The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-09-17
Amalgamation Damoeraoz.


"Judge Douglas IS especially Mortified at th,
thought Of the mi ,lng ofblood by the white anr
black races, agreed for oucs--a thousand times
agreed. There are white men enough 90 mar,
ny all the white womeni and black men enough
TO marry aIl the black women; aud 90 let them
be married. On this point we fully agree with
tho Judge; and when he shall show that hi.
policy is better adapted TO prevent amaIpama.
tion than ours we shall drop ours and adspt
his Let us see. Tn 1855 there were in thr
United States 405,J5l muI8tioes Very GO
OF these are the oHsprin ng Of whites and free
bl1cks; nearly OH have sprung from black
SaUcs and white masters. A separation oil
the races is the only perfect preventative oil
amaigamatiou, but as am immediate separation
is impossible, the next best thing Is to keen
them apart where they are not already torath.
er. lf white and black people never get TO.
gcihrr iu Kansas, they will never miz bio % lu
Kansas. That 7 utlaost the selEevident truth
a few free CoIored persons may get into ths
free States in any sganti but their number /.
too insignificant TO amount 10 much in thg
way of mixing blood, lu 1850 there were ir
the free SHtes, Sc Gd9 muIattoes: but for he
most part they were not born there--they came
from the slave StaleB ready made mp. In the
same yeur The slave stntes had sls ,S74 mulat-
toes ull Of home production. The proportion
Of free muluttops TO free blacJt--the only coli
ored classes i'm the free statps--is much greater
I'm the slave than Ina the free States. u is
worthy of note, too, that amolg the free states
those which make he colorei man the nearest
TO equal the white, huve, poportiouubly the
fswest muIattoes, the least OF amalgamation.--
In New Hampshire, the State which goor
farthest towards equality htwecn the races
there are just ls4 mu luttoes while there ARE iu
Virguia--how many do ytu think 2--79,775
DD Flf8ft I'm HlI fl1n
together.
These statistics show hat slavery Is the
greatest source Of omaIgauptioni and next {,
10, not the elevation, butthe degeneration O.
the free blacks, Yet Ju.ge DougIas drsad
the slightest restraints ON lIe spread Of slavery
and the slightest human recognition of the ne
gro, as tending horribly q amugamatjon.
This very Drsd Scott clse affords a strOrl
test as TO which party most lavors amaigomu
tiou. the Republicans or the dear-Uuiou-say
ing Democracy. Drnd SiJtt, his wife and two
daughters were involved Loo this suit. We de
sired the court 90 have hdd That they were Cit
izeus so rarat least as to aditIs them 60 q hear
ing as 10 whether thcy wro free or NOT, un0
then, also, thut they were I'm fact aud in av
rroIIy free. Could we hare had our way, th
chances Of these black giFs, ever mixing lhet
blood with that Of white people, would hav
been diminished 40 least tOthp extent that {
could not have been without their consoui-
But Judge Douglas is delighted 10 have then
decided TO be slaves, and not human enough &
have q hearing even if they were free, am
thus left subject to the forced couCubiuags O
their masters, and liable TO become the moth
ers Of muluttoes in spit, Of lhemselyes--th
very state Of tho case that produces nineteenth
Of the mulultoos--all the mixing Of the bloc
iu the nation.
or course, state this case as an Illustrate
only, no e meaning 70 soy or intimate chat tht
master of Dred Scott aud his family, or an
more than "a percentage OF mas prs generally y
uro inclined to exercise this particular kim
Of power which they hold over their lema
slaves
have said the separation OF races is tn
only perfect preventive OF umMgamalion,
have no right to say all tho members OF tH
Republican party are in favor OF tis, nor q
to srv that as party they are DO favor OF q
There is nothing en- their platform directly o
tho subiect. But I can say very largo POI
ton of its members are for %, aud that Tn
chief plank I'M theI pIatiorm--oppostiou I
the spread Of sl1very--is most favorable {
chat optrItion. Such separation, II ever el
fsctod at all must be effected by co'oniza
oni and no political party, as such, Is nN
doing anything directly for colonization. PaI
tv operations at present only favor or rettr
colonization iuciueuLal The enterprise is
difficult one; but "where there is a will thcI
is wHyi" and what colonization needs mo.
Is hearty will. viii springs from the two q
emenls Of moral sense aud self-iulrrest. j,
us be brought TO believe it IS morally righ
aud, at the same time, favorable 10, or, ut lcas
not against our iutere 81 20 transfer the lriCa
Co his naive cline aud we shall find a way
. do o., however great the task may be. IL
children Of Israel, TO such numbers as to 60
clude four hundred thousand fighting mel
went out Of Egyptian bondage In a body.
How differently the respective sources of iIl
Democratic and Republican parties iucidenta
ly bear on the question OF forming will
public seniIment-for colonization, is easy
see.
The Republicans inculcats, with whateve
, Of ability they can, that the negro is a MAJ
. that his bondage is cruelty wrong, and that u
. field OF his oppression ought not TO be pnlargsl
. The Democrats deny his manhood; deny, o
/ divert TO insignihCance, tho wrong OF his bono
uEe, so far as possible, crush all sympathy 4
him. and cultivate and excite hatred aud dU
| gust against him, compliment themselves
. Union savers for doing so; and call the iul
mite outsproading Of his bondage ga sacre
| right Of self government"
The plainest print cannot be read throug
golden oagle aud il vii be over hard to Gu
many men who will Eeud a slave 10 Liberi
and pay his passage while they can send hi
. TO new country, Kansas for instance an
soil him for $500 aud the rise
The Mt. Vernon Banner is droa.
fully exercised because Free Wi
Baptist church, in Michigan, has expel
ed a member who voted for Buchana
/ We know nothing of the case--it III,
be true-very likely is-becaUso ii
| Wesleyan Methodist, Free VIII Bar
tist, and some other denominations a
anti-Sluyory organizations and discm
from their communion all who felloy
Ship Slavery.
Buff the Banner is so shocked
intolerance why has it no word of col
dcmnation, but rather Of applause,
the intolerance of Slavery? Why do
! he not condemn the mobbing oftw mi
listers in Cummins, Kentucky on Su
| day the goth inst, driving them fro
| the pulpit and county, their only c
fence beiag am effort to establish a seho
in that place? Why was not the Ba
nor indignant with the South Carolina
for driving the Rev. Mr. Boardman fra
Charleston, because he would not
his pulpit laud "Bully Brooks's' ba
attack on Senator Sumner Why
not the Banner indignant with the ci
zeus Of Texas who only last week p
down the Wood County Press, one
their best papers, for expressing a 81
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