Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-12

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power adopt and carry ou, the opposite is simply
absurd but in reference to posery, the infection of
curse
A. Having, as trust, shown that we do not need bscl
population but that, on the other hand, it is source
many evils and the prospective Of many more proceed
inquire whether the advantages the black man of set
temen among us instead Of in his native land gres
that from motives Of philanthropy doors should be open
ed to him.
Much Of what have written implies proves that the
don of negroes in the free States never be made ehe
elevated or secure will not be that of the white man. how
ever poor and humble Several causes will forever oppose
his rise equality his colorhe degradation Of his African
ancestors and brethren his nfeory in numbers and talent
and ambition his intrinsic servii; his imatveness; h
love Of and convivaly and, finally the perpetual re-
collection by and him that he his fathers the
of equals To struggle into equality under such weight
hold be impossible. If Of these causes be
less temporary, others permanent If ought not tc
influence us, others should and all do and will II Indians
is affected by them than Vermont II is because she
contiguous Kentucky If Of the free States generally
Influenced by them than the people of France and
Great Britain il is because live the region o
slavery and shall not change locality, that effect
will endure long the slavery Of the South exists Thus
the doom Of social and civil degradation the free blacks
colonized among They may rise above their ensaved
brethren of the South in dignity intelligence and happiness
which, however, is not and will be the with all
but even the most cultivated among them will still be faed
to see the white moving higher path-the proud
possessor Of a better heritage.
This gloomy future should address itself with power those
benevolent people who believe in the high capabilities Of the
who consider profess consider, him equal to
the white in TALENT enterprise and destiny With that
belief why should they invite him into situation where his
aspirations will be forever chilled and pased Why should
they bid him rise when he is chained down to the lowest
grade Of society Why should they not rather seek to place
him where his energies Of mind and Of body might have am
pie scope Where the scissors worked by superior caste
could clip the wings Of his ambition, and thereby prevent
bis mounting to the pure and open atmosphere Of perfect lib
erty and independence
do myself however, believe him equal in natural
dowments to the white man. though Of the species He
superior to several savage and in the aggregates equal
perhaps than equal to the Indian, who is self
dependant imaginative and rhetorical but less social mi
tave, and improveable. God has, directly or indirectly,
created varieties Of men, Of which superior others
The Caucasian the Mongolian and both the
African, Malay and Indian. No would venture to affirm
that the Chinese equal the English the Hindoos to the
French, the Pesans to the Germans. In the western
have been brought away slaves whose nferoriy is in
Decd evnced by their helpless and unessng submission to
such fate Believing in this inferioriy Of race the
hopeless the Of the negro social equality,
and the more gloomy prospects while he remains
sojourner among his superors.
This natural nferiaty to the white has been given
for reducing him bondage Blu. the heaessness Of
such argument is only equaed by its logical absudiy
for where there disparity in mental and moral power, the
legitimate conclusion is that the stronger should help, not
prey upon weaker Toeverse this is to aside the laws
of the moral world and establish reign Of force and anarchy
s. III have shown that under the system Of colonization
the free States emanca.ed slaves reach the des
tiny Of the white man, but doomed to perpetual degrada
ton, follows that referring to their interests and hap
pnes the philanthopss should not lend helping hand to
that colonization, but seek to end it, and give wiser and
better direction the destiny its benefcaes Thus far
have considered the policy (Which ondy hope to aban
doned) in effects upon the whites and blacks within the
free States We to study its effects upon both
races in the South, and upon the Union generally.
II is undeniably true that immense majority Of the peo
pie Of the free Sates lying north Of those along the slavery
line know little or nothing Of the slavery Of the South
cept what they have learned, directly indirectly from the
emancpated slaves which have among and the ug
lives who have mingled with them. If the former speak well
Of the with whom they lived, they fail to po
tray the character of slavery in its darkest colors In this way
prejudicen many hearts deep and resenul aversion
been established n the North against the South produc
ing, their natural fruit, eacve feeling Of hostility in the
against the former When the States Of the North
;essvey abolished slavery, chiefly because il unprofa
,e if emancpated slaves had been suffered to make their
way hher from the South they might have INDUCED theo
ecal dislike to slavery buhey would have gone further
is to the emancpated slaves Of the Southern States that we
ascbe the practical interference of certain persons in the
North Without such exciting cause, would have remained
harmless and benevolent abstraction, instead Of giving birth
dangers and difficulties which have become startling topics
IF conversation every reside Of Union would
dear sir require many letters TO trace out the various
alarming effects which have followed, Immediately or remote
y, this state Of opinion and feeling in the North Other
have contributed swell the catalogue Of pocsl ills
but this the greatest of ALL that without which the
would have been nearly harmless Originally the South had
but little apprehension Of the North, shown BY Vr
gna the largest Of the slave States when, in cedng the
vast Northwestern territory the confederaon she stpua
ted that slavery should be forever excluded 1t not till
Aboonsm, engendered by the colonization among Of free
negroes from the South began its abors Of love for the
go and Of hatred for his MASTER that the slave States became
seriously alarmed Under this alarm they conectured that
the North might last attain such ascendency to
remodel violate the Federal Constitution and enact laws
which might put their property. peace and lives in jeopardy
Then it that the South determined the geographical
extension Of slavery by annexng Texas on this followed the
Mexican war, with its conquess Of territory and then
up the fierce struggle for slave extension which threat
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