slaves, by giving the preceding advertisement a conspicuous place in his columns, and taking his pay for it, has apparently a keen sense of the proprieties of life, where whites are concerned, and a high regard for the rights, character and feelings of those whose skin is colored like his own.  As proof of this, we copy from the number of the paper containing the foregoing advertisement, the following Editorial on the pending political canvass.

“We cannot refrain from expressing the hope that the Gubernatorial canvass will be conducted with a due regard to the character, and feelings of the distinguished individuals who are candidates for that office; and that the press of North Carolina will set an example in this respect, worthy of imitation and of praise.”

What is this but chivalrous and honorable feeling?  The good name of North Carolina is dear to him—­on the comfort, ’character and feelings,’ of her white citizens he sets a high value; he feels too, most deeply for the character of the Press of North Carolina, sees that it is a city set on a hill, and implores his brethren of the editorial corps to ‘set an example’ of courtesy and magnanimity worthy of imitation and praise.  Now, reader, put all these things together and con them over, and then read again the preceding advertisement contained in the same number of the paper, and you have the true “North Carolina STANDARD,” by which to measure the protection extended to slaves by the ‘public opinion’ of that state.

J.P.  Ashford advertises as follows in the “Natchez Courier,” August 24, 1838.

“Ranaway, a negro girl called Mary, has a small scar over her eye, a good many teeth missing, the letter A. is branded on her cheek and forehead.”

A.B.  Metcalf thus advertises a woman in the same paper, June 15, 1838.

“Ranaway, Mary, a black woman, has a scar on her back and right arm near the shoulder, caused by a rifle ball.”

John Henderson, in the “Grand Gulf Advertiser,” August 29, 1838, advertises Betsey.

“Ranaway, a black woman Betsey, has an iron bar on her right leg.”

Robert Nicoll, whose residence is in Mobile, in Dauphin street, between Emmanuel and Conception streets, thus advertises a woman in the “Mobile Commercial Advertiser.”

“TEN DOLLARS REWARD will be given for my negro woman Liby.  The said Liby is about 30 years old and VERY MUCH SCARRED ABOUT THE NECK AND EARS, occasioned by whipping, had on a handkerchief tied round her ears, as she COMMONLY wears it to HIDE THE SCARS.”

To show that slaveholding brutality now is the same that it was the eighth of a century ago, we publish the following advertisement from the “Charleston (S.C.) Courier,” of 1825.

“TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.—­Ranaway from the subscriber, on the 14th instant, a negro girl named Molly.