The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1852-05-26
COLONIZATION
LETTER OF j. III. b. LATR0BE'
TCoNcLUDEp.

and we copy It enttre:-
.There is an inhexible logic. which de.
~yelopes more or less slowly. which fashions
which reduces according to a mysterious
plan, perceptible only TO great spirits. the
facts. the men, the laws. the morals and
the people; or, better. under all human
things. there are things divine
Exactly 50. But whether Mrs. Chap
man or Victor Hugo are influenced by the
sub.divinity here referred to may be quss-
tionable. One thing is certair'-thal the
Republic Of Liberia and the Colony al
Cane Palmas have been founded, and en-
low at this time an honorable and prosper.
GUS existence. by emigrants. the mass o,
whom were ignorant and unlettered, ana
whose success, unparalleled in the history
Of the world, can be attributed to nothing
but the protection of the builder up and
puller down of earthly kingdoms. The
people who have done this are the only
agents through whom, as already sald'
can penetrate Africa.-the only
missionaries, who, in the providence OF
God. can live ~there;-they afford the only
efficient means of suppressing tho slave
trade. which. having accomplished the pur-
nose for which divine wisdom permitted 1t,
Is to be ex,irpated by the children OF those
whose fathers it brought from Africa. that
their descendants might be fitted TO extlr'
pate it, when its end was answered.
African colonization was commenced IN
1916. and since then it has gone on with
uniform success. though slowly, until the
results are the Republic OF Liberia and
the State of Maryland's independent colo
nv at Cape Palmas. The means with
which these results have been produced,
have been obtained mainly from indlvld.
uals, except in the case OF the Maryland
Colony. which has been established through
an appropriation OF S200,00O from the
State 'rreasury.* And, without entering
into details, it may be stated roundly. and
without fear of contradiction, that the MS,
tory of the world presents no instance OF
a colooization as successful as this has
been.
The WAYS Of Providence are mysterl-
Gus: but we think the divine agency which
controls is rather more apparent IN the
srccess of the colonies that have 0een
planted from this country on the coast OF
Africa, than it has been in the success
which has attended the antl-sIavery ana
abolition societies from their birth to the
present day. Nor do we believe thatthere
is ANYTHING. ~"perceptible only to grea'
soirits," which either Victor Hugo or Mrs
Chapman has seen, to prevent our LOOKING
10 the success thus far Of colonization, as
more likely to be the result OF divine IN
,e)ligence. than the schemes which thest
two persons advocate.
The practical effect of modern abolition
thus far, has been to disturb the GLORIOUS
harmony of a happy people, Threatening
10 place brother in armed array agalns
brother; while, at the same time, NOT onl.
have ali the friendly and afectlonate re
lations formerly existing between the white
and the free blacks been, to a very grea
extent, if not altogether, prematurely des
troved. but the bonds Of the slave hav
been frightened. and his privileges curtail
ed: so that the acts OF their pretende'
friends have, in their results. been a ours
to both bond and free.
Whether this ought to be so,-whethe
~benevolence, because it is ignorant Shout
be tolerated and respected, when its them
il mischievous, and its practical workln
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the master Shout
nra;se and thank him who excited h
slaves to rise and break their chains ovt
his head. that is, to murder HIM ana n
wife and children whether, were n
world better ordered, this should not :
an. il what we do not propose to argu
Taking the world as we find it, we rel
unon the facts we know. rather than upo
the speculations Of a French poet an
novelist-and a great poet ana a gre
novelist. too-even when he raises h
voice at the ~instigation Of an America
lady, who. we think. might have toun
advisers who knew more about the suo)e
in her''own country, than the gentema
whose "uplifings" we refer to.
This letter, my dear sir. is a very Ion
one. But the subject is the great subJe
of the day-and is inexhaus,ible. nav
endeayored to sustain the following prop
sitions. ~,
/ That the two races Of white and bIat
IN tho limited States must forever rema
separate and distinct. while they con,lnt
in the same land-whether all the blac'
are free, or only a portion of them.
II. That a necessary consequence
this state of things. as illustrated by pre-
en-, experience, and in accordance wi
all history, must be, that the weaker OF t
two races, not actually held as slave
must, directly OF indirec,ly, be oppressed
the extent Of the oppression being in pr
portion to the occasions OF collision D
tween the two, in competition for emplo
ment.
III. That another necessary cons
ouence of this state Of things is, that t
two races must separate-in this as III
other similar cases; or. in other wore
,.. he q colonization TO be C;