The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1852-02-09
FREE NEGROES.

color, within ihclast few weeks are fun q M
Interest. They Indicate great and decided
change in favor Of emigration to another, and
for them, better and happier land. The
Conve ntion of free men Of color lately assem-
BLEED at Cincinnati, for the purpose OF adopting
measures to improve the condition OF their
race, gave strong evidences OF their inclination
towards colonization. The report Of their pro.
ceedings in the Cincinnati Gazette says:
"On Saturday letter from James 6. Birney
Liberty party candidate for President) TO the
convention was read and received with many
demonstrations Of applause. MIR. Birney, as
we'll as bis brother-in-law, Gerrt Smith, has
for years been most decided and uncompro-
missing opponent Of every scheme for the colo
nizalion OF the free colored people of the Uni
ted States, but within the last year h!s senti-
ments have undergone change. and IN the
letter to the convention he takes strong ground
in favor of emigration. His letter will have
great weight. ..
"The subject of emigration has been the
principal one discussed during the session-
On FRIDAY, the President, John NJ. Langston,
Ia graduate of college, addressed the conEen-
ton for nearly two hours IN support OF the
policy OF emigration. He pointed to the sig
nificant fact that nearly every one OF the DIS
tinguished gentlemen who had written letters
to the convention had heartily approved OF the
policy of general emigration, and the devotion
of these men 10 the best interests Of the black
race was unquestionec. He commended there
was natural repellency between the two
ruces, growing out of a consciousness, on the
part OF the whites, that they were the oppres-
sors, and among the blacks that they were OPP
pressed. He warned his race that when they
decided to remain in this country they tamely
and meanIy assented to the absorption and
EXTINCTION of their race. He would never
consent to this. A1f. Langston's scaihiDg de-
nunciation of all who would consent to the
policy of amatgamatioa, will be remembered
by all who heard it. Ii was an able effort"
Mr.. Birney is decidedly opposed to Canada
or the British possessions in any part of the
world, as the spot for emigration, and just as
decidedly gives his voice in favor of Liberia
Mr.. Birney, it will be recollecied, was the can
didate of the Liberty Party in 1874, and has
heretofore been most strenuous opponent of
the whole colonization srheme. His sincerity
cannot be questioned, for he has proved it in a
way which we suspect few of his abolition as
sociates would like to initiate. In other words,
slaves as ever ploughed the soil, in Kentucky.
as soon as they fell to him by the death of his
father. He went even farther than this, for he
provided for their education. and for their first
start in life, thereby greatly impoverishng
himself After such q disinterested act, it
would be hard if the free men of color did not
listen to him, rather than to Horace Mann,
who never did them or any body else any ser
vice, so far as we can learn, and who is doing
all he can against colonization, or to Cassius
nj. Clay, who has rendered emancipation in
Kentucky, at one time probable event, hence
forth, forever. a sheer impossibility. We
learn, from the National Inteligencer, that Mr..
Birney has published a pamphlet on colonial
ton and that paper speaks of it as follows:
BIRNEY ON CoLoNIZATIoN.-The pamphlet
on Colonization, from the pen of Mr.. James G..
Birney, the aboitionist. comprises an exami-
nation into the case OF Srader ct al rs. Ora
ham, recently decided in the United States
Supreme Court, and concludes with an address
to the free colOred people of the United States,
advising them TO emgrate to Liberia. The
point of special interest in the pamphlet is the
advice to the free coored people to emigrate to
Liberia. He points out forcibly the necessity
for their going somewhere before long, owing
to the stringent enactments of the various free
States excluding them fom their territories.-
He contends that the state of things which rem
dered their presence here an encouragement
! to their enslaved brethren has passed away
that their presence can be of no service that
by remaining they will only destroy them
selves that "superiority on the part of the
whites will always be Wanted over them," and
that, "as class, inferiority will always be ac-
knowledged" by the blacks. Having shown
the necessity of going some where, he then
considers the various countries opened to them
Canada, the British West Indies and Libe-
ria. He gives various strong objections to the
two first, and concludes by warmly recon-
mending them TO go to Liberia.
We trust in heaven, for we are, and have al
ways been, friends of the free colOred people,
that they will take this view of the case, and
give it their serious attention, in preference to
being led away by the folly the colored men
of New York. What can they possibly hope
by remaining here Not an equality of PRIV
ileges, not an equal operation of the laws, no,
any thing which may tend to ameliorate their
condition, or make them or their descendants
one century hence, bit better off than they are
at present. Even now, the free States begin
to close their gates against them, and the slave
States are, as if by unanimous impulse, pre-
pairing to cast them forth. Let them go, a
once, to Liberia to that true land ofpromlse
for the free colored man, where they may edu
cate their children, enjoy all the privileges o
equal laws under good government, and be
the founders of nation which shall spread thu
arts, the sciences, the gospel and civilizatio,
over heather land.
We would remark that there is now belor,
the Legislature of Tennessee, bill for the re
moval offree negroes.
e 1t may not be generally known that il
the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama, there exists
Cotton Factory, carried on by a join, stool
company, running 5000 spindles and 1870 looms
This establishment is not only doing profta
BILE business for those interested in its stock