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NEGRO LIBERTY IN THE SOUTH OR NEGRO SLAVERY IN THE NORTH -WHICH SHALL IT BE? “ In ray opinion, it (the slavery agitation) will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself can not stand. I believe this government cannot en dure permanently, half slave and half free. Ido not expect the house to fall, but! do expect it will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall vest in belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States—old as well as new—North as well ns South.” This extract, from a speech of Mr. Lincoln, ex cept in the total misapplication of words, truly and fairly states tne great issue before the country. There is no question of freedom or slavery involv ed, or anything approaching them. It is, on the contrary, purely and wholly a question of race— what shall be the permanent and universally re cognized relation and status of the negro in Ame rican society. We are all equally interested in the question— the real question—and as men and Americans, should rise above the paltry and unmanly passions mid prejudices of partizau politics, and with hon est and patriotic feelings, strive to'arrive at the truth, aud to accept it, without regard to pre conceived opinions or party interests. Indeed, as Republicans, every true American, North and South, should strive earnestly to get rid of the un iiappy conflict now raging so fearfully, aud to show the upholders of the old, rotten and worn out systems of Europe that self-government aud Democratic institutions are abundantly com petent to solve all difficulties, and our people suf ficiently enlightened to save themselves from the bloodshed, debt, oppression and misery so uni versal among the corrupt societies and worn out systems of the Old World. We are twenty-seven millions of Caucasians or white men, and we have four millions of negroes in our midst, whose descendants must remain an element of ourpopu lation forever, and the time has come when their relation to the white citizenship and their status in American society must be determined beyond question. it doubtless seems an easy thing to Garrison, Giddings, Ac., to dispose of. They say, “there arc thirty-one millions of men, four millions of whom are slaves ; abolish this slavery, give them all the same liberty, and the question is settled. We shall then have a Republic that is constantly based on universal liberty, and all the world, and especially-British aristocrats, will cheer ns hearti ly for this glorious act of justice and humanity.” Hut ask Giddings and Garrison to live this out in their own households, to marry their sisters or daughters to the most pious and cultivated among these four millions of negroes, and they will frankly admit that they would prefer to sec them struck by lightning or laid in their coffins, than thus to carry out their own doctrines! Why this inconsistency of those humane and unpredjudiced “friends of freedom f Simply because God Al mighty has forbidden it—forbidden that Hit work should he defaced and desecrated, because He has created the negro a different and inferior be ing, with a different physical structure, a differ ent intellectual being, a different moral nature, and therefore designed him fora different purpose, fora different social status whenever and wherever in juxtaposition with the supeiior white men. Is this not so ? *Will any one, however anxi ous to “abolish slavery,” say that if in his pow er to amalgamate the four millions of these people with ourselves, he would exercise thai ppwer ? If they cannot or should not amalgamate ns we do with the European immigrants that come to ns, is it not obvious that they must bo different beings, and Jf different, were therefore designed for differ ent purposes, for different duties and a different social status from the white people? To state the case is surely sufficient to prove the truth we started with. These people are here; they or their descendants must remain an clement of American society forever. What, then, shall be their fixed, understood and universally recognized status in American society ? Mr. Lincoln says that the present conflict must cease—that American society must be liennonized —that Mississippi must place her negroes in the social position that Massachusetts does, or Mas sachusetts must recognize the status that is com mon to the former. This is plain, fair, logical; the white citizenship is not involved ; slavery or THE SOUTHERN JEGIS. j freedom is not in issue ; the whole question and i | the exact question is simply this:—which shall be | the universally recognized position of the negro in American society—the status of Massachusetts or that of Mississippi ? Well, we can only get at i the truth of this matter by an appeal to experience, i Massachusetts legally- and politically assmes ne- i groes to be white men, or black-while men—that i is, men entitled to just the same rights as any other men. There are only ten thousand; they rapidly- tend to extinction because forced to live i an unnatural existence—the life of the different i and superior white man—they must die, for they i are in conflict with the higher law, the eternal order, the nature God has given them. The Boston City Register for the past five years shows 37G deaths with 124 births, and supposing no more immigrations of these people, a hundred years hence they will be extinct, or nearly so.