The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1851-10-23
NUMBER 80.
condition Of the Free Colored 1.sos,s.

We take no pleasure in reading such de-
tails as the following; of tie deplorable con-
dillon OF The free colored people ia this
country; but the facts being such, it is prop
er they should be known. Their pubIica.
lion may serve the useful purpose OF dissi-
pating the notion that real liberty, prosperity
and social elevation, can be enjoyed by the
people OF color in any part of the United
States. That great fact once admitted il is
hoped that the bilterist enemies of Coloniza.
lion will become its friends. Already the
truth begins TO break in upon long-cherish4
ed prejudices, as is evinced by The article
from highly intelligent .colored man, COP.
led into this paper. 81 3. a>ls
A writer in the Baltimore Patriot. who is
travling in Ohio, gives the following account
OF the Randolph negroes, who, it will be re-
membered, were driven from the homes
which had been procured for. tilem, by ths
Whites
Troy, about twenty miles from Dayton,
is small and rather laoidatsd town, be-
tween this place and Pequa. Along the ca
mai, the majority of ihe Randolph negroes
are located. Itwas in the adjoining county
of Mercer that the large tract of land was
purchased for their settlement, from which
they were forcibly elected by the white in
habtants. The condition ofthese poor crea-
lures is a sad commentary on the miserable
policy of emancipating negroes, and allow
ing them 10 remain in this country. The
majority of these once invaluable servants
are nowworlhless pets upon the commune
iy among whom they are located, aad often
want for the common necessities of life
heard several ofthem express an ardent wish
to return 10 the shores of Roanoke again,
where they once had plenty, and did not
know what it was 10 suffer for WANT
The following from the New York Even.
ing Post shows what it is elsewhere
"Fagtt're SSarcs in Canada and England
William Wells Brown, formerly slave in
the United States, addresses a very sensible
letter 10 the London Times, on the condition
OF the fugitive slaves in England. He says
very many OF those who have been compel
led 10 lily into Canada, from prosecutions re-
snliing iIom The lac Fugitive Law, are with
out employment He estimates The number
of fugilives in Canada at thirty thousand;
and as these people, he says, are mostly
without education, and have but little knowl-
edge of the mechanical branches, they find
many difficulties in the way of getting en-
ployment and thereby earning for them
selves an hoEesi living
"Blany of these people have, within The
last six or eight months, gone ro England to
seek employment, and encounter the same
difficulties there, as in Canada, and, conse-
quently, soon become burden 10 the benev-
olent, or inmates of the unions. He there
fore recommends that provision be made for
sending such of them as are willing to 90 TO
the West Indies 10 labor in those islands
where slavery has been abolished, and where
deficiency OF labor is now experienced.
"What MI. Brown asserts in regard 10 the
necessities and dist.esses of his brethren in
exile, is undoubtedly true. Their case must
be the same as that of their masters would
be, were they by harsh and unexpected
law compelled to take tefuge on foreign
shores and in unaccustomed cimes But
whether tho plan of sending them to the
West Indies promises anything effeciual for
their relief, we doubt. The owneH of es-
tates in the British islands will probably soon
learn, if not yet Convinced of 1t, that it is
not mere hands they need so much as an
improved system Of management and agri-
culture. The relative density of population
in Z Il .he West India islands is far greater
than in any slave State, ana none OF the
numerous attempts TO colonize them with
laborers have resulted benefcially.
'Wages, in all the British West Indies,
are now al the starving point, and it would
be madness for coored people 10 go there in
quest of labor. If, however, they have or
can procure little capital, say from one to
five hundred dollars, which they can afford
to invest in the soil, then we should unhesi-
tatingy advise them to seek home in one
of those islands, where the best Of land can
be bought at from five 10 ten'dolars an aero
where five acres will support small family
comfortably, and where the highest social
and political privileges are within tho reach
Of all who merit them"