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

gradually become as attractive 10 the free coored man az
the United States rs to The foreign immgrant-emgraon
TO which will be promoted, not merely by its attractive
ness bat by in this country rapidly accu
and forcing the conviction the free black
mans mind that the day will come when there will be no
alternative but extirpation removal say, as do
say in the firm belief impressed my mind by close
tenion to the subject for thirty years. that coon
lists only facilitate what nothing prevent, that
the day and the hour hand when the exodus must
take paceno perhaps in this year or the next in this
generation or in that of ch dren but soon very
soon looking to the periods which measure the histories
of the world and The nations thereof;
The annual increase of the whole colored population
fifty five thousand The result OF the last census
have not yet learned The white immigration of the
present year will be perhaps half million Did the same
commerce exist between this country and Africa that
crowds this immigration upon shores from Europe,
COURSE release US from Il whole coorsd population in
a very few years, if all we've then permitted to leave
America There is not such commerce. however; but
there is commerce with Africa which is increasing with
rapdity SURPRISING anything known in commercial his
tory, if we except the trade OF San Francisco and the
ratio OF its increase is yearly becoming greater. II al
ready lar surpasses the commerce OF the colonies OF this
country when they were as old as the colonies on the
not be stopped. A mighty continents quarter OF the
habitabie globe, filled with Observation-Disclosures stll
to be supplied with all that civilization producea
population which, instead of perishing the corners
press upon them OF the same blood and lineage and
must unite with them as one people England has long
appreciated Afrca's capacity u absorb manufactures,
her sands absorb the deWs. Hence her attempts TO
penetrate into the interior by her expeditions which she
has sent up the Nigerhence the costly establishments
maintained by her on the coast But the interior OF
Africa can be reached for commercial purposes but in
way, and that through colonies of free colored
people from the United States established along the
coast Colonies of Unite men will not do, because they
become charnel Colonies OF recapured Africans
will not do, has been shown at Sierra Leone, because
they want the civilization necessary TO make them the
agents of civilization in its relations with commerce; but
the free coored man from America live for he in
the cline of his ancestors and, being fully civilized and
Christian too he is the agent, and the only agent that
The avorid contains adapted to the purpose He has al
ready proved his efficiency.
In no aspect OF colonization has more Interesting rea
tons than in its commercial aspect The strife among
the great OF the old nations England at their head-Eng
land first and especiayis the opening of new markets;
and in this all mankind is nerested-the manufacturers
and the directly indirectly all those who
relieved as we in America must be. when the overpro
duction OF the English manufactures finds its way into
new countries and no longer creates gut TO the ruin of
all parties in
Just at the time when this reproduction in relation
to existing markets is taking place, and all the suferngs
conseq upon stagnan trade act the manufacturing
countries OF the world. colonization into existence
being able, alone able. to throw open world 10 be filled
with the products Of civilization and competent to build
up the which TO do for Africa in the way of
emigration from this country what commerce IL doing for
Ireland, and indeed all Europe, in transporting their peo.
pie to our shores The wants Of Africa, her demand Tor
which shall make the Atlantic great highway between
the two countries, crowded with those whom circum-
stances will not suffer to remain here, and whose exodus
will in this manner be facilitated.
Nor will this be the only effect OF state OF things as
certain to happen the coming OF to. morrow. Along
with commerce will religion gohat Gospel which Vic
tor Hugo with the confidence OF prophecy must
unless slavery is renounced" Strange, too,
that he should have overlooked the fact when he must
have known that with slavery in existence in America for
upwards of two hundred years. the Gospel has been pre-
served here in a purity and power, through and
tumults which, unless universal report is wofuly at
fault France herself might envy Yes, the Gospel will
be introduced into Afrcanot the gospel OF secs but the
Gospel of our Savour-each Christian man being at lib
ery worship his Creator in freedom his conscience
may direct him. Victor Hugo may then be willing to
the hearth OF Omar'-where il has left Mahometanism
behind it, by the way-t has been permitted TO exist at
the hearth Of franklin" by Him whose ways not
ways, His thoughts as our thoughts, in order
that nation Of missionaries might be formed, through
whose agency the prophecy should be realized which
promises that Ethiopia shall lift up her hands unto God
There paragraph in Victor Hugos letter that we
adopt most cordially, and we copy it entire:
There is an inHexibe logic which develops more or
less slowy, which fashions which reduces according 10
mysterious plan, percephble only to great spirits, the
better. under all human things there are things divine
Exactly So But whether Mrs Chapman or Victor
Hugo influenced by the subdvnity here referred to
may be questionable One thing is certain that the
public oil Liberia and the colony OF Cape Pamas have
prosperous existence, by migrants the of whom
were ignorant and unettered and whose unparalleled
in the history OF the world be attributed 10
nothing but the protection OF the Builder up and Fuller
down OF earthly kingdoms The people who have done
this the only agents through whom already said,
commerce penetrate Africa-the only missionaries
who, in the Providence oil God live there they at
ford The only efficient means OF suppressng the slave
trade which, having accomplished the purpose Tor which
Divine Wisdom permitted il, is TO be put down by the
children OF those whose fathers brought from Africa
that their children might be fitted 10 extpaie when its
end was answered.
The ways of Providence are mysterious but we think
the OF the colonies than II has been in the
which has attended the anti slavery and abolition
societies from their birth TO the present day do we
believe that there is anything pecepbe only TO great
spirits" which either Victor Hugo or Mrs. Chapman
have SEEM prevent locking TO the thus far
OF African colonization as more likely to be the result OF
divine intelligence than the schemes which these two
pc rsons advocate.
The practical effect OF modern abolition thus far has
been to disturb the glorious harmony OF happy people,
hreatenisg to place brother in armed array against
brother while at the time all the friendly and al
fectonae relations existing between the whites and the
free blacks have been pemaiurey destroyed, the bonds
Of the slave have been frightened and his privileges cur
tailed that the acts OF these pretended friends have in
their results been to both OF them. Whether
this ought TO be so-whether benevoence, because il is
ignorant, should be tolerated and respected. when its
is mschievous and its practical working destruc
tvewheihe the master OF the slaves should praise and
thank him who excited them to rise and break their
chains his head-ihat il, 10 murder him and his
be 50, what do not propose TO argue. Taking the
world as we find il, we rely on the facts know rather
than the specuatons OF French poet and Rovest-and
great poet and grea, novelist ooeven when he raises