New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-05-20
From the Buffalo Com. Advertiser.
The slavery Question.


countered bv the Colonization Society would have
boon overcome. and the colony before this time
have lsen placed on a paymanent and prosperous
basis but for the unexpected violent and perseVe-
rinc hostility Of the Abolitionists. They began
their active opposition TO the society soon alter ITS
commencement, and their numbers and power
were ;ncrca sed bv dsafcctcd friends OF colonial
ton. who from variou, causes withdrew IRON the
society and became It's most decided OpPo>crs
The Abolitioni.i- profess believe that the col
orcs race will in hs country attain to social, reli-
gioIs and political equality with the whites that
colonization i, based hatred to the coIored man.
n. it proposes to remove him from his native couh-
fry: that removing tree cOlOrcd men from the
slave States, increases the value OF save aOof'
and is therefore calculated to rerpctuatc slavery
that a. all men are born free and equal, slavery
ough, to be Immediately abolished, and that colo
nizaiion tends to divert public attention from the
abolition Of slavery and the restoration to the col
orcJ man of his rights. They also maintain that
all the free coorcd people are bound by the most
sacred obligations Of duty 10 remain IN tins couh-
Try. assert their rs hts and and III the omanclPa-
lion of their brethren held in slavery. these doc
,r;nc. have been promulgated by the pre- =, and by
agents travcIsiug c.cry free state, recurring III
every town and village, and insiructng the colorea
ueepc in what they deem 10 be ,heir nights, aad
the means of obtaining them
The numbers and zeal of the abolitionists have
been increased in consequence OF mobs destroying
some of their presses, and assaul,ing The persons
,f some Of their agents. No society since the
French Revolution has promulgated It's doctrines
with more enthusiastic energy, or denounced li'
opponents with more bitterness than the aboil-
tonists Their doctrine of social equality aud cqdil
rights secured t. them the confidence of the col
cred man. and gave them the entire control OF hS
judgement. They taught him to regard the colo
nizaton society his worst enemy. and that II
was leagued with the slave holder to keep him III
bondage
Abolition influence has not been confined to the
free States Means have been used successfully
along the lines dividing the free from the slave
States. to spread their sentiments and to prelu-
dice 10th the free black and slave population
against colonization. They have extended their
influence in the South by communicating with
servants who were travelling with their masters IN
the free States. and BY improving the opportunities
of intercourse with colored people afforded them
with travelling in steamboats, on Western and
Southern rivers and bays. at hotels Ne. Free
colored men have been active agent, III preludI-
cling the slaves against Liberia, by representing
IL as the yilest place on earth, AID To which the
colonization society sends cmigrants only to get
rid of them that they all soon die, and That the
letters purPortng to toe written by coionsis repre-
sen,ing themselves to be alive all abrications
The consequence was very general prejudice
in the slave a. we'll the free colored population
of the South against emigration to Liberia. Many
families OF slaves have refused to accept their free
dom on condition OF going to Liberia and several
respectable free men with their families nave been
dssuade1 from going after they had engaged their
passage and some even after they had embarked
The hope excited in the colored man that at
distant day. il he remains in this country. he will
be elevated to level with the whites, makes him
deaf To- all the reasons which may be urged for his
removal
The same means which have conduccd To preiu-
dice the colored people against the Society, have
operated with too much success to lessen lis col
lcctions.
Nor is it alone from the direct hostility of the AbO
lltisnists that Colonization has suffered embarrass-
ments The to which they have resorled
Tor propagating their sentiments and carrying out
their principles have reacted mos, iniuriously upon
the Society from the South and deprived il OF the
support OF many warm friends who, indignant at
the course of the Aboiitionists, have resolved on
resisting not only all interference with slavery but
excluding all discussions relative to Colonization.
The tendency of the Abolition excitement has been
to arrest in the South vciy generally, the current
of public opinion which from 1920 to 30 was
cre,ly but powerfully setting in favor Of prospect
i've emancipation and was greatly accelerated by
Colonization.
But for abolition interference it is believed that
before the present day the time for the termination
ut slavery IN several of the States would have been
liked b. legislation. large proportion OF the en-
terprisibg free colorcd men frcm both FREE and
slave States would probably have emicratsd. and
the jurisdiction et the colony would have been .uth-
ciently extended to provide a home Tor all the col
ored race in this country who might wish to emf
CRATE either now. or whenever circumstances
should occur 10 induce them 10 separate from the
whites. \ portion of Africa might have been
Americanised our civil and religious institutions
established there. and by extending these blessings
10 the natives some par, of the debt due that iD-
iured country nigh, have been paid. American
enterprise nigh, have divided with the British, the
profitable commerce of Western Africa, which she
will soon monopolizc. The African trade would
have given profitable employ ment to more Ameri-
can tonnage. and market for more American pro-
ducc and manufactures, than the trade OF the hole
north of Europe Western Africa furnishes palm
oil and dye woods. articles ind spensabe TO Ameri-
can manufactures, aud which il not obtained from
Africa mast be imported from England. The
commerce which might have been secured TO this
country by colonization would have been of greater
value than all the money requisite to sustain the
colored population