Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1862-07-09

IlOuS tone, replied Yes, thlnk IAat
would be just, and l will stand my share of
the taxes Although a very close AMI
economical man, he was willing TO bear his
share of the taxes But said the Judge,
there is an other question When the ne
groes are cmancipated, what shall be done
with them They are a poor people they
will have nothing there must be place for
them to live. Do you think it would be
any more than fair that we should take our
share Of them? Well, what would be our
share in the town of Woodstock 2 he equi-
red. The Jupge replied There are about
$500 people in the town Of Woodstock
and if Won take the census ana make the
! computation, you will fms that there will
/ he one frr every five What said he,
/ five hundred negroes in Woodstock Judge.
/ / called TO pay my respects ! bid you good
! evening: and he started Cor the door and
mounted his horse. As be was about to
/ leave, he turned around and said Judge
I gucss YOU neej not do anything more a
bout the negro business ON my account =
/ (Laughtrr). Mr.. President, perhaps l am
/ going tJn far when I say the honorable gen
| tleman SITS before me now Mr COllamer-
'Mr COLLAMER-As the gentleman
| has called me out. ! may he allowed t. say
/ that the inhabitants If the town were about
! three thousand. and that the proportion was
one to six.
He was right. BY the census of 1860
there was in the United States 27.OOS.-
OSl whites. and 3,999,525 slaves. If
the slaves were equally distributed North
and South this would make one negro to
every seven white men, but if all are driv-
en- North by social convuI~ion, as shown
by the gentleman from Kentucky, (NIr.
AIalIory,) it would make more than one
black for every five whites.
But we know that the African will not
20 to New England, at least in such mum
bcrs as TO other States. He does not
thrive there In boston the city register
shows that for tn last five years there
were 134 births TO SO deaths among tht
colored people
If Ohio were open, rs my colleague
advocates, we would have at least twice
as many negroes focked into that State
rs to the rest of the North. and twice rs
many in Central and Southern Ohio as in
Northern Ohio; or one nc,lo for every
three white persons in the State, and
perhaps twice that ratio in Southern and
Central Ohio Take Massachusetts, rs 4
fair avcra.c of the North. There every
indurcmcmt j. Offered for li~ immigration
lie Is mIadra voter, lac Is admitted TO the
, lar. n Is made even better ihan n whit,
, man in suffrage. provide .lai the whit,
man comes from Germany or Ireland
f Yet, in population Of 1,23I,0G5, tn,
blacks number only 9.ijl, or on black t,
D $50 of the population: while in Ohio
e with not double the POI ulation, there i
one black to 50 Of the population. Th'
. increase of blacks in Ohio is 1880 pc
cent. while in Massachusetts it Is onI,
p % per cent. So ! am justified, no
p alone by the census, but most by the geo
, graphical position and ncanesS Of Ohio Il
>. the South. and the extent of itS State bor
der, in infcrTing flat she would rccciy
, more than double the number assigned t
=. the States North, by Mr.. CoIlamcr's ap
>, portionmcnt. What; then. would be TN
result Ohio has 2,3O3, ,37l white pee
pie. She would then have at the rati
of one black TO every three white persons
an addition of 767, 791 to her black popu
lationI My district, composed Of Frank
lin, Licking and Pickaway counties, whcr
negroes seem to con"Tegate more tina
. among their profcssed friends in Nortl
. ern Ohio, would have scattered anon
: its 11O,9i1 persons, blacks TO the mum
: Der of Sc, ,9SOI This Is nearly equal I
= the whole population of Lickin" county
They would bc distributed a. follows =
Licking, u, $40: Franklin, l6,7S7 an
3. Pickaway, 1921.
J. But even tins docs not do Justice to Il
- - inexorablc figures formy district l. +
ii culiarly blessed with negro population
70 Whether 1t is because the people a
- more generous in their treatment of Il
81 blacks; whether Kentucky and Virgin
er families who settle in 1t are more hume
&c Gus. or what 1t Il. it i still true, by q
Nn census of 1860, that with a population
- my district of about onc-twcntieth of 4
la ! whole population Of the STATE, II has p