Washington Telegraph

The North vs. the South.

The Marksville (La.) Villager, of the 13th instant, gives the following incident, which we especially commend to the attention of the pseudo philanthropists of the North, who are so particularly interested in the fabulous sufferings of the negro, that they often permit white men and women to die of starvation, cold and inattention, under their very eyes, not being able to see or appreciate want, except such as their imaginations picture, a thousand or two miles off.
The Contrast is.—The visit to our parish, some ten days since, of H. B. Northrop, Esq., of New York, while it has, no doubt, been the means of correcting in himself erroneous ideas of the South and its institutions, may be of the same use to others of our Northern neighbors.

The occasion of his visit was this. A free negro of New York having, some twelve years ago, gone to Washington D. C., in pursuance of his calling as a musician, was while there kidnapped by some villains, sent to the South and sold as a slave. After passing through the hands of several masters he eventually came into the possession of a planter of our parish. As he knew how to read and write he, either personally or by others, made his friends at the North acquainted with his condition and his residence. His friends, at once, communicated the intelligence to Mr. Northrop, to whose ancestors the negro's ancestors formerly belonged, who had himself appointed as agent of the State of New York, and came South in that capacity.

Mr. N. on his arrival here, after taking legal advice, commenced suit by having the negro sequestered. Mr. Epps, in whose possession the negro was, on being served with the writ declared that he would offer no opposition if satisfactory proofs were adduced. Mr. Northrop having proved the freedom of the negro to the satisfaction of Mr. Epps and his legal adviser, Mr. E. declined all opposition although he loses the amount which he had paid for him. On the next day Mr. Northrop, accompanied by the negro, left for his home Sandy Hill, N. York.

This gentleman remained in the midst of a slave holding population for four days without being—although his object was known—subjected to the slightest affront or inconvenience; but on the contrary received every facility and attention that he required. What a contrast this presents to the treatment which Southerners receive at the hands of the people of the North, when in pursuit of their fugitive slaves. How different it is from the Gorsuch, Kennedy, Lemmon and other cases which are so common in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and the other free States. Well may the South boast of its justice and loyalty.