Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1851-08-28
THE TIMES EEWPORT r. THURSDAY MORNING AUGUST 2S 1861

vail here, and two men of different
colour had been required to divide be-
tween them, the loaf not sufficient to
satisfy the craving appetite OF one
s:srving wretch.
/ Enough has been said, il is thought.
| IN regard to the probable condition Of
things in this country should Mrs.
\ Chapmsn's labouis aud Victor IIugo's
upliited voice succeed in accomplish
ing the purposes ofmodern Abolition.
Noah, if this is truth, in present fact,
and plain and paIpable inierences
thereirom, can the result be obviatcd,
unless by the amalgamation of the
white and colored races Of cur coun-
try by in,ermarriagcs between them
thing which many Of those shouting
louder even than Victor Hugo would
rccoil from in disgust. Whether this dis
gust is prejudice, or an instinct it is
not necessary to enquire we speak of
il as fact.
The probable condition Of the two
races supposing both free has been in
ferred from the actual present condit-
ion Of the two, when only part Of
one of them is free. The slave is pro-
,ected and provided for by his master;
the free black is left to shift for himself,
and it is upon him that the agencies
we have been describing operate
Still, emancipations, by families and
Of individuals, are constantly taking
| place; and this and the natural increase
Of the free blacks would seem, wholly
l irrespective of modern Abolition, to be
brin ring us nearer to the time, when
there must be strife between the
whites and the free blacks, ifthcy per-
sist in remaining together.
Apart then, from Victor Hugo's let
ter, which is answered by Showing,
from existing facts and fair infcrences,
the condition to which the scheme in
which his voice has been " lifted up"
would reduce the object1 Of his boun-
! ty, it becomes important to enquire
how the evils OF a state OF things, TO be
| anticipated, at any rate, can best be
4 obyiated.
I The nature of the evil suggests the
character Of the remedy. If the two
races cannot live together except in
| the relations we have referred to, they
must seperate The colonization of
the free negroes, and Of such slaves as
| may be emancipatcd, from time to
time, is, in other words, the only rem
cdy.
H When, from any cause, family or
! nation, ceases to live in harmony, sep
aration, or colonization, If you please,
! is, and ever has bccn, the remedy
/ All coloniZatlons too have been alike,
/ with some differences in the impeiling
H motive but, leayin out of view the
1 penal colonies of different countries,
\ ana some pauper em,grants from Eu-
\ rope To the United States,--ihe colo
\ nists have lett their Old homes to bet
I ter their condition, at Mcir Omn c0St;
and of this character must be the col
onization Of the free colorcd people Of
\ the United States. They must 90
| for their own good; anj they must, u'ti-
! nately pay their own expenses. AS
class they are better able to do SO
than the Irish and German emigrants
4 who come in ship-loads to America.
! They have, when destitute, generally,
more friends to help them than these
have. The country to which they
must emigrate has been designated,
not by the societies who have estab
lished colonies there, but by our COM
mon Maker. II is the only country
in the ~0rM mhere the whHe man cdn-
not lire, and fever and death will pro-
tect the black emigrant in Africa, as
with wall of flame, from being fol-
lowed by his old competitors, in nsearch
of the golden sands, which are brought
down by the Niger and the Cavally, as
well as by the Sacramento and the
San Joaquin.
All that colonization has been able
to do, speaking now of colonization as
understood in this country,-all that it
was required to do,-all that it can
ever be called upon to do,-has been
to prove the practicability of establish
ing colonies of free colored persons
from the United States, capable of self.
Il government, sel(-deicnce, and self.sup-
port, upon the coast of Africa. That
this has been done, the Republic Of
Liberia is the proof Having done
this, the Colonization Societies are
tnnctus oGeio, looking to their great
object Circumstances must do the
rest. Circumstances advancing be-
yond all power of control, with the
crushing force of an avalanche but,
unlike an avalanche, slowly and with
due warning, so that they who perish
before them, will be the authors of
their own destruction. What these cir
cumstances are, we have already indi-
Gated, in speaking of the condition of
the two races in this country, and the
hope.cssness of any change until their
/ separation shal! take place The fin
ger Of the Almighty is apparent in the
whole work nation is not to be trans.
planted like an apple tree. The black
mans heart, enlarged in sphere of
real freedom, or dwaried in the at
mosphcre which he breathes, when his
freedom is but name, lis still an hu-
man heart-endowed with the purcst
cpDtibilities-cnuable of the high-