North Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1850-1852, 1851-03-26
4FR1cAN COLONIZATION.

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Bile. oppose Shareholders ignorant, Infatuated and
nntrfty those who aspire 10 public honors In this
elective government of ours, unite With tne majority
against q minority thus under the oan-and then
there is large number of men located by mediocre
Nv of mind and of sentiment. between all opposing
opinions and systems, who are for compromise, ana
as all COMPROMISES between majority and minority
must be at the expense of the latter, compromise Is
one of the most efectua modes, provided 1t IS ire
ouently resorted to, of weakening the weaker party
In politics we have lately seen contest between
slavery and an ant-slavery party settled by the In
PREVENTION Of the moderadoes, who cooiiy transferred
the whole interest in controversy to one OF the claim
ants In society we have colonization party which
occupies midway postioI between slavery and anti
slavery, and no have the political modera Ices
done their work, and denounce all examination of 1t
as auitation than the sentimental moGeradoes come
forward and insist the aid of government for their
own policy and plans. Their notions be support
ed by long speeches in and out of Congress. This
is not agitation. But if they opposed, we have
no doubt that the opposition will be denounced as
faction, ultrasm and insubordlnaton. So that the
institution of slavery, great civil, POLITICAL socal
and property institution, is only to have no re-
pose but 20 be denounced as dlsturber oil the Pe"0
if presumes TO defend itself.
Well, as we not yet quite disposed to acquiesce
in that of tranquility which consists III ue,ms
perpetually attacked, without resistance we mus
be INDUCED in trying conclusions win Oui pa''No
salants.
It is proposed to colonze free negroes on the coast
Of Africa, hy the aid of Government. .
What power does Government possess 10 colonIze :
Was IL ever suggested dreamed by the trainers OF
the Constitution, that this Government was 10 en-
uaoe in Transporting a race OF people TO the oid
- worId-to Africa : Why, the only power on this
subject very different on, and one conceded WIN
great dficuty-ths power OF preventing tneui' d.
Ter the laps of nineteen years from being Orou9h'
here. What sort of an appearance would cIauSe
make in the Constitution, giving power 10 the Gu
era Government to transport any race OF PeoP.e ~
oreign land, six thousand miles abroad Why II
Such a proposition had been made In the ConVen-
tion it would have the gravity OF the whole
body. -.
interfere let US look at the principles of colonization
itself Are the free negroes of equal to ours,
or inferior! If equal, or IT they may become equa'
what greater injury could be done them Than 10 eX-
lie them from model republic-to groPe their away
TO civilization with their present imperfect develope-
ment amid savage people! If OF an inferior race,
where is the evidence that they will be more happy
or progressive, than among people so renown Tor
christanity liberty, and intelligence as ours The
experiment has been tried in St. Domingo and in ia
naica. The result is a Decline relapse into barba-
rism, idolatry, vice, idleness, and poverty.
But we are told the experiment in Liberia is sue
cessful Let US see. The number of people trans
ported to that colony-as learn from the transac-
lions of the Colonization Society-ls about seven
thousand. There now are only about SIX thousand.
The natural increase OF the free blacks here Is not less
than fifteen per cent in ten years. AT that rate the
present number in Liberia ought to be--slnce the
process of colonization has been going thirty years
something like ten thousand. He is sacrifice OF
four thousand to change of climate, and OF habit,
and napitude OF that race Tor separate existence.
Is that philanthropy!
We are told that one great object OF removing the
free blacks is facilitate emancipation-as the laws
of many of the States adverse to emancipation In
consequence of the rapid accumulation OF free blacks
But this Government has no right to promote, any
more than to oppose, emancipation. Besides, as the
natural increase of slaves is greater than that OF eth
free negroes whites, among u.s. this scheme
l., Of nY-
imam life.
Our attention has been directed to this scheme by
an article in THE Colonization Herad'' of Phia-
dephia copied FROM the Daily Sun, on the extinc-
ton of slavery in the United States" The argument
of this article is, that slavery is Incompatible with
dense population-that population increases in
the slave States to certain degree OF density, slaves
Immediately diminish, and must ultimately disappear
Ard the writer says, that slavery cannot pass be-
yCnd its present of 800 900 square miles, slavery
cannot possibly endure more than sixty-hve wears,
and may not beyond ilty-as, by that time there
would be seventy-three people to a square mile.
Well, it unfortunately fortunately happens, that all
sorts of people increase more slowly population
becomes dense, and we have to inform the writer of
this article that already the white population of the
United States has natural increase less than the
slaves! AS for the decline in the number of slaves
in Virginia and Maryland before 1910, it is easily
explained, without assuming the decline of slavery.
1t is owing TO the sudden and extraordinary develope
ment of cotton culture in other Southern States.
another thing. And if the South submits TO that,
slavery must of necessity be ultimately prevented
from increasing, and the South will be completely
in the power of the North-whch, in our opinion,
will not wait fifty years--not more than about the
census of 1861 to extinguish it. We fast peo-
pie.
Mr.. Clay, in his recent speech at the annual meet
ing of the Colonization Society, here, takes the
ground distinctly, that the ultimate consequences Of
colonization is the final separation of the races
of this country. And he also supposes that when
population four times dense it is, slavery
will become more expensive than free labor. This
accounts for the Pertinacity with which he persisted
in supporting the late adjustment. establish final
limits to slaveholdng territory. And this accounts,
also, for his support of colonization to the
free negroes, and to promote emancipation.
Now, If slavery can be extirpaIed only by the ex-
cessve cheapness of free labor if free labor can ever
be mad for less than the of food and clothes for
slaves, then it must result from the starvation and
determination of the old and young whites. For as
long the labor of white adults yields enough to
support the young children and the old parents SO
long will labor be sufficiently valuable to rear young
and support old slaves. When that is no longer the
case-when human life is compelled to prey on its
own vital energies, and to parayze the faculty oil
reproduction for slavery cease
but 1t Is singular consummation for philanthropy
istt contemplate with delight.
We hear much of the superior vigor and efficiency
OF Tree white labor that of slaves. But when
population is dense, there is free labor. The eff.
cheney of American slave labor well fed is now ia,
greater than the half fed free labor of England OF
France. And such is the free labor Of those coun
tries now, will be the free labor of this country when
population is s. four times" as dense as now
MT. Clay says, emphatcally, sit is not the faul
OF the people of color that they degraded se
is PaiPable failacy, and all observation proves
why are the present nations of Africa degra