Edwardsville spectator. [volume] (Edwardsville, Ill.) 1819-1826, 1825-10-15

would be more correct TO call our pre-
judices, and which, whether feelings or
prejudlces, or mixture OF both, makes
US recoil with horror from the idea Oh an
intimate union with the free blacks, and
precludes the possibility OF such a state
OF equality, between them and US, as
alone could make US one people,"
There is every reason lof making such
sepai alton between us and the blacks,
as that each may ENJOY their natural
rights without melestation from the 9TH
er. And what plan is more rational, and
better adapted to effect this desirable OBJ
lject, than the one proposed by the Amer
lean Colonization Society. This society
is pa,ronized by the first characters in
the United States. It's object is noble,
and deserves more praise than am able
TO give. -@
There is now an opportunity Of settling
free persons of color who wish to re-
move from the United States either in
Sierra Leone, or in Hayti, and a settle
ment in either place will answer the OBJ.
ject in view.
This is time Of general activity in
doing good. We are frequently graft
fled with pleasing accounts OF those who
are sacrificing hundreds and thousands
of dollars in this good work, and why
should not Illinois be also engaged, and
ne, only give her counteDance hni also
| some of her money to effect an object
pregnant with honor, true greatness, and
SO many happy consequences.
| do notsthink il necessary to argue
the point sSi,h the good people Of lii
nois. Tat they have not ere this time
engaged $50 reasonable service is not
for the want OF a disposition, but be-
cause there has been no FINDLEy among
US to take the lead.
Some one however may say it is per.
fectly right to colonize the free people
OF color; but it would require some
money; the people are poor, and mo-
ney Is very scarce. 1t is true, TO do any
thing in this work will require money;
1t is also true, that the people are poor,
and money is scarce; but notwithstand--
ing these difficulties, there are, no doubt,
annually more than $4,000 unnecessari-
ly spent, in this state for,ardent spirits,
and other things that are OF no use to US
or any body else. Now how much VII
ser would it be for us to take one half Of
tho money thus uselessly spent and give
it to assist in reinstating the oppressed
Africans in their native land, or some
place where they can enjoy the privilege
oil FREE CITIZENS.
Fellow ciuzens, the work deserves
our notice-yea, il requires our help;
we lind by experience that the free blacks
in Illinois are not only useless to US, bot
they are frequently troublesome. And
this is not all. Those people cannot en-
Joy themselves, nor be useful in the
world to that extent, which they might,
ii they were situated arc.
With these things in view, it is hoped
that the inhabitants OF Illinois who feel
ittheir duty, and have it in their power,
will, with one accord, meet at VandaIia
on the third Monday 10 November next,
at which time the United States District
Court will be in session, and then aud
there devise some plan by which they
may lend helping hand TO effect so
glorious an object and ono espoused by
SO many Of the pious, enlightened, and
patriotic citizens of the United States.
A report that Ferdinand VII. is about
to abdicaIe the throne OF Spain was cur
REM in Europe during the last month.
The basis OF this rumor is the impracti-
cabiity which the Holy Alliance finds
in making such use Of this diseased
this leprous member of the royal con-
iederacy, as will further the ends OF le-
g,tlmacy. The Sovereigns of Europe,
therefore, who have coalesced, and form
ed such an imposing political body for
the purpose OF regeneraiing tho world,
are very much disposed to amputate this
weak, troublesome, and inefficient limb
and this operation of political surgery
will be performed in the form OF an abb
dicalion. Whether King Ferdinand be
in state to bear the process, or whether
he is likely to survive it, we have 10 pse-
sent means Of Judging. Whether or nos
however, if in the College Of Kings the
operation is determined on, submit he
must, be the consequence what it may.
1t is complained that the purposes for
which the French troops occupied Spain
have not been fulfilled; and that the con.
nexion between Ferdinand and his peo-
pie has only hitherto been preserved by
a corps OF foreign mercenaries. Under
such circumstances no moral or politi-
cal mnroyement in the state Of the cam.