Speech #480052813

The Chair hears no objection to the request of the gentleman from Indiana. [Extract from speech of June 6.1862. delivered in the House of Representatives by Hon. S. S. Cox. of New York.] The right and power to exclude Africans from the States (North) being compatible with our system of State sovereignty and Federal supremacy. I assert that it is impolitic. dangerous. degrading. and unjust to the white men of Ohio and of the North to allow such immigration. By the census of 1860. in Ohio. we have 36.225 colored persons dut of a population of 2.339.559. As a general tiing they are vicious. indolent. and improvident.