New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-07-09

and Indians on foreign, bleak and desoaie shofe;
Oppressed at home, iney emigraied 70 HoLahn Aid
after remaining there twelve years, returned 70 be
Ind and found not the hope of rest until taey ode
r. Amerca That very persecution and oppression
OF the mother country panted IN America me
cIyll and religious institutions the World Hal go
coon And now this powerful Republic. Dy her op-
pression and injustice 10 one class OF ms peoAe,
will plant Africa a religion and Inoraity , n
pure and lberty more universal tldn u Ia set -.
The lot Of any people 20 ENJOY never haNe Oeell "a
,ha; class Who repudiate everything AmericdL-
While | shall never make any compioHisc 80
Slavery nor feel indifferent 10 us oiigniihg Witt
ING effects on the human intellect and human HdpPi-
ness cannot be 50 blind as not 10 sce anu ooAe''
that IN spite Of all Us conuptmg lhnue.Cts oh "a
tlonal character, there Is yet piety, VIRTUE, pi4ii
thropy and disInterested beneVolence among ent
amI,csn neonle and when by the progress OF tree
,hought and the full development OF hef Tree o'tu-
mons our country shall nave removed nom heI "a
tiona escutcheon that plague-spot OF te ha'lol ing
will Do more than all others IN sendlng the Hgil Oh
l,tery and everlasting love INTO every portion OF e
habltabe globe. In our enthusiasm ana eeVotioh -
any great benevolent cause we are generdl-y w" u
ing 70 make the best use Of men as We hnd lneHi,
mill We have wasted our energies IN accomplishing
nothing or calmer reflection conVinces u ol o'I
error II Is well for those 10 whom ms Iele01'on
comes no, too late. We have been an uniortuhdte
neople For 400 years the avarlce. fraud ana opi.s
sion of Europeans and their descendants nave peen
proving upon the children of Airlca ana hef
ants IN America. SAYS my eloquSht Co.te 80 ,ne
IN whiting upon tins subject =" kno" lhis va Ie
coil on which was born but have nothing 10 gro
rify this as my country have no pIue oI dlictslit
10 MONT back to- Our orefathers did not come mere
AZ did the Pilgrim fathers, IN search OF place whcre
they could ENJOY civil and religious liberty No uiey
were cowardy enough 70 allow themselves 70 DC
brought manacCd and fettered as slaves, ra'her IMAM
die on their native shores resisting their oppTessorS
In the language Of DR. Todd, - If the marks OF hui
manlty are not blOtted out from this race OF nserd
be men, It Is not because oppression has hol Deeh
suffc iently legalized. and avance been allowed 10
pursue It's victims TIL the grave became sweet d'y
ium." ...,,xo
During the past thirty years two influential ana re-
speetabe associations have arisen In our Othd edch
claiming to be the most benevolent, ana each seem
ingly opposed 10 the intentions ana purposes OF he
other.
The American Colonization Society on the one
hand proposed 10 benefit US by the indirect means OF
nlaniInp COLONY on the western coast of Afrlca, rs
an ASYLUM for the free cOorcd people and Indnumlt-
ted slaves of the United States and by TINS means
also TO send the blessings of civilization ana renglOn
TO the benlghted sons of that continent Inc prlhcl
pal obstacle in the way OF their success has oeen that
The free cOlOTed people, body. everywhere, nave
denounced the whole scheme as wicked ana ms
chicyous and resolved not to leave ms country
while those Who have gone 10 that colony, from
state of Slavery as the condition of freedom, nave
been least able 10 contribute 10 the knowledge ana
greatness of new country, and lmpart CIVILIZATION
and the arts and sciences to It's heather inhabitants
This Society one OF the few that are popular IN
their very beginning But that which made II most
popular with the American public furnished 'he
cause Of the opposition OF me coored people ihet
erected a platform so broad that the worst enemies
of the race could stand upon Il with the same grace
and undS,lngushod from the honest and true pa-
lanthropist II could al the same time appeal Tor
support 10 the pieiy and beneYolence OF lhe NOr,h'
and TO the prcjudlces and sordd interest OF the south
state this simply as fact. not for the purpose OF
finding fault. II j. always easier to show one plan
faulty than 10 produce a better one.
Notwithstanding the different and adverse motives
that have prompted the friends OF Colonization. ihey
certainly have labored persCycnngly and unteNY
for the accomplishment OF one grcatpufpoSe Ana III
spite of all our former dstrust We must give uleln
the credit al least of producing as yet the only great
practical scheme for the amchoratlon OF the condition
OF the free colOred man, and the manuniticd slave
They did not profess nor promise to 90 more. III
stead Of engaging IN canofous agita'lols aDou' p'Hi
ClplCr and measures, thc| turned what men ana
means they had to the best purpose, and engaged Ia
dustrIOusiy III founding and nurturng toiohN l"I
the free COlOTCd people, where they nave an 0ppo-
tunIty of demonstrating their equality with the "m,c
race, by SEEING upon combining and developing All
the elements Oi national greatness 10y when they are
surrounded. Thus far the end Is goodbye need not
StOp now to scan Their motives.
The Abohuonists. on the other hand. proposet bV
moral means the immediate emancipation oil the
slave and the elevation of the free coorcd people IN
the land of their birth. And tins they did al a time
which tired mems souls IhClrS Was platform on
which none dare stand who were not willing Ia III
dure scon,. reprOach, disgrace, lynch law ana even
death for the sake of oppressed Americans. Al hr>t
interest reputation. Office nor profit, but the reverse
were the reward of an AboliiionSt- No" that AMI
Slavery has become popular With many OF the Amer
ican pcope. II assumes another name. and j. con-
veriod MIC political capital. Eycnfrcc Soillsn WAS
not - much designed to make room for our liberties
as 10 preserve uninprcd the liberties OF me whites
The AbohuonlstS have not yet accomplished any
thing which We can 10 be 50 definite and prdct-
cal Yet ihcV have dNcSlod themselves OF personal
prerudiccS aroused The nation Ia sense of H. mus
nee and wrongs toward The colOred people, encouT-
AGED them IN improving and obtaining education
here. broken down many arbitrary and pfoScrptlNt
uSages in Their treatment and convinced Tins nation
and England that they people capable oi moral
social and pollllcd elevation, and entitled 10 equal
rights witt any other community. Both oil these DC
ne,oeni societies might perhaps have accomplished
more good. If inCv had wasted less ammunition IN
firing al each other While one has formerly dc
Clared moral and intellectual nionoriiy of our race,
with AN incapaclN ever Ia ENJOY the rights ana pre-
negatives az iTcCmCn IN the land of our brth, me
other has declared that hatred 10 the race and the
love of slavery were the only motives that prompted
the Commandments 10 action. In taking liberal
and more comprehensive view of the Whole matter,
We believe that whatever may nave been the fauHs'
Inconsistencies and seeming opposition OF either,
both have been instrumental IN dong much good m
then own way and under the guidance of an all
wise Providence the labOrs, devotion and Sacrhces
of both vii work together for good, and tend toward
a grander and more sublime result than either dS>o-
cation al present coniempldtc>.
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