The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1844-10-10

tlle DidCh CLASS, my dtiiS iAto nee CtdteS
would enter into competition with tn,
white class, diminishing the wages O
their labor, and augmenting the hardship
oftheir condition.
This is not all. The Abol:ionist
strenuously oppose all separation of thu
two races. l confess to you, sir, that
have seen with regret, grief and astonish
ment, their resoluto opposition to the
PROJECT of colonization. No scheme wa;
ever presented TO the acceptance of man
which, whether it be entirely practicable
or not, is characterized by more unmix-
ed humanity and benevolence, than that
oftransporting, with their own consent
the free people of color in the United
States, to the land of their ancestors. Ii
has the powerful recommendation that
whatever it does is good; and if it affects
nothing, it inhcts no one evil or mischief
upon any portion ofour society. There is
no necessary hostility between the objects
of colonization and abolition. Colonial.
ton deals only with the free man of col
or, and that with his own free voluntary
consent. 1t has nothing to do with sla-
very. 1t disturbs no mans property,
seeks to impair no power in the slave
States, nor to attribute any to the gener.
al government. All its action, and all its
ways and means are voluntary, depend
ing upon the blessing Of Providence,
which hitherto has graciously smiled
upon it. And yet, beue6cent and harm
less as colonization is, no portion OF the
people of the United States denounce it
with so much perseyering zeal and such
unmixed bitterness as do the abolitionists.
They put themselves in direct opposi
ton to any separation whatever between
the two races. They would keep them
forever pent up together within the same
limits, perpetuating their animosities, and
constantly endangering the peace of the
community. They proclaim, indeed, that
color is nothing; that the organic and
characteristic difference between the two
races ought to be entirely overlooked
and disreg arded. And, eievating them
selves to a sublime but impracticable
philosophy, they would teach us to Grad
icate all the repugnances Of our nature,
and to take to our bosoms and our boards
the black man as we do the white, on
the same footing Of equal social condi-
ton. DO they not perceive that in thus
conlounding all the distinctions which
God himself has made, they arraign the
wisdom and goodness of Providence it.
elf 1t has been his divine pleasure to
make the black man black, and the white
man white, and to distinguish hem by
other repulsive constitutional diIerenc-
es. 1t is not necessary for me to main
tain, nor shall endeavor to prove, that
it was any part Of his divine intention that
the one race should be held in per petual
bondage by the other but this will say,
that those whom he has created differ
ent, and has dec Jared, by their physical
structure and color, ought to be kept as.
undek, should not be brought toy ether by
any process whatever of unnatural ANAL
gamation.
But if the dangers of the evil contest
which have supposed could be avoided,
separation or amalgamation is the only
peaceful alternative, if it were possible
to eaectuate the project of abolition. The
abolitionists oppose all colonization, and
it rresistioy follows whatever they may
protest or declare, that they are in favor
of amalg amation. And who are to bring
about this amalgamation have heard
Of none Of these ultra aboltlonists fur
nishing in their own families or persons,
examples of intermarrage Who is to
begin it? Is it their purpose not only to
create pinching competition between
black labor and white labor, but do they
intend also to contaminate the industri-
Gus and laborng classes Of society at the
north, by a revolving admixture OF the
black element?
1t is frequently asked, what is to be.
come of the African race among us2 Are
they forever to remain in bondage? Tha;
question was asked more than halfa CEN
tury ago. 1t has been answered by fifty
years of prosperity, but little chequered
from this cause 1t will be repeated fifty
or hundred years hence. The true
answer is, that the same Providence who
has hitherto guided and governed US, and
averted all serious evils from the exist
ing relation between the two races, will
guide and govern our posterity. Sufficient
TO the day is the evil thereof. We have
hitherto, with that blessing, taken care
of ourselves. Posterity will find the
means of its own preservation and pros,
perity. 1t is only in the most dreful event
which can befal this people, that this
great interest, and all other Of our great
est interests would be put 10 jeopardy
Although particular districts, the black
population is gaining upon the white, il
only constitutes one-tiith of the whole
population of the United States. And
taking the aggregates of the two races,
the European is constantly, though slow
ly, gaining upon the African portion. -
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