Year: 1859

keepers of eating houses or barber-shops, were highly praised therein. In one case, when a free negro was about to start to California, he was much lauded and recom- mended. He afterwards attempted to mur- der white citizen, was in jail, and finally absquatulated.

 The next error of Greeley's is that King would have to sell his property before lS60, and if he did not then leave the State that he would be sold. If he chose to remain he would be hired out for year, the pro- ceeds of his hiring paid to him at the ex- piration of that time and he given req sonable time to leave the State.

 Arkansas is not alone in this movement. All the southern states will eventually pass like law What is more, the so-called free states will be compelled to do so.- Ohio is heartily sick of her coored popu- lation. Illinois ditto. And if New York could be rid of her free negroes tomorrow she would be vastly the gainer. In Cana da, the terminus of the underground rail road, they are making efforts to rid them selves of free blacks. They look to colon ization in Liberia, to relieve themselves of the heavy curse they permitted to come in and rest upon them.

 Greeley concludes his article by asking some questions, apparently to his white readers. We wish we had an opportunity to ask them some. We shonld like to contrast one of the hearty, buxom, merry black slaves of the south, with the pale, consumptive, overworked white slaves of the north. We should like to show that a negro servant here commands good wages and receives good treatment, when at the north person can go to the poor-house or orphan asylum and get one bound to him, for the mere pittance of victuals and coarse clothing to be found the child. And while ours are black, and fall naturally into the assigned inferior position, theirs are white and free born After their slave is worked down it may be turned adrift, or if killed by hard usage the master may go to the white slave mart, if it may be so called, where they are given away, and get anoth- er We should like to show them our fat and merry slaves, with broadcloth and silks, and with money in their purses, and ask them to compare them with the hard worked laborer or the poor seamstress work ing night and day to keep body and soul together by making shirts for five cents or pantaloons for twenty-five cents. We would ask them to remember the thousands of white women and children in their midst actually suffering and starving, and then tell them such things never occur among the slaves at the south We would ask them if 1t would not be better for female to be born slave at the south than to poverty at the north, where as a "help" Sle InlSll ckc out eAlStclCc liii dSc or SICK ness comes and finally die in a poor-house, or failing in this, be forced to sell herself, soul and body, to procure the means of existence?

 There is more real slavery in Greeley's own city; more servitude and more frequent use of the lash by harsh masters and mis- tresses on the backs of poor white orphans, called apprentices, than in half a dozen southern states. There is more oppression, poverty and suffering in one ward of that city, than in all Arkansas, in the same length of time. How long will these pseudo philanthropists direct their energies to Booriboola Cha that should be spent at home? Why will they persist in pouring out false sympathy for those who need it not and laugh at it, when they daily walk over humiliated souls and bleeding hearts at home?