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CLEVELAND NEWSPAPER DIGEST JAN. I TO DEC. 31, 1856
Abstracts 3438 - 3444
SLA VERY (Cont' d)
3438 - L Jan. 29; ed:2/1 - The Richmond ENQUIRER says: The loose economy,
improvidence, and unsuspicious natures of men bred in the South unfits
them for close-fisted selfishness and keen encounter of wits, such as
practiced in the free states.
"What a pregnant admission is contained in this extract. Slavery
begets loose economy and improvidence, an::l they beget loose morals and
inhumanity. Idleness is the parent of crime." (2)
3439 - L Jan. 29; ed:2/3 - The Richmond ENQUIRER challenges any northern
paper to deny that slave society is more prosperous than free society.
Southern papers ask why the challenge has not been accepted.
"Its the absurdity we presume, that has prevented any anti-slavery
paper from giving it serious consideration. We believe that a candid
discussion of the slavery question wi 11 d{J good, and for this reason,
we believe in inviting rather than shrinking from the controversy. Let
the champion of slavery come forth." (4)
L Jan. 31; ed:2/1 - See Sugar
3440 - L Jan. 31; ed:2/2 - The Charlestown STANDARD says: Polygamy is the
result of freedom. Mormanism and slavery cannot exist together.
"We cannot see how Southern concubinage is better than Utah mormonism.
Besides, the advice from Utah says that mormons 'do' hold slaves." (2)
3441 - L Feb. 2; ed: 2/2 - The Cincinnati ENQUIRER says that the laws of
Virginia relating to slavery are almost as mild as any human man could
wish.
The statute of Virginia rules that a master is acquitted if a slave
should die from punishment inflicted by the master or by anyone ordered
to inflict punishment for resisting.
"We have no comment to offer. In truth it would be superfluous." (2)
3442 - L Feb. 4; ed: 2/1 - The emperor of Russia emancipated 35,000,000
serfs. Slavery is abolished in Egypt.
"Soon the Southern states wi 11 be left alone in the glory of human
bondage. " (I )
3443 - L Feb. 5; ed:2/1 - A majority of the judiciary committee of the
Pennsylvania house of representatives is alleged to have made up its
minds to report the bill giving slave-holders the right to hold slaves in
that state, in "transitu."
"This is another of the new Democratic measures which that party recently
discovered to be among the inherent rights of slave-holders." (2)
3444 - L Feb. 5; ed:2/2 - The Richmond DISPATCH says: The senate has
passed a general act on the applications of free colored persons who wish
to be allowed voluntarily to enslave themselves.
"This is a most wilful perversion of the truth. Two or three instances