Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-08-26

in the United States. win give the scheme applicable to
INV own State and il its praccaby be demonstrated the
demonstration can easily be applied every other State Let
future day be fixed, after which every slave child born shall
be the property of the State for the purpose Of colonization
Place the children when weaned the hands Of those who
will raise hememaes till they eighteen years of age,
and males until they twenty -four twenty-five and upon
their reaching these ages send them to Africa There, IN
few WORDS is the whole scheme Now to its practical
operation BY sending off the females they reached eigh
teen the would become extinct ia less than fifty years,
with the exception Of few old slaves past the prime of life
The departure Of the females they reached womanhood
would pat end to the birth of slaves among The ex-
trpaon Of slavery under such rule is therefore just as
certain the laws OF nature. But it would be slowly
accomplished. So much the better on that account,
Africa is not fitted for the reception of all at once,
and by doing the thing gradually we should accommodate
ourselves in labor and habits to the new state OF things
slowly yet certainly taking place. Where Is the money TO
come from to defray the expense, and who to furnish il
The Colonization Society charter ships and transport adult
coonss and take Of them in Africa until they are accl
mated and capable Of providing for themselves for $50 head
In their own packet they do for $50 head. This norma
ton is given by Mr. McLan the Secretary Of the So.
ciety. Now believe that those to whom the children
bound would in consideration OF their services readily spu
late furnish the required outfit Poor white children
bound out by our laws and the mistress required
to teach them trade, educate Them &c. Boys bound
until they arrive wenyone years of age and girls till they
reach sixteen. They TO be furnished with three pounds
ten shngs in money and new suit OF clothes when their
time Of service expires would lengthen the apprenticeship
of male coons raise the funds necessary Females
being apprenced until eighteen, would years longer
than the period required for white appentced girls and there
fore their services would be much valuable II the ap
prentice lived and emigrated Africa, would make just
compensation the but II the slave died during the
apprenticeship and before his labor had paid for his ran
then nothing would be due.
Under the foregoing plan how many slaves would be
cessay transport annually from Kentucky BY the of
1910 there were 30 female slaves the State between the
age of and "a years Divide IA, and gives 20 in their
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would for the eighteen years supply annually in grow
ing up 220 females for transportation But Just
the system goes into opeaton there will be fewer children
born. After the end of Thirty years from its commencement
it may be safely affirmed there would not be slave born
Kentucky after twenty years there would be but few births
among the mothers remaining in the country In the nine
teenh twentieth year of the operation Of the system there
would be fewer females to transport than in the preceding
year. and from that time their numbers would rapidly dmin
ish until in her 18th year could be found for
portaion. Now, multiply 220l by $50, the costs the
Colonization Society in its packet and have $50
only the necessary to be expended annually for the
certain and gradual extpaon of slavery in kentucky But
it may be said would be cruel in the to send off e
males without sending males with them Admit and dou
BILE the expenditure in order to send off equal number of
males, and only makes $780, l00 Under such state Of
apprenticeship and by enghenng the periods of service of
the males until they arrived "a 25 years. longer
if necessary and requiring them labor the last four five
years aid of colonization, entertain doubt but slave
population by their labor, without costing white
selves in Africa But 1t must be systematically undertaken
and pesevered in do it. Now, sir the entire female slave
population Of the United States in $780, between the ages of
10 and "a amounted $780, II only. By the rule of
calculation have 81, sos in their 18th year, and Of the
proper age for colonization. This number multiplied by $50
gives 81 $50, the annual expenditure necessary to
move upon my pan the whole female slave population of the
United States they reach their 9Th year. But under the
idea that humanity requires to send out equal number
of males let the expenditure be doubled, and it makes
3d. 800 said half the expenses Of the Mexican war;
invested in per cent stock would accomplish the OBJ
jec capital of $50 000 900 would produce annually the
sum required and an excess than 5000 900 for
tngencies have thus sir only skeched the outline of
plan by which united systematic effort expae slavery
have time to goino minute Details and obvate every
cevabe objection Only look at the thousands and hundreds
Of thousands of foreigners annually landing upon shores
from the old world and them sir reflect that only requires
the removal Of 81 SOS female slaves annually, of
,250 and mind doubt the pracicably Of
the scheme have made the calculations upon the of
ls40 The increase Of population since then would increase
the numbers and expense but possess data upon which
give the increased expenditure required with accuracy In
unbounded schemes of annexation and dominion have
nothing TO do but to annex Liberia govern her as colony
until have located the negro there and then separate
leaving her independent republic Such scheme in lis
execution would lead TO commercial results magnificent in
their development and, while would be just consttu
tona other schemes Of annexation would be infinitely
WISER because its motive would be peace and good will man.
instead of war, conquest, and national sggrandzemen
But suppose, Mr. President colonization rejected, what
is
fuence of certain which have heretofore and will
nue TO operate upon it, producing results beyond the control
Of human legislation These have been ably presented
by citizen Of my State Of great aanmens John A.
McCung, Esq, speech delivered before the Kentucky
Colonization Society in January last Our decenna tables Of
population prove that in reference to many States in
Union slavery has been marked by three distinct stages the
first is when the slave population increases greater ratio
than the white the second, when the White population in
at greater ratio than the slave and the third when
the slave population actually decreases II is remarkable
that these changes have progressed with great regularity
tabshng beyond controversy that when the slave population
begins decrease go until the which pro-
duced its decline will ultimately exteminae il. New York
and New Jersey together had in $780, 49, 47 slaves BY
the Of 1900 the number Of slaves in these States
had increased only eighteen but there decrease in New
York Of $751; and increase in New Jersey Of $685. After
1900 the slaves in both States rapidly declined until in 1910
there but 67S left and in both States the institution
has been abolished In Delaware the number OF slaves has
decreased from 1887 in 1890 2605 in 1910. In Mary
land the number Of slaves increased until 1870 In 1920 they
had decreased from IL 500 in 1910 l0z, 39s. Thus
the number for period Of years fell about 200. In the
next period Of ten years the fall little than 000
and by the Of 1910 the number had down
s9737, exhibiting dmnuton in number Of IL 457 in the
last years In the District Of Columbia the number Of
slaves 1877 in $780, had slightly declined in $780, and
down 1894 in 1910. In Virginia the number OF
slaves continued TO increase until $780, when they reached
Thus that slavery has reached height in the States
the Atlantic, including Virginia and all north and east
and commenced declining, making such progress that those
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