The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-07-13
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For the Voice of Freedom.
Colonization and it's Effects.

Mr. KNAPP In No. IL, Vol. of the United
Brethren's Missionary Inteligencer, | find the
following remarks by the missionary, Fl. T. Hall
beck, on visit to Enon and Shiloh, South Afri
ca -" On the 25th we saw a caravan OF "A wag
ons, with large herds of cattle, belonging to 9
company of Dutch farmers, who were making fol-
the interior. This emigration has been going on
for upwards of year, and it is computed that
some or 5000 persons have thus left the colony
1t is said, that the bulk of them have settled, for
the present, on the Val river but that, finding
the situation unhealthy, they are about removing
to the east, to a tract of land between Port Natal
and the Fable tribe. This rage for emigration,
it is feared will be attended with disastrous con-
sequences, both to themselves and to the native
tribes; for they seem to carry with them an he
reditary contempt for the rights Of the matires,
whom they consider themselves entitled to shoot
like aoid beasts, if they offer any opposition to their
encroachments, and keep or sell their children for
slares. The Caffres, as may easily be supposed,
no Indifferent spectators of these inroads; and
would probably repel the aggressors by force of
arms, did they feel themselves strong enough
At a subsequent date he says -" According to
the last letters from Shiloh, our brethren and sis
tiers and their flocks were left undsturbed and en-
joyed peace from without and within. But fur
Their eastward all is confusion and insecurity
Part of the wandering farmers have been surpri-
sed and killed by Dingaan and the Zoolas, on
which occasion 274 of these deluded individuals,
and among the rest their leader Retief, lost their
lives, and continued war and slaughter will ne
cessarily be the consequence. Hence most Of the
missionaries, and among the rest Capt. Gardner,
have precipitatey left Port Natal, and embarked
for Aigoa Bay, where they arrived week or two
ago. You will perceive from the journal that this
was what expected; and the worst of it is, that
the fame being once kindled no one can foretel
the issue. 1t may, indeed, spread much further
than we could wish, and disturb the peace of our
extended frontier line"
Such have been the results of Colonization at
Port Natal, and such results we may expect in all
or any secular purpose. In the nature of things
a colony, planted among foreign nation, must
intermix with the original inhabitants, and thus
become one people; or they must drive back and
exterminate the old inhabitans-or they must as
intruders, be resisted and destroyed. What 9TH
er result can be anticipated If the colonists are
resisted and driven of, there must be great suffer-
ing and widespread desolaton. If the coloniss
arc able to defend themselves, they will make in
roads upon the natives, drive them from their an
Gent possessions, and finally reduce them to sla-
very, or exerninate them. Such has been the
result at the Cape Of Good Hope, in South Amer
lea, and in North America. Such has been the
result even in New England. And such must
be the result at Monrovia in Africa, or on the Or
egon in America. Let two thousand colonists 90
to Liberia, or Oregon, yearly and there take root
and spread out their branches; and it is perfectly
evident, that they must and will, eat up and de-
stroy the natives. And believe that history will
say, that such has uniformly been the case. Is it
then right for Christians to assist in planting such
colonies? Is this the way to civilize and chris
tanize heather nations We have heard of Boot
ed Apostles, and OF nations converted by gallant
knights. Perhaps modern coonists may follow
the example of Cortez and Pizarro and if they
cannot convert the natives, they can extermnate
them. And who shall say, that Protestants have
not as good right to spread their religion by
bands of armed colonsts as ever the Papists had
to arm Europe against Asia, and convert Pales-
tine into house of slaughter for half the world
TI-COLONIZATION.
More Expurgation Needed