The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-08-16


Icy the tree States generally The Free Soil
ers seem determined that the black race shall
not emigrate whether they be ireemen or slaves.
Their object is to destroy slavery; but it is not
determined what's TO be done with the negro
when he is free These fanatics are ready to
tear down; but it has not occurred TO them what
they sill build up nor have they considered the
kind Of material they have TO build with The
State of Ohio has yet but 10000 free negroes.
The evil of having such population is yet but
slight compared with what it will be in time.
We confess we feel some qualification that
the people of Ohio have begun to open their eyes
to the character Of this class OF population Let
them taste little Of the cup they would apply
to the lips of their neighbors. 1t will do them
rood Let them have some more free negroes
and negro conventions. Give them plenty of it.
1t will throw an icy blanket over Abolition fu-
ror:-[ Lou. Dem.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer
CINCINNATI. July 9Th. 1850
Editors of NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.: We would
be pleased to see the within petition published in
your paper.
Respectfully yours.
VIM HOON,
FRED Fl OEHLMAN,
VIM W. WARDEN,
JOHN PATTON,
VIM. LODER.
The following petition signed by numerous
citizens Of Hamilton county, was recently pre-
scented to the Convention:
TO The Conuention called to Change the ConSti-
tution Of Ohio.
GENTLEMEN: The undersigned respectfully
petition your honorable body and pray that pro-
visions may be made in the Constitution, (Which
you are now traming) for the removed Of all per-
sons Of negro, or part of negro blood, from the
State of Ohio.
In presenting this petition we are fully i'm
pressed with the importance ofthe subject which
it involves, and with the further fact that the
tie ineonteniehcs and pf6Sa6Is Injury sIe our nG
colored inhabitants But the evils which will
Ae avoided by it. and the permanent good which
will result from il, both to the present and future
generations, are, we think, ample reasons to
justify its adoption.
The geographical position of our State, situa-
ted upon the Ohio river. and lying as it were at
the door of the Southern plantations, makes it a
suitable point for the collection of fugitive and
manumitted negro slaves: the consequence of
which has been very rapid increase of our me-
gro population-an increase which has much
exceeded that of any State in the Union.
In the year 1900, there were but 500 negroes
in the State OF Ohio, Indiana and Illinois: but in
the year l848 they were estimated at 10000
in the State of Ohio alone This shows that
our colored population has been doubling itself
once in every eight years, ratio of increase
which il continued for fifty wears longer, will
give us a colored population of over two millions
Of negroes and mixed bloods. These facts
alone, we think, present matter of much moment
for your consideration, and call for some prompt
and decided action.
Formerly the emigration of white people to
this State was of equal ratio TO that of negroes,
but such, we think, is no longer the case. But,
on the contrary, the more Western States and
our Pacific territories now take away as many
Of our white people as Eastern emigration sends
in. But the negroes induced here by our recent
ly-adopted policy, and an excessive negro SYM
pathy in our people, are flowing in much more
rapidly than ever. II then. in connection with
this state ot things, the emigration from Europe
be checked either by prohibitory laws, or other
wise, a policy which seems to connect itself
with the negro sympathy, we must necessarily
see decrease, or at least very slow increase
OF the white population. while the negroes must
increase very rapidly. To meet these corse-
quences which seem now to be inevitable, what
shall be done?
To place the two races upon an entire equal
ity, is an act at once rePugnant TO the order OF
nature, which no wise legislature will tolerate,
or ever suffer it to be done. To keep them on
terms ofinequality in free State presents an in
consistency with the idea of free institutions,
which cannot be well defended, and which can
not long be continued when the black popnla-
ton becomes as numerous as ours is about to
become. Therefore, in the opinion of your Pc
titioners, one Of three things only is possible:
Either the ,chite people must remoue from The
STATE and gine it mp to the negroes the too races
must dnlalganadte or the negroes must be renaov-
ed
The first oposition-namely. that the white
people shall remove from the State and give it
to the negroes, is not only improbable but would
be manilestly unjust. Ohio was settled by white
people. They were the pioneers Of civilization,
and by their energy and skill the forest has sunk
down before them 1t is therefore IDLE TO think
that they could give up to another race Of people
the country which their hands have made valn-
able. 10 M
Our second proposition, namely, that the con-
tinuance of the two races in free State, must
result in amalgamation, we are aware has been
contradicted But we submit to your consider
alton, whether the experience both oil our coun.
try and o. Central America, do not furnish in.
controvertible proofs of the truth ofthis PROPOSE
tion.--0ur own State, although but Of fifty years
standing. and with laws which. until very re.
Gently, maintained broad distinction between
the two races, nevertheless shows many eviden.
ces of amalgamation, in the numerous mixed
bloods who are daily seen in our streets, and
compels US toadmit that an extensive intercourse
is kept up between the two races. And this
evil we think has been greatly increased within
the last five or six years. Within that time the
negroes have grown into Importance, theirrighis
extended, and their number increased more rap
idly than before; and a large political party has
sprung up in our midst, the only (avowed) object
of which is to advance and assist the negroes
to press them into white society, and to familiar
ize the two races with each other. for the pur-
pose (as they ssg) "of breaking down the preju.
Dice Of co!or."