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' ciiiiiisiiirii irnole.Vo 1917. Tarhorouzh, Edgecombe County, JM e. Saturday, August 3; 1830 T&c Turbom1 Press, v BY GEORGE HOWARD, Ij published weekly at Two Dollars per year Jf aii in advance or, Two Dollars and Fifty Cents at the expiration of the subscription year. A,ivertisement9 not exceeding a square will Re , i -i? One Dollar the first insertion, and 25 jor every succe?ding one. Longer ones at that rate per square. Court Orders and Judicial advertisements 25 per cent, higher. , POLITICAL.. From the Southern Press A Protest froth Ohio against Amal gamation. We republish this morning from the Cincinnati Enquirer a most striking petition, signed by numerous cit izens of Hamilton county, Ohio, recently presented to the Constitutional Conven tion in that Stale. The object of this petition, as expressed . on the face of it, is to urge the speedy re- which, if continued for fifty years longer moval of all persons of negro, or part lv11 8ivc us a colored population of over negro blood, from the State ofOhio.10 mil,ions of negroes and mixed bloods. ,tr, -t ,i . j n . - These facts alone, we think, present mat- When it is recollected that .Ohio is par1 . c ' . . ter of much moment for year considera excellence a Free-soil State, and has long, ;ion aml cail for some prompt and decided been regarded as a city of refuge for fu- action. gitivc slaves when the language of her Formerly the emigration of while peo- Legislatures, and the avowals of her news-; P,e to this State was of eT,al rat5 to that! men, and intended for white men's legis - A . . . . , j of negroes, but such we think is no Ion- lotion have been made to resound with papers are taken into consideration the! " , , i . . 1 r tt jger the cae. tint on the contrary, the: the declarations of negroes 1 hat they force of such anappeal from such a source; more Western Slates and our Pacific wr- wovhi watte in blood to lhAr knees or must be doubly felt, and the facts and ar-! ritories now take away as many of our have the right of suffrage. This we are guments adduced, carry a weight 'with j white people as Eastern emigration send ! advised was done within the hearing of them, to which no extrinsic evidence jn- But tne negroes induced here by our ; the people's representatives and the inso could add. If, in the very incipiency of recentIy adopted policy, and an excessive lence not even rebuked. Hut on the con- their experimental philanthropy, such evils "are created, and such a state of things produced as the memorial describes in the si.nple language of truth, well may all who are not blinded by fanaticism, look with dread to the future. If any argument were needed to con firm the truths proclaimed by those whose! institutions have made them familiar with j a subject in all its bearings, which has! ! and the hobby of speculating philosophers profoundly ignorant, or heedless of the Consequences to result from their insane schemes and theories this warning voice from Ohio should plead trumpet-tongucd against the cruelty to both races which any efforts towards amalgamation, so cial or political, must involve. The experiment has now been tried too thoroughly on various theatres, to admit of the shadow of a donbt thafthe white m race and the black cannot live together in the same community on a footing of equal ity, without the debasement and final de struction of both and that any people at tempting even, partially to carry out such a scheme, will have reason to rue their folly in tears and blood. But, we leave the citizens of Hamilton County, who have practically tested the peration of the Seward, Stevens, and Wale theory, to make their own statement in regard to it: Cincinnati, July Cth, 1850. Editors Enquirer; Gestikmbk: Wc would be pleased to .... .. o the within petition, published in your Paper. Uespectiully yours, VM. HOON, FRED. II. OEHLMAN, WM. W. WARDEN, JOHN PATTON, WM. LODER. The following petition, .signed by nu merous citizens of Hamilton county, Avas recently presented to the Convention: To the Convention called to change the Constitution of Ohio. : Gentlemen: The . undersigned res pectfully petition your honorable body, and pray -thai-provisions may be" made in the. Constitution, (which you are now framing) for theremoval of all persons of negro, or of part negro blood, from the State of Ohio. In presenting this petition wc are fully impressed with the importance of the sub ject which it involves, and with the fur ther fact -that the measure, if adopted, will operate for a time lo the inconvenience and probable injury of our colored inhab itants. Hut the evils which will be avoid ed by it, and the-permanent good which will result from it, both to the present and to future generations, are, we think, am ple reasons to justify its adoption, j The geographical position of our State, situated upon the Ohio river, and lying as it were at the door of the Southern planta tions, makes it a suitable