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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
May
Year
1843
Copyright
Public Domain
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The followmg ifl frm a correspondent of n N. England paper. The writer, who isjnot nn ubolitionist, gives some siriking instancej oftheeSTects ofslavery. "In my last letter I siated that the Soutli wo8 undoiiütedly improving. As one proof, of t I would mention the fiict that this State ha ra cently established a system of Comrnnn Schools. Though the provisions made for this purpose is very inadequate to the end pro. posed, yct stili the day of amall Ihing-s s no to be despiicd, bot should be reg.-mled as a promiseof a bnght and glonous fuiure. I am not awarr that a syptp'rá of Cotnrnon Schools has been established befure in any of our slave States. VVhat grill be the effect on the rniire body of the vvhitesor free peuple in a sluve ciiuntry, 1 am somewhat curiuua to know; it fnrnishes a new problcai in the hKsto. ry of tlie human race; its adoption, I thjnï, will be nttended with a very beneficial result to both bond and fee. As the whites increase in intelligence, t):e tlaves follow t-n vi h equnl step, and they will soon pass beyond the limit that separute3 elavery fiom freedom. lulelligence and slavery3 are incnmpntible in ïheir very natuies. 'I'hc L"vs and the Cotirts of this State, so far os I have Recome acquainted with thetn, indícate an inferior dpgree of civilization, and are calcu'.ated to excite the surprise of a New Englnnder. There'w no Penitentiary or Slate Prison in N. Carolina, the onty place of conñneinent for crimináis being the County j.'iils. No Ciiminnl is iinprisoned for a Ionger term than one }reir. As a substitute for iinj)risonnient, rriminals are whipped and set in the stoclis. The whipping pots and stocks are a part of the oro;iments of the Cui?ty to-ns. It may be a relief to your good Abohlion friends, Mr. Ediwr, lo know that as to the matter of whipping, white backs nnd black backs are npun on equality."Qr3 Accounts from Georgia state that many of tlie planters are nbandoning the cultivation of colton, on account of the low prico it biing-s. Others nrc running away. Sütno have set tlieir tJavesto (ligging for gold. (L" The colored voters of Rliode Island preity generally supported the Wliig ticket. Yet Mr. (vlay vvou!l expel thcra to swamps of África.

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Signal of Liberty
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