The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-06-18
CADlZ OHIO WEDNESDAY, JUNE Is 1862

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Iesipple, or destroy slsfery or the SOUTH
Ii Is beyond dOnbt that large nnmhe,
4 Of the four millions Of slsTes viii be freed
Incidentally By the Ear. Already ten thou
r sand are freed in Soath Carolina; as nan1
E more in Virginia; and perhaps zs many mon,
IN the West 1t has been computed that al
ready some 10000 blArks are freed By tn.
: war. / see Il stated anthoritafizelT tina,
: more eontrabands followed Gen. Banks re.
treat down the Virginia Valley than hiI
troops numbered These are being scattered
!. North, are becoming resident in this Distrirt
and supported by the lan1esses of the fedora.
treasury. II is said thzs Is 600 ratiens arr
daily given ont to the negroes By our Govern
= ment- Tins is but . small number of thoss
: who are freed. or to be freed. By these bills
4 The mildest eonfsestioo bin proposed viii
= free sOt less THAN 10000 slares. The bal
which is besone ne frees three millions. nj
least The bills which receive the favor o.
/, the Republican party win free four millions.
} Nothing less will satisfy this Congress. Thai
Is now apparent II yon DO not free all, say
the extremists. your war Is rose water. l;
mot all, no peace Is possible
1t may have been wrong to have held them
in slavery. Is It right 10 set them tree, to
stsrve? What is to be done with them2-
This is the riddle, more difficult than that oil
the Ethiopian Sphynx. Lake that hbled
monster. with the mans head and the lions
body, it has puzzle. and we have NO Edipns
10 solve ii. One gentleman proposes to free
the slaves, apprentice them awhile 10 raise
money, and then eolonize them. This
scheme has its advocates. Regardless of con-
saitutional strictious, he would have us
first free them. or as many as are oEned by
rebels, and buy as many rs are owned by
loyal men, and then, by the money raised by
apprenticeship, dep0st them to Mexico,
South or Central Ameriea. What though it
enSlare the white labor Of the North for a
half century. What though it diverts the
Federal Government into grand master of
apprentices. What though ii costs millions.
What though it destroy the productive in
slustry of doxer States Ii would be a
happy ri3danee at amy price. Such is the
argument.
\ But another class says to this scheme:-
-'Nos yon have no right to send away against
his will the African, born here. You have
no right to buy him. lie is entitled to privi-
leges equally with you. direct from the hand
of his Heavenly Fatder, who gave him a
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is championed by she gentleman from Illi-
nois. Mr. LorEJoy-l Between these two
charmers the simple black man stands MS a
comic paper depictured him. with gripning
mouth aud hesitating mind, not knowing
which to choose. But. like the maiden
in the song. he is willing to yield to either
one when the other dear charmer's away
Laughter One Of my colleagues, who
speaks most nearly the sentiments of the
majority here, Mr. BfsGaAn1 has met the
question like man, il NOT like statesman.
While the gentleman from Keniurky Mr..
MALLoRYl was addressing the House; alter
he had shown that colonization. at his least
estimate of 500 per slave, would impose
debt OF $1,000, 100000, and after he had
shown conclusively that to free them and
place them ON the lands of the South, where
the climate was c0ngenial and the produc-
tons suited 10 their iat,or, there would be
re enacted scenes Of Hayti-a war of exter-
mination between black and white, until after
scenes OF carnage and horror. the black man
would be swept away-he asked:
"What then, do you propose to do with theml
Do you propose to let them go from the South,
| redeemed and Iegenerated as You say, into
your free States OF the Northi Oh. no. you
contemplate no such condition as that for
them, You exclude them, US you would leper,
| from yonr States.
| mir. BINGHAM. Allow me to remind The
gentleman that his remarks are too general;
| that he does injustice to a aiooity Of the free
States Of this Union. A large majority of
| then, do not exclude any African from Them.
| "Mr MALLORY. | ask the gentleman from
Ohio il he is willing to throw ope tbs doors
of that great and noble State that rich, fruitful
and productive state, to the three millions of
slaves that may be liberated by these emancipa-
| tion and coniiscatiOn billsl
| mir. BINGHAM lis doors are open now
| "Mr. WICKLIFFE. When did you reneal
| the law prohibiting thema
| "Mr BINGHAM As soon as we turned the
| Democratic party out oil power. Laugh er 4
MIR MALLORY. ! know the gentleman
| from Ohio does not intend that this exodus from
| the South shall find its way into the State of
| Ohio, as the lsraelites did lrom Egypt intn Pal.
estine. No; he has too much regard for that
State, and is too anxious that its fields shall
be titled by free white labor, and has too high
| u sense of the character aud attributes of the
Anglo Saxon race, ever to be willing that the
blacks shall go there and be competitors Of the
free white men OF Ohio Tor the rewards of labor.
1t may be that Ohio may now permit the en-
trance of free negroes occasionally. but when
that immense swarm OF legroes, worse tiia a
swarm of locusts that destroyed Egypt, com
mences to pour itself over in to that State. the
doors will be closed against them, and he knows
il.
Mr.. BINGHAM. dosire to say to the gen
tlemau that have no idea myself that under
my possible pressure will ever consent that
any man boIn upon the soil OF this Republic,
by any vote or word OF mine, shall be excluded
from tbs limits OF any State, my own included
"Mr. COX. will say that the sentimea of
my colleague is not the sentiment OF the peo-
pie OF Ohio; and that as soon as they have a
cha nee 10 restore the Democratic party, they
will keep out. The blacks and prevent their com
peting with white labor. r..
"Mr BINGHAM. have no doubt Ut that;
bu it will be good while after this before they
will have the powor."
Here, then, is the issue directly made with
my colleague. He denies first that the States
have the right to forbid the immigration of
blacks within their borders.
Mr.. BINGHAM. My colleague am sure
does not intend to do me injustice. The pro-
position which he has just stated is not as
have stated it myself.
Mr.. COX. have done the gentleman the l
justice to quote all his remarks.
Mr.. BINGHAM. wish my colleague to
understand that confined my remark to ma
tive born citizens.
I. will not spend much time, sir, to con-
kovert this doctrine. Such laws have exis-
ted in western States and in Ohio unchal
lenged. Judge Douglas was right when, in
his contest with MIR. Lincoln, he maintained
that these commonwealth were for white
men. Aside from the question oil policy,
there is an admitted right in each State TO
make or unmaks citizenship, to declare who |
and who is not entitled thereto. That will
not be denied. When Minnesota came here
for admission that was settled. But my
colleague seems to admit that political privi
leges like that OF suffrage, may DO fixed by
State laws. Indeed, the Supreme Court
have decided that the State has the exclusive |
right SO to do If so by what reason can
State deprive the black race of the right OF
suffrage, on which depends all laws, all pro
lection, all assessment Of taxes, all punish.
rnents even the matter of lie and death and !