— Approximately, this bolds good throughout the so called free States—those that give them the i most “rights,” or in other words, that are most cruel in forcing them to live out the life of < the white man, destroy- them most surely and rapidly. Now, if this status of the negro were forced on Mississippi, a very different result would of course follow. They are about equal in num bers.to the whites, and the result would fall most deadly on the latter. The whites in Massachusetts are necessarily injured, of course, but we cannot trace or measure that ; but where the numbers approximate, the higher race, whom God and nature hold responsible for such an awful crime, would be the greatest sufferers. No such thing has ever happened or been approached even, nor will it ever happen, for no people will voluntarily commit social suicide. In Hayti they resisted a foreign power to the last, and preferred annihila tion. In Jamaica, after a long struggle they did submit not only because they were helpless to re sist a foreign power, hut because the owners of “slave” property, the mere pecuniary interest involved, also were foreigners, and lived in Eng land ; and because they did not even then, as the people of Hayti, prefer death to such a doom as the “abolition of slavery,” God is punishing them with a far more terrible one, to equalize, affiliate,, amalgamate and rot out through the black puddle that stagnates in the veins of the sooty and semi animalized negro. Who, indeed, would not pre fer death for his offspring than such a fate, such a punishment as that now slowly but surely and justly meted out to the twenty-five thousand whites of Jamaica? But for purposes of illustration, let us suppose the status of Massachusetts, or 'impartial freedom’ applied to Mississippi. With the same liberty or political rights of course, as in Jamaica, there would come social equality, and amalgamation. True, nature, the instinct fixed forever by the hand of God in the organism of the race, would even then save the white woman from amalgama tion with the typical negro ; but us in the former she would readily mate with octoroon and quad roon, they with the mulattoes, and the latter with the typical negro, and the process towards the final end would be equally rapid. And this end what would it he? Well, we may illustrate again. If a hundred white men with negro women, and a hundred white women with negro men, were to retire to some island isolated from the rest of the world, in one hundred years after, all this disgust ing and debauched humanity would become total ly extinct. In the second generation whites and negroes would be extinct; there would be only mulattoes, and mulattoes of the fourth generation are as incapable of reproduction as the mule. Thus while we could not determine with accuracy when the end would be in Mississippi, but the “abolition of slavery," the theory of Massachu setts, “impartial freedom,” or the present status of the- negro in the North applied to Mississippi, would necessarily terminate in the total extinction , of creatures that were such blotches on the fair face , of nature and so abhorrent to the eye of the Cre ator. In other States, like Kentucky, Missouri, Ac., the result or the punishment for such a crime as the “abolition of slavery,” or the adoption of the Massachusetts theory of “impartial freedom,” would be modified by the facts, the difference in numbers, Ac.; but we repeat, this is only supposi . lions, for no such thing will ever happen. The . South may be, or the white men and women of , the South may be exterminated like those of Hay ti, but they will never “abolish slavery, "for that would be a crime so unnatural, that, as we have I said, it lias never been attempted. One alternative, therefore, presented -by Mr. Lincoln—the “universal liberty” or “impartial ( freedom” with negroes—can never be ; all that could be possible would be the “final extinction” of the white people of the South, as in San Domin go, and as there the “final” relapse of the negro into his original Africanism. But let us now contemplate the other alternative, the universal “slavery ” or subordination of the negro North as well as South, in Massachusetts as well as in Mississippi. Of course Mr. Lincoln does not assume that the present “free colored” would be reduced to “slavery,” or restored to their normal condition. He only means that the “slaveholder” of the South shall have the right to take his negro servant wherever he pleases.— Would this be an injury to any white citizen?— Would one solitary northern man be damaged in the remotest degree? Of course the negro or so called slave would be taken only where his labor was profitable, and as a laborer, ml one would ever be brought into the northern States. This, too, would be the status common to the negro at the North when this government was formed, and the status laid down by the Supreme Court as well as that ordained by nature and God himself. Here, then, are the two roads before us—one leading to the extermination of eight millions of men and women of our own blood, and the final barbarism of four millions of negroes—the other to the abandonment of a foolish notion that a ne ♦ gro is a black white man, and entitled to the same liberty as ourselves. If the former is persis ted in, our country must be ruined ; if the latter is acted on, the southern citizen will be able to take his negro into Boston or to old Josh. Gid dings’s Western Reserve, or anywhere he pleases. God of Heaven ! can this monstrous delusion pre vail much longer ? Is it better that thousands of lives shall ho sacrificed and this glorious land rendered desolate rather than a southern citizen shall be permitted to take his negroes into Boston or rather than negroes shall remain where God Almighty placed them— in subordination to the white working mm oj' the North as they mo note at tkef\&h ? nitrnnclusion, It Is only justice to Mr. Lincoln to say that the remarks quoted were madle before his election and the awful experience of the last six months. If he can now rise to the dignity and grandeur of the occasion, to cut lots* utterly from the “ anti-slavery" delusion, of the North, and call around him none but national men, he can soon restore the Union, and descend to history second only to the great “slaveholder” of Virgin ia, Washington himself.