While slavery had no legal, constitutional existence in the three border States, there were, in fact, quite a number of slaves within their jurisdiction during the first generation of their existence. And the free people of Color were, _first_, denied the right of citizenship; _second_, excluded from the militia service; _third_, ruled out of the courts whenever their testimony was offered against a white person; _fourth_, could not come into the free border States without producing a certificate of freedom; and, _fifth_, were annoyed by many little, mean laws in the exercise of the few rights they were suffered to enjoy. A full description of the infamous "_Black Code_" of these States would occupy too much space, and, therefore, the dark subject must be dismissed. Posterity shall know, however, how patiently the free Negroes of the Northern States endured the restrictions and proscriptions which law and public sentiment threw across their social and political pathway! FOOTNOTES: [37] 1, Chase, p. 393, sects. 1-7. [38] 1, Chase, p. 555. [39] Jeffries _vs._ Ankeny, 11, Ohio, p. 375. [40] 2, Chase L., p. 1052. [41] Curwen, p. 533. [42] Revised Statutes of Ohio, vol. i. p. 60. [43] Ibid., p. 111. [44] Elliot's Debates, vol. i. p. 79. [45] Sanford's Dred Scott Case, pp. 397-399. [46] Howard's Reports, vol. xix. pp. 403-405, sq. [47] Hurd, vol ii. p. 123. [48] Terr. laws 1807-8, p. 423. [49] Laws of 1817, ch. 3, sec. 52. [50] See Hurd, vol. ii. p. 129. [51] Revised Laws of Indiana, 1838. [52] Session Laws, 1819, p. 354. R. S., 1833, p. 466. [53] R. S., 1845, p. 154. [54] Rev. St. of 1856, p. 780. CHAPTER XI. THE NORTHERN NEGROES.