Democratic standard. [volume] (Georgetown, Brown County, Ohio) 1837-1850, 1841-01-26
OHIO LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES.

= 4Es AOThs
The bill 10 authorize The Red Oak
Seminary, in the county Of Brown, was
read the third time; and The question
being upon the final passage Of the bill,
M. Jenkins said he was not awar, :,
Yesterday, when this bill was ordered TO
be engrossed, that the institution was
me for The instruction OF blacks aud
whites, without distinction Of color; bu
having this mo'ning received docu-
ment establishing the fact that The in.
stlution was one Of that character, he
should feel il his duty 10 oppose the bill.
Mr.. ]. held ip his hand report on the
condition Of the cOlored people Of Ohio,
made TO the abolition State Convention
at MassiIIion, on the 9Th Of May, l640,
from which he read the following ex-
tract:
..FrOm the teachers at Red Oak Summary.
s"There are about $50 Colored people
| in the vicinity Of Red Oak. Most Of
them came there for the purpose Of edu-
eating their children. They are what
would be called good liVers. The color
ed people paid their school bills as
promptly as the whites"
'Mr. Branch writes:
"Our school embraced "a colOred
youth and 80 whites ! never taught a
school in which every thing went on SO
peaceably. found no difficulty in gov
erning the school entirely by moral sua.
sion; there was The utmost harmony man.
ifesled by tIc different compilations TO
wards each other"
Miss Messenger taught the female de-
partmpnt 10 weeks. She writes:
'"The colored youth enjoyed little ol
no advantages of schooling until within
two or three years, having been bred IN
slavery. They have applied themselves
50 dill gently TO their bucks since they
have had advantages, that many Of then
are now equally advanced with the white
children. The cOlOred and White chl
drea rere clISSed together, and did nO
s hut the Gnrmer made quite as gnot
proficiency as the latter. The mos, III
ieresling feature Of The school was iht
association of cOlOred and whiie youths
and the perfect harmony that exset
between them. Had my eyes beer
clused think | should not have
known but that all we're Of Qne complex
On."' s.a
Mr.. ]. said he was opposed to the en-
cOuragement of any such Institutes; and
upon the passage Of This bill, he demln
ded the yeas and nays. Y4ae.'
Mr.. Daniiam said he was ignorant @
The fact, like the gentleman from Col
nmbiana, Tint this institution was for lht
instruction Of colOred children until now
--bdt he hoped that would not form al
hjrcIioH with gentlemun.
Mr.. BrOngh inquired Of the gentleman
from Brown, Nj. Dunham.) whethe
I'this was the institution referred 10 in tn
dOcUmenlIrom which the gentleman frOr
Columhiana had read extracts?
Mr. Dunham said he did n0l know pos
] litiVely; but he believed there were NOR
: ab0liliOUsts in the town in which III
. school was located, thanin any other paI
J of the county.
Mr.. Clarke was surprised 10 sec III
, l0ppusitiOn manifested towards this bill
and' tile sesassigRed Tor that 0ppus
5 iion. 1.-THE chiseRs iof that place dssi
1 edio send their children to school vii
. colored cbiIdren, hedidnot see how
. could affect the constituents OF the geI
i Itleman .ffam Colambiana.
4 Mr. BrOngi said 9hegea could be l
!, doubt, from the evidence which be hi
+ heard, that this wasan institution fer Y