Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-04-24
From the New York Evening Post.
Emigration 10 the Old World.

: The louisiana House Of representatives have
adopted the following resolution, which It Is
said, is pretty certain TO be carried in the SEN
ate also:
"That our senators in Congress be instructed,
and our representatives requested, to use their
best cxsrtions to promote the success of that
great enterprise first by urging on the general
government such q donation Of land, or an ap-
preparation Of money, as will aid in removing
the free people of color, with their consent,
from the United States to Liberia in Africa I;
secondly, by using their best efforts to promote
what is usuasly called the "Ebony Line" in
transporting the said froo people Of color to
the republic Of Liberia, and to increase the
commercial facilities between the United States
and Western Africa, through the medium of
| Liberia"
With regard to ono branch Of this resolu-
ton, the Washington Republic, in copying it,
observes:
CAS- referring to the Ebony Line, this mo-
ton comes too late, we fear, to be of service
during the present session, that project having
been classed with a batch Of schemes Of vastly
inferior importance, and reported against as for
the manufacture Of Presidential capital to be
available just now. Still. duty to a great cx-
pertinent in philanthropy requires that the pro-
jcct should not be lost sight of : and in this re-
gard the action of the Louisiana legislature will
be of essential service"
We had hoped that the project of the line
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pcnse Of the government, was wholly abandon
cd, but here is threat that it shall be rcsuscita-
ted. Our hope, VIC confess, was not quite JUS
tilted by experience; for we had seen enough of
public life to know that it is not two or three
rcpulscs, nor in all cases a dozen of them, one
after another, which can discourage specula-
tor of a tolerablc share of impudcncc and
audacity who has been once successful in his
designs.
The project of making appropriations from
the federal treasury, or Of setting apart portions
of the property of the confederacy, for the pur-
pose of sending our colored people to Africa, is
open to serious, and as VIC think, insuperablo
objections, on the score of justice between
state and state Since Louisiana appears a
solicitor for the scheme and will, in all proba-
bity, be joined by other slavcholding states, We
cannot well avoid considering these objections
There arc aomc states in the Union where the
colorcd people form very inconsiderablc part
of the population, and where their presence is
not considered as an evil. To compel these to
contribute in any manner to the expense of re-
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numerous and where tho whites look with
alarm on the increase Of the free colored popu-
laton, is contrary to every rule Of justice and
equal dealing. If any state feels their presence
as an evil, it is an evil which its inhabitants or
their ancestors have brought upon themselves,
and of which they must rid themselves as they
may. Here, in New York, arc quite too many
thieves ard pick pockets, but we do not instruct
our members Of Congress to ask for an appro-
priation in order to pay the expenses of watch
ing, detecting, bringing them to justice, and
providing prisons for their detention. 1t may
yet happen that Massachusetts will find her
self cncumbcred with manufacturing popula-
ton, for large part Of which it will be impossi
bic to find work. II will clearly not be the
business of the general government to pro-
vide means for carrying them to the wcst.-
These are all matters of local concorn, with
which the federal government has no authority
to intermcddle and which the states must rcgu-
late for themselves.
Even if the federal government should allow
itself to be betrayed into making appropria-
tions for the purpose of carrying the blacks out
of tho country, we could expect nothing from
such course of legislation but con.ro ogcrsies
and contentious, which would wax fcrccr
and fcrccr as long as the appropriations were
annual.
When the accounts were brought in when
Virginia presented her claim for bounty on
the head of every free negro she had got rid OF,
as in some Of our new settlements they claim a
bounty on wolves killed, the representatives of
the northern and western states would rise in
vehement remonstranco against so gross mis-
application of the common fund to the benefit
of few of the states only Not only would
such legislation not be quietly acquicsccd in
by those who did not receive its benefits, but it
could not endure long. 1t is easy to foresce
that after violent quarrel between the different
classes Of states, and after battle which would
leave deep wounds and scars on the comba-
tants, policy SO manifostly inequitable must
be given up. 1t would be hardly possible, we
should think, to keep all the states in the same
confederacy on any other condition.
1t should be remembered that in some of
these states, Virginia, for example, great impa-
tience has been expressed at the growing num-
bcrs Of the free blacks within their borders,
and that project after project, some of them not
very humane, has been proposed for getting rid