Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-14
COLONIZATION AND ABOLITION coNTRAsTED.
FROM THE VIEW York COURIER AND rsaurnrn.


FROM THE ENQUIRER.
The results effected by abolition and COLOMBIA
ton respectively, furnish perhaps the best criterion
of the justice and wisdom of the enterprises them
selves. The first in the whole course OF its agita-
ton, has effected nothing but TO rivet more firmly
than ever the chains of slavery, and to put at haz-
ard the best interests Of the whole country The
ierceness of its denunciaons has made dangerous
to the South the purpose Of ultimate emancipation
50 generally cherished there, and has rendered
necessary to their peace and safety more stringent
discipline than had before prevailed. The Adolf
tonsts have thus increased tile misery they profess
to deplore, and have postponed, by at least half
century the event for which they pretend to labor
They have succeeded in implanting a bitter and en-
venomed hostility between large body of the peo-
pie Of the two sections of the Union; hatred
which they take care constantly to feed, and which
is full of danger the interests and existence OF the
Union. They have rent asunder two of the great re-
lgious denominations Of the country have arrayed
one section of the Union nanmity towards the other
and few Of them avereaped in Southern peniten-
ares the reward which has been richly deserved
by many more. Happily their fanaticism has now
reached point where it can do little harm. The
leaders of the party now openly proclaiming the
traorous purposes they have SO long cherished, but
which hitherto they have concealed. Their Leading
presses are now boldly declaring that the dissou-
ton Of the Union, to be reached by civil war and
universal butchery if necessary, is the grand result
at which they aim Madness and crime like this
can have slight chance of success and, but for the
encouragement it receives from sentmentasts and
well-meaning but misguided zealots from other par
ties, aboiif0nisna would very speedily find It's grave
in universal scorn and contempt
On the other hand, colonization, without refer
ence to the feeling it was producing among South
erners on the subject of slavery, before its labors
there were interrupted by its bteres enemy a6ota-
ton, has been silently, quietly, and by truly Chris
tian means, doing work in africa which should
endear it to the heart Of every lover Of his race
History furnishes few examples of more striking
or more benefcent transformation than that winch
has wrought in that portion of Africa now called
Liberia. But few years ago it was inhabited by
the most degraded and vicious savages on the globe
dolators of the grossest kind lcentous beyond all
example, visited only by savedealers and other pi-
rates. mngling with their deUitUorshtp the most
foul and disgusting orgies, and superaddlng TO their
native brutality the lowest vices Of the haIi-cviized
human iends with whom alone they had any inter
course, they presented spectacle before which
Christianity itself might well have shrank in dismay
and despair.
Yet the abors Of colonization have converted this
desolate and unpromising region into colony OF
rare fertility, of great beauty and inhabited by
large body of enlightened people, who are daily car
rying the blessings of civilization and Christianity
i farther among the tribes of the Interior and thus
forming centre for the gradual but certain rescue
of vast continent from the darkness and brutality
of savage heathensm. Farms have been cultivated
and made to look like gardens, under the hands OF
i colonzed negroes; save-traders and pirates have
been expelled from the whole three hundred miles
Of coast and for the rapine and murder which for
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have been substituted the peaceful and prosperous
pursuits of lawful commerce and agriculture. For
the last two years the imports of the colony have
been $I57, 1929, and their exports $123,694. BY
treaties with Them more than hundred thousand
of the natives have bound themselves to renounce
the slave-trade, and abandon their pagan customs.
The great body of the colonists moral and up
right citizens they have twenty-four Christian
churches, and but two jas, which at the last ac-
counts had but single tenant and tens OF thous-
ands of the natives have been rendered accessible 10
the abors Of Christian missionaries where before not
one could obtain footing. And all this has been
accomplished by colonization, and most OF it in the
short period since 1922.
Here are actual, practical results, which no one
can deny, and to which none but heartless or zeal
blinded fanatics can be Indifferent Yet they pass
comparatively unnoced, and the society through
whose agency they have been effected is left to pur
sue its benefcent career entirely unattended by any
of that eclat by which others Of far less worth
so seduousy forced upon the public attention. 1t
is not surprising, however unfortunate it may be.
that this should be the case. Clamorous pretension
with the great mass always challenges more notice
than quiet regular course of systematic labor
and that cause which boasts the loudest, and de-
nounces others with the most unsparng bitterness,
is always sure to receive the most attention.
The aboIifionisfs have now for years stunned the
public ear with their clamor, and provoked the pub
lie patience by their madness and their crime. The
ends at which they aim are only to be reached by
disregard of the rights of the people and the most
criminal violation of the Constitution, which every
citizen is sworn to support. The Stare, who en-
lists all their sympathy, and for whose benefit they
pretend TO labor, has only been injured by their ex-
ertions. No person. and no interest have received
the slightest advantage from any thing they have
done. Their labors in the past have been mschiev-
Gus, and for the future they propose nota single OBJ
iect upon which good man can look with the
slightest favor. That Christians and thinking men,
who will not aid their proceedings, should allow
their attention to be diverted by the noise they make
from the work to which colonization is devoted, and
which thus far it has carried on with the most COM
pletesuccess, may wellbe matter of sincere regret.
Wheeling, is described in a letter from Professor Locks
raj years since, and great quantity Of curious relics was
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