, except his pants, was dirty shirt.
He protested before the magistrate that
he was in comfortable circumstances
that he wanted neither work, food nor
clothing. When allusion was made to
his scanty stock Of the latter, he replied:
"Upon my word and honor couldn't
bear another rag on me. Habits every
thing. Look at Adam aud t'other apos-
ties, how dye suppose they stood it?--
The thinner you larn to dress yourself,
the higher you come back to state Of
innocence" The magistrate was obliged
to discharge Mr.. Pool.


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