Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1849-10-13
Testimony AGAINST Colonization.

We are glad TO find in the Louisville Exam
incr Of the 10th ult. a manly protest from thai
truc-hearted friend of Freedom, Rev. John G
Fee, against the shameful injustice and wicked
ness of offering the slaves of Kentucky their lib
erty only upon condition of Punishment from
the State. This is a prominent feature in the
plan of emancipation which has been proposed
by those who take the lead of the anti-slavery
agitation in that State, and it show clearly
enough that the authors of the scheme arc actu-
atcd by a selfish regard to the interests Of the
whites rather than by enlightened b~enevolcnce
toward both the oppressor and the oppressed.
MIR. Fee talks like a man of principle and heart,
and appeals to the conscience with convincing
power. Hear him
Is il Christian, humane, or lust. that we re-
quire a poor unoffending man, who has toiled to
construct our roads, clear our farms, feed our
children, and clothc our own b~odies-who has
done us naught but kindness, that we in return
require as a condition of his enjoying the boon
OF treedom-thc /" ilaAienable right of humanity"
that he must be banished-banished from the
land OF his birth-froma land where he is accli-
mated, to one to which ne is not acclimated +;
" NAAASAA AuE tnull III dllu
death to hundreds and thousands. And all this,
too' without ms consent. Is this obeying Christ's
rue" whatsoever We would that men mo pro-
vision is made for color or degree of intellectual
capacity should do unto YOU, do We even so to
them If the members of the Central Com
mittee were slaves, and the colored people had
the majority and power in their hands, would
the think it just and Christian that
they should be banished without thor consent
to the land of thair Eorocotla., T.1.I o..
many, Scotland, or whatever that land might
be?
Does the Committee say there is a prejudice
against the colored race, and they should there
fore be banishcd: This position we see in al
most every Colonization address. But is it a
sufficient onc-is it one upon which Christians
and philanthropists should base their actions
a systematic and organized effort, to continue
through the lapse of many yearss
If we can judge from the returns from the
polls in Jefferson county, as well as from all 9TH
or counties in the State, there is a prejudice
against the members of that Committee them
selves; and no doubt many of the citizens would
COLOMBO them if they had the power. But
would the Committee think prejudice a sufi-
cient ground for such actions
Does the Committee say it would be for the
welfare of the colored people themselvess We
reply-of this the colored people should be the
eoro JuuSes' MANY Oh the perpetualstS OF our
State are saying, "these Emancipationists had
better give up the ship, and go to free States,
where they could all be of a pioce-they could
get along better"
Now we think we ought to be the Judges of
this matter. Should the perpetualists Danish or
colonize the Emancipationists, merely because
they had the powcr-giving as a reason, sit
would be better for tho Emancipationists,' the
Emancipationists would feel it an act of tyran-
ny, worthy only of the Autocrat of Russia
And shall we, because we have the power, as
sumo the right to judge for a poor and long-op-
pressed minorityf Shall we, as p~rofessed re-
puhicans and democrats, wearing the name of
Christ's followers, be guilty of such tyranny p
Could we expect the blessing of Heaven upon
us, either as a nation or a partys
AS we we are proposing in the eyes of God
and the world, to do a noble act, that of pro-
claiming freedom to the down-trodden slave, let
us go the whole figure of true magnanimity-
extend absolute justice to every one, and not
stain the noble enterprise by remaining acts of
injustice, to crafty an unholy prejudice.
This is the true spirit, which alone can con-
quer the powers of despotism. Not until the
Anti Slavery of Kentucky is pervaded by this
spirit will it ever accomplish much toward free
ing the State from its deadly leprosy.