The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-07
Important Movement In England
Emigration Of People Of Color from the United
DowSISG-srREEr, Aug. l4th, 1850.


DowNISG-sTREEr, Aug l4th, 1850.
"Sir am directed by Earl Grey to acknowl-
edge the receipt ofyour letters of the 9th ult,
and Sd August, further respecting the emgra-
ton to the West Indies of the black and colored
population of the United States
"His lordship desires me to transmit to you a
copy Of a memorandum which he has drawn up,
explaining his views on the subject.
"Lord Grey would be glad to know whether
you concur in these views, and whether, from
your communication with parties interested in
the colonies, you can ascertain whether they
would receive their support
"Should such be the case, Lord Grey would
propose transmitting copies of this memorandum
to the governors of the West India colonies, and
would also request Viscount Palmerston to send
some of them to the British consuls, for circnla-
ton at those places in the United States from
which emigrants would be likely to 90.
"Before taking these steps, however, it would
be necessary to ascertain officially that there
would be no objection to this on the part of the
United States government as it must of course
be distinctly understood that otherwise her Ma.
jesty's government could not countenance any
attempt of the kind proposed.
81 am, sir, your obedent servant,
@B HAYES"
"DAvID TURNBULL, ESQ.,"
(MEMoRASDUM)
Is has been suggested that the urgent want
OF labor, which has been so much complained of
in the British West India colonies, might be
supplied to considerable extent by encouraging
the settlement in these colonies of emigrants
from the black and colored population Of the
United States
"This population it is alleged, is becoming,
in some of the States, and more especially n
the most Northern of the slave States, inconve-
n'ently numerous in proportion to the whites,
and to the means of profitable employment
which can be found for them; hence it is sup
posed that large numbers Of them might be in
duced to emigrate, if arrangements could be
made which should insure to them the means
OF settling in comfort in the British sugar colo.
MES.
III the value to the colonies of such emf
grants, provided that they were really Of the
class OF agricultural laborers, no doubt can be
entertained; such persons, coming from civil
lied country and speaking the English language,
would probably be of more real use to the col
ony in which they might settle than double the
number of the rude natives Of the coast Of AZ
RIGA or of Indian coolies. Nor is there more
reason to doubt, that to the emigrants them
selves the advantage would also be very great,
of being removed from country in which their
position is 40 painful, to colonies where slavery
does not exist--wbere blacks and whites are
placed on terms of perfect equalty--and where
is almost an unlimited demand for labor in the
cultivation of a soil Of extreme fertility
at may, therefore, be safely assumed that it
Is an object of great Importance to all the par-
ties concerned, that this sort of emigration
should proceed as extensively as possible. But
in order that 1t may be established upon any con-