The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-09-12
COLONIZATION.

second, In importance, only to the great
questions which have been for some time
weighing so heavily upon the public mind.
The subject is brought prominently be-
fore the country by the Report OF a Com
mittee upon the establishment of alne of
steamers from this country to the western
coast of Africa, thence via the Mediterran-
can sea, Spain, and France, on to, London.
The ostensible object of which, as set forth
i'll the Report, is to carry the mails, suppress
the slave trade, extend our commerce, and
promote the colonization Of free persons OF
color Not only does this Report create
new and lively interest upon this subject,
but the action of some oS the free States,
and the difficulty of retaining fugitive
slaves, have likewise contributed not lit
tie to direct public attention to it. In the
latitude of the free Suites, the free negroes
soon become beggals and vagabonds, and
are regarded by the better class of the peo-
pie there as nuisances to be gotten rid Of,
by any practicable method which may be
suggested; hence the petitions which are
Icrowding in upon some Of their Conventions
and Legislatures, to have the free negroes
removed from the borders of the State. And
such would doubtless be effected, if the
means of transportation were more cheap
and accessible, and the phylanthropic Of the
free States could be pursuaded that the
moral and physical condition of the negro
would be cared for. The removal of the
free blacks from our borders is indeed
"consummation devoutly to he wished. ="
Let it be done, and it will effectually do
away with the necessity Of a Fugitive
persons of color" and the master could of
course find no difficulty in retaining his
Fugitive slave" black being an infallible
evidence Of bondage. These are consider
atoms Of very high Importance, and if Con-
gress can, while in the exercise of her legit-
innate powers, give aid incidently to them,
1t should be done with no niggard hand.
The past history of Africa, though con-
fused and imperfect, is full of classic inter
est, and its future developments and des.
tiny, are looked forward to with the intens-
est interest The discoveries which have
been recently made and are now making
by those who dare 10 brave the disease and
death with which the miasma, from heI
detas along the western coast, is charged
is astonishing the reading public. They
show, that the interior of the couGtry is
most luxuriant; Astounding in springs oil
pure, limped, and never falling water, ex
tensive forests, with never fading verdure
and thickly populated with hospitable and
civilized people; possessing all the elements
of great agricultural, commercial, and
manufacturing country, rather than an unin
habited desert waste as heretofore suppos.
ed.
Africa calls upon christendom, with ar
emphasis which no other country or people
can. All have at some time engaged il
the unholly Iraic IN the blood of her sable
and benighted sons. She has furnished th'
"hewers Of wood and drawers of water
for almost every christian State. Her claims
therefore, are peculiar, AMI her appeal
made with singular emphasis. We espe
cialy owe her a debt which can only b
discharged by making use of every mean
in our power, to develop her resources an
, christianize her people. This can only b
T done effectually, by we'll conducted sys
tenn of colonization, by means Of the free
: African, as the European race can neve
:. make it home sufficiently long to leav
; any lasting impress upon the morals or il
telIigence of the people. Such coioniz;
ton as we here propose, derives its impor
ance, not so much from the blessings W
n are likely to confer, great as they must b
e as those we will receive. We will heret
1t get rid of a class of population, regarde
g with Ioathing and Summed by the Sake
e race everywhere. Our philanthropy mu
y sink into mere sensibility before we can T
Of ceive them upon an equality, whether the
~ be freed slaves or freemen born. The a
mighty has nterposed barrier between Il
two races which the instincts of our natur
- forbid us to remove, even though our ci'
g institutions attempt to break it dow
" These are considerations "strong as no
. writ why every encouragement should
"a given to any aud every enterprise whi
n' has for lis object the removal of the fire.