New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-05-30
- ooon affirmed. He saws these wrongs


which Mr.. Douglass is replying are not met
bv him. We did not rely on the fact that
the Blacks make no Roadway among our
people. as he implies, but that they insist
on liring among and seTving these people,
and fail to do any better ersn There the de-
o,odinq influences justly complained Of by
Mr.. D. are unknolon. We will copy 50
much Of our former article as bears on the
matter in controversy-as follows;
aWbst is today the chief bu'tress and refuge Of
Slavery among the good men who stu uphold and
-, Z 10 We declare. as the fruit Of much
ss,;srt ;nouiry and extensive observations, that u
!. ,Ic;r 1trorg conriction mat he Negro Race are
go, 6,f,4 fer deDeR3cnce and serrtufc-tnet re-
gysI iron, his thev must inevitably relapse into
psrbs,ism Heatherism and brutal wretchsdpsss.
Talk 70 them Of the wrong and mischief OF slavery
and the duty Of Emancipation ard they promptly
ronl,-sL Look a. Havt with lie bab0on EDpsr0-.
.irckdav Court and population If stupid ignorant;
squsEd drunken savages, sinking deeper and
e6eener into Barbarism after cen'uryo freedom.
@ Look IL Jamaica and the British W est Indies,
plainly setting out on the sane road 70 peral-
tion-vicious debauched and miserable; try %
make these behave like men before you come
preaching to US Of the horrors OF Slavery.
"Now we do not say that this logic is conclusive
to US it is far otherwise. We accept no apology
for Injustice or the subsection Of one adult human
being to another except as the punishment OF
crime But our opinion ia the premises IS OF small
moment in comparison with that Of the consclen-
tous Shareholders, ard we know that THIS course
of reasoning is potential with them. Nay We 40
not know how TO render it otherwise so long as the
Free Blacks persist in sticking to the W htes NIX
ing I'D with them serving their tables. cu'ryhS
their horses saving their wood and blscklng Their
boots Bv uursuing this course, they are perpetu-
ally sustaining end confirming the current impress
sion If the Whites that they were intended Tor
servitude. and are intriDsicaly good tor nothing
else. We be eve the fact to be otherwise Dat me
mass of them won't help us to prove H.
There you see what we did say-does
Mr.. d. answer it? Does he show or even
assert that the Blacks Of Hayti, Jamaica,
&c. where oppressive laws and preJudices
AGAINST their race are unknown, are improv-
ing in knowledge, science and industry?
Why harp on the admitted wrongs OF the
African Race among us and take no notice
Of their condition and progress under more
favorable auspices? IIayti has now been
nearly half century Independent, her IN
ternal government self-chosen, the Black
Race undisputedly ascendant, and unaifect-
ed by prejudice of color. But have they
improved in consequence The colored
wife of a Missionary at Portau-Prnce,
where she has resided some years, lately
assured us that all the Sugar Machinery,
&c. now on the Island was there when the
Blacks were emancipated, and that the only
manufacture now prosecuted in Hayti IS
that of Ardent Spirits. That the Island
has retrograded, and is still retrograding,
she did not seem to doubt. What is the
reason?
Now we do not believe any Of the monkey
theories laboriously set forth by Prof. Grant
and belligerently sustained by Capt. Ryn-
ders. We believe negroes to be men de-
seconded from Adam and Eve, and as capa-
bic Of higher and higher development as
Whites are. So believing, we call upon
them to prore their capacity by their acts,
their achievements, and not be content to
crouch between other folks burdens from
generation to generation. Such men as
Ward. Garnett and Bib convince us that
their Race was not made merely to scour
knives and curry horses; we wish their ex-
ample would be equally convincing to their
own people. We would have them aspire
to something nObler than the easy filling Of
their stomachs and the stylish covering Of
their bodies. We think the work Of coloni-
zing, ciyiizing and Outstanding the West
ern coast of Africa, so as to utterly and
forever abolish the Slave-Trade, appeals
especially to them; and that they ought to
glory in the opportunity it affords them
to prove that they were not created merely
to black boots and pick cotton. If the Gov
ernments of the United States, Great Britain
and other Countries interested in the extir-
patton of the piratical traffic will only spend
upon efficient Colonization the money they
have hitherto wasted in vain attempts to
prevent the expectation of Slaves from that
Coast. we believe the most extensive and
best provided Colonization that the world
has ever known may be effected, and that
by means thereof few years may see the
Slaye-Trade forever abolished. But we do
not insist that the Blacks shall do this nor
any particular thing, but only something.
As a body, the Free Blacks are not more ig-
norant nor impoverished, while they are
less illuminated and far more numerous
than the MormOns: yet see what that ira
duced, prosecuted, plundered people have
effected within the last three years We
ask the Free Blacks to disregard the unde