oRTHERN STAR & FREEMEN,s ADvocAT

ALBANY. THURSDAY, MARCH II, 1912.
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upon our opinions regarding the pOhcy OF the
south, by the Tocsin, and while. we possess as
much heartfelt sympathy, and as sincere desire
as our neighbors of the Tocsn to see our fellow
creatures rescued from bondage, we do not allow
the dictates reason to forsake US, but regulate


most likely to lead to the ends of Justice and hu-
manity. We. cannot, surely, be accused of wish
ing unnecessarily to put off the hour which is to
shed the benign rays of happiness upon the il-fa-
ted slave-a happiness which, however, we hum
bly, conceive only be realized by instruction
and freedom combined-by which the human
thoughts, conscience and intellectual powers, may
be called into action, and thus qualify him to ap-
preciate the great moral, civil and religious priv-
leges which constitute the enjoyment of his hber
ty And while we denounce slavery as the ini-
quity Of iniquities, we cannot expect that nearly
100000 Of eDslaved population can, with safe
ty to+themselves or to society, change their CON
dition to that ofindependent freemen in day, or
a year.


We are perfectly satisfied that the dispositions
of the slaves at the south are tempered with as
much benevoence of feeling as would character
ize any class of men, under similar circumstances
men confined as they have been, in great mea-
sure, to dismal plantations, which are seldom vi
sited by any but oVerseers, and beyond the
reach of civilization and religious instruction, must
entertain but very imperfect ideas of the insttu-
tions of God and man, and if -such be their igno-
rant and debased condition, they cannot be consi
dered as qualified to be drawn from their almos+
brutal state of existence, and be thrown upon (to
them( new world, the laws Of which by mere
instinct alone, neither be appreciated nor un-
derstood We cannot, therefore, advocate impos-
sblities, and we do not wish by premature excite
ment to witness civil war, if such an awful ca
lamity can be averted-nor do we wish to see the
already oppressed condition of the slaves rendered
still worse by greater crueltes than already assa
them, or by their shedding in unequal contest, the
blood of others.


\ Slavery, we are we'll convinced, cannot long
disgrace the American continent, and this conyc-
ton already exists at the south, where mider
treatment will necessarily be extended to the
slaves-if not SO, a day of retribution-of twoful
retribution, will fall upon their oppressors. The
physical powers of the slave, in warm climates,
are fully equalto those of the whites, but they are
kept subdued by the power of intellectual combi-
nation.


But if we cannot at once break their chains, at
light of intelligence in other ways will more effect
ually and speedily extend to them liberty and hap
ninaSs OF late wears a great rnai,x slaves hauo