Public Leger, Volume 2, Number 66, Richmond, Wayne County, 25 June 1825 — Page 2

COMMUNICATIONS. TOR THE PUBLIC LEGER. - In my last, I endeavored to state the situation of the free blacks of our country, and I think that no one will deny the jus-, tice of the statement if, then, it is a duty imposed upon us by our Maker to relieve the distressed, and administer consolation to the lacerated mind, vc oujrht certainly to do something for this much injured race. But, the question is,'what can be done? Many plans have been proposed, but their success has been but partial. For near a century, pious and benevolent men have been , frying to do something by means of abolition and emancipation societies, but, though their exertions have been highly creditable to themselves, they have been productive of but little good to the unhappy Africans. The spirit to improve their condition has, however, rather increased in fervor, and within a few years, two great schemes have been set on foot, which promi to be of most incalculable advantage, not only to the blacks themselves, hut also to our own country 1 mean emigration to II ayti, and colonization in Afrka. I will not attempt to determine which of thee is the m.t feasible. They should go hand in hand, and give to the blacks an opportunity of choosing their destination. From both together we may expect great results, and we should be guilty of a most culpable proceeding, if we were to discourage either. Hayti is nearer the United States than Africa, and is, therefore, more eligible fur many; but it rannot hold all our blacks. The Mand will not support so dense a population; and we do not know that the rulers will lone continue so willing to ease us of our' galling load. We must, then, lok in some other .direction. It was proposed at the last session of Congress to coloi ize them on the North West Coast. But this, in my opinion, will not answer. Emigration is so rapid, that, in all probability, in less than half a century, we shall want that territory for the accommodation of our own citizens. It would be a mot impolitic measure; for if they were made independent of the U. S. it would not be long before the borders of the-two nations would be involved in deadly and interminable dillirulties, generated and fomented by that deep-rooted prejudice which ob tains between the two colors. If they were incorporated with our Union, the ef-

lects could be scarceh les unhappy that same prejudice would persuade us to degrade them ; and their opposition ..J j-l ous would be strom' i proportion to their increasing love of Viim rty and free government. What plan shall we then pursue? Colonization on the African roast is, perhaps the only feasible one. Ai d this appears to me to oiler the greatest inducements. There is on that continent room enough for the whole of our black population, ai d their descendant to a .thousand generations. A mighty continent, which can only be reclaimed from the depths of barbarism ard added to civilization by some energetic dan of colonization. Fertile, aim -t beyond example, it is capable of yielding every thing necessary in so warm a Hintate. It is true that the distance is great, ai d the voyage expensive; but the expense i- becoming lower and lower as the number of emigrants increases. It is said that before long passengers mav be transported for 10 dollars a head. What black man, if he is industrious could not soon be able to remove himself from a countrv, the verv recollection of which causes a hitter reflection in his bosom, to one where he may enjoy to the greatest extent every right which ennobles man and elevates his spirit? This, then, is the grVate-t service we can do the cause persuade the colored people themselves of its importance, and teach them industry and economy. Do this, and they will remove themselves, with but little trouble and expense to us. Would it not be one of the best possible services, if some sections of the country, or some society, would educate a few active and intelligent negro youths in the profession of physic? It is said that a white man cannot stand the climate, while it well agrees with the blacks. ' BFNFZET.

seems that the Legislature, in marking out a mode for re-taking fugitives from labor, have authorized one man to confine and enslave another in the very bosom of our state. And to be still more inconsistent and unreasonable, they have put this power into the hands of strangers, and suffer them thus to treat our own citizens, per-

sons living under the protection of our laws; while at the same time a citizen of I the state, cannot even re-take the meanest chattel without the intervention of the proper officers. 1 have not the least idea of invading the rights of the citizens of our ! sister states, but 1 can never consent to invest them with powers greater than are , conferred upon our own citizens. Fellow- ; citizens review the act! In looking over the Journals of our last i Legislature, I discovered that a member ! by the name of Bassett introduced a lull to ! repeal certain parts of an act relative to crimes and punishments. Among the parts proposed to be repealed was the 24th sec

tion of that act, which reads as follows: "If any person shall, without proper authority, give to another owing service or

labor in any state or territory a certificate or testimonial of emancipation, or shall knowingly harbor or employ any person held as a slave without the consent of his or her owner, or shall .use any violence to prevent such owner from recovering such 'fugitive slave according to law, the perjson so offending shall, upon conviction, be

lined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be liable for damages to the party in-