point for the collection of fugitive and manumitted ne gro slaves; the consequence of which has teen a very Tapid increase of our negro population an increase which has much exceeded that of any other. Slate in the Union. In the year 1800 there were but 300 negroes in the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois; but in the year 1848 they were estimated at 30,000 in the State of Ohio alone. This shows that our colored 'pop ulation has been doubling itself once in every eight years, a ratio of increase . . . J . ' then, in connexion wifh this stale of them in their demand. things, theemigralion from Euroj)e should Let that party once obtain the asccn- be checked either by prohibitory laws oridency, and what guaranty have we that otherwise, a policy which seems tn con nect itself with the negro sj'mpathy, we must necessarily see a.decrease, or at least a very slow increase of the whito popula tion, while the negroes must increase very rapidly. To meet these consequences, which seem now to be inevitable, what shall be done? jo piacc incivvo races upon an enure equality is an act at once repugnant to the order of nature, which no wise legislature wilj tolerate, or ever suffer it to be done. To keep them on terms of inequality in a free State, presents an inconsistency with the idea of free institutions, which cannot l well be defended, and which conjiot long be continued when the black population becomes as numerous as ours is about to become Therefore, in the opinion of your petitioners, one of three things only, is possible: Either (he white people must remove from the Slate and give il Hp to the negroes; the two races ??iust amal gamate; or the negroes must be removed. The first position, namely, that the white people shall remove from the State and give it to the negroes, is not only improbable, hut would be manifestly un- just. Ohio was settieu by white people. They were the pioneers -of civilization, and by their energy and skill tHo forest has sunk down before them. It is there fore idle to think that they couid give up to another race of people the country which their hands have made valuable. Our second proposition, namely, that the continuance of the two races in a free State, must result in amalgamation, we aware has been contradicted. Cut we I '' submit to your consideration, wneiner . . i . . i the experience both of our own country a nd Central Amer.ca, do not iurnisn m- ntrovei tible proofs of the truth of this co proposition. Our own . State, although but of fifty years standing, and with law. which, until very recently, maintained a broad distinction between the two .nees; nevertheless shows inany evidences of amalgamation, in the numerous mixed bloods who are daily seen in our streets, and compel.us to admit that an extensive tually tried, and the result has been, both intercourse is kept tip between the twoa moral, physical, iritellectual and national races. And this evil we think has been degradation. The late war between the greatly increased within the last five or United States and" Mexico presents most six years. Within that time the negroes -striking proofs of that fact, and demon have grown into importance, their rights vstrates most satisfactorily the superiority extended; and their numbers increased of our Circassian stock over the mixed more rapidly, than before and a large po-i bloods of Mexico. Such imbecility be- litical party has sprung up in our midst, 'ing the result of equality and its conse the only (avowed) object of which is ttf quenf effects-amalgamation there; what advance and assist the negroes to press would it be here? Would the result be them into white society, and to familiarise different? Certainly, not. The samecaus the two races with each other, for theses wilfproduce the same effects, and amal purpose (as. they say,) ."of breaking down fgamation here as amalgamation there, will the prejudice of color.' 1 soon render the amalgamated a worthless That party, too, hy the vigilance of a -and degraded people, few men, and the indifference of others,; This brings us to our third proposition, has also grown into importance, and is namely, that tlie negroes must be remov- uow not only represented in every depart ment of our State "Government, but in both branches of our Federal Legislature. Not only has our legislation for the few iasi years vecn in iaver oi ine negroes, out our Supreme Court has also lent them a helping hand, and by deciding j.hal per sons of more white than negro blood ate entitled to vote, has already placed a bal ance of political power in the African race. Of this latter proposition, however, tve have no specific data, but if we assume, that of the 30 000 colored persons in the State, 1,000 or even 500 of the adult niale portion. fall within the privileges as -settled by the Supreme Court, we then have a power in the negro race which in close contested elections, can control the polit cal action of the State. This, however, is