New-York daily tribune., 1851-08-28
COLONIZATION.

COLONIZATION.
BROOKLYN, \ Y, Friday, Aug. -, ISL
As to your question What DO sich
votes as that Just taken IN Indiana mean allow me
to say few words The importance and the appro-
pGateness Of the question al tins particular uncture
must be evident 20 all. Al a time when rank prcIu-
dice against the Africans doing It's dreful work not
only IN the Slave states but IA The Free STATES
when they are hunted like beasts Of prey By the
white man and carried back INTO slavery even after
they have given the Ocs, evidence OF their fitness io'
Freedom. VIZ by obtaining II against great odds
when one Free State after another Is passing laws
OF oXtermmatiOn-nay, might alinOstsay oi GlulAi-
atOn-t becomes US all 10 inquire, IN your own
language, What DO such votes as that just taken IN
Indiana and What i 20 De dOne Win reference
10 them
In repyto which questions have but a word 10
say now, and thai word II seems 10 me must cover
the whole ground and include the whole duty OF all
men In the first place. TO inquire Is the
proScriptve statute OF Indiana RiGHr There can
be but one universal NO responded 10 this question
from the great heart Of Humanity Then our duty
plainly Is 10 combat this great wRoSG
As for the complete determination Of The Afrchn
from this country, therecan De no wellgrounded
fears of II. They viii find lOdgmeni some where
IN this country, rest assured Oh That No doubt ihey
Will continue 10 be goaded and oppressed Tor a long
time 10 come. not only IN the Slave states, bat IN
some of the nOmlnay Free states. Bu, We have
ray of hope that Truth Is progressing and that one
cay the log and mist Of prejudice that no" lowers
about Us will be dissipaed by the sunlight Of Justice.
Forareason for the faith which Is IN me, refer You
to the recent ameloration OF the Black Law OF
Ohio, and to the general lenency Of LEGISLATION IN
reference 10 Blacks IN some other Free states, es-
peclay the New England states
As for IND dna. no new sentiment has sprung up
there on this question. Her recent constitutional
provision against the African IS but the expression
Of an old sentiment which has always prevailed
there IL Will be- recOliecteG that IN hef early history
Indiana came we'll nigh being save state and she
borders en- Slave State, and consequently her legs
lation IS affected rot only by her early preludccs
bst kt- har trlff y 1,
Dark the prospect now Is, cruei and iIon-heated
much legislation IS against the AfHcan, ne neel
not be without hope The Eternity and omnpo,,
tenee Of Truth Will overcome the sabterfuges of
Wrong. Your most obi friend and seTYI H. J.
Remarks
SO far as We comprehend the Indiana
Vote, we understand 1t to be based on an
assumption that the social amalgamatlon Of
the White and Black Races is undesirable,
unnatural and fraught with demoralizing
influences on both. This assumption may
be mistaken, or it may be quite insufficient
to Justify the measure Of exclusion which
Indiana has Just adopted; but, allowing 1t To
be wei founded, the moral wrong IS not SD
palpable as H. j. assumes it to be. For
example: Let Us suppose the People Of
Hayti in Convention assembled were to
say, we deem it best that the European
and the African Races should not be
mingled in the same community, but
should live separate from each other; we
find by experience that their intermingling
il this country has led TO Generalization
and corruption wherefore, with the best
feeling toward the White Race, bat IN
view of the foregoing considerations, we
decree that none of that Race shall here
after be permitted to settle among US, II
is not self-evident tina; they would be gaiity
OF moral wrong IN SO decreelng II J.