The Litchfield County post. [volume] (Litchfield, Conn.) 1826-1829, 1827-02-16


the Whites, so that the evil should no long
err threaten the country with danger.
The whole of the evil is not that we are
fostering a large population Of a different
colour in our country: for this is the case,
to a certain degree, in almost every coun-
try-but the alarming fact is, the great
which that class bears to the
Whites. If the African population was
but one-tenth of the number of the Euro
pean inhabitants, there would be no fear,
no anxiety for the future. But, under ex-
listing circumstances, this subject was one
which must fill every patriot breast with
painful sensations.
I will advance one fact, which will serve
as the point whence MY deductions will be
drawn. If we could in given number of
years, have succeeded in decreasing the
number of Africans, so as to enable the
Europeans to duplicate their numbers, we
should have attained an advance of the
Black population, which would have remo-
we'd all fear of danger from their increase.
In small populations the Implications are
more frequent; and as the population of
the country multiplies, the terms of dupli-
cation will be more extended. Surprising
the African population be at present two
millions that the European population
will double in the ensuing thirty years
and that the African population during that
period could be kept down to its present
number; at that period, the White popu-
lation would amount to twenty millions, thus
giving comparative result of two to ten.
This ascendancy once attained, there
would be no remaining fear that the Euro
pean would fail TO keep down any danger
Gus proportion of the African population,
by their own increase. To keep down the
alarming advance of the Coloured popula-
ton, is the grand object of the Colonial
ton Society-an object in which every Cit
izen of the United States is deeply inter-
ested.
Mr.. CLAY then entered into various
statements, to show the different ratios in
which the population of the country, both
European and African, from which he de-
Quoted several important results. He esti-
mated the annual increase of the slave pop
ulation at 5000, and that of the free ne
groes at the same; and he observed that |
the object of the Colonization Society was !
to transport, annually 5000 persons, leav-
ing the present stock in the country and |
in doing this he remarked, that those per-
sons of the most prolific ages would be re-
moved. In this manner, the increase of
the African population being regularly
out of the country for thirty
years, the duplication of the Europeans
" ould give them such an advance over the !
slave population, that all apprehension of
danger mi ght be banished forever.
The next inquiry, most naturally, would
be into the expence of doing all this. He
would not 60 into details; but would state
in round numbers. The price of the voy-
age, to each person would be twenty dol
lars, which, multiplied by 5000, gave one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The
amount of tonnage required annually would
be 5000, which mis- ht not solely he en-
ployed in transporting the Colonists, and
thus the expenditure would be reduced.
Here, then, was the scheme of the Society;
which had been declared impracticable-
to take from the United States six thousand |
souls annually: The whole expenditure,
Tor the transportation of the increase of
he free blacks, and the slaves, would be
but one million forty thousand dollars per
this expense would leave in
his country twenty millions of the lineal
race, with two millions only
Of Africans, their numbers being all a.
ong kept down by this process of Coloni-
aation.
And let me ask, continued Mr.. c., is
there mans there patriot, who would
protect his country from evil within, as we'll
as from without, who would not advocate
an expenditure so inconsiderable, for so
great, so glorious, so beneficial an object 4?
1t was formerly said that we could get
nobody to go to the Colony in Africa but
that prediction has not proved a just one.
The free blacks are not only willing to go,
but press upon the Society: and there new
er has been an opportunity of transporta-
ton, when the number DESTROYS of embra-
cling it was not greater than could be graf
flied. But, sir, allow me to call your at
tention to paper which the Society has
received from numerous meeting of free
blacks in a neighbouring city, in which
they have fully argued the case end in
which they press upon the Society, with a
warm desire to embrace the earliest oppor-
tunity of expatriating themselves. Those
People have met together in churches, sew
Sral hundreds in numher with a President