but the commence ment of the evils to which our affairs arc now tending. The negroes emboldened j with their late, successes are already loud in demanding an equality of political rights. And our halls, built by white : t v , the present white people of Ohio will not he the ancestry of a swarthy mixed 6lood posterity. We will have negro officers as well as negro voters, and place and pro perty will give white wives to negro hus bands. Such a state of things we hold it to be your imperative . duty to prevent And now we TniNK, is the ArpitofRiATE i time. II it cannot be done now. wlien can it be. Will it bo when there is a ne gro, a mulatto, or a quadroon to stare eve ry white man in the face, or when remov al will separate families. The whole project of removal is now practicable and entirely within our power. Ample means can now he procured for j purchasing the negroes property, and for making them comfortable in a new home. Besides fifty large ships at a load apiece, will carry them all away. The cxpendi ture of money would be equally small. But the benefit which must result both to the white men and the negro, will be alike incalculable, our State will be relieved of a great and growing evil, peace will be restored to our society, and the negroes will acquire a country which they will be able to call their own. To protect the purity of the Circassian blood, we think is the highest duty which you have to perform, all other matters on which you may be called upon to act, can be altered or changed hy a future con vention, but the adulteration of the blood, once effected can never be reform ed. In the Eastern States of our confedera cy, where the negro population is compa rat.vely small, and the climate but .Hy - , -. 1 i. iUin Mvrtlfi t V ft s erynn I P!in danted to their growth, no great evil can result from a political equality. But cur contiguity to the Southern States'; which s warm with negroes; our present large , d rapidly increasing negro population, together with the adaption of our climate to their increase, renders our situation en tirely different, and requires different iWS. In the States of Central America, equal- ity and amalgamation have both been effec- ed, which We have already said in a mea sure both practicable and withio our con- Urol, and as an evidence of its practicabili !ty, we cite the well known fact thai we have already removed a greater number of Indians, and with but little inconve nience to any body. If they ebultl be re moved,' why can we not dispose of the negroes in the same way? But to what point or place they should he removed, we, of course, are unable to say; that must be a subject for future leg islation. A part of the United States ter ritory, however, may be set apart for them; or they may be removed to. the West India Islands or to Africa. But the latter point at this time seems to be the most favorable, and if selected as the point of colonization, will, in all probability, render the operation one of great profit ana advantage to tne negro. A donation has already been made, by a gentleman of this city, to purchase an Ohio in Africa ; again were apparently nearly dead with There lands which can now be bought for; consumption, caused by dissipation. In a mere trifle, if taken possession of by a! fat.t lne scem) 0f Wretchedness exhibited colony from . this State, will, like the I cannot be described with any degree of lands in our own Ohio, soon become of truthfulness, that would possibly give the great value, and the colonists thereby be- reader an idea of the terrible state of de come wealthy. This removal will not be gravity and "destitution of this motley without its inducements to the negroes. gr0up of Five Point residents. The at They will -acquire good and permanent j m0sphere generated hy this diseased ani homes, in a country suitable to their dissipated crowd of prisoners, made the health and condition, and withal, will en- j Police Court insufferable, and we really joy the tight or suffrage without "wading wonder that some or ourmagistrates or in blood to their knees." j clerks are not brought to a bed of sickness Wc would not, however, wantonly in-; in consequence. The police of the Sixth jure the negroes, nor deprive them ofa:ward secured all the prisoners from tho single right, the enjoyment of which; Five Points, charged with being thieves, would be compatible with their interests! prostitutes and vagrants. The magistrate, and ours; but as the welfare of both races; 0n examining each case, selected out eieh- nut more particularly ?ne wnue race s depends upon a separation, we would not : stop to consult the negroes upon their; penitentiary for six months each. Ahum choice, but after dealing fairly and honor-jber of other persons were charged with ably with them, - (if persuasion failed,) assaults and batteries, &c, andvere either would compel them to go. Their condi- j tion cannot, in any event, be worse than 1 that in which the while man found them j in