New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-03-14
The Blacks and Equal Rights - COioniza-
ton, &c.

late article In reply TO Justice. You Gun
clude that further effort for our elevation in this
Republic, both on the part of friends and our
selves, is hopeless That in respect to us, SO far
from abolishing unjust and abbouent laws, now
existing, the tendency is obviously and strong
ly the other way And at these grave conclu-
sions you arrive from consideration Of the facts,
as stated by you, that NEARLY every State which
has revised its Constitution within the last
twenty years, has made it more equal and truly
democratic in regard to Whites, and at the same
time, less so in relation TO Blacks"
These facts are important. If it be indeed true
that in plain matter of right and wrong between
man and man, though one be White and the
other Black, the tendency is to cast down the
scales Of Justice and substitute wrong for right
what comfort can any true-hearted American
take in the thought If, where Liberty and OP-
preston are brought into fair conflict, even IN
this Home OF the Brave and Land of the Free
Oppression triumphs and Liberty fees then has
the decay of our Government begun already, aud
this is the fearful handwriting on the wall. Well
may our princey Merchants scheming Politicians
and naughty Rulers be agtated for we are
weighed and found wanting
But, Sir, cannot fall 10 this sad conclusion
while there appears to me more plausible, truth
ful and agreeable way of accounting for the ap-
parently retrograde movement. Your facts stand
or stalk well, bat your conclusions are lame and
impOtent
You will remember that there have been two
great Abolition movements in our Countryside
last having arisen within the time stated The
old abolition Society was composed OF philoso-
piers spectators and Shareholders, w ashington
himself being one of them. The new consists OF
earnest Reformers, plain or even obscure men,
flfnr-
versal and impartial Liberty. Garrison stands in
their front rank The former caught at trigld
theory, planned for the distant future, and apprO-
priated means with the same dignity and spirit
that our legislators set TO work 70 improve mar
Dor, regulate finances, or locate mint The lat
ter pushes principle home to the heart and con-
science, lifting up its voice against Oppression
and the ODp1esSor, insisting that the American
people ought to
Act sct in the living present,
Hear. within ana God oerhead'
By these last, our case has been set forth as it
never was before. The slavocrat is met pointedly
with a Thou art the mani SO his apologist-
So he who, blinded with prejudice and mslignity,
presumes to SCOT at ndOverrde his black brother.
The proud the vain and the mighty have been
aroused. We are in the midst of the cangor Of
new and warning issues. The battle IS not yet
decided and whichever way at present victory
seems tending, Truth and Right have nothing to
fear in the final result.
Beside sir, the manner of testing the sense OF
the People in the States mentioned did not favor
us. Our cause, weak enough at the best, has
been subjected TO unusual difficulties by design
ing men, as in the case of Connecticut, where
Negro Suffrage" was submitted as separate
proposition, and of course went down. But, alter
all the most that such facts show is that we have
many friends more enemies and that the great
mass of the whites are Indifferent about, or too
busy to attend to us.
Ii is the manifest destiny" of the blacks to
abide in their own native land and work out the
problem of the unity of the Human Family.
We hare borne the lcOrSt already and are not
cyushed-thank God For my part, have as
much expectation of seeing the AueShanies
plucked up and planted in the Mediterranean, as
that even the free blacks will ever be removed to
the Coast Of Africa Other points present them
selves but know your rule as to the length Of
communications, and beside, would not assume
the quarrel Of another
l am now Sir, in your hands deal not with
the Negro, but with the Man; lead me not aside
with sophistries concerning Races, but with argu-
rerts on n2man Rights; and hope to COM
n1end myself 10 YOUR respect and the respect
of ali nv White country men by manifeLting dis
PosiHon 70 OU' WV sEsOsTRIs
Remarks.
If 'Sesostris' is determined to differ
with US he should at least take care that he
has substantial grounds of difference. He
has no reason to challenge US to discus
sion as to the Right of the Blacks to Equal
Franchises and Equality before the Laws
with Whites, for that we have always con-
tended for at whatever cost. If he insists
on flourishing in the attitude of champion
of the Rights of his Race, we insist thai
he run his tilt at an adversary, and not at
a friend.
But the question on which we seem
to be at variance, if any, is that of the ex-
pediency and tendencies of q fusion Of
Whites and Blacks in the same community
or State. We shall always condemn and
resist all attempts to separate the two
Races by denying Political or other Rights
to the less powerful. They have been
treated with violence and injustice enough
already. Yet we incline to the belief that
the blending of White and Black, Brown
and Whity-Brown in the same community
is not a wholesome, benefcent arrange
ment, and that if the less numerous Race
could be induced to return TO the land OF
their ancestors, or go by themselves else
where, it would be a beneficial arrange
ment for all parties. We, therefore, while
we have struggled and shall still struggle
against:the constrained expatriation of the
Blacks, or their oppression While among
US. have been convinced that the Coloniza-
ton of the Western Coast of Africa by them
would be suspicious for their own future
well-being, for our Country, and for man