Although our constitution declares that 'slavery does not, and cannot, exist in this ! state, yet it seems by this section, that we iare very anxious to frame regulations for ! their government. I have alway s underI stood that every person in Indiana was I free, until the contrary was proven; but

this obnoxious section looks to me too much like supporting the maxim which obtains ! in the slave states, that every person of co

lons a slave uidess lie prov es himself otherwise. By tlie Journals it appears that Mr. Ilillis moved to indefinitely postpone the bill brought forward by Mr. Bassett the yeas and nays were called, and among those who voted for its indefinite postponement, I find the name of Abel Lomax, a member from Wayne, and again a can-

Ididatefor the same seat. Among those j who voted in the negative were Hiatt and Hoover, the other representatives from ; Way ne. These men wished to expunge , from our criminal code that obnoxious sec- ! lion, Irut r IHj'lii y -f t,o T , f n fS VW r in favor of its remaining. I have, heretoforc, been a warm friend to Mr. Lr max, land made everv exertion to secure his election, but little did 1 think that 1 was

voting and urging my friends to vote for a man that would advocate such sentiments that would vote for a law to allow one

j man to oppress and ci. slave another mere

ly on account of a sable countenance. ' v . C. J.

1 mistaken, byH the Arab?, for Englishmen. . it... i l r

The amount given a smugm oi, me crew is greater than the Wasp had, but she may have made some recent captures and have had many prisoners on board who, in the case of shipwreck and attackby the Arabs, would have made a common cause with her officers and crew. There would be a melancholy satisfaction in ascertaining the certainty of what is now supposed to have been the fate of the gallant Blakcly and gallant crew. OrThe National Intelligencer, however, suggests that the Arabian story may be an old tale, as something very much like it was told to capt. Paddock, of the Oswego, as far hack as 1800. Xiles,

Thi9 idea wa first published in the Federal Gazette, hut seeiii? almost simultaneously to have pressed itself on the minds of others, as well as on that of the editor of the paper just named.

From Calcutta.-

We are indebted

(say s the Salem Gazette,) to the supercargo of the ship George, which arrived here on Tuesda), for files of Calcutta papers to the 8th of February. They give some particulars of the earthquake experienced at Manilla on the 26th of October last,

I which demolished several of the churches,

one of the bridges, and many private houses. About four miles above the town, and close to the river, the earth opened

iwith a tremenduous explosion and shortly i afterwards shoals of dead fish were seen I floating down the river into the sea. All j the respectable inhabitants of Manilla rei moved into the country, and left the town quite deserted. The military barracks j having been laid level with the grounds, j tents were pitched for the soldiers on a plane at a short distance. This encampment was totally destroy ed by a hurricane ! which came on the lsl inst. The roofs were blown off many of the remaining

i houses, and six of the vessels in the roads

were stranded. This is said to be the most severe earthquake which has been experienced in Manilla, since the memorable one of 179G, and the loss of human life, alUio' not correctly ascertained, was generally believed to have been very considerable.

the schooner Iago, arrived last Sunday from Porto hr .

Gulf Stream a brig, the cm keiau" informed that a piratic?! f with , 38 men, had been cap e English cutter and a steam bo Vl for the purpose at Matanzr, t

nea mio tne latter port 'pl who survived the action were . vanafor trial. It was asrertv they had murdered the crew J h twenty American vessels. " Rotct Packing Cotton-. A person -diilcrent parts of a larze bml 1

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in the centre of a bale of cotto"'' way perhaps of helping todefrav !h ' tl5 ses,orby way of replacing it 4h?

