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Show j THE DIFFERENCE. i The organ of the old slave-driving j I Democracy remarks that if all the ; negroes in the South had beea like Petek Jacksox and Dixon there would never have been any slavery. ? Our neighbor evidently forgets that when its party had everything as it - wanted in this country, negroes like Jacksox and Dixon, who had spirit and pluck, wore chains and marched under the slave-driver's whip. There was a wide difference between 6he condition of the negro then and ow. Slavery offered no opportunity for colored men to make a creditable development in any direction. It occurs to us that the less Democrats Demo-crats say about negroes and Blavery in these enlightened days the better it will be for them. There is very little in the subject for Democrats to take pride in. |