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ihii Gov. gave Tom mul Jim each *30 or S3f in money, ami :i fvsr Utile art . ks of properly. To Jbe uad ’/ufy hu gave cnlt; li *10 aired of land* imil, I believe, a joko o o\eu. Thu woniAii. Lctih, received I i file, if-an' thmo*. 1 • r DTbe^e people the Governor hud held o* fffuias,dtihe:waanm:|in YYis* onhin, for ten or twche Years.I*7yxn aud Jim were worn out in hid .-or vice, and it was no atL of r/ttiriTy or hVwo/d • to rid himself of die burden of their supp rt, at their advanced age. They were at le lit 70 years old, and, of course, could not s ipport themselves by their labor. The x: liigliminded ” and “magnanimous’ G*?v. has no fisi-lum in his household for the f.iilhfut bcrvaiitsj ^ who have devoted the pthnc of bib to hiaser-1 ^vice,— to the service ot' a roaster who new ,»7 in*Bco i on hit miDWintStiartbahep*thethir:k$ of them only to prop his boast o: liberality In freeing thy slaves whom dentil w i*jut about to rid, not oiili of muhtcis, but of all the iild of life.The \ a anted magnanimity and liber. Hty ofthe Gov., consists only, it appears, hi * nuin-«milting” persons lie Id Jn bondage In defiance of Jaw, and uompronifeing with tluai,fbrHi title of their legal claims against him, to? prevent himself further trouble from iht “ lit-j tie lawyers who were unwilling to s«:o the j rights of their fellow citizens trampled upon. This, then3 Mr. Editor, is the boasted Mtcn* Jitii, and practical devotion of the Sena or to free principles!Some six your* since, Mr. Miuldm, a k »n-in-hw of Gov. Dod^c, sent a yciPow ivdiu :ti, as a shivo, out of the Territory, away fro*a her husbmid anil children. Ifc had used hems a slave for six or seven jeni-a in IrViscan in.— An abolition preacher Ivied !o have hii i indicted for the act, but the preacher's doc rinw not being popular at the time, Maddin iseup-j cd.It is matter of notoriety, that Mrs. Wrhird,; s’stcr-in-law of tho Gov., and her mii, some three years, ngo, took from Wisconsin izitc Missouri* a negro girl Komi: 18 or 20 year; old, r j whom they bad held as * slave in the Terri-x lory from the age of seven or-eight, mu ?oUl x i her hitoperpetual bondage.Mr. Beqiieltc, Another fon-in-lstv o' the Gov., had a number of slaves derived fro n hit jFiharillvcatmsicSiO ■I!lln t hi pu:1 -cattiohitalltof.Jtber, whom lie Ii.ih used at* slaves ’imil rc-, JjJJjwecently, they have set up their rights ti nier the; law, and gone about their burine^. nml no effort has boon made to red.Tiu riieni katHi11 it might affect the Ch\ crnnrS popi'hirity ft is well for these poor negroes that the lov, has become a great man !The Gov. and his rhmil* arc about I he i*lv9 mpersons who, for any considerable lenjjjih of ijlcthetherait• ir1 lime, have desecrated the free soil of Wi -on- the sin irjtli slave?, and if. ill hommes him tn i rro- ^ 1 gate lo himself credit for liberality nhd Jjvo-o *tion to tho prlucEplea of freedom, after . Lich palpable violations of law and of Inuvi.in rights, dK hare ever marked hisconrse. so long as pnlilie opinion would tolerate it. la tins respect, liis virhiei wore but the virtue- ofof.pri«fronecessity,—i)\ni inoxornUc noecsMty w!.ivh,a,lv. leucompelled him to pledge Iiinaselr* In tree principle?,—which pledge wa?- ibrgot»cn in 1 h.i«. the firs-t occasion, nnd Iks was tbiiml v'Olin;; to! viisremunerate the ctaimnida of tho Ami-fsid!captiTOs. i jJiJy object iii Ma cotunrnnicai-tcn is to i or- tha reet a false imnre58ioa arisioji from vonr crti- j in*r
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Wisconsin Free Democrat
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jan 08, 1851
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