The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-10-22
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Dr.. D. ". HaU, st. Louis, Mo-:
DEAR Shin reply to your favor ofthe Goth,
[ am not little puzzled as to how shall he a
Bile to satisfactorily meet the mlin point-"what
part ofthe State would best suit the end in view''
that is, the colonization in Ohio Of some one hIn
d,'et North Carolina S3aUes.
| am OF tho impression that your relative, who
wiled those slaves their freedom, was mislcd in
his opinion that Ohio was the most desirable
State to which they should be transplanted.- -
lie, doubtless, had read much in stump speeches
newspapers, &c, of the desire ofa portion Of our
people to make the black an equal with the
white in all the POLITICAL personal and social re-
lations of society; but he probably did not look
beneath the surface OF such an advocated policy,
Or he could have discovered that it was but the
hypocritica cant Of mere political demagogucs,
who, ambitious of notoriety and place, have for
years made the Expressions and wrongs of the
poor slave" their SPECIAL hobby.
The census table would have been instructive
to your relative, on one point at least, and to
yourself especially "as to what part Of the
State would be best adapted to such a colony.
He would have noticed that the Northern por-
ton Of Ohio-that which is termed the "Rcserye''
contains, in comparison with the Southern, a
very meager number of blacks; and as it is well
known among all political readers that in that
sections great portion of the anti-Slavery asta-
tors and ne 5ro sympathiSerS reside, he naturally
would have regarded that as the section to which
they were invited, where they would he taken
by the hand as equals with the white population
and politically and socially be elevated to their
stInlard.
On such an inquiry, however, he wovd have
discovered "A singular anomaly, and probably one
which he would have found difficult OF expIana-
ton, unless he had madc tour of our State, and
in that way found an intelligent people. Fol
instance, contrast the white and black population
Of the R1Serva-thc home, as [ have indicated,
of nearly all this negro sympathy among us
and what will you see? that in six counties, with
white population of one hundred and sixty
! five thousand, five hundred, there arc but five
hundred and fifty c0lored persons, as shown by
| the last cerisiIS; while in the same number o
counties in southern Ohio where there is a larg,
portion Of settlers who enligrated from Mary
land, Delaware and Virginia. and wllero there
| is Comparatively but little abolition or negro
| sympathiZing element, there is a white popua
ton of nearly three hundred and twenty sS
thousand and ofDlacks about eleven thousand
| The disparity bctHdet these two sections i,
plain and instructive.
On the exterior Of the proposition - atlter
tOoWli you colonize?-aS said before, the Reserve
is the place; but the query viii! arise, why ART
there so few negroes there, if they are invited
to political and social eluility by white sympa-
thzers? Because it is notorious that they can
not subsist simply upon being the stock in trade
ofpolitical mountcbanks, ,hypocrites and fanatics
to use only as political question at elections
They Gould not live there, | say, evtt Id thai
fine agricultural portion ofthe State, for they
are badly treated and of the MANY who 60, bu
few remain. They are disinclned to hard la
Dor in farming and mechanical pursuits, ever
when they have the means, therefore they con
gregate mainly in the cities and towns of thu
Southern section content to be the menial o
the white, who, while he treats them as an infe
rior race, treats them more kindly than the can
ters and clamoreis Of the Reserve, where they
are used only for the purpose of political char
| latanS.
TO make these facts more pointed and impress
siye, look at the proportion of black and whites
in the two divisions ofthe State that | have des
| gnated.