The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-01-29

The rapid increase up TO 1910. arose in part from
importations from Africa the decrease thence to
le2O, arose from the removal from the State OF
some 5000 slaves, by their owners, who sough,
thus to escape loss by the act of emancipation
which was passed in lol6. From 1920 to $40, the
increase Of this class steadily 2 per cent per
am TN. This may be set down as stosdy aud
normal increase, for any population IN comfortable
circumstances, as IL differs from the increase OF the
people of England, for the time only 0 Is par
cent, less than one fifth of one per cent
And unless some distur bing cause occurred, the
laws Of increase tx inevitably the colered popula
ton Of 1850 at Per cent higher than that of 1910
No such disturbing cause has occurred fecundity
mas not been arrested their morality has gradual
ly lessened; marked emigration had taken place,
up to June, 1850, when the census was taken, al
though since the passage Of the fugitive slave law
in September ct that year, some Two thousand OF
the self emancipated have gone TO canada.
motto Excelsior" and, therefore, cannot look
down towards the acts of Indiana in search Of exam
pie In New York, while one in tifty-three white
adults Gncluding vast and illiterate emigration)
cannot read and write, in Indiana in seventeen
cannet read or write; hence Indiana has but one
third of the intelligence Of New York, and Indiana,
chershing among her patriotic memories " the
ingorious fight even to Saltilo," may be excused
for expressing her dislike to men with colored skins,
by large popular vote forbidding their immigra-
ton. Even So had our Governor been disposed to
look at the colored man in any other than malign
view, he might have Cleaned from the history Of
Ohio that, by this very vote, Indiana has probably
bid for large increase of her colored population.
In 1870, Ohio, with cOlored population Of !, 723,
passed her black laws, which were even more strin-
gent than the recent constitution Of Indiana against
colored immigration. In 1850 we find Ohio with
colored population of q, 300 and this population
Of such weight and influence as to have caused the
repeal Of the black laws aforesaid.
Or, his Exec lency might have glanced at our
neigbboring State, Mass achusetts in which equal
franchise, from the foundation of the State, mas
resulted 10 raising colored men to the various
trades and professions incla ding the administration
Of the laws and has further caused the abolition of
old law, which forbid the intermarriage Of blacks
and whites.
In Canada, also, there is CIVIL social, and politi-
cal equality between the white and the black man,
and his Excellency cannot be ignorant that the in
stincs OF the black man have carried him thither.
Whilst the American Colonization Society, with
enormous outlay of some three millions Of dollars,
has succeeded in planting colony, now mum boring
some six thousand colored Americans, on the coast
Of Africa; five times that nu ber that is to say,
thirty thousand colored Americans, have volun-
tarily colonized themselves in Canada, and are be
come, 10 the fullest extent, part and parce Of the
State.
His EXcelency is pleased to proclaim that the
instincts Of nature, too powerful to be counter
acted by the reiiuements Of aostrac; reasoning,
proclaim thai the two races must be, sooner or
later, separated A Hieefnian philoso pher h I'd
the acuteness TO discover that mental state IN which
man
Meets with friend,
AID FOR love knocss hin down"
But it has been reserved for Governor Hunt TO
trace ou5 me lew psychological fact; that the very
large adm,xture OF the =" two great race" in the
United States is the result CT instructive aGtipany
| The term " colored," popularity applied 10 us,
proves that We no longer, IN appearance or
race, pure Africans. Forty i've years have elapsed
since the foreign slave trade ceased to-day, of the
| 36t2 $50 slaves and free colored in the United
States, apart from those actually born In Africa j.
ismore TO find persons OF pure lrcan descent,
| than to find among the whites persons of pure
! French or German, or Irish descent
Our fellow. citizens of the South, whose expe-
rience about cheese "nstincts Of nature" cannot be
questioned earnestly favor perpetual union of the
two great races, and even cling to this union as
something more desirable than the union with the
white States Of the North, looking forward to the
time vhen the want Of the irstnamed union shall
peril the peace and the prosperity of the North,
they chivalIously promise to bring their mixed
population. u e. arms, 10 reduce the unhappy
North to becoming state of social order and IN
tercourse dieter Of John &. Calhoun, NEW YORK
HERALD, Jan. IL, 1922
The vote of this State, denying US equal fran
chse, was not expression OF popular antipathy.
Had there been such antipathy, it would have
wrenched from us all right TO vote. The question
decided in ls46 yas political one. We have ever
been known staunch wings. Hence the demo.
cratic party, with few noble exceptions, voted
against adding to the wing ranks voters who would
have secured the whig preponderanca in the State.
About the city Of New lork, the democrats added
to their vote against us, by representing that our
sfrsn chisement would seriously interfere with the
employment Of the laooring population And, in
the next, the dreadful murders committed by an
insane man Of color, was made an effective weapon
against US.
And now, fellow citizens, we are done. Il. is q
grave thing for men, in the quiet pursuit of their
lawful avocations-men who have neither burdened
the state by their improvidence, nor disturbed it
by their importunity-for these men 10 be sud-
denly summoned in the midst of q most Indictment
season, at a distance from their homes, to show
cause why they shall not be removed, as COM
mon NUISANCE, from their native state.
Such, in plain words, is the amount OF the state
ments and the accommodation Of the Governor.
We have endeavored to the best OF our humble
ability, to show that his statements incorrect,
and we earnestly and solemnly protest against he
adoption OF his recommendation, 10 appropriate
funds for our removal to Africa or anywhere else.
First-because the appropriation is unconstitu.
sional. The 10th section OF the 7th article Of the
constitution states, that " the credit of the STATE
SD all net in any manner be given loaned to, in
aid Of any individual association incorporation"
The American Colonization Society is an " asso-
citation" foreign to the state, and unknown to its
laws BY granting no matter what sum TO that SO,
ciey, the good faith Of the state would be pledged
to the cruel and monstrous doctrines which that
society is tounded-that a man has no right to live
in the land Of bis birth.
Secondly - Because such appropriation is entirely
unnecessary. OF the colored population OF this
state, there not fifty persons, all told who de-
sire to emigrate to Africa Even the New ork
and Liberia Agricultural Association, no longer
held together by the cohesive power OF eleemeynary
plumber, is organized TO send other persons to
Africa-other persons having been conjurcd up for
the purpose Of lining the pockets Of the members Of
the association.
We need no State appropriation should it ever
occur that shall be called upon to leave our M
tive state, having means Of our own, we shall not
burden the public fund in our departure, any more
than we DO while remaining at home In consult
ing the mysteries Of Providence, touching such de-
parture, and with his face turned toward the East,
our worthy chief magistrate has not been vouch-
saied the true reading Of the auguries Lonatt tae-
Gum the road is short to Canada from whose fer
tile fields and equal institutions, we might be per-
which, in giving birth has entwined in it's co "a
mon veal every fibre Of our being this would take
away half the bitterness Of our exile, and would
leave us the privilege, should peril como her, Of
bareipg the breasts Of black as shield to what
ever blows might be hurled against the he art OF the
Empire state.
1birdly-We protest against such appropriation,