The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-09-23
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Journal Of Commerce.
Failing out by the Way.

S' Failing out by the Way.
A gricvous rapture has taken
place between the New York Tribune
and its colorcd friends. The Tri.
bune's offence is, that it bas lately
como out hat.tootcd for African col
: onization,--a scheme which is infin-
itely odious to those blacks who have
been deluded by the Abolitionists into
the belief that they are soon to enjoy
t@ln this country practical as well
as theoretical equality with the
whites. Some two or three weeks
since, the Tribune had good colon
ization article, quite recently another.
After quoting the exclusion Of
free blacks from the State of In
diana by an express provision of the
Constitution, "a provision which was
voted for separately, and adopted by
more than 100000 majority, the
Tribune proceeds:
If, then, it be the fact that a great
majority of the white frecmen Ct this
country regard the mingling Of
whites and blacks in the same com.
munity as pernicious and to be
gobviated, ,that is tho duty nf tho
4 friends Of equal rights? What ia the
true interest Of the colorcd race? It
maybe easy to show that the colon.
ization of the black is dcspotic and
unjust; but what good comes Of
thats It is easy for the blacks to
say, sWe won't be coonizcd-we
won't so to Africa, nor anywhere else,
but will remain where we were born
&and die hcrc,'-but acon't is weak
word when used by the few, the poor,
the feeble, to indicate their resistance
to the determined will of the many,
tho wealthy, the powerful. We do
not understand blacks really to mean,
'We will fight rather than submit to
expatriation,' and unless they do
+ mean this, the language Of defiance
is unwisc.'
Is anything to be gained by re,
fusing to see?
These unl;ind cuts from tried
friend on paper. have much cxaspcr.
ated the colorcd gentlemen, one CT
whom, DR.. James McCunc Smith,
/. writes to the editors Of the Tribune,
proposing to publish in that paper
the views of the blacks on the subject
Of colonization, and closes his
communication as follows:
1, / will strive to be as lenicnt as
possible on the brazcn hypocrisy with
which one Horace Greeley, having
crawled into power and wealth III the
cause Of freedom, and partly over the
backs Of the blacks, (who helped
boast him,) has recently turned tail
on the one and hurled anathcmas
against the other; hypocrisy in
all that he had written about equal
rights for blacks before March 7,
1850: Hypocrisy in all that he has
written against the Fugitive slave
law since October, 1850.
JAMES McCUNE SMITH
To which Mr.. Greedy replies,
declining to publish the views of Mr..
Smith, and proceeds rs follows:
'Wc have nothing to boast Of for
the blacks nor any body else; we
certainly meyer asked any 'boasting'
at their hands, and are utterly
: unconscious Of having received any;
and. most surely, if We had lived and
labored with primary eye to being
'boostcd,' the blacks are the very last
class Of our population in whose behalf
We should have mado either efforts or
professions. Those who arc fiat on
the ground arc not in good attitude
for 'boasting,' however jealous their
good will E4
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The HAT AND THE HEAD. "A
negro, having purchased a hat was
observed to take it from his head OH
the fall Of a shower Of rain. and to
manifest considerable anxiety to pre-.
sorye it from tho wet, On being re.
monstrated with for his supposed stu
pidity in thus leaving his head cx.
posed, ho wittily observed, "IIat be.
long to me- head bolons to massa.'