Africa. In this view, however, we are met with a popular error, which prevails extensive ly over a large portion of the civilized world, and has, we have no doubt, its in fluence in your Convention. It is, that the negroes have been greatly injured by the white people. But such conclusions, we humbly maintain, are not sustained by the facts. But, on the contrary we think it maintainable that every intercourse of the two races (save that of amalgamation, which is prejudicial to both) has been of great advantage lo the negroes. To elucidate this proposition, let us turn our attention for a moment to Africa, and there view the brutalized. condition of its inhabitants. Af population of ninety millions of people there meet our eyes, airof whom, save the little colony at Li beria, are either slaves or masters And that slavery, the most brutalized of any that ever existed in the world. Men, wo men and children go in droves, as naked as the hour they were born. And mas ters or petty princes scar their subjects in the face in order to recognize them from the slaves of others. Chiefs or masters make" war upon one another for no other purpose than to take prisoners to sell and to eat, literally to eat the victims of their barbarous battles. . : ' ? In this condition, if the accounts of travellers can be believed, they were found by the white man when he arrested then in their career of babarity, and transport ed them to the plantations in America It is true that they were retained as slave, but it is not, asis every day asserted, that they were taken from freedom ip Africa 1 and were put in bonds On the contrary they were merely - transported from a brutalized condition of slavery in Africa, to'a more liberal and civilized condition in America. The spear and the war club were taken from their hands, and their places supplied with the implements of ' husbandry, with which they were taught to earn their bread, and from henceforth they ceased to live upon the flesh of their fellow men. Have they then been injur ed by the white men? We think not. But on the contrary think it mentionable that their transportation to the plantations in America has been the greatest blessing that ever reached the African race. Hero they are taught to be useful, are welt fed, and taken care "of. And many are now returning to the land of their fathers, with their minds stored with the arts and sci- -encesof a civilized worlds which in the providence of a Divine Being, bids fair to redeem and regenerate the dark benight ed negroes of our hopeless Africa. 53 We copy the following delicate samples of city life from two recent New York papers: s Police Intelligence. Extensive Bus iriess. Before Justice Osborn. on Sunday morning, one hundred and sixteen prison ers were arraigned for judgment, and the scene exhibited in the courtroom of the huddled together mixture of white, black and yellow human beings of the most de praved character, was revolting. Some with .black eyes, others with cut . faces, with tattered garments, and hair disorder ed, hanging over their shoulders Others, acain with bloated faces, swollen out of jghan by the .effects of rum, while others ty-five of the most abandoned characters. and summarily disposed of them to the dismissed on bail or committecRo answer, thus making a considerable amount of business. If the police continue in this way, the Five Points will be but merely -a name hereafter. New York Herald. Decoy -Duck-ism, "A small and select , portion of the legal profe.- sion in this city the dregs or the scum, whichever you please--has recently struck out a new path to wealth, which is at the ame time a short cut to infamy. As all new fang led systems- of novelty are tailed off with an "ism," we will call this novelty in law and ethics decoy-duck-ism. It is a very simple process, when the right sort of sub jects are selected. Two lawyers,, a cour tezan and a rich and amorous old fool, compose the entire dramatis persdnae. The lawyers contrive that the female con federate shall have an interview with the intended victim, and she manages by her blandishments to entrap the old sinner in to the toils. The twain are pounced upon at tho . most inopportune and perplexing moment: breats are made of a family eclaircisse- men 4nQnju red husband and an action for crim. con. are talked of, and finally the frightened dupe pays a round sum varying from $500 to 53000 to tho conspirators,' as the price of secrecy The lawyers take the lion's share, the female jackalL receives al handsome prescnt,a new quarry is marked down, and the. hunt recommences. A very beautiful se ries of "disclosures, now in progress in ono of our courts,' is laying bare all the moves of this delicate, game. One lawyer ii this city, who has figured prominently in two cases of the kind, is said to have re alized $60,000 by the aid of his femajQ decoy ducks. iV. K Morning Stq 4 . t .! V . " if- v ft. . 4i .1-
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