Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1848-03-03
A Colonization Scheme.

A Youngstown correspondent of the Home-
stend Journal states that a number of petitions
have been circulated in that neighborhood,
and forwards two for publication in the pa
per referred TO, thinking it would afford 9TH
ers San opportunity TO aid us in obtaining
what we are anxious to Obtain" One petit
ton asks Congress TO limit the quantity Of
public land to be sold 10 one person 10 i60
acres, and that it shall only be sold to actual
settlers, &C.; the other reads thus:
TO THE CONGRESS- OF THE U. s.
Whereas the colored people of the L. s..
are treated with contempt, and degraded be-
low the condition of the whites, therefore,
your petitioners earnestly request that a law
may be enacted appropriating a suitable and
sufficient territory TO colonize all the free
people Of color and those who may hereaiter
be e%mancipated, residing in the L. Sand
said territory be surveyed into 30 acre lots,
and LA part Of it to be appropriated for the
use OF Schools and %insiructing in the me-
chanical arts, and to appropriate 10 each per-
son over 81 years OF aye, 10 acres Of land
and those under that age, 5 acres, with each
settler having the right to add to this donl-
ton such quantity as the whole not to en-
coed 100 acres, by paying the government
price for such addilions-also 10 furnish them
with food, seed, tools and team TO cultivate
said ground for one year, free charge.
We are left to guess what "Ue" it is that
''are anxious to obtain" these laws and reg
~ulatlons from Congress, butsuppose the term
is used 10 designate the National Reformers
of Youngstown, who are trying TO kill two
birds with one stone-forward National Re-
form and ~colonize the colored man at the
SAME time. 1t is certainly very kind in them
to strive to induce Congress not only 10 give
every free colored adult a farm Of 10 acres,
but compel him to settle OH it whether he
wishes or not. 1t is kind, we say, but not
very democratic. not very strongly marked
with the doctrine Of equality. 1t may he
that the 'vote yourself a farm" policy nigh,
not condemn il as unjust, but it certainly ap.
pears so to US. 1t Is an attempt to revive the
odious doctrine Of the American COLOMBIA.
ton Society, the only difference being thai
tulo WOuiu COiOnlLo Oh OHt olue Vi 1It htIdn'
tic, that on the other. Its origin is to be
found in hatred Of the cOlored man, and now
ever it may be cloaked in seeming bonevo'
l%ence, its spirit is still the same.
1.-The colored people are treated with con,
tempt, and degraded below the condition OIL
the whites" the petition informs US. VIVA
is the remedy! ''Treat them with that res
pect that is due them as men, says common
sense, ''more than this none should have
and this is every mans right" "Lift them
up from their degradation, throw around them
the influence Of good example," Gays Chris.
tianity. "Away with them," say the peti.
TONERS, tive can't bear 10 have them near us;
give them a separate tract of land where all
the degraded may cOngregate together and
become a purifying mass of corruption"
What would the petitioners think if the
people of Garfield should ask Congress for
certain reasons 10 appropriate a suitable and
sufficient territory to c~olonize all the" ci,i.
zens of Youngstown Yet such a PROPOSE.
ton would, 10 say the least, be as just, as
democratic, as christian DIS the one in the pc.