The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-08-16


That party, too, by the vigilance of few men,
and the Indifference of others, has also grown in
to Importance, and is now not only represented in
every department of our State Government but
in both branches of our Federal Legislature.
Not only has our legislation for the few last
years been in favor of the negroes. but our Su-
preme Court has also lent them helping hand,
and by deciding that persons Of more white than
negro blood are entitled to vote, has already pla.
ced BALANCE of political power in the African
race.
Of this latter proposition, however, we have
no specific data, but if we assume, that oe the
80 900 colored persons in the State, 1000 or
even 500 Of the adult mail population fall within
the privileges as settled BY the Supreme Court,
we then have power in the negro race which
in close contested elections, can control the po,
litical action Of the State.
This, however, is but the commencement Of
the evils to which our affairs are now tending.
The negroes embo6ened with their tate sue
cesses are already loud in demanding an equai-
ty of political rights. And our halls, built by
white men and intended fer white mems legis-
lation have been made to. resound with the dec
laratons of negroes" That tLey tooltld 1cade IL,
blood to their knees or hare the right Of suffrage"
! This we are advised was done within the hear
ing Of the peoples representatives and the in
science not even rebuked. But on the con-
trary party of petitioners, who wished to use
the votes of negroes encouraged them IN their
demand l7s
Let that party once obtain the ascendency,
and what guaranty have we that the present
white people of Ohio will not be the ancestry
Of swarthy mixed blood posterity. We will
have negro officers as we'll as negro voters, and
place and property will give white wives 10 ne
gro husbands. Such state of things we hold
il TO be your duty TO prevent. And now we
think, is the appropriate time. II it cannot be
done now, when can it be? Will it be when
there IS negro mulatto, or a quadroon 10
stare every white man in the face, or when re-.
moval will separate families?
The whole project of removal is now practi-
cable, and entirely within our power. Ample
means can now be procured for purchasing the
negroes property, and for making them COM
Portable in a new home. Besides fifty large
ships, at load apiece, will carry them all away.
The expenditure of money will be equally small.
But the benefit which must result both to the
white man and the negro will be alike incalcu
| liable; our State will be relieved of great and
growing evil-peace will be restored to our So
citty, and the negroes will acquire country
which they will be able to call their own.
To protect the purity of the Circassian blood
we think is the highest duty which you have to
perform;-all other matters on which you may
be called upon to act, can be altered or changed
by future convention, bm the adulteration Of
the blood, once effected can nerer be reformed.
In the Eastern States Of our confedaracy
where the negro population is comparatively
small and the climate but lily adapted to their
growth, no great evil can result from political
| equality. But our contiguity to the Southern
States, which swarm with negroes; our present
large and rapidly-increasing negro population
| together with the adaptation of our climate tC
their increase reudcrs our situation entirely df
ro-ort nnd requires different action and differ
ent laws.
In the States of Central America, equaiit,
and amalgamaton have both been effectuall,
| tried and the result has been both moral, phvs
| ical, intellectual ana national degradation The
late war between the United Strtes and Mexico
presents most striking proofs of that fact, and
demonstrates most satisfactorily the superiority
of our Circassian stock over the mixed boods
of Mexico. Such imbeciity being the result
| of equality and its consequent effect-amaIea.
nation there-what would it be here? WonId
| the result be diferent7 Certainly not. The
| same causes will produce the same effects; and
amalgamaton here, as amalgamation there will
soon render the amalgamated worthless and
| degraded people.
This brings US to our third proposition, viz
| that the negroes must be removed, which we
have already said is measure both practicable
and within our control; and as an evidence Gift
practicability, we cite the well known factthat
we have already removed greater number 81
! Indians, and with but little Inconvenience ia
anybody. If they could be removed, WAY can
we not dispose of the negroes in the same ,gaysl
| But to what point or place they should he.re
| moved, we, OF course, are unable to say; that
must be subject for future legislation. A part
of the United States territory, however, may be
set apart for them; or they may be removed to
| the West India Islands or to Africa. But the
latter point at this time seems to be the most "a
vorable, and if selected as the point of cotoniza
ton, will, in all probability, render Incorporation
one Of great profit and advantage to the negro.
A donation has already been made BY gentle
man of this city, to purchase an Ohio III Africa.
There lands which can be bought faF aamete
! trifie, i! taken possession of By colotrv from
this State, will, like the lands In our own Ohio,
soon become of great value, and The colonists
| thereby become wealthy. This removal viii
not be without its inducements to the negroes.
They will acquire good and permanent homes,
in country suitable to their health and eopdl-
tion. and wthal, will enjoy the right OF suffrage
without "wading in blood to their knees.' s'a g
We would not, however. wantonIy fnIiire tlse
negroes, nor deprive them of singlelieht, The
enjoyment of which would be compaiihle4witsi
their interest and ours; but as the welfare OF
both races-but more particularly the white
race-depends upon separation, we would not
stop to consult the negroes upon their choice,
Sut after dealing fairly and hpnorabIy with them.
Of persuasion tailed.) would compel them to 90.
Their condition cannot, in any event, be worse
than that in which the white man found them
in africa.
In this view, however, we are met with pop
ular error, which prevails extensively over a
large portion of the civilized world, and has, we
have no doubt, its influence in your convention.
1t is, that the negroes have been greatly injured
by the white people. But such conclusion, we
humby maintain are not sustained by the facts.
But, on the contrary, we think it maintainable
that every intercourse of the two races (save
that 0! amalgamation, which is preludicial to
both) has been Of great advantage To- the negroes
To elucidate the proposition, let US turn our
attention for moment to Africa, and there view
the brutalized condition Of its inhabitants
population Of ninety millions Of people there
meet our eyes, all of whom save the little colony