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Show LONGS TO BE A SLAVE. Southern Necro Wlu Wiuiii to Go Into t ' Uomlnjo Agnln. Some of the letters that Mayor Thncher gets are curiosities in their way. People from out of town who wish to find out anything in the city of Albany inariably write letters tothc nu.yor. It doesn't make any difi'roni what the information des'ri'd ri Ia.-s to. the mayor, they think, ought to know, says the Albany Argus. A letter wan received' from a ncprr-away ncprr-away down south, who, Mr. Monabai. suya, has been dead for 30 years not literally a corpse, but deceased eo far as his grip on hustling, progressive nine, tee-nth century life was concerned. This man bci fovea that slavery isstMl an In-sttitution In-sttitution in this r: eat land, and ispio-rant ispio-rant of the glorious fact that the master's mas-ter's whip hasn't cracked for 30 years. He never heard of the president's proclamation, proc-lamation, never knew that the north had whippj-d the south, and that a million mil-lion lives had been sacrificed to free the slave, In his letter to the mayor this colored man asked to bo brought north-nnd north-nnd sold back into slavery. There is no question that he found it impossible to live in the south, and longed again for the irresponsibility from self-support of slavery days, which ho thought still nourished in the south. |
