The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-06-18


and who had become attached TO the picka-
ninny. In the course Of the discussion, Mrs.
=. told the whits woman that she thoaght
s'if the white folks are mean enobgh to have
niger babies. they ought to bs willing to let
coIored pevpls bring them up" laughter
So the Judge decided. These little straws
show how to account for the preponderance
OF mulAttoes North.
The mixture Of the races tends TO deteri-
orate both races. Physiology has called our
attention to the results OF such intermar.
riages or connections. These results show
differences in stature and strength, depend
ing on the parentsge, with q corresponding
difference in the moral character, mental
capacity, and worth OF labor. The mulstto
!. not long lived. It is q fact that no insur-
ancs company will insure their lives. In
new England there is one blind negro, for
every 8OT, while ct the South lhere is one
for every 2,635. In New England there is
one insane negro for every $50, while in the
South one Tor 5000. II they were the only
insane persons there would not complain.
They catch it there from the whites. Laugh
ter. II is neither philanthropic nor congenial
TO send the negro to the North, where he
willis, whom At the congenial South he in
creases in numbers even in slavery! Our
statisician (AcasfeII, p. II, Ohio statistics
1861 boasts that Ohio has men OF greater
hight, by sctusl measurement, than England,
Belgium, or Scotland, and in breadth OF
chest nearly equa. to that Of Scotland, and
above all others. do not offer myself as
q specimen. [Laushter.l But how long
before the manly, warlike people Of Ohio Of
fair hair and blue eyes, in . large porponder
ance, would become, in spite Of Bblls and
morals, degenerate under the wholesale
emancipation aud immigration favored by my
colleague?
The free negroes will become equal, or
will continue unequal to the whites Equality
is condition which is self protective, want
ing nothing, asking nothing, able to take
care of itself. 1t is an absurdity to say that
two races as dissimilar as black and white,
of different origin, Of unequal capacity, can
succeed 10 the same society when placed in
competition. There is no such example in
history of the success of two seperate races
under such circumstances.
Less than sixty years ago, Ohio had thou
sands of an Indian population She has
now but thirty red men in her borders
The negro, with difference of color indeli-
BILE, has been freed under every variety OF
circumstances; but his freedom has too often
been nominal
Prejudice, stronger than all principle,
though not always stronger than lust, has
imperarively separated the whites from the
blacks. In the school house, the church or
the hospital, the black man must not seat
himself beside the white; even in death and
M ho
drawn.
To abolish slavery in the North must 90
still further and forget that prejudice OF race
which governs it, and which makes emanci-
patton so illusory. To give men their liber-
ty, to open the gates of the city, and then
say. There, you shall live among your
selves, you shall marry among yourselves, you
shall form seperate society in society" is
to create cursed caste and replace slaves by
pariahs. -
Again, it is neither convenient nor advan-
tageous TO the State OF Ohio 10 have this in
fiux ol blacks. 1t may be abstractly wrong
to debar them from our State; but some one
has wisely said, that "the abstract principles
OF right and wrong we know, but not the
processes, nor the duration Of their working
out in history. All the white handkerchiefs
in Exeter Hall will not force the general
Congress otNations to decide questions 9th.
erwise than by the laws OF convenience and
advantage" "a e Et
Were there no prejudices Of instincts
against the color or race in our midst, true
State policy would forbid such horde Of
Africans as emancipation would send to Ohio.
Ohio has larger circuit Of slave territory
abutting on her border, than any other North
ern State. The Ohio river runs over 500
miles along our border, dividing us from
Kentucky and Virginia. Illinois and Indiana
forbid all negroes from their States. Since
1850 Iowa and Wisconsin have had the same
policy. Is Ohio to be the only asylum for
the slaves Of Virginia and Kentucky a nd the
other States south? Suppose these schemes
OF emancipation succeed; or suppose they do
not, and the emancipation incident to the
war goes on, what proportion Of the slaves of
South will cross into Ohio? They will not
go to Canada, not now. They will move
into lower Ohio, with the consuming power
OF the army worm. By the census, in Vir-
ginia and Kentucky alone, the colored people
number 790. lo2.
How many Of these blacks would come to
Ohio? 1t is high to calculate that one half
OF these Virginia and Kentucky, and one.
fourth Of those south of Kentuck y and Vir.
gina will find . lodgment in Ohio? II the
philanthropy ofmy colleague Mr. BINGHAM
obtains, Such will be the result. 70 ii
In spite, how ever, of the laws of Illinois,
Indiana and other Western States, the slaves
OF the Mississippi valley will, if freed, seek
the Northwest. They will slip through into
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas and Indiana. The gen
tlemsu from Indiana, Mr.. JULIAN the other
day, said that in his part OF the State, the
law was dead letter. lie is no doubt par
tally correct.
In the past ten years the ratio of increase
OF free cclored people in the United States
has been 1887 per cent, that of the slaves
%. 80 per cent, and that of the white 38l2
per cent In California the negroes have in
creased 1855 per cent. compared to the
white increase of 310.84 per cent. There
are no laws Of prohibition in California;
whiis IN Oregon. where such laws exist, the
whole ratio OF increase is 96 per cent.
compared with aloss of 4l54 per cent. of
blacks! In other States there is this ratio:
Illinois, white increase 10l 40, black only
3o.04; Iowa. white increase 25l 20, black in
crease 2O7.2l; Indiana, white increase 81. IA,
black loss 3.49; WISCONSIN, white increase
154 TO- black 133 90. In these State, the
law forbids blacks; but in spite oft they get
lns but not to that extent which they do in
Ohio and Michigan, whore such laws do not
exist. In the latter State the increase is
87.S9 per cent, the black is double, viz:
l64.l5l 1t will be perceived by an examin.
alton of the census, that it Ia in the North