Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-12

cipaed kindred into Africa, be led his out Of that
continent when Pharaoh consented to let them 60. In Libe
ria they might pursue whatever they fitted to pursue in
this country while they lent helping hand with such noble
Carey, Roberts, and Russwurm m ssppng the foun
daons of long established barbarism, and aboshng the
cruel slavery the world has known building up
republic that would to Africa welcome among the
nations of the earh while became asylum for the black
man Of every land.
confess that have little respect for the educated
coloed man whose heart dead such aspirations young
Of this character lately have been appointed
professor in one Of our Northern colleges. Well What
its trustees What Of him. Could they have found
white incumbent Of equal abilities Certainly they could
have found qualified teach rhetoric. Why, then ap-
point him The whole is wrapped up in the word
amalgamaton And the professor, could ne not
acquire college education without renouncing his own KIN
dred Was necessary that his heart should be scared and
hardened against the millions of black men In two WORLDS
who delivered up ignorance, vice. and heathenlsm
Could he not employ his rhetoric to make up colony Tor
Libera and found college there Could he not pour out
his eloquence (no from the pulpit for bis heart is not touch
ed, fear with Christian love) bat in the hall Of Congress
the Of justice Could he not denounce the worship
Of DEVILS the sacrifice Of human beings, and like great
and good beneco throw broadcast the land
Of his fathers and brethren the seeds Of science and the
tul Alas tnat pInulOiucu
poy itself the education of whose spirit SO cold and
selfish as to be unmoved by these solemn duesthese holy
and glorious objects
The chief and or this lette the last objection that shall
notice is the unheathness of the climate of Liberia Leav
ing with others show from history, be done, that
the mortality in Liberia has been greater than that which
attended the first settlement Of this country, the number Of
immigrants being taken into account and that dmnshes
every year, will con6ne myself to few remarks of differ
kind. Most Of the settlements hitherto made
the sea-sho the mouths Of rivers which places around
Gulf Of Mexico unhealthy in Africa In
proceeding but days journey into the county hills and
running streams, with purer air. invite the immigrant and
there his seasoning is generally of the mdest kind The
climate Of Liberia is not hot that Of summer in our
Southern States but there winter The natives enjoy
perfect health and reach height and strength great
those of any other people, They fashioned By the eli
the climate. Their constitutions revel in the heat
and they would perish from disease if suddenly carried into
latitudes where the white foushes best Hence
that the attempt establish slavery the Northern States
turned out be faure while in the Southern it proved
successful. Now, changes Of constitution slowly made,
and the colored people Of those States still inherit capacity
for enduring heat but not of bearing cold Thus, in the
cities of the South they seldom suffer from yellow fever and
the Virginia planter who Florida much
liable its fevers than his slaves In the sugar and cotton
States the chief diseases Of the latter class intermittent
and remtent fevers but rise into colder climates, Their
disorders mutPy and great numbers die from scroua
sumption, and Inflammation of the lungs. All this shows
that the constitution of the black man. born in the United
States is not adapted to the North; and that colonization
ought be the destiny Of those who liberated
the South In Africa, the contrary, according to Dr.
LUaEsBEEL and other high authorities almost the only pecu
liar diseases chronic affections Of the skin many Of
maadies unknown and the eves which prevail
Of the very kind with those which every year
Mississippi and Alabama These fevers often fatal to the
white who visits Liberia, they him who goes
the States just mentioned hut in the colored they
generally mild, and when attended to in ime are seldom
fatal This Seasoning past the colored from the
United States enjoys perfect health the any other
climate.
And now my dear sir must bring this long letter to
close, which will do by recaptuatng few points of my
last and this Those who have studied the geographical eli
mac and economical history Of African slavery, know that
its extension in North America cannot be carried much be-
yond its present limits leave conventional restrictions out
Of the account for they and would be aside under the
favong influences of natural causes. The Cordeas Of
Mexico and the Rocky Mountains say nothing Of the dry
and barren plains which stretch from the latter the East
oppose the extension OF slavery and although the ras
caente hot land between the mountains and the Gulf
OF Mexc0 from the Lei N0e TO vera Cruz favor the
spread Of slavery the South yet they make but
belt Still further the white laborer is pressing and dis
placing the black aboer of Delaware Maryland, Virginia.
Kentucky and Missouri that if the Of slavery should
be extended to the South il likely be corespondngy
contracted the North. Thus the slave territory fired
quanity while the slave population increasing quant
and requires mathematics prove that the
time UiH when the former be extended, or the
latter arrested in its increase by sending from the slave States
number equal what born. Deportation will then be
the only remedy. Meanwhile the day Of equpose between
territory and population deferred by the scattered emanc
paons and depoaons which taking place throughout
the entire slave regions Now the colonization ofhe greater
part of these in the free States at this time faugh we
seen with many evils to those States and the whole
Union but the prospective evils still serious; for
when the day of necessity for sending from the South
plus slave population shall come, "come it must the
muludes thrown upon the free States would be found in
suppoabe, and they would be turned back upon the South
Hence looking either the present the future welfare
the Union, African colonization merely sufficient but
the only remedy for troubles To this remedy the South
should look with still inenser interest than the North for
she has equal q might say greate stake in the Union
than the North. When slaves shall multiply to give
surplus for deportation, the North, before, will be
peled in selfdefence shut them Africa will then be
the last resort but the republic Of Liberia should have
acquired mness extension and political power the stunted
germs Of civilization would be smohered and the
brought from that continent savage weuld be returned
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