The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1862-06-11
The Abolition Schemes Of Ne
gro Equality Exposed.
WHxTTHE TAx-PAYRRsA ARE
PAYING FOR THE Ex-
PEREMENTS.
SI00, 900 Per Day Expended on
Runaway and Vaga.
bond Negroes, e. e.

si00, 900 Per Day Expended on
Runaway and Yasa. -
- bond Negroes .r 3.
,Sp.sasuf bon. W. 4. Riesara,on. e} Illinois,
in The Hoass Of Representatives.,
- 'E"'li Nay, 19, 1852.
Ma. RtcAARDsoN-M Chairman, desire
this morning TO submit few remarks for the
consideration OF lhe House and the country.
II is not my purpose to discuss questions
pertaining 70 the army already in The field,
which, If iudicioasly oficered and managed,
is able 10 crush oat the rebellion. shall d.
rect my attention, therefore, TO the consider.
alton Of some Of the many new questions
which ere continually arising during the
progress Of this terrible civil war,
NEGRO EQUALITY DETERMINED UPON.
Mr.. Chairman, there is manifest anxiety,
an overweening desire. q persistent purpose,
upon the part Of prominent members of the
dominant party in this Government, to place
upon terms OF equality knd make participants
with us in the rights Of American citizenship
an inferior race. The negro race, which is
incapable Of either compreheuding or main
tanning any form Of government-by whom
liberty is interpreted as hcsntiousness--is
sought to be exalted, even at the cost Of the
degradation OF our own flesh and blood.
We all remember with what intense salts
action recent order of the Secretary oi
STATE, Mr. Seward, one of the chief clerks ol
the President, was received in certain quarters
because It declared that no fugitive slave
should be retained in custody longer than
thirty days, unless "by special order Of com
petent civil authority"
That ! may do no injustice to the head of
the State Department and his unwarranted
assumption of power, | quote the official pa
per itself
=. -.v.. r- "DEPARTMENT OF STATE, q
70 "WAsHINGToN, January %. i862{
"SIR: The President of the United States
being satisfied that the following instructions
contravene no law in force in this District,
and that they can be executed without wait.
ing for legislation by Congress, | am directed
by him to convey them to you.
"As Marshall Of the District OF Columbia,
you will not receive into custody any persons
claimed to be held to service or labor within
the District or elsewhere, and not charged
with any crime or misdemeanor, unless upon
arrest or commitment pursuant to law, as
fugitives from such service or labor: and you
will not retain any such iugitves in custody y
beyond period of thirty days from their
arrest and commitment, unless by special or
der ot competent civil authority.
"You will forthwith cause publication to be
made of this order, and at the expiration oi
ten days therefrom you will apply the same
to all persons SO claimed to be held to service
or labor, and now in your custody.
"This order has DO relation to any arrests
made by military authority. ,.. 80. ..-... ,us
I II am, sir, your obedient servant, kE
h.'-3 ~ '"W1LLIAM II. SEWARD"
PRIVILEGES FOR THE NEGRO-oPPREssIoN FOR
THE WHITE MAN. .--
While Mr.. Seward was issuing this order
for general Jail delivery of the negroes he
was also sending, under a usurpation Of pow
er, and in violation Of the laws and the Con-
stitution, hundreds Of white men and women
to fill the cells of the prisons in this District
and Throughout the loyal States. Against
many OF these while men and white women
thus incarcerated by this despotic Secretary
of State, no charge has ever been made; the =
are imprisoned without the 1orm or authority
of, law, and thus the personal liberty of the
Caucasian is ruthlessly violated, while the
African is most tenderly and carefully guard.
ed, even to the notification of State enact.
ments and the national statutes. Let q
rumor become current that negro has been
deprived Of personal liberty y--eitfer IN this
Diserict or any where eise--and there are
dozens Of Republican members upon this foo,
striving to obtain the attention of the House
while they may offer resolutions inauirins bv
what laws, by whom, when and where these
objects of their undivided affections NAV have
been arrested. But never yet has any O
these philanthropic gentlemen made inquiry
for the law Or the. authority under which
white American citizens have been kidnapped
by the State Department, dragged from their
homes, and left to pine, and die percbance il
some Of the many bastiles which this Ad
ninistration has established.
1t is well known, sir, that If any whit
citizen, perhaps fatber or brother, desire
TO visit a relative or acquaintance in the mill
tary service Of this Government, that he j
obliged to secure ''pass" from some compe
tent authority, and to obtain this he is reauir
ed upon his hunorto declare his loyalty an,
fidelity to the Government. But The neer
goes and comes within the lines OF our arm
whether his destination be toward or from
the enemy; tho color OF the black man is hi
passport, and is received as equivalent to tn
pledge Of honor and Of loyalty upon the par
OF white man.
RUNAWAY NEGROES RECEIVE EMPLOYMENT r,
THE EXCLUSION or WHITE CITIZENS
~ In this District you have abolished slavery
You have abolished it by Compensation. b
adding $1,000, 600 to the national debt AM
ajax oi $73.000 obe pain annually, as inter
est upon this sum, by tax imposed upon tn
laboring white people of these States. Not sat
isfied with doing this much for your especia
favorite, you extend the freedom OF this cit
and the hospitality Of the Government to Al
the runaway negroes in this country VIII
choose to visit the District of Columbia. Yo
issue rations to them day after day, and wee
after week, rations which must be paid 70
through the sweat and toll Of tax ridde
white men. You are thus supporting in in
dcience hundreds upon hundreds of blacl
men. How many and at what cost [ an
unable to state, because when resolution
asking Tor this Information, was introduce,
By tho honorable gentleman from Ohio (Mr
Cox, it was Immediately tabled by the Re
publican majority upon the other side of thi
House. Those gentlemen dare NOT let thi
information 60 to the country; they shrinl
from the exposure which truthful reply b
such inquiry would make. The resolution q
Mr. Cox also asked for the number Of ma
groes employed as teamsters in the army an,
81 what wages; but this was equally object
ionsble, for it would have illustrated the fac
that negroes BY the hundred arc receiyin
better pay as drivers than our own whit
sons and brothers are for psrillng their live
as soldiers in the defence Of the Union an
tho Constitution. ...r.
Having been thus far deprived or obtainin
official information upon these questions,
sm obliged to gather my statistics from sue
sources az can. shall make no statemen
that ] have not received from respectable an,
responsible parties. and nons which I do no
conceive TO be rather under than over th
true estimate. s u ,t sa@@saE 81
The Government Is to-day issuing ration
to about two Thousand negr0,ss in tfis Dfa.r;c