one witnout loss. The cotton at a good price and went top where it was disposed of toalS

lure.-. Un being opened, the ,r T 3c

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ton Tilt: PUBLIC LEGER. Sinco the colonization, emancipation, &c. of the people of rol r appears to occupy the attention of the humane in almost every goven merit, I deem it nothing but reasonable, that every circumstance which has :iny relation to a subject of such impoitanre, should be generally known and freely descanted on. Living, as we do, in a state, the constitution of which tolerates no slavery, and which also declares that

the prohibitorv section, like the laws of

the Medcs and Persians, shall never be altered, we cannot view with any degree of complacency, the least approach towards that subject. But i olw ithstanding this great principle, so solemnly declared, it

The Wasp sloop of war, captain Blakcly, was remarkably successful in annoying the British during the late war.and also captured one sloop belonging to the enemy and sunk another. The last account that we had of her was, that, on the 23rd Sept. 1814, she was off the Madeira islands, and it has been ever since supposed that she

foundered at sea, whereby the whole of

her ofheers and crew perished, and no trace was left of her. The Spring Grove, a British whale ship, was lost on the African coast on the 23rd Nov. last, and some of the crew have been rescued from the Arabs by that distinguished philanthropist, Mr. Wiltshire, the British consul at Mogadore. In the account of the affair there is the following paragraph:

"A circumstance is stated by one of

these rescued men, which is as follows: lie says that the Arab chief in whose hands they fclJ, could speak a little Eng

lish; and contrived to inform them, that, some years ago, an English ship was lost on the African coast, that the crew reached the shore to the number of three hundred men, well armed; that his own tribe, consisting of five hundred men; attacked them and were repulsed; that he solicited the assisstance of a neighbouring tribe to renew the attack, with an additional force of four or five hundred men; that the British drove them back a second time, and were making good their retreat for some settlement of security, when thev were a third time surrounded by a body of thirteen hundred; and that the Biitish fought till three fourths of their number fell, and the remainder were cut to pieces, after laying downtheir arms, and after killing 250 Arabs. The name f the ship and the time of the shipwreck both unknown." It will appear very possible, and even probable to every oi e, on reading this paragraph, that we have thus learned the probable fate of our gallant countrymen. The Americans might easily have been

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the centre of the bale : L dfH

venient article to ' katcr.

it was weighed and crm ... r . (

from whence it was forwarded

shipper in tins country ..,r a ... . 1 '

sent on to th m-rcmi .. i . .'1IT wd3

r. t U.10H, been so adroitly put up, and a bill of f ?

..fjv.- .iuujs uie ocean, ; u

gravity in its first tranter. And h J on its arrival at its proper location. child recognizing an old acquaintance'mediately cried out "La Pa, here u'

jiu iiiiuaium; iuijjc oacK aifain. dugusln Chrcr..

Piracy and Murder. The following

I distressing account of piiacy and murder,-

is copied Irom the Bridgeport Courier of j Wednesday. It was communicated to the

editor of the Courier by Mr. Daniel G. I Wright, of Boston. Bait. Pat.

Mr. Wright took passage at New York, in the month of December last, in the brig

i .ii ard, Cujil. 1-Viguuii, fur linyntirt ; , where they arrived safe: but on the home- ' ward passage, on the 17th of Feb. was captured by a piratical schr. of about 50 I tons, commanded by an American, who he j believes to be Vm. Paul, (formerly of Baltimore,) with between 40 and 50 men; imj mediately on boarding the brig they ct mj menced cutting and slashing among the jcrew; but wreakening their vengeance ! principally on Capt. F. whom they soon ! murdered by severing his head from his bo

dy in the meantime most of the crew and our informant, made the best defence they could with hand-spikes. Sec. when catching

j a momentary glance from the eyes of the

piratical captain, he instantly ordered a cessation of hostilities, after most of them had been severely w ounded by the pirates they then stood in for land, and brought the brig to an anchor, when Mr. W. and

