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natural rights of mankind as paramount
the constitutions and laws adopted an
enacted by men. This is the foundatio
oil the notion that men cannot hold prof.
erty in men. 1t is an enthusiastic error
Sober. matter-offact reasoning finds prope
~ whenever and in whatsoever organise
governments, capable OF executing thei
mandates, declare it shall exist. Our Stat
and our parent State have declared that Their
may be and is property in negroes. TIL
power OF government has created tina, prop
erty, in violation OF the natural rights q
the negro, admit, but, having done so,
would be fraudulent act on the part Of III
government toward its citizens, TO depriy,
them without compensation, Of rights which
have been enforced for two hundred years
The government has encouraged her citi
zens to vest their capital in slave propert,
by assurances Of protection, given in III,
constitution under which we now live. Tt
violate the pledge in the Constitution abou
to be formed, would be an act OF bad faith
The British government has paid million,
Of dollars (S100, DOC, 900. I believe) "a
compensate the owners Of manumitted
slaves. Even the Mexican government, in
abolishing slavery, promised compensation,
TO the owners Of the slaves. never could
consent to treat our shareholders worse than
England and Mexico treated theirs. As the
law tolerates the citizen in vesting his cap.
ital in the purchase Of slave property,
think the law should, out of fidelity ano
consistency to itself, guarantee the enjoy
ment Of the property purchased, Just as
much as if it were house or tract of land
instead OF a slave. would not break up
a menagerie Of skunks, il created accord
ing to law, without making compensation
10 lis owner. H-gr s-i
Are we then to incur debt OF some Elk
y or seventy millions in order to rid the
State Of slavery! BY no means. How,
then, is slavery to be exterminated and the
black and white races separated | ans.
wer, masters will do it voluntarily or for a
compensation which the slaves can pay,
and that it can be done and ought to be
done by colonising the slaves in Africa
The advocates Of slavery have denounced
colonisation as impIacticable. The Amer.
lean Colonisation Society has ascertained
beyond all controversy that ESQ when
using their own ships and $50 when char
tering vessels is sufficient to transport a man
to Africa and maintain him until he can
provide for himself. The hire of a healthy
negro man and girl of seventeen or eighteen,
one year, will take both to Liberia and
maintain them until they can provide for
themselves. These facts, of undeniable
truth, establish the practicability OF coloni.
sation beyond controversy. do not in
tend to say that il is practicable TO send the
whole slave population Of Kentucky to AT
RIGA in a body. ! admit they cannot b,
marched of, as were the Cherokee Indians
TO their new home. No such moyemen
has ever entered the mind of any philsn
thropist. To make the plan successful
emigration must increase with the strength
and growth OF the settlements in Africa. =
Instead Of sending out decrepit old age an
helpless infancy 10 burthen The colony. W
should only send young men and women
By sending young women as they reache
the age Of puberty, the sources Of increas
at home would be gradually dried up.
explained this fully and at large in speec
made nearly twenty years ago before ii
State Colonisatlon Society at Frsnkfor
! 1t is a work that ought not to be accom-
) plished in less time than thirty or fort
T years. Ii it be Systematically commenc,
: and persevered in, it will put an end to ii
: existence Of our black population in Ke
J lucky and transfer the race TO Africa. I'll
|. astonishing progress which Liberia b
5 made; the daily developments Of the unlir
, tied capacity Of Africa to receive and su
n port the black population of the Unit
States; the example Of European colonis
Il ton, by which hundreds OF thousands of q
# ranks and conditions are annually throw
upon our shores; and the example Of o
i. own migratory population, tTaversing I
e continent from the Atlantic to the Pacif
d almost without q dollar, have opened {
) eyes of the people to the prscticability
l. colonising the slaves, SO that il no long
e admits of serious question. The opponer
e Of colonisation, however, finding their Q
i. objections no longer tenable, now conte
IT that if the negroes were permitted to lea
is and carry off their earnings the proc
,f would drain our specie and impoverish I
{, white population left behind. This art
n ment comedies the ability of the negroes
le their own labor to colonise themselves, a
a thus proves that the only obstacle in
ut way is our unwillingness. The idea Il
10 we should be injured by The drain Of o
E. specie is entirely fallacious. The ennig
to ting negroes would require very little q
RS ney. Implements Of husbandy, tools
re mechanical trades, clothing and provisio
r. as expeTi1uv7 in eolenisat.on has prov
h. would constitute the essential outfit. Th
m wages would be mostly expended for th
y. things before their departure.
lie But suppose we we're injured to some
or tent in the manner suggested. Is it no
n. law OF trade that the precious metals ;
no coins, like water, seek their level and a
he 10 places where most needed! That
ID would soon return TO US our Just shar'
N. the currency Of the world, and after the
.se moval of the slaves we should be am
he compensated for any temporary inconv'
be ence by the advantages Of free labor dul
nd succeeding ages. 40 Es
ks We may speak in favor Of slave la
ad but the time rapidly approaches wher
our Kentucky it will be superseded by free
ose Dor. have heard that under the burr
of sun Of the cotton and sugar farms Of
es. South and in the malaria Of rice pla
ce. ton, the white man could not labor