The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-09-06

tn, 6remen are now Whites where they used 10 be free
coloed Instances OF lhs SORT, wnete me white
man has driven the BLACK man 10 "e "an "'s"' NC mu
tiplied indefinitely
might drain upon the Atlantic border for laboreTs to
suppy he vast country lying between the OF the
Aleg bany and the shores OF the Pacific But this drain
cannot last forever; aud when ceases, should the two
races which we have shown must remain distinct,
still occupy the land there will be strife for bread fear
full and muIderousa strife to be described in all its ho
by future Victor Hugo, should talent be perpet
ualed for the occas0na strife in which the fate Of the
weaker and colored race may be terribly imagned-a
strife which would have been furnished with prototype
in Ireland. had It's population in ls47 been divided into
n. soas S S, ai ss Sp1osi
each other that prevail here and two men OF different
color had been requr TO divide between them he'ea
not sufficient TO satisfy the craving appetite OF e starry
ing wretch.
Enough has been said is thought, in regard to the
probable condition of things in this country should Mrs
Chapmans labors and Victor Hugos uplited voice sue
coed in accomplishing the purposes OF modern aoolllon
Nor if this is truth in present fact and PLAIN and palpable
differences theefrom the result be obyated, unless
by the amagamaton OF the white and cooed races OF our
country by intemarriages between them-a thing which
many OF those shouting louder even than Victor Hugo
would recoi from in disgust Whether this disgust is
prejudice instinct il is not necessary to inquire we
speak OF ii as fact.
The probable condition Of the two races, supposing
both Free has been inferred from the actual present con-
d!ion of the two when only part Of one Of mem Is Tree
the free black is LETT TO shift for himself and is upon
him that the agencies have been describing operate
Still emancipatons by families and OF individuals, are
constantly taking place and this and the natural IN
crease o. the free blacks would wholly irrespective
of modern abolition, to be bringing near to the time
when there must be strife between the whites and the
free blacks. if they persist in remaining together.
Apart then, from Victor Hugo's letter. which is an
swered by showing, from existing facts and fair infer
ences, the condition which the scheme in which his
voice has been lftea up would reduce the objects Of
his bounty becomes important TO inquire how the evils
of state OF things to be anticipated at any rate can best
be obviated.
The nature of the evil suggests the character of the
remedy If the two cannot live together except in
the relations have referred to, they must separate
may be emancpated from time to time, is, IN other
words, the only remedy.
When, from any cause, family a nation ceases to
live in harmony, separation colonization you please,
u.s. and ever has been, the remedy All colonzatons.
too have been alike, with differences in the mpel
ling motive: but, leaving out of view the penal colonies
Europe the United States, the colonsts have left their
old homes to better their condition at their cost and
of this character must be the colonization of the free
colored people of the United Staess They must 20 for
their good, and they must ultimately pay their own
expenses AS Glass; they better able to do 80 than
the Irish and German emgrans who come IN shp-loads
friends to help than these have The country to which
they emgate has been designated not by the soci
who have established colonies there but by our
here The uhle man cannot iivs; and fever and death
will protect the black emgrant in Africa with wall
OF fame from being followed BY his old competitors in
search OF the golden sands which brought down by
the Niger and the Cavay, well by the Sacramento
and the San Joaquin.
All that colonization has been able to do-speaking
now of colonization understood in this couny--all
that it required to doall that can ever be called
upon to dohas beeA TO prove the practicaby of esab,
fishing colonies of free coloed persons from the United
States capable OF sefgovernmen sell defence, and sell
support upon the OF Africa That this has been
done, the republic of Liberia is the proof Having done
this the colonization societies are funetIs otieio look
ing to their great object Circumstances must do the
advancing beyond all power OF con-
rol with the crushing force of an avalanche, but, unlike
avalanche. slowly and with due warming so that they
perish before them will be the authors OF their
What these circumstances we have
already indicated in speaking of the condition OF the two
this country and the hopeessness OF any change
until their separation shall take place The finger OF the
Almighty is apparent in the whole work. nation IS
not 10 be transpaned like apple tree The black
mans heart, enlarged in sphere Of real freedom Or
freedom is but name, is still human heart. endowed
with the purest suscepbies capable OF the highest i'm
provemen,, Liberia has already proved. clingng to
The natalie soiunt with vast enaciy-more so even than
the white ieels-and the black man cannot, there,
fore. be expected TO remove from familiar faces and
places sns1E noa ysd'IS 1sS 70
must be a slow work. But there Is ample time Tor H.
The West, even unto the Pacific, is to be filled up:
10 move in wi,hou, than josing; and the desire
to emigrate, thus slowly formed, will keep pace with
the increasing native and immigrant population OF our
county, with the growing commerce that 10 furnish
the OF voluntary and self-paying colonization,
with the capacity Of the colonies to receive immigrants,
and with the gradually enlargng intelligence among the
free colored population, making them more and more fit
10 be the earliest citizens OF the republic. Had
gone forward faster than IL has done, il
would have smo,hered itself at Monrova and Cape Pal
mas and no more would have, at this time, been
heard OF il. But against the wishes OF its friends
az ans their best endeavoit has been kept back until
each succeeding shp-load OF emgrans having had time
establish themselves, the result has been the present
we l. ordered governments the coast OF Africa
| have here dwet upon, as dslinc, proposition, ihe
effect OF circumstances they exist in this country, IN
producing conviction the minds OF the Tree coored
people that this is to be their abiding place. will
venture mention TO you or two cases within my
own recent personal experience as illustrative oil my
opinion.
Within two months, colored clergyman OF the Metho
dist church called president OF the the Maryland
State Colonization Society," for some information con-
neced with the society's affairs He had al time,
years since, seeded from the religious society TO which
he belonged, and enabled through his activity and
popularity to build up church for himself The cause
Of his The stand which the Methodist Epis
copal Church had taken favor OF the scheme OF colo
nzaon, which the person alluded to then bitterly
opposed lie well-informed man on general sub
ecs, and had been practising physc with among
his color, for several years. After his business
was concluded, asked him to tell me frankly why he
was going to Africa, not only with his own family, but
with fifty sixty OF his friends who proposed to
accompany him His answer, nearly can recollect
in words this: :" My practice physician has been
gradually increasing from year TO year. and is now larger
than My patients are generally the same in
dviduals. My popularity, as far az can Judge, is un
and !. now less than it ever My wife and myself
We he struck with this of course, and for