jtwo men named Pillsbury and Seymour,

were landed on a small island to the w indward of Mantanzas; here they remained several days, in a state of almost perfect destitution, till they were fortunate enough to obtain passage in a small droger to Cape Florida, w here they were hospitably entertained by the wreckers until the 10th of May, at which time they took passage in the sloop Jane, Captain Knight, bound from New-Orleans to Philadelphia, and were landed at Egg Harbor, Mr. Wright obtained a passage in a small schooner belonging to Greenwich, and landed at Greenwich Point on Monday. Since their capture nothing has been heard of the remainder of the crew whom they left on board, nor of the vessel, which he thinks has been destroyed, together with the people ?ong since. In addition to the above, it is stated in a letter from Capt. West, of the brig Jessk, of New York, in a letter to his owner in that city, that on his passage from N.Orleans to Richmond, Virginia, and being then in sight of Cuba,hc fell in with a piratical schr. which hoisted sometimes French and sometimes English colours, and then tired a gun for the Jesse to heave too. Finding that Captain "West pursued his course, the pirate hoisted the black tlag, and fired again. A ship appearing ahead, which proved to be the London, Capt. An

nans from Jamaica for London, the Jnttcr! sent a boat with part of his crew to the assistance of the Jesse; on observing which, the pirate gave up the the pursuit. Pirates CArrvtiED. Captain Waters of

A gentleman of our acquairitar.ee, tf.

. n-siurj vi mini n iew mues oi the r n ,

ceived not long since a young bear fn,nu j friend as a present. It was put for 'Lf!

itc.juiK iii an oui nouse, contaiiiiiamo,, j other things a quantity of cider, and S joining to which was the shed for

x tic wai uau no sooner lanen poesMci, ci

his new quarters than he began to give ev

idence ot his acquaintance with the fasbioi..

able foibles and c ustoms of the driver

among others displayed one which tWa

"all the go among the fcTonVsand J ?nV; of high life, is nevertheless a cu.-h-rn i

j Hamlet says, more honored in the brir.c

than the observance. The hoc?, of wl.iLh

there is a goodly number, great and

without discrimination, were dNrourt

soon after his arrival in a most ludicrous condition, staggering and reeling akutt!:s premises, like true votaries of B;c Uj, while some who appeared to have ei.tcnd too freely. into the sport, were set. n hi; j on all fours, wallowing in the mirr. apparently to u?e a cant phrase, compb it iy done over on examination it va dm.H that Bruin had emptied a hogshead Cider, in honor of the occasion, by draw!; 5 the tap, in the performing of whith 1 c displayed considerable readiness ard ii sei ally, to the no small gratification of hi "rut ing associates, who by their frrquat r.i j liberal potations sec mod delighted t ith tie "spree' and afforded at the same tirrf fine illustration of the good effects rf o'rii-k-ing, from which a pretty mord n.i.t -drawn for the benefit of such asaiecvc; fond of the "blue ruin.v Sat. Eu.frJ.

New-York, Jur i The city was again shocked this rrc:3ing w ith another steam-boat explosion. The LcgUIntor plying between tl is city and N. Jersey, was lir,g this iron ire at the w harf at the Ibot'of jIarkrlfie!d-smct on theeteof her departure tor New Lrui wick, when a sudden explosion occurrti which produced exccsive consten m

among the numerous passengers on aIu' exceeding in number, it is said one h'J1'-

dred and resulted in the loss of two Jive and the injury of several persons. It was soon ascertained that the flue of the boiler had burst, diiving out M false head, and sending forth a volume of steam. Frnr.ris Ramsev. a "I-rei

man and cook of the boat, was killed in

stantly, Robert Grcenleaf,a fircnn on

board, was severely scalene, sinre dipil. in ihn hrvsnitnl. whither he

immediately conveyed, Joseph Bfasi'

one of the hands was severei)'? ar,a c' ' 11,-nrv nf NW-Kninswick. a passer

and several others, names unkuowOi wtf'

slightly scalded. -American

Grand Island. Bv the fl'f

VIIICi J llhllt l- iM.llMK'll, '

Noah, of

f the Nc-Yo,k xNio'l

catc, yesterday purchased luc Grand Island, ht the public salj, D ) Survey or General at the Capitol ny ; on which Island, he thinks his

the Jew?, will find a desirable n.-

beyond the reach of European eppr X Y. Eve. M .

To rnLSERvc Milk.-Put io3aJ

milk a spoonful of wild horse rntiU,;,t,;1j1ef will remain sweet for several da)h ' ... n tv'iiie 011

m tne open air onu tue ccim milk will change. So say? the I'iT ada Herald.