Year: 1866

and sparsely settled country, and could
make easy room for as many as could find


means of settlement. Indeed, the great


State of Ohio and the Northwest need these
| people. They need the men for railroad


ing and the work requisite for the improve
ment OF the country. The colored women
can find ready employment in the families
of the whites, and all can build up home
steads and live like men, and not like cat
tie.


1.-The change of the colored population
has become IL necessity.


fu'SL The i'll feeling created and cult
waited between the two races in the South
ern States has reached point, when it is
impossible for them to live together in har-
mony, and very difficult for them to live
together at all, if not quite impossible
Such is clearly the conviction of every in
telllgent American in the country.


g Second The Southern people are so
bankrupted and destroyed by the fires
which swept over their country, that it is
impossible for them to furnish capital to
profitably employ the blacks in any useful
avocations.


: Ihlrd. Their system of labor in the
South has to be supervised by the Freed
mems Bureau in such way as to make the
negro worthless and disgust the white man,
and the conneXlon between the two races is
not only Improbable, but is, in fact. dan.
gerous and destructive to both races.


. 'FOwh. The colored people will be
welcomed, into the Northwestern States,
not only as laborer but as citizen. He
Will have equality of rights. Where he
WORKS he sits at the same table with the
farmer who hires him !; his daughters and
sons may freely associate with the sons and
daughters of his employer. He goes to the
same church, and, if talented, he will re-
celVe the same attention due to a white
man and all that is due to his manhood
winch he never can hope to receive in the
Southern States anywhere, at anv time
hereafter The matter has been settled
and practically adopted as the uncontested
law IN the State of Ohio and several of the
other Western States that negroes NAV vote.
In Wisconsin they vote by judicial decision,
III Ohio under the Civil Rights bill and
they can vote without interruption. In
deed, so kindly is the public sentiment 70.
wards our colored friends that at many
places where white Copperheads are not
tolerated at the polls, negroes are well
coined to the ballot-box as its defenders
and supporters, and are uniformly treated
with the very highest respect by every
body.


81 have noted these as social and politi.
cal reasons not without their real signifi-
canoe, DuG above, far above these are the
pressing wants of the poor black people.


6 FtrSt. The blacks are very destitute
OF provisions, clothes, and all of the com.
forts OF life /; which is the harder because
they are living where general devastation
has left the country desolate, and the peo.
pie OF every color without the means of
living; so that one-half cannot help the
other.


"Second Northern and Northwestern
people have every facility for education
without any prejudice against the blacks
and until these unfortunate people are pro-
vlded with schools, the blacks can be ac-
commodated with free schools and begin
the work OF progress at once.


10 give the work a practical efficiency,
propose that societies be Immediately or.
ganlzed to provide for sending emigrants
at once to the Northwestern every North
western State-and to continue this work
until the whole black population is proper
ly provided for.


This will do away with the necessity
OF the Freedmen's Bureau will provide for
the blacks, and develop the great North
west"


q" An OLD-FAsH1oNED ABoI1T1oN1sT.'