Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-02-16
Repeal of the Black Laws.

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ed to the Senate. has been adopted by the lat.
ter body, though not until it was amended,
in which amendment the House Subsequent
ly concurred. Tie State Journal - gives
the following synopsis of its provisions:
Sec. /, provides for the creation of school
districts for colored schools, and creates the
office Of trustee for Them.
Sec. 9, provides for the election of trustees,
by the colored tax payers.
Sec. 3, dedicates the taxes paid by colored
persons TO the support Of the rolored schools.
Sec. 4, provides that the districts for coll
ored persons shall be deemed distinct bodies
polite.
Sec. s, defines who shall be deemed TO be
colored.
Sec. 6, repeats all laws creating disabili.
ties, or comforting privileges on account Of
color.
This is not equity, though an approxima-
ton that way and as society now is, favors
like this should be thankfully received.
The provisions made for school districts.
are, in our opinion, as much a violation Of
the law of Congress granting school lands,
and the Constitution of Ohio, as though Irish
school districts, and German school districts
had been established by the powers that
be-" In the cases supposed, the violation
would have been palpable, because the Irish
and Germans have white skins. Not SO,
however, when the interests and rights Of
the coloreJ man are concerned, for the people
have been so accustomed to trample upon his
rights, it has become their second nature 10
do so.
The provisions Of Sec. G are not so COM
prehensive as are here stated for in the SEN
ate amendments exceptions are made in ia
vor Of two laws-one prohibiting colored
men from serving on %inries, the other depri-
wing them of TIE benefit of the poor laws
The poor laws Of any country are a mean.
miserable substitute for Christianity, and
would be secuted from community if those
who name the name Of Jesus, and claim him
as their great exampler, did their duty. Bat
mean and miserable as they are, and cold.
hearted as is their chari'y-if the p%ittance
thus unwillingly bestowed deserves the name
-llt ChlOlNu i'bIlt ~ 10 nv u tllAANlih W
all the advantages that can be derived from
them, as any other class. And had their
right been recognized, the State would prob
ably never be many dollars poorer, for the
colored people, as a general thing, even in
the cities Of the east, where they experience
far more destitnlion than they do in Ohio,
are among the last to claim assistance from
the public. We have now in our mind the
case Of a poor, a very poor colored woman
who died and left two or more children-one
of them a cripple-without food and without
shelter. A neighbor, as poor as herself, and
who had several small mouths to feed, tool
the children into her own family rather thar
have them become a public charge. AnC
this incident illustrates the feeling which
prevails among them 10 a far greater cX'en
than it does among the whites. Whethe.
they love each other better because they ar
prosecuted, whether it is because they ar
naturally a people with stronger attachments
than the whites, or what is the cause w
shall not pretend TO say. Had the Senat,
not been so exceedingly fearful that the Stat
would be called upon to feed the hungry
clothe the naked, and minister to the sicI
among those whose spirits God placed in eb
ony temples that they must make so ediou
an amendment to the House bill, they Nigh
have saved their reputation for charity an
benevolence, and that without involving tn
expenditure of many dimes.
Who does not remember how indirnar
were the American public but recently, be
cause the prosecutors Of the Irish patriots S
perverted British law as TO exclude CathC
lies from the j~uries that tried them, last til
religion they held in common with most
the prisoners would increase the difficulty
procuring a conviction. That indgnatio
was just; for in Ireland, where the feud b,
tween the Catholics and Protestanls has bee
kept burning from generation TO generation
it would be absurd TO expect a jury of Pr
testants 10 deal Justly by a Catholic offende
or jury of Catholics TO impartially weig
the evidence against a Protestant in any cas-
in which, either directly or indirectly, the o
fence charged had a religious bearing. VIII
wonder then that the colored man, and III
friends of the colored man, and all advocate
of equal and exact justice should loalhe
state of feeling and be indignant at its adv
Gates who, because of complexion, deny to
large and respectable portion of COMMIT
ni:y The right to sit on %juries, no matter ho'
well qualified they may be morally and int