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CARROLL COUNTY OHIO, FRIDAY, MARCH % lsn

nlIe as many opinions rs possible. whether
the commencement Of the operation Of the sys-
TEN be a liule earlier or later is not so impor.
lant as that day should be permanently fIed,
from which we could look forward with conf.
dence, 10 the final termination Of slavery with.
| 10 the limits Of the Commonwealth.
Whatever may be the day fixed, whether
/ 1850 or 1860 or any other day; all born aller il
should be free at the age Of twenty five but be
liable afterwards TO be hired out, under the au-
IhoriIy Of the STATE, for a term not exceeding 3
years in order TO raise a sum sufficient, 10 pay
the expenses Of their transportation 10 the Colo
ny and 10 provide them an outfit for SIX months
after their arrival there.
lf the descendents of those who were them
selves 10 be Free at the age Of twenty five, were
also 10 be considered as slaves until they attain
ed the same age, and this rule we're continued
indefinitely as TO time. il is manifest that slavery
would be perpelualed instead Of being termina.
ted. To guard against this consequence, pro.
vision might be made that the offspring Of those
who were to be free at twenty five, should be
free from their birth, butupon The condition that
they should be apprenticcd until they were twen-
ty one and be liable afterwards 10 be hired out
period not exceeding three years for the pur.
pose of raising funds 10 meet the expenses oI
the Colony and their subsistence for the first 6
months.
The Pennsylvania system Of emancipation
fixed the period of twenty eight for the liberia.
tion of the slaves, and provided. or the Courts
have since interpreted the system to mean, that
The issue of all who were TO be free at the imi.
ted age were from their births free. The Penn
sylyania system made no provision for Coloni.
zalion.
Until the commencement Of the system which
! am endeavoring to sketch, think all the legal
rights Of the proprieIors of slaves, in their fu.
lest extent, ought to remain unimpaired and un.
restricted. Consequently they would have the
right TO sell, devise or remove them from the
State, and in the latter case without their offspring
being entitled to to the benefit Of emancipation,
for which the system provides.
3D. The Colonization Of the free blacks, as
they successfully arrive, from year to year, at
The age emitting them to freedom, | consider a
condition absolutely indispensable. Without it,
| should be utterly opposed to any scheme Of
emancipation. One hundred and ninety odd
thousand blacks, composing about one fourth Of
The entire population of The State, with their
deScendents could never live in peace, harmony
and equality with the residue of the population.
The color, passions and prejudices would forev-
er prevent the two races from living together in
a state OF cordial union. Social, moral and po.
litical degradation wOud be the inevitable LOT OF
the colored race. Even in the free States q
use the term free and slave States not in any
seuse derogatory from one class, or implying
any superiority in the other, but for the sake o
brevity) that is their present condition. In
some Of those free States the penal Legislation
against the people of color is quite as severe, il
not harsher, than in some Of the slave States.
As no where in the United States are amalgama-
lion and equality between the two races posi-
bic, il is better that there should be a separation
and the African descendents should be returned
10 the native land Of their fathers.
1t will have been seen that the plan have
suggested proposes the annual transportation oil
all born after specified day, upon their arrival
at the prescribed age, to the Colony which may
be selected for their destination, and that the
process Of transportation is 10 be continued un'
I'll the separation ef the two races is completed
; II the emancipated slaves were TO remain ir
Kentucky until they attained The age Of twenty
eight, it would be about thirty four years before
the first annual transportation began, if the sys
tenn commence in 1855, and about thirty nint
years, if its operation began in 1860.
What the number thus 10 be annually trans
ported would be, cannot be precisely ascertain
ed. observe it stated by the Auditor that tht
increase Of slaves in Kentucky last year wa
between three and four thousand. But, as tha
letn Of
+ Slaves in the State, without regard to births,
does not, presume, exhibit truly the natura
increase, which was probably larger.-The ag
gregate was effected by the introduction and still
moro by the expectation of slaves. | suppos
that there would not be less, probably more
than five thousand to be transported the frs
year of the operation Of the system; but, afle
it was in progress some years. there would be
= constant diminution Of the number.
Y Would it be practicable annually to transpor
! five thousand persons from Kentucky! Their
/. caanot be doubt of it, or even a much large
It number. We receive from Europe annual
e emigrants to an amount exceeding two hundre
= and fifty thousand, at a cost for the passage q
: about ten dollars per head, and they embark q
;. European ports more distant from the Unite
4 States than the western coast of Africa. 1t /
true that the commercial marine, employed be
e tween Europe and the United States affords ia
IS cilities, in the transportation of emigrants, a
n the low rate, which that engaged between tn
it commerce of Liberia and this country does nc
d supply; but that commerce is increasing, and b.
n the lime the proposed system, if adopted woul
g 60 into operation, it will have greatly augment
i. ed. If there were a certainty of the annua
e transportation ofnot less than five thousand pei
d sons 10 Africa it would create demand for tran
n sports, and the spirit of competition would,
IS have no doubt, greatly diminish the present co;
u of the passage. That cost has been stated up
ID on good authority, to be at present fifty dollar
per head, including the passage and six month
!. outfit after the arrival olSthe omtgrant in Africa
e, Whatever may be the cost, and whatever tn
m number to be transported, the fund to be raise
/, by The hire of the liberated slave, for pero
n not exceeding three years will be amply sui
=. c;ont The annual hire m the average ma