Lower Sandusky freeman. (Lower Sandusky [i.e. Fremont, Ohio]) 1849-1849, 1849-03-17

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ated instead of being terminated To guard against
this consequence, provision might be made that the
offspring of those who were to be free at twenty
five, sbouldbe free from birth, but upon the cond-
ton that they should be apprentced until they were
21 and be also afterwards liable to be hired out
period not exceeding three years, for the purpose
of raising funds to meet the expenses to the colony
and their subsistence for the first six months The
Penusylvania system of emancipation fixed the pc
riod at twenty eight for the liberation of the slave
and provided or her courts have since interpreted
the system to mean, that the issue of all who
to be free at the limited age were from their birth
free. The Pennsylvania system has provision
for colonization
Until the commencement of the system which
am cndeavorng to sketch, think all the legal rights
of the propretors of slaves in their fullest extent,
ought to remain unmpaired and unrestricted-
Consequently they would have right to sell, de-
wise, or remove them from the state, and in the
latter case without their offspring being entitled to
the benefit of emancipation for which the system
provides.
q The colonization of free blacks as they sue
cessvely arrive from year to year, at the age ent-
ting them to freedom, consider condition abso-
lutely Indispensable Without it. should be ut
terly opposed to any scheme of mancipation. One
hundred and ninety odd thousand blacks compos-
ing about onefourth of the entire population of the
peace harmony and equality with the residue of the
population The color, passions and prejudices
would forever prevent the two races from living
together in a state of cordial union. Social, moral
and political degradation would be the inevitable
lot of the colored Even in the free states-l
use the terms free and slave states not any
derogatory from one class, or implying any superb
ority in the other but for the sake of brevty-that
is their present condition In some of those free
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color is quite as severe if not harsher than it is in
some of the slave states. AS nowhere in the Uni
ted States are amalgamation and equality between
the two races possible it is better that there should
be a separation and that the African descendants
should be returned to the native land Of their fa
Tiers
1t will have been seen that the plan have sug-
geSted proposes the annual transportation OF all
born after specified day, upon their arrival at the
prescribed age, to the colony which may be select
for their destinations and that this process of trans
portation to be continued until the separation of
the two races is completed If the emancipated
slaves were to remain in Kentucky until they attain
ed the age of %, it would be about 81 years be-
fore the first annual transportation began, if the
system commenced in 1885, and about 80 years, if
its operation begin in 1860.
/ What the number thus to be annually transport
ed would be, cannot be precisely ascertaned. l OBJ
serve it stated by the auditor that the increase of
slaves in Kentucky last year, was between three
and four thousand. But as that statement was
made upon comparison of the aggregate number
of all the slaves in the state without regard to
birth, it does not presume exhibit tru the natu-
| raj increase which was probably larger. The ag
gregate was effected by the introduction or still
more by the expectation of slaves. suppose that
there would not be less, probably more than 5000
to be transported the first year of the operation of
the SYSTEM but after it was in progress some years.
there would be a constant diminutlon of the num-
| Der.
Would it be practicable annually to transport s.
| 900 persons from Kentucky? There cannot be a
doubt of it. or even much larger number We
receive from Europe annually emigrants to an
amount exceeding 250,000 at a cost for passage of
about $40 per head, and they embark from Euro
pean ports more distant from the United States than
the western coast of Africa 1t is true that the
! Commercial Marine, employed between Europe
and the United States affords facilities, in the trans
portaton of emgrants, at that low rate, which that
engaged in the commerce between Liberia and this
country does not now supply; but that commerce
| is increasing and by the time the proposed system
| if adopted, would go into operation, it will have
greatly augmented. If there were a certainty of
| the annual transportation of not less than 5000
persons to Africa, it would create a demand for
transports, and the spirit of competition would,
have no doubt greatly diminish the cost of the pas
sage That cost has been stated upon good author
ity, to be at present $50 per head, including the
pasage and six months outfit after the arrival of the
emigrant in Africa Whatever may be the cost
| and whatever the number to be transported, the
fund to be raised by hire of the liberated slaves for
period not exceeding three years, will be amply
sufficient The annual hire, on the average. may
| be estimated at fifty dollars, or one hundred and
] fifty for the whole term.
/ Colonization will be attended with the painful eff
feet of the separation of the coonists from their pa
rents and in some instances from their children;
but from the latter it will only be temporary, they
will follow and be again reunited Their separa
ton from their parents will not be until after they
have attained mature age, nor greater than vol
untary takes place with emigrants from Europe
who leave their parents behind 1t will be far less
distressing than what frequdntly in state of
slavery; and will be attended with the animating
encouragement that the coonists are transferred
from land of bondage and degradation for them,
| to land of liberty and equality.
! g. The expense of transporting the liberated
slave to the colony, and maintaining him there for
six months, think ought to be provided for by a
fund derived from his own labor in the manner al
ready indicated. He is the party most benefited
by emancipation. It would not be right to sub
/ jeet the non-saveholdeIs to any part of that ex
pensc; and the shareholders will have made sufi-