Weekly national intelligencer., 1848-01-29

do not concur IN nat opion LOOK al the of
pcne alone II has been stated in your report that the sum
fifty dollars is sufficient the expense of transport
ing emgrant to Liberia, and Of maniang him there
six months after his arrival To what other position in the
known world could he be sent cheap rate Not to
the Pacific not TO Oregon Mexico Then consider
the advantages of this position point of navigation
be the shoness OF the voyage When these things duly
considered must be evident that other spot on the
face of the globe could the free coored people be sent with
much proprrty to the of Africa. Besides in any
other place tina, might be selected you would deprive YOUR
selves Of accomplishing those high moral and religious
which, in Africa, may be so confidently hoped for
But again has been said that the object carving all
the free coored from this country Africa is one which
the Government itself, with all its MEANS could moi effect
Now, that point let state fact by way of reply If
not mistaken the immigration from abroad into the port
New York alone, IN the of the last year. fully
equal 10 the annual increase of the free coored population
the Unon, and yet all that done voluntarily and in
without any, with very little, aid except from this
ciety The fact the great motive which, to greater
or less extent governs all human action. Why is il that
the Germans and the Irish have thus aocked shores
equal the annual increase free coloed peo
Pile only, but, believe that of the slave population
also They in obedience to of the great laws Of
our they have under that efficient motive which
propes to all enerprseshe desire better their cond-
ton like motive will sway the free blacks when engh-
ened 10 the real facts Of the If they reach the shores
of Africa, whether by their means, by the aid and
agency Of others, their position will be physically morally
and politically better than by any possibility it be
here. Il is not office to attempt impracticabies
amagamate two which God himself by difference OF
besides other inherent distinctions has declared be
separate and remain separate from each other And such
be- Of necessity, their condition here send them Ahica
by COERCION but with their free consent surely the
best practicable mode of doing them good And here would
say those in both extremes of opinion and Of feeling the
subject OF savery-l would say to all men-why should
the free people color in these United States have the
option of renosng to Africa remaining where they are
just they themselves shall choose That is all attempt
We wish describe TO him the country, facilitate bis emi.
grafton to it, and then leave him to his free choice And it
after this he chooses CO. why nepose any obstacle in his
way In reply, said be act of cruelty to send him
there The climate represented nhospable he will be
exposed to inevitable Sickness and will probably find
grave that distant shore. To send colored of
the United States country like that is held
of the greatest nhum any But happily, records bear
the grateful testimony to the Of all this Let
for moment compare the mortality Of Liberia with that of the
colonies planted shores Within the first
teen years from the settlement of Jamestown, in Virginia.
nine thousand coonsts arrived and Gl50 600 sterling
expended transporting them from England yet the end
of that period but about two thousand Of them remained alive
All the had fallen victims either to the climate the
tomahawk of the savage had pershed from other
Then look at Plymouth History records that IN less than
six months after the arrival Of the Mayfower full half of all
who landed had been destroyed by disease want and suffer
ing Now, compare with these efforts at British colonization
the results of settlement Liberia In twenty years
since the first emgrans landed from the United States the
deaths amount to but twenty cent of the entire number
being far less than died Plymouth within six months far
less than at jamestown in seventeen years The deaths
numerous in proportion, Liberia in twenty five years
There is then nothing the climate to discourage us
thing the alleged dreadful mortality OF the colony fright
But il is said have done very little All the great en-.
terpses of have had small beginnings. The founders
Of Rome, may believe the tale Of tradition sucked
by wolf jamestown and Plymouth both lanyuished for
years after the period which have already referred Yet
now, what land there the broad surface Of the habi
table globe what spreads its Of waters has
been penetrated and aversed by the enterprise the skill
and the courage Of our New England brethren And on
what battlefield in what council chamber single spot in
country be found where the Virginia character has
displayed itself in its gaantry its deberaye wisdom
repeat all the greatest enterprises of man have had small
beginnings Our colony is but twenty-five years DID, and il
has received already between four and five thousand cooed
emgrants besides thousands of recapured Africans
all OF which have been sent there by order Of this Govern
Immense numbers Of the natives crowdins into
the colony obtain the benefits of education of cvson
and Of christianity In addition 10 all these there many
thousands the United States seeking the siva
tges Of colonization through the held by tbs
oety. As far then as we have gone,
ls not better that those four five thousand emyanis
should be there than that they should have remained
Is better themselves is il for us Eyery
year the progress of colony becomes and
ing AMI with every free African it, those ros
poets brighten, aud much more of good done Tu
have not done all desire 10 DO Glad should be .oud
every free coed man throughout oil the States go her and
become free indeed But requires time accomplish great
national affairs. The creation Of nation is not the wrk Of
day or OF century. Two three centuries
byo nation Of the sraees remained capves in Egypt But
when this Government the State Governments, sha lend
the enterprise their powerful aid, It's progress will so
slow. And when the colony shall have made further ayan
ces will be sef-sustaned and increased by its COM
merce and marine speak not Of course of any
sutiona aid Incidental aid at least may be given in
strict accordance with the constitution On this subject the
Legislature Of Maryland has set noble example She cher
shcs her infant colony with the solcitude and care
When other States Of the Union shall do the same the
OF colonization will experience vast acceeraion Perhaps
not desirable that il should fast the In
founding coloniziug settlement in the subdung d our
own bou1dles wilderness there should be pioneers pcede
the great Of immigration prepare sustenance for
who shall follow TO open roads and erect dwellings o their
accommodation. There might many emigrsnts be thrown |
at once upon the colony material embarrassment
If not fatal injury. II is better that the work should proceed
at first somewhs slowly, that the few who before should
understand the country its habits and its resources, pnd thus
prepare place for the many who shall after them
But beside the fact that the coloed and the white races
become homogeneous people, in what State,
ask, Of this entire Union with possibly the exception Mas
sachuse does the black man, however fair may be his char
acter and from however long line Of free coored ancestors
he may proceed enjoy equality with his white negbor in
social and political rights In where. As
ca rights, they out Of the question In city, town.
hamlet throughout this entire land is he regarded
equal footing with The laws Of all the States (and in
this respect some Of the free States rigorous
than the States thcmselves) render impossible And
great is the gor Of the laws in Of the Sae-ren
dered rigorous by the schemes and efforts Of the abo
under any circumstances and with
whatever purpose is absolutely prohibited On this subject
very ema kabe occurred lately connexion with myself
very respectable and reverend Alabama, whose face