Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1850-05-20
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The african Repository and Colonial
Journal, the official organ Of the Ameri.
can Colonization Society, thus speaks Of
the proposal of Bryan q DIN its issue
for the current month:
alt cannot have escaped notice that the
rate at which emigrants are 10 be carried
is exceedingly low. $40 for each one over
IL years of age, SIS for ench one under
that age, and found! This is about one
thlrd OF the present average cost.
The four steamers will transport 10000
emigranls each per annum, making 81, 600
during the year! At this rate it would re.
quire but one year TO remove The entire free
colored population of Virginia, six months
to remove all from New England, another
six months, all from Ohio, Indiana and
illinois, and two years,all from New York,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
The objection heretofore which has been
ofienest made against colonization has been
that the means we're totally inadequate 10
The end. 1t has been sneeringly said,
"what do these Jews build?" 1t is nothing.
The tavorile comparison has been "YOU
might as well attempt TO dip the ocean dry
with teaspoon MS 10 remove the free col.
ored people Of the United States to Libe-
| rio! The whole commercial marine could
not transport the annual increased" And
many men have said these things and con.
sidered that they had thereby settled the
question forever! We ask them 10 review
the subject. Here are four rssssls capable
of removing more than the annual in.
crease OF the whole colored population Of
the United States. From 1880 TO 1910
that increase was 54,356. From 1910 to
1850 it does not exceed $4,000 per nnnum.
We need say nothing more in answer to
all such objections as the above. The
Colonization Society undertook 10 found a
colony, 10 which the colored people might
| find it advantageous to emigrale. This
has already been done. The work has
been slow in its progress. us it were, pilipg
one stone upon another, till now the ioun.
da,ion is laid deep and wide. The Repub-
lie is sufficiently well established TO receive
large number of emigranis yearly; there
is room enough for them, and everything
invites them there, and these four steam.
ers afford the facilities for their -renching
there. 1t now only remains for the United
States Government to adopt, foster and en-.
courage this work, and it will be done.
Let these steamers be started, let the
United States give that $80,000,000 Of
I which Mr.. w ebster spoke in the Senate,
or let the State Government make the aP.
preparations necessary to transport and sub
sist for six months their own free people OF
color, and the work will 60 forward with a
magnificence worthy Of itself
| The great ends to be accomplished pre-.
sent considerations Of sufficient importance
to induce the Government to comply with
the prayer Of the memorial. When these
steamers are started the U. States squadron
on that coast may be Withdrawn. 1t now
COSTS upward of 1884 500 to maintain that
squadron year. These four steamers
and the emigrants carried out by them will
annually accomplish thousand fold more
for the suppression Of the Slave trade, than
the squadron ever has or ever can accom-.
plish! There cannot be doubt Of this.
Does the United States Government desire
| The suppression of The Slave trade? I'm.
doubtedly. Here then is the way in which
it may be done.
We may ask another question. Is i.
desirable that American Commerce should
be extended? Undoubtedly. Here then is
the way in which it may be done. The
$50, ,O0O,O inhabitants Of Africa, now all
naked, must be clothed, and will be as civ
iization advances among them. They
must have the means and appliances Of
agriculture and the mechanic arts. And
in return for all these, they have all the
rich and varied productions Of tropical eli.
males!. How shall this work be accom-
plished? How shall Africa be civilizedf
How shall market be opened there for all
the articles manufactured in the United
States, and for the surplus productions Of
our soil? How shall the inexhaustibis
treasures of that immense continent be
brought to supply our wants and increase
our wealth and our glorya ..-F-
By Colonization-by carrying out the
plans and measures which the Society has
adopted and been struggling to achieve.
Already more than $4,000 of the natives
have put themselves under the laws Of Ii.
IBERIA, and are rising in the scale Of human
ity. Already there is large demand for
Inc prouuclloRS oI this country.
When the Transported population of liz
IBERIA shall be $4,000 on200, 900 they will
present a market for our Surplus manufac-
lures, and bread sinffs, or immense value.
A line of settlements onlthe coast will com.
mand the commerce of the interior. Ifthat
power is held by men sent from this coun.
try by large and liberal policy, nurtured
and grown up under our institutions, and
by our fostering care and aid, in establish.
ing themselves in Liberia, they will ever
he inclined 10 trade with this country, and
thus open 10 our merchants those wide
fields Of wealth! The amount asked by
the company from the Government for car.
rying the mails, would not affect injurious.
ly one single interest of the country, and IL
would be more than repaid with interest BY
the advantages ofthe commerce to be 90.
cured thereby.
The advantages which would be- enjoyed
by the people of the United States as thu
result Of the removal Of the free eoloYsd