The Plymouth pilot. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1851-1852, 1851-11-12
NEGRO EXCLUSION

The question OF excluding Negroes
from the free States is beginning to be ag-
itated in several places. The evident
tendency Of thingsis that way-wbe1her
right or wrong, the example of Indiana
is likely to be followed. The following,
from the New York express advo COATES
suhe policy in shat State.
1T now begins to be the time to agi-
tate another question, and that is, the
exclusion by law of The emigration Of
blacks INFO the free States, as Indiana has
already done. If every runaway negro Is
to bring with him Syracuse fight, let
us forbid negroes by law from coming
here. We have in this State already pro-
hibited them from voting unless they
have large property qualification; and
no doubt majority to prohibit, sheir en-
try here could be got just as large as that
which prohibited them from voting
We cannot afford to make the free States
a battle ground for runaway negroes.-
We cannot afford to have reputation of
Christiana and Syracuse. We cannot af-
ford the ill-will, the bad blood, the maj i'm
ing and murder, the abOlitionists through
the means of these runaway negroes, get
up between the North and the South
The true remedy is 10 forbid the imigra-
ton of negroes, and to stop the entry of
any more of them into the free st tes.-
AS long as the white and the black are
permitted to live peaceably together, no
such law was necessary; but, rs the abo-
litionists are bent upon bringing us into
collision, and the blacks especially into
collision with the law, we must remove
all caused of such collision by refusing
to have any more negroes come among us.
The first duty TO society is 10 Itself
TO protect itself; and if strangers come
into it. bringing nothing but the seeds of
mischief, aud perhaps, of civil war, it is
not only just but indispensably necessary
that their coming should be prohibited.
Society is State family. and as the fam
lily turns from its doors the neighbor who
would bring disturbance and disorder in
to it, so ought the State family to turn
from the State like elements of disorder
and discOrd. Thus, if blacks can no Ion
ger come among us but upon the repeti-
ton of Christiana and Syracuse scenes,
they must no longer come. They must
be prohibited from entering the State
Of course, if there is no fugitives, there
will be no Fugitive act to be executed
here; and thus the aboitionist will be
gratiiied, and we I'll shall be saved from
the disgrace of treason, MODS, murder and
MAIN. Noyillage permits powder mag
h., Oh e -
runaway negroes it seems. are in some
villages powder magazines, which blow
otherwise peacable people into that state
of comb ustibility which makes them burn
the statute laws, and even the Federal
constitution itself. The best way of get
ting along with such combustible neigh
bOrs is to remove the powder magazine,
THE UNITED STATES In 1898 AND IN
l73l.--The London Times contains a
comparative view os the United States
in 1893 and 1851, as demonstrating the
most unparalleled increase in numbers,
national revenue. commerce, and all the
,. means and appliances of social progress.
(which, if the results were not founded
on incontestible statistical data, would
, appear TO belong to ia bic rather than 10
r history" The times exhibits the data in
parallel columns derived from o4icial
,, sources, indicating the social and COM
/ mercial condition of our people at
those periods respectively. I'm little
. more than half century it observes this
4 extraordinary people have increased in
numbers above 500 per cent; their ma
: tional revenue hasaugmented nearly 700
9 per cent. while their public expenditure
:, has increased little more than 400 per
cent; their commerce, as indicated by
h their exports and imports, nearly 500 per
cent, and their shipping 900 per cent
The increased activity of their internal
communica lions, as compared in the
number OF their post Offices has been aug
u mented one hundred fold, their post roads
has increased SO fold, and the expense
{ of maintenance of postal intercourse in a
~ fold ratio. The addition TO the mach
u inery of public instruction. by public
and school libraries. ir 80 fold ratio or
from $4,000 to 100000 volumes =
: Their system of canal navigation, ii goes
e on TO state, placed in continuous line.
n would extend from London to Calcutta,
e and the railways would stretch from
London to Van Diemans land. 1t states
e that our lines Of telegraph, if laid con-
J. tinuously, would exted over a space
larger by 5000 miles than the dstnce
from the North to the South pole.-
e These are social and commercial phe-
o nomena,' observes that paper, "fol
a which it would be in vain to seek par
e allel in the history of the human race"