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i > f colour , who shall keep , within the limits of the town , any store or shop , &cM provided the tax shall not exceed one hundred dollars , Tims are these poor creatures disabled fpom getting their bread honestl y * and then stigmatized as depraved and debased . This is one way of recruiting for Liberia !'—vol . ii . p . 287 , 2 S 8 .
What follows refers to Ohio : It warn in the year 1807 that the act , disqualifying coloured persons from giving evidence , where whites are concerned , was passed , to < he eternal dishonour of the State . It is therein expressly provided , that " no black or mulatto person shall hereafter be permitted to be sworn or give evidence in any court of record or elsewhere in this State , in any cause depending , or matter of controversy , where either party to the same is a white person ; or in any prosecution which shall be instituted in behalf of this State against any white persoj ^ L ? —vol . iii . p . 8 .
The two races are separated with the mofljp " care throughout all the relations of life . The children in the schools , even the infant schools , the criminals in the j Jfllons , the worshippers in the churches , even the dead in theuJOTkves—all are divided , the black from the white ; and it appears that the mujattoes are regarded with at least as much antipathy as the negroes , A prejudice so deeply rooted , so widely spread , is a , difficult matter to deal with ; yet , under the circumstances , it seems as if the only course for the American people to pursue must be to
strive to grapple with it and subdue it . They cannot expect to banish from their country 3 , 000 , 000 of people ; it must be an evil and a crying injustice to keep them in a degraded state within it ; and the time will come when they cannot keep them so if they would . The negro race is now , it cannot be deni ed * an
inferior one ; there are men of science who say it must always be so ; but it is impossible that this should be more than an opinion . It is certain thai it is improveable , and , under favourable circumstances , is improving . It is not , however ^ By any means a necessary consequence of relieving it from oppression , th q ^^ L mixture of the two races should take place . If , as the Americans is ant
are fond of asserting , tj ^ re a natural ipathy between them , it will not take place , but it must be owned that the large numbers of mulattoes make this antipathy very doubtful . Should the prejudice and the antipathy alike wear away , and * the distinction of black and white be lost entirely , who can say that it would be an evil ? who can look forward and decide for human nature that it has been a loser by the change ?
We find the following sentence in relation to Jefferson : * Yet he passed his whole life in destroying the liberty of others . ' iThe name of Jefferson is associated in our rninds with all the patriarchs of liberty in the new world , among whom he hold&A worthy place . It is true he was an owner of slaves , and ttQPfcsded himself strongly on the side of the question opposed to on . amalgamation of the two raoes . ' Nothing is more Certainly written
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 739, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/47/
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