The Arkansas advocate., 1836-03-18
ABOLI1IoN.
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ti, 10 the East, are two settlements of free negfoes-probably near thoiisand-men, women and children, of the true ebony CO tor: with very little mixture of mahoga- ny or lighter shades The negroes own the land occupied by them, but without the power to sell. Each family has small farm. They are emancipated slaves. aud these lands were purchased expressly for them, and parceled out among them about fifteen years ago.
 Their lands arc not ofthe best quality of Ghio laads but, by good management could be made very good-they are par ticularly well adapted to grass. either nlea- dow or pasture.
 Having been formerly slaves and com pelIej to work, one would suppose they ought to have industrious habits. They have had every inducement to industry and good conduct held out 10 them.-The ex- pertinent was 10 test the merits of the negro race under the most favorable ciTcunistan" ces fof success.
 Has this experiment succeeded z No, 1t has not. In all Ohio, can any white set clement be found equally wretched, equally unpreduetive.
 Farms given to them fifteen years ago, instead of being well improved, and the timber preserved for farming, have been sadly managed-small awkward elearings, and those not in grass, but exhausted and worn out in corn crops-the timber greatly estroyed--wretched log houses, with mud Ao1.s, o11,vz z with lite timber for further farming. They are SO excessively lazy and stupid, ] ::...at |. q the people ef Genraetawn lnear by their csmss) and the neighboring farmers will not employ them as work hands to any extent. Theyde not raise produce enough on their lands to feed their families, much less do they have a surplus for sale abroad. They pass most of their time in their little sorry cabins; too listess to fiddle and dance. One may ride through the negro camps,p as they are called, passing dozen strag- glng cabins wi:h smoke issuing out at the ends, in the middle of clearngs, without seeing soul either at work or play. The fear of starvation makes them work the least possible quantity. while they are much too lazy to play.
 Why do not the zealous abolitionists % there and see the experiment in all its beau Hty! The slave changed into free, but wretched savage ! iYhY not make some thing of these thousand negroes? There are not more fran two or three families out of the whole who are improved by the change from slavery to freedom.
 The negro settlements are dead weight upon Brown county, as to any productive benefit from the negro lands. or from negro labor. and that space of country might as well to this day, have remained ill the pos session of tue Indians.
 If Southern wealth can be applied to buy and colonize among us such worthless population, what farmer in Ohio Is safe ?-- Has be any guarantee that blaek colony will moi be established in his neighborbood!
 Let any one who wishes to learn the op- eration of emaDcipated negroes, visit toe Brown county camps. As they sink in la- ziness, poverty and filth, they increase in nunbers--their only produce IS children. They want nothing but cowries to make them equal 10 the negroes of the Niger.
 .1laayacture q tsslk.-We have hereto fore had occasion to speak of the success with which the power loom had been appli- edd iby af Gay, to the weaving of Silk But the only experiment which had then been made were upon an old, and awkward 1 ly constructed cotton loom. Within the last three weeks, one of the aew looms, with improvements by MT. Gay, adapted to the manufacture of silk, has been put in O.