Preble County Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1857-1859, 1858-07-15
Free NeSrOeS---What is to he
Done with Them.

S. Senate, the above question has be-
come a topic of much discussion. In
stead of striving to increase the free col
orcd population of the North by under
ground railroads and other unlawful and
dishonest Operations, as the Abolition
lists are doing, we. suggest that they turn
their attention to the solution of the
query, what is to be done with the Free
Negroes in our midst? 1t cannot be
questioned or denied that an unwilling
ness to have this class of population
multiplied and augmented in the Free
States is manifesting itself more plainly
each year. In the older States those
especially on the seaboard, this feeling
is apparen t. And it arises from many
causes, prominent among which are the
known improvidence and dissemination
for labor, which characterizes the color
ell race, and makes them at all times
partially liable to become dependent on
the labor of others for support, and the
antagonisp between the colored race,
and that class of white laborers who arc
compelled to compete with them in the
same field of idustry. These two causes
are powerful enough to array against free
colored men a most potential influence
in all the older States, where there are
more laborers than can at all times find
remunerativc employment. In the West
where the laborers are wanted the same
cause Operates but perhaps not to the
same extent though it is a fact that in
almost all the Western States a dispo-
siton is manifested to place the most
stringent restraints upon the colorel
men, if they are not totally excluded.
Oregon has adptcd a Constitution pre-
venting colored men from residing
within her limits, Kansas has followed
in the same path, though not with such
a positive tread, while in Indian a, Hin
ois and other Western States, the con-
dition of the free colorcd man is a little
above that of his brother in Georgia;
Alabama or South Carolina.
That this feeling of hostility toward
the colored race is not confined to any
particular location, or harbored by any
peculiar class Of people, is plain to the
careful observer. Wherever the color
ed race is collected in large numbers
there the spirit of opposition will surely
manifest itself. Even in Canada, that
Eden spot upon which is yearly poured
a host of fugitives from the Southern
States, the question of "what shall we do
with thcm?'' is being loudly asked, and
the response shows plainly that even
there the African race is looked upon
with feelings of distrust and aversion.
The following language was uttered on
the floor of the Canadian Parliament, a
short time since:
Con the order of the day for the third
reading ofthe emigrauts, law amend
ment bill being called:
"Hon. Col. Prince said he was wish
full to move a rider to the measure.-
The black people who infested the and
were the greatest curse to the Province.
The lives Of the people O the West were
made wretched by the inundation of
these animals, and many of the largest
families in the country of Kent have
been compelled to leave their beautiful
farms because of these pestilential swar-
thy swarms. What were these wretch.
es fit for? Nothing. They cooked our
victuals, shampooned us, but who would
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formed by white men? The blacks were
a worthless, useless, thriftless set of be-
ings-they were too indolent, lazy and
ignorant to work, to proud to be taught
and not only that, fthe criminal calcn-
ders of the country were examined, it
would be found that they were a major
ity of the criminals. They were so de-
tcstablc that unless some method were
adopted of preventing their influx into
this country by the underground rail
road" the people of the West would be
obliged to drive them out by open VIC
lcnce. The bill before the House i'm
posed a capitation tax upon entrants
from Europe and the object of this mo-
ton was to levy Il similar tax upon
blacks who come hither from the States
&C HOM LHONCu SCCOHuCu Ny WI. ALUM:
that q corporation tax of IS. for adults,
and IS. Cd. for children above one year
and under fourteen years of age, be lev
led On persons emigrating to Canada
from any foreign country.
"Ought not the Western men to be
protected from the rascality and vii
lanies of the black wretches? He found
these men with fire and food, and lodg-
ing when they were in need, and he
would be bound to say that the black
men of the county of Essex would speak
well of him in this respect. But he
could not admit them as being equal
to white men; and, after a long and
close observation Of human nature, he
had come to the conclusion that the
black man was born to and intended for
slavery, and that he was fit for nothing
else. Honorable gentlemen might try
to groan him down, but he was not to
be moved by mawkish sentiment, and
he was nersuadci that thew MIGHT as