This repressive measure set a larger number of the people thinking of the Negro as a national problem rather than a local one.

The attitude of the North was then reflected in the personal liberty laws as an answer to this measure and in the increasing sympathy for the Negroes.

During this decade, therefore, more was done in the North to secure to the Negroes better treatment and to give them opportunities for improvement.
[Footnote 1: _Cincinnati Morning Herald_, July 17, 1846.] [Footnote 2: Woodson, _The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861_, p.
242.] [Footnote 3: Turner, _The Negro in Pennsylvania_, p.

143; _Correspondence of Dr.Benjamin Bush_, XXXIX, p.

41.] [Footnote 4: DuBois, _The Philadelphia Negro_, pp.