— N. V. Paper. - ■. ■■ I NOTICE. THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS for liar- 1 ford County will meet at their office in Bel j Air, on TUESDAY, the 11th February, instant, for the. transaction of such business ns may tome ' before them. By order, fel JOHN T. SPICER, Clerk. | VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE, i THE SUBSCRIBER offers at private sale his! FARM, containing 150 ACRES, adjoining the farms of Messrs. Woolsey and Smith and L>r. D. Harlan. Situated in a desirable neighbor hood, bordering upon a public road, and casily accessible. Land of a good quality, heavily tim bered and well watered. The improvements are a DWELLING HOUSE, Barn, and other Out Buildings, and under good fence. There is also an old Mill Seat on the place. Will be sold en tire, or divided to suit purchasers. Those desir ing information as to terms, Ac., will address WILLIAM FINNEY, Jr., jalß-4t Churchville, Harford Co., Md. FEMALE SEMINARY, - Boarding & Bay School for Young Ladies, BEL A 18, RAPRORD CO., MD. THE second Term of the scholastee year ol this school, will commence on the first Monday in Feb. and will continue tilt the last Friday in June. Pupils, will be received at any time dur ing the session and charges made from the tithe of entrance. Charges, for pupils under ten years of age, reduced to five dollars per session, or one dollar per month. Mr. Wm. B. Garrettson still continues to give instructions in music. janll FOR RENT. A BLACKSMITH AND WHEELWRIGHT SHOP, with Dwelling. A good Stand for easiness, and will be rented together or separate ly on moderate terms to a good tenant. Posses sion given immediately. Apply to J. E. BATEMAN, ja4 Near Clermont Mills, Harford co., Md. TRUSTEE’S SALE. BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Circuit Court for Harford County, sitting as a court of equity, the subscriber, as trustee, will offer at public sale at the Court House door in Bel Air, Oil Tuesday , the 18 th day of February 1862, at 11 o’clock A. M-, all that Tract or Parcel of Land Situate and lying in Harford county aforesaid, containing 121 \ ACRES OF LAN®, more or less, and which is particularly described in two deeds to a certain Gerard P. Cover, the first of which is from Maria Zollinger and Win. B. Ste phenson, and may be seen on record in Liber H, D. G., No. 35, folio 438; and the second from H.. W. Archer and 0. H. Thomas, trustees, which' may also be seen on record in Liber 11. D. G. No. 37, folio 359, Laud Record books oi Harford county. This Farm is* desirably located on the road 1 leading from Hopew ell X Roads to Havre de Grace, about 3 miles from the latter place, is in a good state of cultivation, and is well improved by a DWELLING HOUSE, Barn, Out Houses and Fencing. Terms of Sale as prescribed by the Decree arc, that one-third of the purchase money shall be paid in cash on the day of sale, and the bal ance in two equal payments at the expiration of six and twelve months, the credit payments to bear interest from day of sale. STEVENSON ARCHER,' ja2s' Trustee Richard B. Robinson 1 In the Circuit Court for vs. > Harford county, sittting Marc ais st Robinson. } in Equity. r PHE object of this suit is to procure a decree 1 divorcing Richard B. Robinson, the com plainant, from his wife, Margaret Robinson, the defendant, a vinculo matrimonii. The bill states that the complainant and defendant were married at Harford' county, on or about the yearlßs2." That soon after the marriage the defendant went to live with the complainant as bis wife' at the house of the complainant, andi so continued to live for about one. year, when/ the defendant, without any cause and without the knowledge or con sent of the complainant, abandoned him and loft his abode, and has never since returned, nor has the complainant ever seen the defend ant since the abandonment, which is now’ be- ■ tween seven and eight years. The bill then further states, that the absence of the defendant from the complainant htis continued uninteruptedly for more tlttas three years, and : that the separation of the complainant and do- ' fendantis beyond any reas wable expectation of" 1 reconciliation, and theabardonment of the com- ' plainant by the defendant ir-deliberate and final. Tiiat the place oE the abode ol,.the defendant is unknown.to the complainant,:and,has been so I ever since her abandonment of,him. bnt fhat he is informed and believes that the said does not live in the Stateiof Maryland- The bill then,prays- that/the wilt of subpoena . may issue- directed ta the said defendant, com manding, her to-appear in persan.or by .solicitor, | and answetithe.premises. I The bill then further prays,an order of publi cation against , the said defendant, stating the substance and object of the bill and warning her | to appear in person or by solicitor on some, cer-_ ! tain day in. this court, and answer the several 1 matters and things charged-in the said bill, and 1 to abide by and perform such order or decree ! as the eourt may pass therein, and on her failure J so to appear that the bill be taken pro confesso | against her. The bill then further prays, the passage of a de i crec divorcing the complainant frqm the defen -1 dant a vinculo matrimonii, and for such other and further relief as the complainant’s casts may require. It is thereupon, this 13th day of December, 1861, adjudged and ORDERED that the cqmplainant, by causing a copy of this order to be inserted in some newspaper published in Harford county, once of each week for four successive weeks three, months before the Ist day of May next, give no tice to the said non-resident defendant of the pH-, ject and substance of this bill, au,<J warn her to appear in this court in person or by solicitor on or before the Ist Monday in Augqatnext, to show cause if any she have, why a decree ought not to. pass as prayed. WM. GALLO WAV, 01*, True copy, Teat, de2l WM. GALLOWAY, 01*. In the matter or the Estate o? Richard Green, DECEASED. /• ,In the Orphan' Court of Harford County. ORDERED, this Bth day of January, 1862, by the Register of Wills of Harford, County,’ in the recess of the Orphans’ Court of Harford Coun ty, that the sale mode and reported by Charlton, W. Billingslsa, Executor of Richard Green, de ceased, be and the same is hereby ratified *nd< confirmed, unless cause to the contrary be shown on or before the first Monday In February ns*t, provided a copy of this order be published in some, newspaper printed in Harford County once in, each of three successive weeks before the said,first Monday in February next. Amount of sales Reported to be Fifty thousand* Dollars. B. H. HANSON, R. W. H. Co. True copy. Test: jail B. H. HANSON, R. W. H. Go,