The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-04-02


Drse Negroes and CoIonsxatien.
paragraph is going the rounds Of the newspa-
pcrs vtach states that. several years ago, Bishop
Capens Of South Carolina, surrendered his planta-
ton, together with all the stock and farming i'm
plements thereon, TO hundred slaves. telling them
that u they succeeded well in TAXING care Of them
selves and the plantation for three Year,, they
should, ut the end Of that time have their freedom
and all they had made.
OF course the experiment failed, and we only
wonder that any one should ever expect any such
experiment to succeed. Many very benevolent
slAveholders have tried similar experiments with
their slaves, and, for the most part, these expert
ments have turned out az badly as that Of Bishop
Capers. There some settlements of free blac ks
in Ohio and Indiana that do welt but. "a a general
rule. such settlements do not succeed.
Now, it does not follow that the blacks cannot
get along without the superintendence OF white
persons. Tho success, the glorious, tho unexam-
pied success ofthe Liberian colony, proves beyond
all question that colorcd persons are fully coIrpe-
tent to take care of themselves The blacks in that
colony entirely independent--thsy rely only on
themselves-they are not under the superintend-
cnce OF masters or friends; and the consequence is
that they conduct republican government sue
csssfully, and have established social and educa-
tional systems that will favorably compare with
those OF any other people. We take it that the
cess OF the colored colonies the coast of Africa
unquestionably proves that black people are fully
competent TO take good care Of themselves. Sepa-
rate the colored man from the whitc-place him
where he will not be compelled to feel that he be-
longs to an inferior and degraded race-and he
will rapidly develop his qualifications for self go
vernment. But 20 long a. he 10 among those who
are regarded his superors, and 90 long US he is
forced to look up to others for that support that
should come from himself, just 80 long he will be
a degraded man.
Had Bishop Capers taken his hundred slaves and
prepared them for freedom, and then given them
good and suitable homes in Africa. he would pro-
baby have found at the end Of three years that in
stead Of squAndering their substance, they had
added to it, It is altogether illogical TO conclude
that because free blacks do not thrive in the uni
ted States as well as white people do, free blacks
canLot thrive anywhere. There 10 no instance in
ancient or modern times of two separate and dis
tinct of men living together in which one has
not been compelled to be Inferior and in no case OF
the kind have the members of the inferior race
under the most kindly circumstances, been able to
show themselves as capable as the superior race OF
getting along. But, when tho races have been sep
arated then the inferior has been able to dis
play quite much aptitude for all that is essential
TO the growth and support Of society as any other
race Of men have done. Such was the experience
of our Anglo Saxon foreiathers, and such has been
the experience Of all other subject races.
Had any Anglo Norman taskmastcr, DESTROYS Of
elevating the condition Of his Anglo Saxon serfs,
undertaken seven centuries ago in England pre-
siseiy the Same experiment that Bishop Capcrs
made few years ago in South Carolina, it would
also haye failed dsastrously, and its failure would
certainly have been regardoi by many shallow
thinkers Of that day as proof that Anglo Saxuns
utterly incapable Of taking good care Of them
selves. And yet the Anglo Saxons are now ut the
rsces in all thOs. qualities that confer on States
and nations eminent prosperity and undying
glory.
There arc many men holding slaves in the
United States who wish TO rid themselves of such
responsibility, but who almost despair of benefit
ing their slaves frequent the failures Of
perments designed to benefit the blacks. But
when the conscientious stakeholder turns his eyes
to Africa he can much to fill him with hope; he
there sees thousands of black men who have lately
been emancipated enjoying all the comforts of ife
and, under the benign influence Of free institu-
ions, developing all those traits of character which
are exhibited by the most civilized of the white
races. ,llst gr7ttf.ulnI u ottt& ral ~
We heartily concur with Mr.. Stanton, Of Ten-
ncssee, and with other sagacious and enterprisng
Shareholders, that the Establishment Of a line Of
steamships from ports in the United States to the
coast Of Africa would not only yield rich CONNER
cial fruits but would also give healthy stimulus
to African colonization from which the hnppiest re-
suits might be expected. The subject is one Of
vast Importance and the evil connected with 1t 10
too large to DO managed by individual enterprise
Let the Government in the constitutional and
rightful exercise of its powers to extend commerce.
at the same time incidentally prepare the means
by which free people of color can return to the
land Of their ancestors, bearing from the western
to the eastern hemisphere all the elements of the
highest civilization the world has ever known and
1t will confer the greatest benefit on this country
and thereby do more to promote the general wei
Legislation. $50 -
ufcourse we do not wish to be understood as az
serting that all black men will by transportation to
the coast of Africa become decent industrious, and
efficient members Of the community. We wish to
be understood only as asserting that, a general
rule the free people of color will become far
prosperous in all respects in Africa, where they
will be thrown on their own energies, than they
can ever become in the United States. Hero they
must always remain degraded, greatly to their own
prejudice as well as to the disadvantage of the
Nixoo ~ H.
the separation OF two such ia indispensable to
the success of the inferior The evilofa mixed
population is becoming 90 great that some means
of separating those whom nature has 90 strongly
conradistingushed must be adopted. Tho scheme
Of separation proposed by the African Colonization
Society 10 by far the best yet proposed The results
have triumphantly vindicated the wisdom of those
great and good men to whose bcnevolence the ma
ton is indebted for the origin and support of Afr
can colonization. Wehave no doubt that hereafter,
when colonization is carried on far more exten--
svely than il has yet been, the same good results
will attend that great enterprise Of national phi
lanthropy, r,'-,r-9ss ,-,-z..rs
IHronTAnr DrcnloS--7 The right Of an occupant
front Of it.--On Saturday David Vondersnaith
was before tho court ON q writ of habeas corpus
He was charged with an assault and battery on An
drew Kec, the Keeper Of q hackney carriage. The
facts are, that Kee was standing in front of the
United States hotel, when he was ordered to leave
by Mr.. Snider. The latter called the defendant to
arrest him, which he did, and took him to tho
mayors Office. 1t was for this that the prosecution
was brought. Kee alleged that he went to the hotel
to look for gentleman who owed him money, and
that he was not inside Of the hotel Judge Parsons
said he would decide the question presented upon
first principles, 80 that the rights Of parties should
be clearly understood. Every man owns the ground
in front of bis house He has given to the public
right 70 pass and rcpass it, but in all other re-
sPects it's a: much bis property as any other part
Of the premises. No one has right to stand or
carry on any business in front Of any mans house;
and If he il thus annoyed and notifies the party to
sufficient force to compel the offender to go. If
such was not the law, person might set up fish-
stand under anothers parlor window, or any other
obnoxious business. A man keeps public house
to entertain strangers and travellers, and no one
has right TO come about his premises to interfere
with his customers or guests. Il has been held by
the court that men and boys have no right to col
ect at the of streets. At the last term of
the court, in where arr, SITS wcro made by an
officer of persons who bad collected around house