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Life In New York

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Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
May
Year
1847
Copyright
Public Domain
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Henry Bibb, writing from New York to the Emancipalor on the disfranchisemenl of colored people because tliey are unfii to vole at election?, indignantly contrasts tbeir ciinracter and condition with that of some xoliile people wliom he saw in the city, whose fitness for voting had never been questioned by the legislators. He says : "Soon afler 1 arrived hre I started from my boarding house on a voyage of discovery. But before I had proceeded far, my attention was attracted by a crowtl of loafers of both sexes in the streel, black, guarding, swearing-, &c, in a manner which would disgrace a heathen nationSome of tliem vvere barefooled, bareheaded, rngged, dirty, drunk, bloated, and all seemed tobe "glorying in their sliame." There was one of the pólice officers standing by, whom I got to go and show me some of their tenemenis. He took me inte a large building where there was overa hundred families crowded together, of all sorts and sizes. In some of the rooms tliey were Iying all togelher on the Moor, with a few ol dirty rags over them. Up another flight of steps we found some Iying sick, others alrnost naked, and some begging us for three cents to buy bread with. I told them they only wanted it to buy rum with, and that wns just whatkept ihem in that condition. The pólice said that every house in that part of the city, as far as I could see, was occupied with just such characters, though some were more decent than others - and that there were little gitls among them not over twelve years of age. This might weli be callcd ihe "grave-yard of the mind," in the city of New York. It is true I have been a slave twenty-five years. I have been a slave among the Cherokeo Indinns. I have been a slave in the city of New Orleans, where vice and immontlity abotmds - but this part of New York City exceeds anything that I have ever before witnessed." (ty An oldanti-slavery friend, wriling from Rerrien county, says : "I would 'ike to address a word to our friends in this county, and prohably it would be applicable to other places - that SjWhen nominalions nre made for county or state officers, it would be well to forward the same to the Signal of Liberty immpdiately for insertion, and also see that the tickets are forwarded in time. - Being in a remote part of the counly, our tickets did not come to hand in time, and I could not ascertain through the Signal our nomination. 1 thereforc could not vote a full ticket last fall."

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Subjects
Signal of Liberty
Old News