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ha t We see in one of our city papers, an adver tisement for a white man, is a runaway slave. The reward offered is fifty dolacs. The descrip ion of the man runs as follows :— “White complexion, hair straighty and brown; eyes blue; lips thick; and will be taken for a white man by any that do not know him.” To us, it makes no difference. Whether a man be clothed in a white coat, or black, He is a man; that is enough. We have never been able to understand how highminded and moial men could reconcile it to their consciences and to common decency,to publish a MAN,’ endeavoring peacefully to re gain his liberty.° Every heart, not miserably depraved, sympathizes with such a man, and the scoundrel who lays violent hands upon him, and, for hire, returns him to bondage, commits an offence differing in no respect from the act of the pirate who steals his victim from Africa. Our laws may recognize a distinction, but the eye of the Great Father of us all, sees none. Now, what is the difference between the ac tion of the professed slave-catcher, and that of the editor who, for money, informs this slave catcher who the fugitive is. What is his appear ance, ‘where probably he may be found, and suf fers, his paper to be made a medium, for stimulating the most cold- -blooded avarice? — Recollect, the most ultra advocate of slave holding claims; does not pretend that the people of the free States are bound to turn ‘lave catch ers—or that the Compromises ‘of the Constitu tion bind our editors to join in a slave-hunt, by advertising the slave. Such advertising is vol unteering, for reward—for the price of blood— to reduce to galling’ bondage, a man who has done us no harm, and is seeking peacefully, a liberty, we esteem price'ess.
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Cincinnati Morning Herald
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Sat, Mar 23, 1844
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