Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1858 — An Ineident of Slavery. [ARTICLE]

An Ineident of Slavery.

T’he cry of “nigger,” “amalgamation,” &.C., by th n doughface press, is frequently resorted to for the purpose of exciting preju- ■ dice against those who oppose ti&extensi<m ■' and aggression of slavery. Tiefr theory is, th it at the South there is such st rict reserve of intercourse with colored people th.it there is no dinger of am a Igama'ion between the white and biack races. The census statistics thorough'y re ute this idea, but. as they are not often consulted i»y the believers in . pr (-slavery Democracy, they have but little ; i'nfl i ‘nee in forming their opinion up m such subjects. A recent aflair in DeK ilb county, T’.ennessee, which has become notorious, ■ proves that slave-holding communities are | not exempt from occurrences which tend to | remove Hie distinct ion between the races. ■ As t hi*ashville Union tells the storv. a white worn m n imnd Hunt , is the mother of I a mulatto son, who was hired out to a re- ; spectable farmer, in good circumstances, . mimed F izer, with whose daughter, a young ! lady of fi teen, the negro became intimate. Finally the girl became enamored of the ne- ; gro, and an-elopement followed, and the parties have nit yet been discovered. Great excitement is the result, and having no other way of showing their disapprobation of the proceeding,-the populace talk of Ivnih’ng the white mother ol the mulatto, but whether j for her own sin, or the misdeed of her son. ‘doosnot a.iicir. Tao prop (sition is allus- ! trative of S mthern notions of justice.