The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-06 00:00:00

PROPOSED COLONIZATION OP THE

SLAVJINOLDIRS.

At an early stage of the rebellion an American
paper, the Anti-Slarery Standard, published the following
proponal, which we submit to the conrideratiou of Mr.
Thomas Carlyle, Mr. Spence, sad other philosophers on
so-
cots. of the practical interest it is deriving from events :
The great question which is to agitate the nation for the
next decade after the close of the we, is, * What shall we
ao with the slaveholders ?" We of the Northern States are
devout believers in ethnology : we know that two diverse
races or varieties of men cannot exist together on en equa-
lity; that one inevitably siusliowe up or obliterates the other.
Now, under the Darwinian prongs " • gradual accumu-
late); of_ profitable (or ueproatable, ea it has turned out)
changes"• new variety of men has been formed in the slave-
bolding stake. The steady, law-abiding. work-loving.
self-controlled Anglo-American of the Borth has become
the lazy, passionate, law-contemning, tyrannical American
of the South. Between the Carolina sr stoerat and the New
England nembanie are all the differences, moral and tempe-
ramental, that exist between the French and the Euglish.
The two are now in deadly opposition. One or the other
must go to the wall. Of coarse the superior and educated
race tutus exterminate the inferior. And though we have
not a "cursed be Canaan^ text from the Bible to justify
their extermination or removal, yet we have some that
approach the metier. as •• Woe unto him that ninth his
neighbour's servese without segos, and giveth him not for
his work." _ . .

"Itirai great and importantreasoa for removingthe slave-
holder is that he will not work. An agree that without
slavery he will do nothing. He is incorrigibly lazy. He is
willing to play the soldier, to act the master, to wear the
mask of the gentleman ; but be has a peat sundae to hard
labour. Now, the world demands cotton and rice and sugar.
Han Anglo-Southerner prefers hie " pumpkin" to labour he
must be made to labour, or be drives out.
It is possible, indeed, that through the philanthropic
effort. of some aleveholders' ooloniaation society, when
' placed in new circumstances, he may be reclaimed and in-
duced to work. But here on the soil he scold sever tornado
to do so. He is of little value to this wonky except to till
some public offices, which others can occupy equally well.
His principal contributions to the republic have bees dis-
grace abroad. climansioua at home, and a war costing some
300,C3,000 dollars.
Some„'„very simple minded individuals have proposed (for
what maws is entirely obscure) the colosiaation of the
slaves rather than the muter'. Not to speak of the fact
that we should then be rewarding treason and punishing
loyalty by transporting millions of our most faithful cilium
and leaving their lauds to traitors, bow are we to pay the
expenses or procure the vessels for the emigration of four
millions of human beings? If it cost on an average 60 dole.
each to transplant them, and five hundred could be put in
each vessel, it would require then 200,030,000 dole.
for the cost of this wise measure, and at lout 80,000 ships,
whereas the masters--suriog them to somber 560,00
could be exported for 17,500,000d015., and could be stowed
in 700 ships: Then. again, the 'laves in • stated bondage
are worth is the Southern market at lust 2,000,000,000
dollars.
Caa we afford—are we at this time so rich that we can
give away this sum, or • much larger one, considering the
value of the eegroee in a state of freedom?
Spain expelled her Moorish artisans and France her
Huguenot labourers, sod philosophers think that both coun-
tries °covered the loss. How much cheaper
would be for us the deportation of the slave-
holders. Each slavemader can hardly at this time be
worth to the country his "keep." He is heavily in debt
to Northern merchants, and he has cost, sad is likely to
cost, millions more to the North than he will ever laminae.
Instead of kriug two thonmod million of t'ollars by export-
log the upon, why not gain millions hi colonising the
mestere? With the slayebolders gone would be gone inter-
nal dimension. foreign filibustering, barbarism im Corium,
crime in private life, repudiation in business, treason in
public, and the danger of civil war. With the Deuces
goes, would be lost loyal citizens, induetriouts predawn,
and all the • ricultme of some of the richest districts la
the world.
Of course, human nature should never be despaired of,
and, under happier circumstances, the Southern slaveholder
might be reformed into an honest and industrious worker.
The question would arise, Where should these three hun-
dred and fifty thousand be sent' Liberia is too far, sod
the voyage too expensive. Is the Welt Indies, the indus-
try of the emancipated oegroes would be too painful a coo.
trust to their idle habits, and they might be app. cued by
the superior coloured race.
We are not sure but that Mexico is the beat place.
There they would have • king (which Mr. Rumen repro-
outs they have been sighing for), sad an Austrian one,
which would suit their previous habits of power. They
would not be obliged in that happy country to toil with
their hands, but they could live on plunder and revolutions.
They have been peculiarly anxious to be intimately asso-
ciated with England and France ; there they would be
directly under an Anglo-Freoth protective government.
They have doled on the slave trade ; there they could fr.-
te-niee with the peat patrons of that commerce—the
Spaniards.
Why, then, will not our philanthropists ft nod •
" Society for tie Colonisation of the Slaveboldei a "—lo.hindr
towards Mexico as the place of settlement?

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