The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-02-23

southern States and The recent stringent enactmens Of
Ohio Indiana Illinois, and California, evldeulls show
that the Legislators of these States contemplated the
possibility OF the federal government closing The door
upon the voluntary emigration OF these unfortunate
people. :, .....,,,,, ;ovo..a i.
power OF Congress 10 aid in the establishment OF all
those lines OF ocean steamers which are now rendering
such eheclual service 10 the country Your chief and
iayorlie argument for OF these lines the exlen
sye facilities IL would afford in the colonization OF Cali
iorna and yet there was then less trade with California
than we now enjoy with Africa The African enterprise
will be second only in commercial importance that OF
California
One OF your frequent assertions is, that the colored
must delerorate out OF slavery. What then, do
you propose, in pennng the free blacks here tester
on the body poitc2 Is II al future day TO force
them back that slavery which you say is their only
natural condition Of Improvement is ii 10 keep up an
agitation which can end only IN dissolution OF the
Union
called in only because they known to be the true
friends OF the free blacks The contractors pohibi
ted from asking ten dollars per head. rations in
cuded and from receiving greater number OF emgrants
than, in the Judgment OF the Colonization Society can be
comfortably provided for in L;beriathe funds for this
purpose being provided by State and private conrbu.
lions, G t
This restriction in price has been the basis Of all the
attacks upon the cons.itutonai,y OF the PROFIT The
bs would Oh coarse be the gamers by having
they please, as other lines do
The healthtuness OF the climate the improves
every year but no way safe for the coonsts can be
devised as the quick transportation of large companies
whose numbers and appointments win enable them to
go directly TO The elevated DISTRICTS but short distance
from the coast, where the climate known 10 be good
There can be question but that the Ebony line, with
the aid of the American Colonization Society," will 60 full
OF passengers and reighs to Liberia. AT Sierra Leone
will connect with the English lines to the Cape OF Good
Hope and Australia; and at Gibraltar again, with the
English lines to and from the various ports in the Med-
erranean; 10 Alexandra and Constantnope thus ex-
tending mail facilities through the various English
lines, besides making those lines available for
merce Add to this the stimulus these steamers will give
IN trade Ipfar arInu pf tha
commercial operations now going stopping not only
at the best commercial points for the interior trade of
Africa, but also touching at the important islands along
that coast and at Gibraltar, Cadz, Lisbon, and London.
Even now, with all the past and present difficulties at
endant upon colonization, Liberia is an established
nation, and her sovereignty admitted and acknowledged
by some OF the great powers of Europe Your last ar
Gle not only refers TO the advancing strength OF Lbera,
but humanely apprehends the undue exercise OF their
power over the native At the time you in
consistently point to ST. Domingo fair example Of the
coored race in state OF independence. The st Domin-
60 negroes, 1t true were years ago made free, But
how? BY sudden and terrible convasion of society,
while in state of actual barbarism-nade physically
and legally free, while thrown into that worst OF al
slavery, the slavery of demoniac and brutal passion
Drunk with blood and fury these savages, emsncipated
by revolutionary abolition entered upon their duties ~
sovereign citizens But the independence OF the Lbe
rans attained under different circumstances aad be-
slowed different people, has their progress been of
different character From the first, peaceful industri
ous and energetic, the humble colony has rpened into
respectable nation-yes, an American nation. If you
will, with Virginia President at its head. We agree
with you thing-that Liberia triumphant vindi-
cation OF the superiority of the American Africans over
all others Of that race.
Your opposition the pan however, is only in char.
acer. Long known consistent only in inconsistency,
you have rarely advocated what is either practicable
useful,
Very respectfully
GEO. NJ SANDERS