. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . etter, he would have been considered insane. And it was enforcedfor a time to an extent that perhaps its framers never acts were passed by the legislature of 1851-2, to carry out the pro-visions of this section. One, of April 28, appropriated $5,000 and allfines under Article 13, to the use of the Colonization Society. Of this$3,000 was to be used in the purchase of land in Africa, and each negro,who was willing to emigrate was to be given 100 acres of this land and$50 in m
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . etter, he would have been considered insane. And it was enforcedfor a time to an extent that perhaps its framers never acts were passed by the legislature of 1851-2, to carry out the pro-visions of this section. One, of April 28, appropriated $5,000 and allfines under Article 13, to the use of the Colonization Society. Of this$3,000 was to be used in the purchase of land in Africa, and each negro,who was willing to emigrate was to be given 100 acres of this land and$50 in money. The other law, of June 18, provided for exclusion. In 472 INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1854, a negro named Arthur Barkshire, living at Rising Sun, brought anegi-ess named Eliza Keith from Ohio, where she had resided for years,and married her in Ohio County, Indiana. He was arrested and lined $ case was appealed to the Supreme Court by Jonathan W. Gordon,on the ground that the law was not intended to apply to eases of was a picturesque character in Indiana for manj- years; and he. Jonathan W. Gordon was especially interested in all questions of personal right.^ The courtheld that not only was marriage no defense, but that the marriage itselfwas void, and that the woman was also subject to prosecution for cominginto the Statc^* Just ten years later, the Supreme Court held that thewhole article was void, as in contravention of the then laws of the The words remained in the Constitution, however, until they 23 A sketch of his life will be fouiiil elsewhere,s-* Barkshire vs. the State, 7 Ind., p. Smith vs. Moody, 26 Ind., p. 299. INDIANA AND INDIANANS 473 were removed by ameiulment iu 1881. The reformers of that year leftone other relic of the negro-phobia of 1851 in the Constitution, in therestriction of the militia to white male peisons; and it still remainsthere. It is noticeable, nevertheless, that there have been a number ofcriticisms
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