The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1850-03-13

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Republic home, which they and their de- !,
scendants might enjoy forever, would beae
saving to our government. Donate il to 4,
the hardy settlers, and we are at once rid
of the necessity of keeping standing ar !.
my, to guard our territories from the dep
rotations of hostile savages. Had the gov
ernment, before the Florida war commence
ed, made generous donation to the hardy
pioneers who would settle there. they would
have protected themselves and their homes.
as did the gallant Texans; it would have
saved the $50 900, 900, which that war cost
the nation, to capture, a few Seminoles
among the hemlocks and swamps Of
Florida. The money spent in the two
wars referred TO, would have given 100
acres OF land each to more men than are
now voters in our. own proud State, and
the distribution Of this land among the
landless would have produced glorious
reformation in the moral and political con- !
dition of the masses of our laboring peo-
pie. ~.
The sums spent by our government in
the fifteen years referred to, at that rate,
would overrun the immense amount spent
by England in the 1877 years, to which he
[Mr. Simpson, previously referred. May
we not expect, with somewhat Of certain
ty, that what has happened to England,
sooner or later, will happen TO US? It is
an inquiry worthy of the attention of leg.
islators here, and in the Congress Of the I,
Union, and to be guarded against by the
method pointed out in the resolutions now
before the Senate. To guard against ap.
preaching evils, is the province Of the leg
islator and all good men, and in it they,
will be sustained by the wise Of all sects ,
and parties, Of the age in which we live.
A nation Of freeholders "a nation ofmen,
owning the soil which they till, and which
they fertilize by the sweat of their brow,
will ensure stability and long life to our
proud Republic. They still love the gov
ernment which has fostered and protected
them, and their actions will be, "peace and
good will to all and each among men"
and equal and exact justice to all, will be
the governing motto. ~ ~ ~
If our Government would donate $4,000
square miles to the colored population Of
the Union. as an everlasting heritage to
them and their posterity, il would separate
them from our race, and place them by
themselves They should be separated
both in government and in business Of all
kinds, and like the Indian tribes, their rights
should be guarded with care-they should
be made freemen. In my humble opinion,
continued Mr.. Simpson. nothing but final
separation from the whites can ever make
them prosperous. The amount of land
asked for, would sustain, with ease, pop. T.
ulation Of four million of souls, and great
as is the amount. it would make but a small
inroad on the domain ofthe Union. There
are many amongst US, who would wish to
see the colored population sent out of the
country and located upon some other por-
ton Of the earth, than upon this continent
Much as he. Mr.. Simpson, disliked to SEQ
the black population in our midst, either
slave or free, he would object to this, for
here is the land of their nativity, and he
believed that here they could be improved,
morally and politically, better than in any
other part of the world, and besides It
would be cruel to drive them from their
native land contrary to their wishes and
desires. No one objecting to this plan.
can point out any danger to our raceby
such an arrangement ltwould be land
of deiverence to the colored populations,
and it would open up vast channel Of
enterprise, in amoral point of view, to the
ministers Of our country, where they could
exercise their calling, in the erection Of q
modern Ethiopia, distinguished for its pie
ty and the world would turn with pleasure
and view with delight, young and grow
ing church, stretching out her hand to
Heaven for blessings. Could this, in the
slightest degree, check the onward pro-,
gress of our race! Certainly it could not!
IF it could would not advise it. He, Mr..
Simpson, was not, nor was he ever, what
is called an abolitionisi. He differed with
them as to the constitutional power, to do
that which they propose as remedy for
the existing evils. While he would not
oppress the blacks, he was yet strongly op-
posed to the shareholders of the Middle
States sending their worthless and fugitive
slaves into Ohio. When here they come
IN competition with the high-minded and
laborers of our own, State, and
BY reducing labor, they tend to degrade il,
and thus do they work injury to that class,
which we should protect with jealous care.
Ohio would be freed from the curse Of
q black population residing in its midst.
The free States would rise up as if by mag
c, and possessing the prepondency in our
national councils, would side with free
dom, and settle the contest now going on
between freedom and slavery, and The
oppressed your cities would pass from
you like the waves of the ocean. being
hus transplanted from poverty to ease and
comfort, when they could give their chill
lren that education upon which rests the
mighty structure Of our government, and
which has given il worldwide fame
7 When our country becomes densely