The New era. [volume] ([Portsmouth, Va.]) 1845-1847, 1846-08-08
THE RANDOLPH NEGROES.

The Randolph negroes have again been
driven from lands selected for them in Ohio. An
effort was made TO settle them in Shelby county
but. like the previous attempt in Mercer, il has
failed. They driven away by threats and
violence A writer in the Cincinnati Gazette
states that Judge Leigh has determined on aban-
donng all further efforts 10 colonze them in free
State. and, as by the laws of Virginia they can,
not remain there over year after they were
emancp ated. he has concluded 10 send them to
Liberia Philadelphia Ledger"
The treatment of the negroes set free by the
late John Randolph, goes to show how heartless
and hypocrtical are such negro sympathzers as
Gddings and his fanatica abolition associae les
10 his life time John Randolph made several
wills, the last Of which, though long disputed
providing for the liberation of his slaves, and
furnishing them the means of comfortable settle.
ment in some free State, was allowed TO be proved
by the Supreme Court
After crossing the Ohio. to Mercer county.
Ohio. and expanding all their money in pnrchas-
ing land and erecting small houses for shelter in
Mercer county !! they are driven forth by the
same fanatical abolitionis,s that deprived them of
their money. But it is in keeping with Ohio
abnlionism.
The wing party of Ohio under the lead of snch
fanatic enemies of the Union, as Giddings, (the
Arthur TaPPan of the day) and other political
abolition zealots. have had law passed in Ohio.
called. the Giddings law,'' which not only
invites the most dangerous and worthless, but the
hest of slaves to desert the slave holding States
and almost word for word, promises them protec-
ton.
And why do they do SO? Why do they wish
to eject the Randolph negroes, and invite the
Virginia, Kentucky and other southern slaves I?
The answer is plain. They do not care one
straw for the sGue-they want his labor The
Randolph negroes. have an influential Virginian
to watch over them. they cannot get any thing
from them. now, they have robbed them of their
money. But the foolish deluded slave is promis
ed liberty by these honorable Orleans, until he
crosses the Ohio River. and he then learns In hi,
sorrow that he has left good master and home
where he had resided all his life with mis- kindred
to he abolition kidnapped to work for a cold
hearted northern master shonld he dare to com
plain he is plainly told to stay and work, or he
will be sent back To Virginia or Kentucky as the
may be- This is the case, we have seen
these half naked and half starved run away
slaves begging aims from strangers, after they
have been crippled, over worked, and turned
off to get their living or starve.
The State of Ohio is divided from VIRGINIA
and Kentucky, by the River Ohio, and stretches
about 500 miles along the Virginia line, and up
wards of $50 miles along the Kentucky line
Here along this line, can the mischief makers
agitate the subject TO their hearts content
Here is the nucleus Of that feeling, which ex
tended abroad, must inevitably " ALLEVIATE one
portion" Of the Union '' from the resi- and o,cee
BILE The ties that bind together its various pa,ts
Cincinnati and other large towns in Ohio. that
bind the Ohio River, abound with blacks who arc
taught by the aboIitonists to beard white peonle
in the streets We have, ON more than one oc-
casion, been witness Oft scene of the kind, while
in Cincinnati, and ON one occasion saw some des
Perate blacks draw drks, knives. and pistols, and
tor more than half an hour put he officers Of the
law at defiance