Daily American telegraph., 1852-04-06
African Colonization.

AFRICAN SOlOniL0ttOns
We perceive daily increasing evidences of dis
satisfaction among the people of color of the
North with the project of African colonization,
who contend that they have an equal right to
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
with ourselves in the United States, and will
here remain. They are well fortified also with
arguments against colonization, including OBJ
iections to life in Liberia as ostracism of the
most iliberal character.
We are convinced that due regard to their
welfare and happiness, and our own, points to
the encouragement of colonization al any cost,
and we deeply regret that the negro has received
other counsels. Wrong has been thereby done
him, and future evils must proceed from it.
In a recent number of the Norfolk Herald we
find the following:
eve have conversed with John Morris, very
intelligent and respectable coored from
Elizabeth City, N. c., who has just returned from
visit to Liberia, the object of which was to see
the country, and if he liked it, to return for his
family and those of his friends who, upon hearing
his report might be induced thereby to emigrate
along with them. He spent six weeks in the
country, chiefly at Bassa and Monrovla and the
account which he gives of the country is in every
respect favorable. The colony in most
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lent society, plenty of schools and churches, cheap
living, provisions of every kind abundant; agri-
culture and the mechanic arts, and, in short, all
branches of business prosperous, and the people
contented and happy. The soil is exceedingly
productive, and adapted to the culture of all the
productions of our Southern States besides nu-
merous others of indigenous growth and the
climate continues to improve as the cultivation
of the country extends. He says he expects to
take out with him at least fifty emgrants, besides
the members of his own family, and does not
doubt that the entire free colored population in
the counties round Elizabeth City will follow as
as they can make their arrangements to
emigrate."
All the testimony we have ever received re-
specting the settlements in Liberia tend to the
same conclusion. The colored man can there be
happy and prosperous; q new source of wealth
may be by him opened to the civilized world
and the savage natives may be subdued and won
to usefulness
The negro does not lack protested friends, but
we fear real friends may prove less abundant.
We believe that in view of the advantages pos
sessed by the white race throughout the world,
and in vindication of his rightful claim to supe
riority, he should omit no labor and no expense
in establishing the negro in independence and
prosperity upon the land of his forefathers and
this may be done either in the ell-grounded
hope of future profit from commerce with the
coasts of Africa, or in the pure and unauthorized
spirit of human benevoence. Either motive
should prove adequate to excite US to exertion
The Indian will not be slave. He will not
serve his fellow-man, nor himself Our dealings
with him have only tended to his determination.
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upon him. and we have still little else than his
enmity, while before us lies no other hope than
the continuance of the same cruel work. But it
is not so with the negro. He is kind and docile,
and initiative, and emulous of everything that is
good and praiseworthy. In bondage he is faith
full, and in all situations is easily made happy
Can we not be magnanimous toward him? Can
we not treat him kindly in his present position,
improve him in the knowledge of all things
adapted to promote his welfare, and restore him
to the genial cline of the home from which he
sprang2 In this work of love how little of strife
need mingle, and how little of wealth would we
miss!
The peas2ntry of Ireand-whose condition was
even many years ago pronounced, by the eloquent
Bishop England, to be far worse than that Of the
negro in any portio.o of our country-can yet
transport themselves to our shores Can we not
transport the negro to his own? The work once
we'll begun, through the fundamentally of
good line of steamers, the way viii soon open,
and individual enterprise will unite in aid of the
great project. Twenty years after this shall
have been vigorously commenced, the harbor of
every maritime country in the world will welcome
the cargoes of produce that shall daily leave the
African coasts Until then, as we humbly con-
oeive, humanity and patriotism alike concur in
the truthful policy of turning the eyes of the
sable race in this country to Africa, as the land of
promise and of hope.
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