Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-02-27
oHIo's PROGRESS TOWARD BAABARIsM


from The Cleveland Leader. 'ta'-
We recently gave a striking specimen of pro.
gress towards barbarism in Virginia, no less than
a proposition before the Legislature Of the Old
Dominion TO sell the free negroes OF that State
into slavery. The Democracy of ohio-we are
ashamed to record the iact-nOw propose 10 take
steps 10 the same direction. A Democratic Legis-
lature, at tho session Of 1880, united with The
friends OF justice and repealed the infamous Black
Laws which had so long ~disgraced our statue
books, and the people rejoiced that even for party
purposes o good thing had been done. But ten
years have wrought changes, and none greater
than in the leaders of tho Ohio Democracy touch.
ing the rights of colored citizens and slavery
The party neck has been bowed lower to the
Southern yoke and the back to the lash of the
slave driver, until it is proposed by the Democratic
General Assembly Of 1858 to enact q law more
heathenish in its provisions than any wiped out
10y the Democracy ten years ago. A bill has been
introduced in the Senate by MIR. kincaid, the
Senator from ClermoLt and Brown Counties, ly.
ing on the wrong side " the Ohio river, entitled
"A Bill to Prohibit Negro or Mulatto persons
from lmmigrating into the State Of Ohio" which
provides
/. That it shall be unlawful for colored persons
to come into the State after June next.
2. That the township Assessors shall make com.
plete returns Of all colored people in each town
ship, to the township Clerks, to be recorded in a
book, from which n certificate of the record is 70
be made and given to each colored person in the
township.
3. That when colored persons remove from one
ward or township to another, they must get from
the Clerk u certificate of their residence, for which
they are to pay % cents.
4 That persons inducing such persons to immi.
grato shall be fined from $40 to Sl00.
5. That any colored person coming into the
State, after the first of June next, shall be fined
from IS to $50, to be prosecuted before any Jus.
tice of the Peace, for which they shall be repeat.
edly prosecuted and fined in the same amount till
they leave the State.
6. That all contracts made with such persons
shall be null md void.
!; That any person employing any negro or
mulatto person that may come into this State
after the LIST. Of June, 1858, shall be subject to q
fine of $40 to Sl00.
8. That prosecutions shall be in tho name Of
the township Trustees.
9. That Trustees shall prosecute under the Act,
for which they shall be paid Sl.50 rer day.
Bring this Democratic measure to a home test
Such colored citizens Of Cleveland as Messrs
Swing, Henderson, Morris, Hurste, Malviu, Vos
burgh. Brown, Leach, and others-old, intelli
gent and respectable residents, who own proper
ty, pay taxes, vote at elections, educate theil
children in the public schools, and contribute t,
build up the institutions and to the advancement
of the prosperity of the city-are, by the propos
ed law, to be degraded and treated Ike ~plantafio,
], SldreS, are to be registered like cattle, must carr,
passes from ward to ward for themselves and fam
lilies when they remove, and must pay for then
too and if they bring home parents, children o
other relatives, residing out of the State. ate
June LIST, 1858, or even encourage" their color
ed friends abroad to reside in the Forest City, the,
are to be subject to penalties Of from $40 to Sl0I
and those relative and friends who take up thei
residence here to harrassing prosecutions an,
fines until they will leave boosted free Ohio.
Try another home test. The African Metho
dist Church invite a Pastor of like hue of ski
from abroad to take charge of the congregation j
Cleveland. lie accepts and begins his usefu
~labors-this Democratic law steps in and punish
es people and teacher, even to the driving of tn
latter from the State.
Another home test, less serious, but quite q
ILLUSTRATIVE of the proposed law. After the LIST, {
June next, a colored professor of the tonsorial al
from some emporium Of fashion. East or Soutl
opens luxurious rooms and velvet head-rests o
Superior street, On the morning Of the gloriou
anniversary of the day which proclaimed "a
men free and equal" our worthy Democrat
Mayor, Postmaster, Collector ofsCustoms, Distri,
Judge, District Attorney, United States Marsha
or SOME would-be Governor, drops in and zen
ploys" the professor to put him in trim to eel
brate respectfully. The dime is paid, he steI
upon the sidewalk, and corgratulates himse
that This is a great country p At the "Fourl
of July Dinner" he drinks ''To the Day we Gel
hratc grows more patriotic and drinks "l
Universal Freedom !"-and wakes the morning
:, the 9Th. with q slight ache where the profess
! Shampooed, aud to the realization before a Dem
cratic Justice of the Peace, on the informant
perhaps of q Clermont or Brown County spy al
slaGe-catcber pursuing his vocation on the "b
nighted Reserve" that the price established
Democratic law for tonsorial Injuries, under SUI
felicitous circumstances. is from $40 to 500 ar
that the professor who so Familiarity took him
the nose on the great day of equality and fratc
nifty il elevated to the anne Democratic Platfor
=. of Justice at precisely one.half the cost to t
'colored individual" provided always he will
no more and leave the State forthwith.
Caucus and pass Kincaid's bill, by all mear
Democrats of the General Assembly. 1t will
the tallest as well as the blacklist feather ever "
and worn by Ohio Solons. .1s; -