Southern Oppression

Wc would take occasion to caution our colured fricnda agani9t venturing into any of the alavo Slate9. Numerous cases ure continually occurring of colored persuns going into Southern ports as sailors or in jsome other capacity, and beiug dotained tkere, many of them without hope of release. Our friends cannot exerciso too rnuoli caution in this matter. There is no aalbty for thcm wilhin the reuch ofthetoils and of the elaveholder. UECORDER's COURT - SECOND MUXICIPALITY B ff ore Recorder Baldmu. Saturday, July 17, ISil. The poüce of this Municípaliiy aïe busüy engngcd in arrcstiog all negroes who cíinnot givo a good account ol thcmselves, and in enforcmg the ordinance prohibitiug their renting premises for themselves without the c-xpresa permission of their j owners. Our active and vigüant poüco cannot possibly bo engaged in better business. This is the most fit season of ihe year for rooting out frotn aniong us thuse highly euspicious individuals, m the free people of color, who have come hither from the Northern States. These are the persons from whom the tnoát danger is to be apprehended. Abolitionisls by birlh feeling and education, they invariably poisun the mind of the alave wiih whora thcy asseciate, and conaminafe, by degreeí, our whole black population. Assemblages of blacks, whethcr bond or free, at whatever hour and for whatevcr pnrpose, should be most a?iiduous!y watched. - In suspicion and distrust lies cur safety." Malignant tyrannj ! All ".i&seniblages of the blacks3, whether bood or free,at whatever hour," no matter if it be in the broad suulight of the Sabbalh day, "and lor wh-ilever purpose," even if'it fihpüld be for the wördhip of their Ahker," shouh: h% assidiously Wiitched," The roader erhaps knows that it has been found n L;uieiana and oiher states in the extrtnoSouth, tlint the bost way to "watch" these meetings is to prevent them altogether. 'ín supicion and distrust lies our safety." A sentiment worthy of a slaveholder. Such is the "s.jfety" of the coward and the tyrant. WjU these blinded and cruel people never learn wherein to look for safety? Will ihey bündly continue in their oppressions until lhejudgmen(3of Heaven wake them from their dclusion? We would hope not, though it seeuja indeed like hoping ngainst íiope. From the same paper we learn that the 3eople share in cominon wiih the stlaughr er breathing spirit of this writer. They ïavc cotntnunced the work of imprisoning he free people of color and driving them out of the States. Forty-five of both sexes had been driven out of New Orleans.