Opinion

SLAVES LIBERATED. –

Col. THOMAS HITE, aided by other philanthropic disposed citizens of Jefferson county, Va., set free eighty of their slaves on Thursday last. The Col., as the agent of the owners, accompanied the negroes to Middleburg, Pa., when handing each individual $40 in money and equipping them all with sufficient clothing, they were set at liberty, and allowed to go wherever they please. – Mail

The African Slave Trade.

Whilst my father never owned a slave outright, he hired their time from surrounding slave holders. A strong man could be had for ($150.00) one hundred and fifty dollars per annum; a woman for housework about half the above amount. Our slaves were protected by their masters in agreements mutually signed by both parties. This contained among other stipulations that said slave was to be provided with two summer and two winter suits of clothing. (Show me the laborer of today who is guaranteed the like amount.) He was also to have good substantial food and to be treated in a humane manner.

Runaway Slaves, &c.

The Pa. Press—Fugitive Slaves.

A Mark of no Good Neighborhood.

The great statesman and patriot, the late lamented HENRY CLAY, once said, in a speech which he delivered in the Senate of the United States—an extract of which is given in another place in this paper—that "it is a mark of no good neighborhood, of no kindness, of no courtesy, that a man living in a Slave State cannot, with any sort of safety, travel in free States with his servants, although he has no purpose whatever of stopping there longer than a short time."

An Auspicious Move

FOR THE BALMY SOUTH.

The Hagerstown Jail is filled with Negroes, only sixty-nine having been deposited in it, on Wednesday last. They are the property of the late Judge John Buchanan, and are for sale. The fanatics of the North ought to purchase them.— But interest precedes phylantrophy ; does it not you men of all words and no meaning ?

AID TO FLEEING SLAVES

The Message of Gov. Thomas is a well-written, sensible and important document. It contains, however, one sentiment upon which the people are divided, he says, in speaking of our country and political institutions, "all men are born free and equal." His excellency is a sensible man and meant what he said, and does not consider negroes human beings. Negroes who are born in Pennsylvania are on an equality with white men while those which are born Maryland are on an equality with brutes; a species of the Orang-outang.