Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-03-08
MANY DEMOCRATS.


The slavery Agitniion---EVsi1 mt
mas il Bone. what Viii IL bring
Ab0ut! HOW UCes IL Eject ihG
yyi,itc Race!
We insist that the agitation of the
slavery question, in and out Of Congress,
has been dcleterious to the best interests
Of both the white man and the negro. In
the agitation Of this vexed question mil
lions of dollars have been spent-section-
nj strife, hatred and ill-wili have been en-
rendcred churches have been broken up,
societies divided, families sundercd-the
Union Of ;he States around which cen
tres al the hopes of the American peo-
pic, and the down trodden and oppressed
o( every cline has been shaken to its
deepest fouudation-but not a slave ha.
been liberated nor will there be by any
such instrumentalities as these.
1t is well for the sympathetic to feel for
the oppressed--ho is poor, indeed, who
has not heart to feel for others woes
but these kindly feelings should be di'
rected with judgement and guarded witt
discretion. Those who think that slavery
in itself, is sinful, should so on their or'
rands of mercy as sensible men. and not
as fanatics or lunatics.
II is almost universally Y conceded that
the slaves in our Southern States arc in
a happier-a better condition than tho
same number of negroes are any place else
on the whole face of the earth They are
infinitely better off than the free negroes
of the Northern States, or the degraded
and outlawed hordes of Canada. Then
the part of Christianity would seem to be
to leave them alone until it was made
evident that their condition would be i'm
proved by a change. Those who have
been stolen from the South have, as a
general thing, become disgrace and a
burden to the community in which they
located. Tho laziness, idleness and
theving propensitics, to say nothing Of
henious crimes OF daily occurrence, among
the negroes of Canada has rendered them
anuiscancc that cannot be much longer
submitted to by the white population. in
Ohio there is one negro to every seven
hundred whites, and, strange as it may
seem, with this great disparity in numbers
about one tenth Of the inmates Of the iails
poor houses and pententiary of the State
arc acgrocs.
But the evils of this agitation do not
stop with the negro, or even rest with en-
dangering the government. The ill-wll
cngenderod among different States of the
coniederacy has seriously effected inter,
national commerce. Tho South unable
any longer to bear the insults. abuse and
wrongs the North has perpctratcd in Tho
name Of "human freedom" have to a con
siderable extent cut of their trade will
Northern merchants and manufacturers
and a great number of worthy mechanic,
have been thrown ont Of employment.- 49,
IL was this that caused the reduction O
the wages Of shocmalers in Massachu
sets to starvation prices, and compellc
more than a thousand of them to make
strike to prevent starvation, IL is thi
agitation that has forced tho Souther
States to cXpcl the free blacks from thci
pidstto prevent their being made Tia
tools of Abolitionists in the work of IA
pine and murder. These worthless. lc
graded blacks must be thrown upon tn
free states and thoir labor brought in com
petition with the labor of white mcn.-
The blncks are content to live in povert,
degradation and filth. and heavy innu
ofthem would irresistibly drag tho viii
laborers Of the North down to a commo
level with the degraded negroes. Whc
this comes, AZ como il must if the agit
tion is continued, Ohio must receive,
start with, at least two hundred thousar
ofthem. Indiana, Illinois and Oregc
will not allow negro 10 settle in Il
State, and Ohio must take more than
due proportion or adopt the same wi
policy of the S.,tes above named. L,
one we are for prohibiting their immgr
ton to this State, and in favor of stat
tary provisions TO prcyentit We are o.
posed to compelling the white laborers
this State to compete with, work wi
and be degraded by tho introduction
100000 or 100000 frcc blacks Of {
South--we are opposed to arming t
wealthy deSpots with such power as ii
would give to oppress and reduce to va
salage the white laborers of Ohio
are opposed TO having the white race q
graded by the vile associations Of t