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. PJBOCQE'S OF BiUBlBISIV.Mr. Jacobs, from the Committee on Colore d Population, has submitted to the Maryland House of Delegates a scries of resolutions intended for the better regulation of this class. One or them “ prohibits, absolutely, mauurais-“ sion; also, negro preaching, or the assen.-“ bling of negroes for religious purposes, and “imposes penalties for such offences; it auth-“orizes the sale of all negro churches or meet-41 ing-houses; it prohibits owners or persons “hiring slaves, or allowing them to go at “ large; it prohibits the ingress of free negror s “into the State on tho^ penalty of being sold •‘for life—also tbe uso of fire-arms by negroef» “it prohibits the holding of real cstato by uc-“groes; and, finally, provides for the remls-“ sion into slavery of all freo negroes under “the age of fifty-fire years.’'TVe submit the case of Hr. Jacobs and a.l who act with him, to the prayerful consideration of the American Home Missionary Society, at its very next meeting, or whenever the subject of American heathenism comes up for discussion. In the meantime, we inviie the attention of good men in the North to the paragraph above, «s a text from which clerical apologists for Slavery may be invited to preatli whenever they seem inclined to reconci c modern man-stealing with the obligatioi s which Christianity imposes.Let no one say that Mr. Jacobs’ proposlticn is not a legitimate outgrowth of the passtoi s and prejudices which Slavery engenders. T1 o law that he would see enacted has its counterpart in tbe act passed by the Missouri Legislature not a month ago; it. is similar iu it.-: terms to that by force of which the free colored population of Arkansas hare, this winter, been compelled to elect between Slavery and exile; a bill of like character is now under discussion in Florida and Mississippi; and the men of Maryland not yet made mad by pr«-Slaveiy zeal, will be luclcy if they can defeat, this monstrous scheme. Stnco 'Washington emancipated his slaves under the profound conviction that to hold them was a crime, and since Jefferson declaimed against the inherei t iniquity of the system of human chattel ism. the country has progressed; but ob, conli-ddnt Democrat, boasting of revolutionary descent, which way?
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Chicago Press and Tribune
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Fri, Feb 17, 1860
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