Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-08-06

from England began to teach them that they
should break loose from their old masters
and settle on the Government lands or be-
come tenants of the landholders. This IA
tai step they took. The negro, finding
himse' free from restraint, gave up work
lie retained only sufficient vigor to planl
the few yams necessary to support life or
to pick the abundant fruits of the tropics
his clothing was.of the poorest kind, and in
most cases was never removed from his
person until it fell off; this neglect brought
on loathsome disease which the foresight
Of a master had formerly provided. against;
he removed his children from school, and
his religion degenerated into the most re-
Voltlng sensuaism. .u72aE.
"The effect upon the master was that his
revenues were cut off for want OF laborers;
his rich valleys of sugar cane gave place
to underbrush; his coffee and allspice
groves ran up to timber; his smiling hill
sides OF bananas and oranges were over
grown by the invasive mango tree; his
castle wasted in decay, his plantation,
which had yielded him thousands of
pounds per annum, was worth only few
hundred dollars; and the noble families
Of England which had courted alliances
with the princely planters of Jamaica.
now turned from himsin disdain. Could
his misfortune and that of the, negro be
greater?
1.-THE sequel will show. The negro en-
of England would not allow that
this degeneracy arose from any character
istics of the black man, but from the dom
ineering spirit of, the white. They there
fore sent to the, Island party delegates to
direct the negro vote, place radicals in
power. and destroy the influence of the
white element. They chose among the
Islanders a brown man named Gordon, no
torious for questionable principles. and
several negro preachers, natives, of the
who had influence among the
blacks. These. told the negroes that the
Queen designed the Island to be black
colony, that the whites were usurpers, and
that the Crown secretly favored a move
ment to throw the power Into the hands of
her black subjects.3, r9,lfli =. ts..4 So
{ So much tor negro equality in Jamaica.
Let us now turn to Canada. You have all
heard of the underground railroad and how
of negroes were run off upon it
to Canada,land there settled in the enjoy-
ment of all the privileges of the whites
the right to vote included. Well how did
the experiment work? Let the Canada
officials and people answer. 1t would take
a aIvolume to contain all their testimony on
the subject, A few, brief extracts must
suffice for the PRESENT. IL e5nfeG :sgit
l read first from the charge of the pre-
siding Judge ofrthe Quarter Sessions Court
of the 1Amherstburg District, to the grand
jury The Judge said.:, .y5e.gF ~ .qg1
"Having disposed of theilaw relating to
these offenses, arrive at very painful
part of my observations, in once more call
ing the particular attention of the grand
jury, as we'll as the public at large, to the
remarkable and appalling circumstance
that among a population of near 10000
souls, inhabiting1 this District, the greater
portion of the crime perpetrated therein
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gees from a life of abject slavery, to a land
of liberty, protection and ccomfort--and
from whom. therefore, if there be such gem
erOus feelings as thankfulness aud gratitude,
a far different line of conduct might rea-
sonably be expected allude to the alarm
ing increase OF crime still perpetrated by
the colored settlers, and who, in spite of the
late numerous, narrowing, convicted ex-
amples, unhappily furnish the whole of the
offnnses now likely to- be brought before
you." Y3d1 .JHf r. III 1aii sisoiIosft
/ next read from the address of public
meeting. heldiat Chatham, August is, 1S49.
to the peoples of Canada: ms sH1 10 lrgH
..Canadians: The hour has arrived when
we should arouse from our lethargy; when
we should gather ourselves together in our
might and resistthe onward progress of an
evil which threatens to entailiupon future
generations a thousand curses, Nowsis the
day. A few short years will put it beyond
our power. Thousands and tens of thous-
ands ofaAmerican negroes, with the aid of
the abolition societies in the States, anu
with the countenance given them by our
philanthropic institutions, will continue to
pour into Canada, if resistance is not Of
fered. Many of you who live at distance
from this frontier, have no conception Ell
ther OF the number or the character of these
emigrantS, or of the poisonous effect upon
the moral and social habits of a communi-
ty.ia Y You listen with active sympathy to
every thing narrated of the suffcrings- of
the poor African; your feelings are en-
listed i and your purse. strings unloosed,
and this often by the hypoeritical declama-
ton of some seH-styled philanthropist.
Under such influences many of you, in
our large cities and towns, form yourselves
into societies, and. without reflection, you
supply funds for the;suppert of schemes
prejudieial to the best interests of our
country Against such proceedings, and
against any and every attempt
to settle any township in this District with
negroes, we solemnly protest, and we call
upon our countrymen in all parts of the
Province, to assist in our opposition"
. The apprehensions expressed in this ad-
dress were more than realized. L find,
in the debates of the Canadian Parliament
of 1857, the following description of Cana
uldIl Il6RTOcS, ny d IH0ulU6T, SOl. L TlnCc,
who knew them well, and who had at first
encouraged their immigration but had
been forced ibygexperience to change his
opinion. He said: iaeits fs
''The9 blacks: were a worthless, useless
thriftless set of beings-they were too in
doIent, lazy and Ignorant to work, too
proud to be taught; and not only. that, if
the criminal calendars of the country were
examined, it would be found that they
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were so detestable that unless some method
were adopted of preventing their influx
into this country by the under ground
railroad the people of the West wonld be
drive them out by open vio-
lenee.o aa syn1 aoo Sfaey 800 yio7a'
In November, 1859, the grand jury OF
Essex county made a presentment TO the
court on the subject of the evils resulting
from the negro settlements in that county.
in which the opinion was expressed that
unless some measure was taken by the
Government to protectthe whites and their
persons of capital would be
driven from the, country. ,.--... ,..r
In remarking upon this presentment the
Judge observed, that ''he was not surprised
at finding. prejudice existing against them
tthe negroes) among the respectable pOr-
ton of the people, for they were .indolent,
shiftless and dishonest. and unworthy of
the sympathy that some mistaken partl es
extended to them; they would not, work
when opportunity was presented, but pre-
ferred subsisting by thieying from respect
able farmers, and begging from those. be-
nevolently inclined.n' @ 1.,,,.,.i -
: Ihave thought fit to produce these proofs,
(not one out of a hundred that might be
produced), notwithstanding their incon-
venient length, because some of them may
be new to you and because experience is of
FAR more value than mere opinion. That
there may be exaggerated expressions in
some of them is very possible, but that
they are in the main correct would seem to
be undeniable, and they certainly show that