Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-12


man in this country We are told that this Is his nat'pe
land and that expaaon should not be either imposed upon
or proposed to him. Very we'll But suppose hat wnen ne
Is so instructed as to be fit for liberty he prefers 70
in bondage instead Of joining his brethren in the land OF ms
forefathers is he not free stay Can ne not nave MS
choice No master would attempt to orce nim 70 Lioena
any more than to Illinois Vermont And as 20 'nose al
radv free no law of any requires them to be restored
to Africa But, why are the symPathes Of aboionism
drawn out towards those who are required 70 leave the
erer TO return from the distant North! To 60 forever from
Georgia to New Hampshire perfect separation from his
native land as to the ocean to Liberia and the desny
is much the rigorous one OF the TWO wne tne sever
ance Of the ties which endea the Of childhood
precsey the same both Now, these ties all that bind
the heart Of the slave the place in which he is born and
in the opinion Of Abolions who believe in the hearess
cruelty Of masters they must be very slender One might
even suppose that aboonism would think desirable for the
slave to sunder them-escape from the obecthe scenery
and the people, among which he had passed the bitter days
childhood and youhsuound himself with new events and
things- his mind with novel houghtscheer himself with
the future, and remember the past more. Such, say
should consistently be the abolition view for believes In
condition of the young negro, which, true would strongly
oppose the growth Of any local attachment He is not how
ever destitute Of such feelings yet they are neither vivid nor
enduring for bis carly Impressions have been made BY
most limited range Of Objects Of which none belonged to
him his feside family feelings have not been nourished
his enioymens have been chiefly animal and his imagna
ton has not been cultivated Fond memories OF the absent
and the past do not therefore, nestle in his heart nor inspire
those onsngs for the scenes childhood which in ourselves
80 often naughta present means Of happiness But
apart from this bunted feeling Of the heart the black man
cannot claim ours as his country, in the in which we
can claim it, His fathers did emgrae to America, but
were first slaves in Africa and then brought hher against
their winone of them had full citizenship here, or
were incorporated into the society of their masters or owned
portion of the soil All have remained distinct and
widely separated case-soourners in bondage The Israel
ties in Egypt were in the same condition. though born in that
kingdom. They regarded themselves different people,
belonging to different country that Of their fathers to which
at last they returned The Jews in their Babylonish cap
tivity continuing through generations, did not become
citizens. Their imagnaons turned to the hills Of Judea
known most Of them by tradition only and at last they re-
turned worship in the temple Of their fathers The tribes
Of northern Africa the kingdom OF Spain and
even held the political power for ages yet they did not be.
Spaniard the moral feeling Of the world vo-
lated by their expulsion Race not less than country is in
fact by solecsm which mankind has sanctioned element
of nativity The Jew of different from the Egyp
tian or Babyonian the Moor from the Spaniard and the
African is still more widely separated from the Ameri-
in all the special attributes Of He was introduced
among when did not rule ourselves and when we
formed Government he had participation and could
not from his ignorance, have united with us, had ne been
permitted Thus his claims this his country never,
according the instinct and of mankind, be
placed the level with those of the white man. with
those who by their union, formed themselves into nation,
and would still be the naton they to emgate to
the most distant unpeoped region of the earth In short
the black man born within the Uion but does not Of
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does not touch the question of right to hold him
slave right Of which, as said in my first letter, am not
the advocate and the discussion Of which moi my object
because do not live in slave State.
Great is laid by abolitionss the repugnance Of
free negroes African colonization, and the alleged slow
growth Of Liberia has been cited evidence Of that repug
nance and proving that the system, if desirable will fail
at last from Of emigan Now, for than half the
time since the first landing in Libea the project has been
sailed by aboonism with noisy violence nosess sublety
Objections have been made the negro which be himself
could not comprehend but he adopted them his and
feelings have raised in his heart which would have
sprung up but they controlled him because
he told they ought to do Having thus made him OBJ
sinate, abo,ionism artuy excaims See how your sys
tenn violates the black mans nature Shame your want
Of feeling to be harassng him with propositions to leave for
ever the beloved and cherished Of his childhood
Yet in many instances he had already soouned in half the
free States since he left those very to return
This manufacture Of spurious public opinion to be passed
of as genuine should morally place the master workmen no
their honest but deuded white operaves the ranks Of
those who aduterae and circulate other things It has
been ready device Of all ages Its antiquity power
and cannot doubt that those who have pracsed had
maned silent very different state of feeling in reference to
Liberia would prevail among free coored people.
Nevertheless must admit that in general them salts
fed remain where they Contrasting their present i'm
perfect liberty with the slavery from which they had been
emancpated they contented if not positively happy,
and with few exceptions incapable Of forming the idea,
or aspiring to nobler condition than that Of inferior
CASTE Therefore they have little motive for emigration. But
this very frame of mind is the strongest why they
should be separated from just sometimes thinks
It wise compel mid and unsmbious take his for
tunes into his hands and get seldePendence, he
should not get property reputation In Africa, and
where else, will colored people, body acquire the
feelings manners, and aspirations of free In Liberia
the emgant undergoes change of the kind which the
poor peasant Of Ireland unegoes when he reaches the Uni
ted States and becomes politically equal with citizens,
and the philosophy tho in both There is
moral and social servude from which the black cannot
be redeemed but by placing him where there above
him. and throwing on him the responsible duties Of
All men Of observation, far know and believe,
who have visited Liberia within the last years, have
tilted, in the strongest language, to the sePossession the
Of Manners and the personal dignity of its people, and
them ponts