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


their prokssed friends in northern Ohio.
would have scattered smoug its ll0,94l per-
soDs, blacks 10 the number of SO $50! This
Is nearly equal to \ the whole population Of
Licking county, The would be distributed
as lollows: Lick ing, 1880; Franklin, l6.-
787; and Pickaway, 1924
But even this does not do justice to the
inexorable figures; Tor my district is peculi-
arly blessed with negro population. Wheth-
er it IS because the people are more gener-
Gus 10 their treatment OF the blacks, wheth
er Kentucky and Virginia families who set
tied in it are more numerous; or what il is,
still it IS true, by the census Of 1850, that
with population in my district Of about one.
twentieth of the whole population Of the
State, it has one fourteenth Of Its blacks, or
2,66O out of36, ,673.
Licking has whites 81, ,s65 blacks l4s
tranklin has whites as. .7s3 blacks 1873
Piekaway has whites 22.530 blacks g39
los, ,lsI 2,66O
One would supposed that in the Western
Reserve, where the pro fession of philanthro-
py is ever arising in prayer, in speech, aud in
print, where for years they cultivated no
civil discipline, which inter6ered with their
notions Of slavery, there would be the
throngs OF blacks. Is it SO? Thou iron
tOunged census, speak,
Colored persons in Ashiabula 25
CuyahOga tCleveland) s94
Lake. Sc
Mahoning g.
Portage 76
Trumbull 60
Isrsi6 tLOr.in, s4s
Medina 20
Summit IS
Total 1854
So that, in these ten counties OF the West
ern Reserve, there is but a few more Africans
than in one county of my district! Why
they especially avoid Ashtabula cannot say.
Is it the prodigal profession and scant prac-
tice Of humanity? Laughter.l Or has
Giddings, with view to protect property and
keep up Its price, coaxed them into Canada.
where happily he is now domiciled? And
there is Geauga, with not as many negroes as
Fulton county has Indians! What a com.
mentary on representative fidelity is here!
The member from Ashtabula, Mahoning, and
Trumbull, Mr.. HUTCHIMs speaks for l66
negroes; but from his piteous ado, one would
suppose that he represented at least as many
Africans as the king Of Dahomey. Laugh
| ter. And there is my smiling colleague from
the northwest, (Mr. ASHLEY whose rotund
form is ready to become like Niobe-all tears
by his grief for the poor negro; laughter,
whose gushes of elequence in their behalf
remind one Of the Arab lyrics in praise Of
the dark maidens OF Abyssma when they
sung: "Oh! the black amber! the black AM
Der! Its perfume by far, is sweeter than all
else on earth or in star; the lotus of Nile,
the rose Of Cashmere, my senses enthral,
when thou art not here" Great laughter. |
Yet, from the whole eleven counties of his
district, he cannot count as many negroes by
half as live in my own country.
| am not particularly proud ofrepresentipg
greater number oil Afrcans than my col.
leagues. | think, so far as the chattering
goes about their inalienable rights and ever
lasting wrongs, | am entirely unsuited to
represent them; yet | hope that in actual
kindness to them do represent the white
people Of my district, whose praclicle be.
nevolence has attracted to that portion Of the
State an undue share. What | fear is, and
what deduce is, that this disproportionate
share will be continued when the bills voted
for by my colleagues are law, and the black
exodus has begun.
| understand that it is the intention Of
some Of my Republican colleagues to begin
the work Of negro migration by taking a
drove Of these free negroes to their districts.
Ii they will keep them on the reserve, l will
not complain. Their motives may be good;
humanity and duty may require it of them,
snce their camor has brought them into
hair halp h,tc hnt or,;f
will be like giving a crumb to hungry man.
The work of negro emancipation is stipend
Gus, the expense enormous, and the result
will be aperfect failure. .z-..--..,.
| But propose, sir, to make . further an
Ealysis OF this subject. have the honor, as
it is fondly believed by some, TO be pros
peetive constituent Of either my friend IRON
the Clark district, Mr.. SHELLABARGER, or
the honored representative Of the Madison
district, Mr.. HARRISON, with whose votes |
so often concur. The Legislature Of Ohio
has made for my especial contemplation a
new district composed of the counties Of
Clark, Madison, Franklin, and Green. I
my two friends. who do not agree well in
their votes, will consent to make the race
next fall, will, perhaps, edge in a conserva
tive word for the general welfare. | com.
mend to them this question l am discuss
ling.
This new district, sir, is rich in colored
materials. 1t was the select asylum for the
blacks in their northern movements. Green
county, TO which l have referred for the
chastity OF its African damsels, is second
Paradise Of free negroes. The benevolence
of Horace Mann at Antioch College, led the
blacks to believe that here they would repose
in the green pastures as contentedly as their
brethren bask in the rays OF a Congo sun
They were to be elevated without effort tc
an equality wife the white race; and here
they gather to witness the miracle. That il
has not been effected is no fault OF the disitn
guished phlanthropist. The people of Greer
county we'll understood why it can never be
accomplished. Let me then take this new
district in hand for moment:
/ Whites Na0roe. Total