The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-11-21

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lowing facts: .
Virgins bad "a 333 free negr
Ohio had 25.279.
MARYLAND had "a, ,123 free colored
pessons with Only 90 900 slaves.
At this time Now York had only
40, rec negroes. -
At this time the District of Co
lumbia had l0,o56 free negroes and
3,67s slaves.
Dslawarebad ls,o7s free negroes,
and $3.50 slaves
North CorQlins had 2746a free
negroes. -... q
Georgia had Q 9sl free negroes.
lllino had only 5,436 free ne
groes.
While Louisisaa had II, ,663 free
negroes. - ~
The white population of indiana
was 987,l54.
While the white population Of
Louisiana was only 255 46l.
Maryland with . population Of
4l7,953 whites, has Q population oi
free oolored persons Of 74,723.
Aud New York, with a popula-
ton Of s,o4S, ,235 whites, had only
49,0da free negroes.
The Washington correspondent Of
the Ohio State Journal, speaking on
authority Of the preliminary Gen.
sus Rel orts" says. ~
The number OF free colored in the
United States 1860 was 476, 562
Cf these 226 Cos were in the free
States, Of whom 14s,5iS belonged
to three States OF New York, Penn
sylvanis and Oiio.o The number Of
tree negroes in Ohio amounts to
about Zone and . half per cent. of the
population, being 80 684, while in
Maryland there are SO, ,042, with a
total population OF only one fifth
that Of Ohio. Th, Ststes of Vir.
ginia, Msrylaud and Kentucky, all
border States, with an aggregate
population a little lesa than that oil
Ohio, have nearly 100000 free col
ored, while New Jersey, which was
the last Of the S,atss to abolish
slavery, has 25,s1S, These figures
90 to show that tho black race is not
migratory, in its character, but that
one Of its distinguishing traits is
strong local attachment. Further,
he is 9 child Of the tropics and nat.
urally gravitates Southwark. live
are so happy as to see the frat day
oi next January, without a suspen.
sion Of the rebellion, instead OF a
rush Of the blacks North ward, il will
be found that there will be rush of
them the other way. Even with
the bloody code of slavery to run
away from, but 500 of them were
fugitive slaves in 1850 out of 4 900 |
900.
To show who do not wish to AT.
ricanixe the North, it 10 stated that
Gen. Dix, wrote to Gov. A ndrew Of
Massachusetts,. asking him to make
provision for four hundred contra.
bancs, then at Fortress Monroe. Il
Governor Andrew refused to do 90.
giving the following reasons for bis
course:
ist. That as Gen. Dix expected
on attack from the rebels soon, the
fskiog away oftbe.hlacks would de. |
prive him OF valuable elsmsnt o.
strength, which, properly used.
would cid greatly in the defence Of
the fort.
20. Thst the NJ r,h should not
be msda an asylum lor tho peproes,
. race. whose entire ORGANIC ,tionl
and habits fitted them to live in a
warm CLINE. and that, in case Of a |
necessity for this movement, the
best place was Hilton Head or som.
other Union foothold in the South.
I'd. That lie had no power in,
bis official capacity to receive them.
Cas'ius NJ Clay, in a recent
speech ct Brooklyn, New York,
showed tho absurdity Of the false
hood Of the hue and cry with which
the S ce'sion politicians o. the
North are trying to cheat the labor.
ing men into voting for slavery, as
Germsns, lrishnen, Frenchmep.
why are you here at sll? 1t is be.
cause you find here q Government,
based upon the broad principle of
liberty to ell humanity. Show me
the man who would to day oppress
3 man on account Of his color, and II
will chow you a man who win +
should II meet his ends, oppress yonI
to-morrow. But it is not true that
his inference with your labor will
take place IN consequence OF Emsn
,ipstion. Emancipation will. in
'act, but eoncenuais black labor in {
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