Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1862-08-14
VIII knancipatsd Negroes Come
MoF4h2

North?
Do those petsons who are constantly
whining about the lsborins el.ssss Of the
North being forced into starving comps-
tition with free negroes. ~ case 9 ma.eipa-
ron ssoaid become military necssify. know
that We have stringent lsws in the State
OF Indiana. based on Constitutional pro-
visions. which will forever render the mi
grafton of negroes 10 this State impossi-
bic. unless The Constitution Of the State
should be changed. which h highly i'm
probabls. a..frfs sr.
In The Constitution of the Stste of In
dian. Article XIII. Section 1. we find these
provisions: mo negro or mulatto shall
come into. or settle in, tho State. sfter the
adoption Of this Constitution" Section
2. says: "All contrscts made with any me-
gro OF mulatto coming into the State, con-
trary to the provisions Of the preceding
ssction, shall Be void; and any person,
who shall employ soch negro or mulatto.
or otherwise encourage him to remain in
the State, shall be fined in any sum not
less than ten dollars. nor more than FIVE
hundred dollars"
Section 4 says: The Gensral Assem-
bly, shall pass laws to carry out the pro-
visions of this Article"
In the session OF 1852. the General As
sembly of the State Of Indiana. in pursu-
anee Of the above Constitutional require.
ment. did enact. volume I. r. g., chapter
"A. section l. THAI Il shall not k lawfml
for arg negro or muiasso TO como into. sef-
tie in, or become otizsn Of the Stafe."-
Section 8: '.All contracts made with NO.
groes OF mulattoes who shall have come
into the State of Indiana subsequent TO the
LIST day Of November. 1851, sre hereby de-
clared null and void" Section =: ANY
person who shall employ q negro or mu.
latto who shsll have come into the State
Of Indiana subsequent to the 3lst day Of
October. 1851. or shall hereafter come in
to the said State, or who shall encourage
such negro or mul.tto to remain in the
State, shall be fined in any sum not less
than ten dollars, NOR more than five hun
drsd dollars" Section 8: ANY negro or
mulatso who shall come into or settle in
the Stste contrary to, and in violation Of
the provisions Of the Constitution, and Of
the first section Of this set, shall be fined
in any stm not less than ten dollars, nor
more than Eve hundred dollars"
We would like to know what induce
ments there are in the above to prompt
negroes or mulattoes to come into this
State! Illinois and great majority of
the other free States have h~s equally Is
stringent for the purpose of preventing
colored people from settling in thsm.-
The fact of it is, If circumstances should
render IL necessary that slavery should be
abolished in the Southern States. probably
not FIVE hundred emancipsted slaves would
ever cross the Ohio or Potomac. These
facts are well known. and consequently tfs
agitation Of the question is kept mp solely
for political purposes By unprincipled POL
iticians.
In confirmation Of these views of our
own. we give the following paragraph from
. letter written BY General Hunter. Of Port
Royal. South Carolina. to distinguished
minister in New York City. Hunter says;
None of the carefully fossered decisions
BY which Slavery has sustained itself ct
the North. is more absurd than the bugbesr
Of q general migration Of negroes to the
North. rs a necessary sequence Of emanci-
patton. So far is this from being the fact.
that although it is well known that give
passes North to all negroes asking them.
not more than dozen have applied to me
for such passes since my arrival here. their
local attachments being spparsnsly much
stronger than with the white race. Nv
experience leads me- to believe that The
exact reverse Of the received opinion on
this subject would form the rals. and that
nearly if NOT quite eli The negroes would
migrate South whsssvsr they shall b q
liberty to do % without the isss Of the sue.
ton block" isr srsef ,ir'o
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