The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-03-11
WASHINGTON, ID. c.
For the National Era.
COLONIZATION.

Mn Error Z" Hear both SIDES Is an ex- 4
csllent maxim. and very important with refer |
epce 70 the Colonization scheme, now, IN the /
estimation Of its friends at high tide. Dons- |
tons Eubernatorial Recommendations, quasi
abolition advice. clerical leaningS legislative
enactments, adhesion Of q few intelligent
blackS ehCny steam-lines-al multiply and
oonverge IN popular direction As my con-
tributiOn 70 the movement allow me b present
60 YOUR readers review Of the last February,
1852 number Of the Afrloaa RspoSitors--the
regular snd osscial monthly magazine Of the
American COLONIZATION SscIKTr
The first article n an introduction 10, and
liberal extract from, the message Of Governor
HCNr % the Legislature 0f New York He is
a recent convert we believe. to the scheme. Ii
Is rumOred that Influential Wings waited upon
hiua and urged s Recommendation Of the Colo
DiEation plan as one mode Of keeping asioat the
Wig party The editor presents dismal
bui true picture of the mass Of the people Of
color an the free States when he describes
Hunt On Colonization in the following
terms:
~Excluded, even in the free State Of New
York. from the moSs essential privileges of citi-
zenship debSrred from all participation in
public employmeDts rejected from most Of the
Institutions Of learning and religion, shut out
from social inteEoogrse, condemned to a life Of
servihty and drudgery, denied the right Of snf-
frSge by vast popular majority, and governed
by laws which they have no share in framing
coalition deploTable in the extreme
In v.ew OF this mighty and unprovOked
wrong done to largo portion Of his ec1stitn-
ents, ~as good by nature" as his ExeeIleney- by
a people called and calling themselves CHRIS
tians IN this day Of light and knOEledge. wAAs
rebuke does the Governor administer 20 The az
thors Of these outrAgesi What defence does
he set up for his colored fellow cItE1enss hh1f
remedy does he nropose Tor the reetIkeatloo 81
the enormous wrong doing in the State ussTs
Il is perpetrated2 None whatever The o1iF
aameliorat;on' be proposes 10 the remoESl q
the colored race beyond the seas SsFFs1ss
the Wings Of this State were thus treated iF
their political foes and Hunker GOyerDor. ~
stead Of rebuking the. diaboleA eriDs- sDd I
p - the Wings stand by thez- 80 1r1''i- /.
1,,.E 49, -.ya. s.sO,lsd pfoPoy-s +
Prejudice is invincible, might rasar' sasrtiah- I
opponents sayl the Whigs had hsrtsr rieAr 4
out: they viii never, they dah neBsE rIse 70 4
equality hero; we viii not even allow them a
fair field 10 rise according 10 Their EDsrlts On
the soil Of their birth Why IheF are
Wings Suppose the Democrats q tins St1Ee
were thus treated, if the Wig party wRs pow
erful enough to inAct such grieuDus wrong
KossrTH IL almost profsnelF alluded ~ by
the editor. He is here pleading ~ bshaf 81
his country his down-;rD3den eoUntET1Dsn, and
enlisting "our stronges, fesIiDgs ara ergo
shall wo be Indifferent 70 the condition d Our
fellow beings in Africa K0ssath F4eaas for
the rights Of tho Hungsrians where they were
born and we, good ColOnirstOaists- plead that
our colored feiow-c:tizens may be removed be-
"a sksu-w 4
rights Consistent philanthropy How like
KOssuthl
Next follows long account a $500 raised
by the efforts Of the humane gentlemen who
edit the Journal of Commerce, TO parchase the
freedom of some young eOlored persons, that
they may 90 with Their relatives, 10 Liberia
The editors say the cOlored father shall tell his
own story in their columns. because with great
naivete il is said he can tell ii better than they
can, and more eloqucntly for it comes from
the heart" The Journal admits that I" Jerry
not the Syracuse Jerry, freed by their liberality
and that of its friends will leave this land with
his father, who is to bid farewelI--a long fare
well--to an aged father, a brother and a sister,
lung in different parts Of the country" and
boasts that not dollar Of the money raised TO
eject this separation "has come from an Abo-
ltionist, or any person belonging TO that family
or neighborhoodn The Aboitionists, rejoice
to say, do not wish to divide the honor Of the /
transaction
We have then an article on "THE PROSPER |
BEFORE Us' Ii is said hundreds of slaves |
are now ready to be omancipated, as soon as
they can be transferred TO their new home"
Mark the words The second article of the
Constitution of the Society provides that its OBJ
jeCt is to COLOMBO free people of color with their
nd vaf har Hnd hat
are TO be shipped of aud liberated ON their ar
rival in Liberia in direct defiance Of this, the
main article Of the Constitution Of this famous
Society The "emigrantso are shipped as
slaves and conveyed across the Atlantic "a
slaves. If by stress Of weather the emgrant
ship shosild, after making two-thirds Of its pas
sage, put back to the United States, the emf
grants would be remanded into slavery! And
yet such repatriation is called sending free
people Of color to Africa, with their own con-
sent. II Is but choice between two evils IT
is the "free consent " offered TO French Repub-
hcans by Louis Napoleon: remain quiet or re-
move TO Cayenne But tho writer of "The
Prospect Before Us" thinks the work of Colo
nization "must and ought to be gradual" He,
il seems, will not invoke gubernatorial, legisla-
tive, nor Congressional aid. "The foundation
OF society and of Government" at Liberia,
must be cautiously and carefully laid, and
the Industrious and moral and religious, must
be selected for the work. Good This, how
ever, is very different from the sweepngs of the
streets--the nuisances," as Henry CLAY stg-
matized them, that have been too often sent to
Liberia Again: 81 For our own part says the
writer, 1--WE have no question that the time is
fast approaching when the free colored man
will be a. free 10 choose the place of his hab-
tation as the white man now is--a question 10
be determined only by his judgment of his own
interest," and his means TO pursue that course
which he shall deem to be tho bestp Very
good. This il excellent doctrine When this |
becomes Colonization we will oil be Colonial |
tionists and good Americana
Next follow two letters from Governor Rob.
erts Of Liberia by which il appears that the
new Republic has not been acknowledged by
the Government Of this country. Apropos
VIII 1t not be in time for Congress to establish
line OF steamers in aid Of the Colonization So
ciety, when Liberia has been acknowledged as
member OF the family Of nations by this sis.
ter Republic IL also appears by these letters
that Liberia in all her interests il decidedly
improving, that the accusations of Commander ,
FORBES that system of slavery prevailed in
the Republic, is stoutly denied, and that The
Governor is judicous and able magistrate.
Other letters follow, written by respectable |.
citizens, giving glowing statements of the pros
Perity OF Liberia. "Wo are all free men in
Liberia says ono of the letter.writers, "and
treat all as such, according TO their ability :
In this particular, then, the young Republic
has got beyond that of its elder sister, the 4,
United States Of America.
We have next an essay entitled Refuge of
the COlOred Man. The writer makes the fol.
lowing precious confession AT present we .
doubt not hundreds who emigrate to Africa 4
DO 80 not 30 much from free choice, in order
20 better their condition. 30 far ne rnnnrds