The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1858-08-11
NegToph0bia in Greene County,
Ohio.

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! Ohio.
The Torch Ligit, a strong republican paper o
Xenia, Greene county, Chic, in its issue of July
28, had leader on what the Elitor is please,
to term NsJrQqio5ia. a disease that has latelJ
made its appearance IN that region. That ou
readers may have soma idea Of the cause Of tn
disease, which it SEEMS is now affecting all clas
scs of the white community of one of onr pop.
ulous counties, we will trans,ribe from tn,
Torch Light:
Something has been said on the streets abou
the origin Of this dark streak of luck which ha
beiallen Greene county, but in our opinion M
one has placed the responsibility where it right
! fully belongs. Until the purchase of Ta,cato,
and the opening of HIlbertarce University, it wa
seldom that a family OF negroes from the Soutl
| found their way into Greene County, but Will
the opening Of that institution and the spreadin.
abroad Of the information that here was to bt
! found school which offered the opportunity o
an education to the colored population, with al
the prestige OF collegiate Course and degrees
commenced the settlement OF blacks in the coun.
try around that immediate locality Those who
first came induced, by their representations
others to come and finally the attention Of the
Slave holder was called to the fact that here
was furnished the field not only TO educate his
hali-breed children, but to locate them where
they would be likely to find society of their own
color and grade. This was the germ from which
has sprung the ao7tole eul which just now makes
the mine days wonder of the town. i've dc
not question the phIanthropc motives OF those
who originated this institution and have thus aI
sustained it; nor d. we question the propriety
OF endeavoring BY education to elevate the black
man, but aoe do say that The outside results Of thai
experiment haze not been peasant TO Tie SUPERIOR
race among Which 1t has been the sole originating
cause of planting numerous families of an inte.
,iOr race"
So much on the cause Of what the Torch Light
is pleased to term the Negrophoba, now rife in
the old Republican County of Greene.
Doctors after settling the cause of diseases,
we believe, next go TO work to ascertain what
they call the P,tt!tologJ, or exact nature of the
disease-in other words what organ or tissue is
affected the 75reh Light has given the cause
as we have m doubt, rightly enough; now we
will hear him on the Pathology or nature of the
trouble.
"rhis un2leasantness" (alluling to the pres
enca of the Wilbcrorcc University, for the cd
ucaton of nogroes) "mly be set down to the
score Of PRaDJuDloE or whatever else the read
er peases to call it; but it exists, Arrays has e.
js!el wiH eEist, irraaicaRy and ,frei. 1t is in
the mini Of the white child, with his first idea
mil EI.t I,Ol- ;nf e., 4 ~,
il Hoes through lis w'sole life, aal dies only ,cleu
he djes''
Doctors have told us that causes of disease
may be aSc=rtainel and the exact nature 0 the
disease appreciated, but it is not always easy to
fnl a remedy. Here IS the rule Many a
poor fellow has lost his life when the wits OF
the doctor got strandtl on this shoaI Let us
hear from the Ior.A L gilt again. lie seems to
hay, had good service from his philosophy in
drinns causes, pathology, So Let Us see il he
is eqaalIy happy in hs wits at remedies. The
disease We would remind the reader is Neyto-
pio&a, it was produced as the Idraa L'glt Says
by getting up | college in the county for the ed.
ucatiOn Of negroes, which had caused general
of negroes to the county; its nature
is an ineradicabe prejudice on the part of the
superior to the inferior race, that always has
existed ana always Will exist" Here is what
the Id'rA L.gi& has to propose then in the way
OF II remedy:
Men swear about them, (he negroes) and
then sell to them--talh alout Il 'fuReR cchzaR-
ntY,'' anl"then trade with them and seek their
trade. Now let u5.stop the hufc, and TINS put
an end to the influx, or stop the talk and hide
the inconsistency. Wsp,qtcr The f1u,sr.
llowis this? II strikes US as rather a severe
kind of remedy. The Torch LjgRt has for years
been feeding the negroes with sugar plambs, has
been eXpttiating earnestly on negro rights and
the propriety of enfranchsing the negro and
placing him on an equality with the whites; has
taken lately an active part in an attempt to CD.
struct the operations of National law for the
recovery OF fugitive slaves; has given counte
nance and support to the feeling by which an
educational institution for the negro has been
located in the neighborhood Of Xenia, and from
which circumstance large numbers of this popu-
lalion have been induced to go there and pur-
chase 'opcrty, with tho intention Of making it
their permanent homes. We inquire again,
how is tha' with such antecedents, the Torch
Lyht could find it in his heart to propose star-
u@ion ofthe whole African population as rem
edy for the Nesrophoba that now prevails q.
mong the white race?
This case looks TO US like pretty fair expe.
rimeh. with the negroes. Here in Greene Coun-
iy, they have been in the "hands Of their
friends" The negro here has been caressed,
and schools and all other facilities provided for
him. in the expectation that he could be eleya.
ted to an equality with the whites. But all at
once Negrophobia breaks out among the whites.
1t is discovered that q 'preJUdice'' exists, inc.
radcable in It's nature. And that what was
once once one Of the finest comnunitie; in the
West, is about to be ruined by the presence OF
an oycrstock of negroes. 1smpora mutanter.--
Statesman.
The Fairness Oftisc administration
Acknowledged.
The T,aayenworth (Kansas) correspondent of
the New York EOasiag Poa, bitter Republi.
can sheet, thus writes: