suffer seriously from the iniquitous
policy pursued by the States of Virginia and Kent. in driving all
their free negroes upon us. The people of Ohio are bound in justice
to themselves to adopt some counteracting measure. Many people here
are of the opinion that we may be compelled to introduce slavery in
Ohio in self-defense, and they appear to be gratified that we are
suffering many of the evils attending it, without (as they call it)
any of the benefits. I have been gratified to tell them what I
believe to be true--that nineteen twentieths of the people of Ohio
are so opposed to slavery that they would not consent to its
introduction under any circumstances; and, although they commiserate
the situation of those who have been liberated and compelled to
abandon their country or again be made slaves, yet in justice to
themselves and their posterity they will refuse admittance to such a
population.

"'Your most ob't., "'A. T.'

"(Editor) We understand from a respectable authority that 270 of said
negroes have landed at Ripley and are to settle near the center of Brown
county on White Oak, the residue of 500 to follow soon
after."--Quillin's "The Color Line in Ohio," pp. 28-29 and _The
Supporter, Chillicothe_, June 16, 1819.

In view of this alarm aroused by the so-called Negro invasion the Ohio
colonizationists availed themselves of the opportunity to set forth their
plan as the only solution of the problem. The following articles are
interesting.

"NEW STYLE COLONIZATION

"It seems that our old friend Gerrit Smith is anxious to form a colony
of colored people in the State of New York. It is not known that he pays
the expenses of any to get to that happy spot, but he certainly offers
them a share in the property of earth, when they arrive. Some have
thought his effort in this respect, another proof of his great
liberality. Perhaps it is--but of the character of those lands we know
nothing. The _Journal of Commerce_ seems to understand the subject from
the following, which we cut from a late number:

"'_Bounty of Gerrit Smith_.--Some of the newspapers are eulogizing
this once sensible man, because he is giving away deeds in any number
to colored men, of forty acre lots of his vast tract in Hamilton
county. The considerations in the deeds are as follows: