Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1853-03-17

ihgs OF Friday, the An insiau"
Mr.. Cushing reported back the
bills to prevent the further settle.
nnent of blacks and mulattoes in the
! State of Ohio, with amendments,
which were agreed to, and the ques-
ton being on the engrossment OF
the bill,
Mr.. Cushing said that he had in
tended to report the bill back several
weeks ago. but owing to severe i'll
ness he had been detained from al
tendance on the Senate, and pre-
vented from introducing the suolec,
again at as early day as ne mac
desired. Illness had also prevented
him from making the Investigations
which he had anticipated, and al
though still Iaboring under great
physical debility, he would now say
fsw words to the Senate. Since
the introduction Of the bill ne had
been among his constituents and had
freely con nversed with them upon the
subject of negro exclusion. He had
presented long list Of petitions
from his city in favor of the bill, and
he had no doubt that were the ques-
ton submitted 10 popular election
in-his county, numbering $500 votes,
that 2700 would freely be given for
the bill.
Mr.. C. explained, from the geo.
graphical position of Gallia county,
that it was particularly subject TO the
evils OF inundation by the worthless
and worn out population Of Virginia
and North Carolina. lie read a
compilation from the census returns
showing the small proportion OF
negro inhabitants in the counties OF
the Western Reserve, numbering in
ten counties only a little over ten
hundred-and the large number
thrown upon the people OF the
southern counties. His own county
contained more negroes than the
whole Western Reserve, and the ten
counties adjoining Gallia contained
seven times the number living in the
northern counties alluded TO. Mr..
C. strongly disclaimed any sympathy
with the institution of slavery, and
nothing that he said or did in the
Senate must be tortured into any
such constructions. The question Of
exclusion was one solely Of policy,
and il was in that light, as legisla-
tor, he viewed it. The Honorable
Senator reviewed the condition of
the black population in the Southern
States, and claimed that no possible
benefit could arise TO either race from
the unequal community that exists
among them. Every State west OF
US has excluded them from their ter
ritory, and Ohio is left the sole re-
ceptacle OF the refuse and out cast
dregs. of Southern society. Before
concluding. at half.past ID O'Clock,
the honorable gentleman gave way.
at the suggestion of Mr.. Wilson,
And the Senate took recess.
Ii.u 2! o'clock, p. m.
Mr.. Gushing resumed his remarks
and went on to show the pernioious
effort that the Abolition sentiment Of
the North had worked upon the con-
dition and prospects Of the uniortu-
nate race in servitude at the South
He held that sentiment responsible
for. a great part Of the crime and
misery which sprung out of the
slave trade. because it had been g
chief agent in thwarting and. defeat
ing the designs of those who offered
to the negro race a tangible proof o
their humanity by providing them Q
government and country Of theiI
own in the land Of their original
nativity. He held them responsible
forthe severe and stringent laws thai
their actions had constrained the
Southern States to enact, and wa:
not sure but a part OF the policy o
their leaders was to bring abou
these very things. When the Oregon
question was pending in Congress
and the Northern Wings, the tru'
friends OF freedom were strainins
every nerve 10 prevent. the institu
ton of slavery from being fastenet
on that territory forever-when tn
issue was extremely doubtful and on,
vote was thought sufficient TO tUrr
the scale, Giddings had deserted hi
post and ran away TO the Buffalo
Convention, and Root sat obstinately
in his room, against the most urgen
solicitations of the friends of free
dom in that new territory.
Mr.. Cushing continued until lat,
hour, and closed by admonishing tn,
Senate Of the danger of pressing III,
abolition sentiments too far.
SINGULAR PHENoMENoN.-A Sc
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lightning occurred in a part q
Maine on the 18th ult. A CORES