New-York daily tribune., 1851-08-30
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, AUGUST 80 1851

&c. lie, HIM pursue his own course, aud
let the result show his compatriots whether
his advice or ours is the better for them
We freely admit that his is for the present
the more palaiable
Ore more point in NJ. Smiths essay de-
martS notice. He represents us as insist
ing tha, the Blacks must universally migrate
10 Afr.co-that there can be 40 chance for
them on this Continent. Now We do most
earnestly believe that the colonization and
civilization Of Africa Is work specially IN
cumbent on The ChriStanlzcd Blacks OF
America-that their peculiariues of conSil-
tuition and complexion enable them to brave
us climate and approach It, native inhabi-
tants under circumstances more favorable
than can possibly present themselves to
Anglo-Saxous But il docs not follow from
this that oil Atric-Americans must neces-
sarIly migrate 20 Africa. nor have We ever
insisted that they should What we dld
and DO maintain y that their own true lnte-
rests require their separation from the
Whites into communities where they viii no
longer be depressed by the assumptions nor
annoved by the repugnance of dominant
Race. Whether .heir permanent home
shall be chosen IN Africa. in the West Indies,
an South America, IN Mexico. Ia Canada. or
within the United States. Is immaterlal
we should gladly see them begin by buylng
a township Or county any where and conse-
Grating it for ever to the use of their own
race and color Nay, slough 1t were but
the size of school district at first, 81 that
1t should be plainly and exclusively theirs,
and they commence thereon the prosecution
of Agriculture and Manufactures. ana give
up other peoples boot-cleanlng and dish
washing. we believe the change would con-
duce immensely TO their moral and sceIal
well-being What we urge and baieve
they need Is Self Reliance. with position
favorable to its development. Now black
manwhose head = penetrated by an idea runs
at once to some white man for aid to carry 1t
iuto effect. His every act cOnteSseS an inie-
rlor;sy which his words passlonately deny,
and which We .hlnk originates quite as
much from lchere he is as Wbaf he IS.
Thence the general opinion of Whites that
the African Race can't take care of them
10, |, Ia
dependent and parasitical. We say they
can: We are not mite 50 sure they soon
uiH. If they had half the nerve displayed
by the Mormons, when far weaker, poorer
and more ignorant than ten times as many
of the Free Blacks- now are, they would
strike out some Independent, original path
of their own, and compel the Whites to re-
spect them; which, so long as they mainly
consent to be other mems coachmer and
walters. and say can't or won't to every
proposition that they take their fate with
their own hands. can never be.
We have probably said enough to give
mortal ofTense to the Race whose condition
we are considering Very well That In
dignation will incite and be followed by a
season of saiutary reflection. They will
stop boosting us or any one else, and be-
take themselves thoughtfully and wisely to
improving and eleyatIng their own condi-
ton. And if they will candidly consider
and inquire, they will find that two thousand
of their number gathered into one separate,
self subsistlng community, entirely out OF
the reach of White social influences, can
DO more toward that end than ten ;lmes as
many scattered about, fifty to huadred IN
a place. where every child Is compelled ten
times day to deplore that he was not born
White. The time will come when these
suggestions will be received in different
frame Of mind from Mr. Smiths.