Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1862-06-15


4 o-s insane negro for evsrs $50, while 10 the
D a.e one for every $3.50 II they Woto the
Only .as4ne pereons there would not complain.
Lo,y oatchit there from the whites. (Lsuah,
Yer is Is neither pbilan.bropIo nor eoueeDlal
70 send the n'gro TO the North, where be Rilso.
~nen at the congenlsl South he increasea 10
numbers even In slaver,! Our efstIetlcian
MGnsfeld, Al, Ohio Stali.ties, 1861 bosste
that Ohio has men Of greater hsiRhe, by actusI
measurement than EDglaDd, Belgium, or Scot
lano, Rod In breadth Of chest nearly eoSsistc
Scotland, and above all Othere. I do not ofae
myself as 0 specimen. lLauehter5 i Bat hov
long before the manly, watlike people on ONO
OF fair hair and blue eyes, Ia large prenonder,
ance, would become, In spite Of Bibles and
motais, degenerate under tho wholesale ernanl
slpatioa and Immigration faysred BY ny col
leaeueT 20 cftt evtfEa 20 s1sptgss so s.-....,..
The free negroes will become equal; or viii
continue unequal to the whites. Equality d !
coalition which 10 self:proteotive, ESniini moth.
Ing, asking nothing, able to takes Of oitselE
IL is absu dity to say that tWo races se dissu1i4
lar 40 black and white, of different origin, Of
unequal capacity, can succeed Ia the same CO.
ciey when placed IN competition. There IL 90
eueh example In history OF the success OF TWO
aspsrate races under such circumstances.
Lees than sixty years ago, Ohio had th0us.
ands OF sn Indian population. She has now
but thirty red men IN her b0rdefs. Theneero,
With q difference of color indelible, has been
freed under everJ vstiety OF circupstapcee; b6e
hls freedom has too often been nominal. ~
Pejudice, stronger. .thAn al principle tiensh
noe always stronger than lust, bss inperktively
separat the whites from the blacks. In the
school-house, the church or the cemetery, the
black man must not seat himself beside the
white; even In deeth and at the cemetery the
line OF distinction is drawn 'Its
isTo abolish slavery the North must 20 ttiil
furIhes and forget tba. fatal prGuolce Of race
which governs 10, and which makes emancipa.
ton 90 illusory. To give men their liberty,to
open to them the gates Of the city, aud then
say, "Tbere, you shsll live among yourselves,
You shall marry among yourselves, you shsll
form q separate society In society,"" 10 to create
q cursed caste and replace slaves by pAriabs. u
Again, it is neither convenient nor advant-
ageous to the State of Ohio to have this influx
Of blacks. It may be abstraetly wrong TO debaE
them from our State; but some one has Wisely
said, that the abstract principle Of right and
wrong We know, but not the processes, nor the
duration OF their working out 10 history, All
the white handkerchiefs in Exeter Hall viii
not force the general Congress of Natiope 10
decide questions other wise than by te iAg OF
convenience and advantage"
Were there no preiudioes OF instincts against
the color or race in our midst, q true State poll
oy would forbid euch horde OF Afliosns 90
emancipation would send 70 Ohio. Ohio has
larger circuit oil slave territory abuttiDg on her
border, than any other Northern State. The
Ohio river runs over 500 miles along our border,
dividing Us from Keuspcky aud Virgnis. I'll
nois and Indiana 'oroid all negroes from their
s Sstes. Since 1850 Iowa anu Wisconsin have
nad the same policy. Is ohio to be the only
asylum for the slaves oil Virgiois aud Kentucky
and Ene oshtr States soulb7 Suppose these
schemes Of emancipation succeed; or suppose
they do net, and the emancipation Incident 70
the war gcts on, what proportion of the slaTes
of the South will cross into 0dio7 They will
not 60 to Canada, not now, They will move
into lower OHIO, With the consuming power q
the army worm. By the census, in Virginia and
Kentucky alone. the colored people Dumber
790.l02! ,, a, ., 4
How Eany Of these blacks would come TO
Ohio7 l. II hieh TO calculate that ooe half of
tbese In Virginia and Kentucky ,, and one-fourth
of those south of Kentucky and Virginia will
fod Judgment 10 Ono7 II the philanthropy
. of ny colleague Mr.. Biagbaml ootatna, such
will be she result -'f q, t'--
In spite, however, Of the lave Of Illinois, In.
! diana and other Western Ststee, the slaves Of
: the Mississippi 7ailey will, IL freed, esek tbs
NorthSest. They Win clip hyough in.o tl,inois,
Iowa, Kausas and indiana. The genIIeaan
from Indians, Mr.. Julian the other day, said
that 10 bis part OF the S'Sts, the Law was 9
dead letter. he is % doubt partially cor
rect. A5-l
10 the past ten years the ratio Of increase Of
, free colored people in the United ssetes hss
been 1887 per cent that or the slases 22,35
per Gems, and that Of tho white 2e.I2 per
cent, 10 California the negroes have Increased
296 81 per cent, compared TO the white increase
, OF $40 "a per cent. There are no laws Of pro.
hibition in California; while in Oregon, where
suoh laws exIat, the whole ratio OF ineIesse Ia
299. SO per cent, compared With loss OF H.5S
per Cent. of blacks! Ia other States there Is
this ratio: llinois, White increase 1Ol ~,
black only 3004; IoEs, Whits increase PSI %,
black Increase 2U7 81; Indiana, white increase
, 37l45 olack lose 3.49i Wisconsin,, whits In
crease I54.l0, black 1892 Ia These States
the Law iorbids blacks; but In spite of |, they
/, get in, but not 20 that extent which they do 10
/. Ohio and Michigan, where such laws do not
exist. In the latter States the Rhits increase Il
81 So DER cent, the black Is deuble,yiE: l64 Is!
{ Is will be perceived by antxsnipRIion OF the
census, that it is In the North vest that the black
race is increasing; while in other States fur.her
EAs: end North, they do not increase in the
: same ratio Ii is the Northwest, which will be
Ahicanized BY the schemes here proposed.
The slaves in the Mississippi valley Sloue. 10
/. the States Of Arkansas, Kentucky, LouilsnsS
Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee, uunbss
,499,079. This does not iuclade the fves
9 blaCks, who would be compelled to share the
? exodus. Then Kaosas, Nebraska, Iowa, Min-
nesota, Wisconsin, illinois, 1ndtsus and onio,
! would be their ssylum, but ca the States Wsss
Of Ohio are in advance OF us Ia preventing this
/ vicious immigration, Ohio, under she weIcome
Of my colleague. aud his friends, would have
, more than her fair quOss. as-1-3 as.isg,
: Ito be continued,l c'g era