Daily American telegraph., 1852-01-22
From the New York Sun.
Negro Colonization Why the Colored
Race go to Canada. at4

We are informed by the newspapers that Mr.
Pollard, who had been in the United States for
several months for the purpose Of inducing the
free colored people to emigrate to Trinidad has
returned to that island, and reported his mission
as unsuccessful. t. ..., ~.
With all the eXertions made by the Colonization
Society, and all the agitation in this country
against the slavery Of the colored race, it is
torious fact that they cannot be induced to 90 to
Liberia, where they could enjoy perfect freedom,
in republic like our own, nor to the West India
islands, under the sway Of the British govern
ment; but they are ever ready to cross the line
to Canada, atmosphere in which they enjoy
themselves above all others under the sun, except
that Of the United States. What is the cause Of
this difference in favor Of Canada? 1t is not be
cause the colored race are so ardent in their de-
sire for liberty as some Of their patriots and the
white Abolition philanthropists would have the
world believe; for there is as much freedom in
the West India Islands as in Canada, while in
Liberia, the blacks have it al their own way.
What, then, is the cause?
The free negroes in the United States have
learned to become politicians. In the State Of
New York, in Ohio, and the other free States,
they have been taught party politics by the lead
ers Of the factions, and they have begun TO feel
their own weight in turning the scale Of victoryto
one side or the other. They have thus acquireda
taste for electioneering and for an atmosphere Of
political excitement. But in the West India
Islands, and in Liberia, there is no agitation 10
crafty that taste, and they would have no theatre
on which to play their parts either for dollars or
applause. In Canada, on the contrary, there is
political agitation in abundance; aud there the
negroes feel themselves at home. We learn that
in some of the counties of western Canada, tho
colored settlers form quite an element in cleo
tioneering movements: and, facilities are given
for the acquisition Of small freeholds, they speed
lily take their places in the list of electors, and
more or less influence the result of the contests.
Here, then, is the secret of the negro emigration
to Canada.
But il is very curious fact, and one which IL
lustrates the fitness of the negro race for free in
stitutions, that when they get TO Canada they
generally join the party most opposed to liberty.
The Canadian reform papers complain of the in
gratitude of the refugees who, at the late gene
raj election voted in favor Of the tory candidates
and thus insured their success while the liberal
party have ever been foremost to cooperate with
the coored people in assisting the escape Of runa
ways, and in defeating the ends Of the fugitive
slave law in the L. States. Its evident, then that
il is not for the love of liberty the slaves fee from
service to Canada, that the free negroes volunta
rily emigrate to that country in such numbers; but
purely for the purpose of indulging their passion
for excitement, and in furthering their amoineus
ideas of their own importance as an Ingredient in
the boiling cauldron Of political agitation. Ii is
in this stroubed element that Abolhonists, of every
shade, of color and opinion, live, move, and have
their being Out Of it they are like fish out Of
water.
Double, double, toll and trouble,
Firc burn. and cauidron bubble.
Black spirits and white
Red spirits and gray,
Minge, mingle, mnge,
You that mnglc may
OMNIBUS DtALoGUE--''I / ask you, driver, how
many does this vehicle hold?" THAT, sir, de-
pends upon circumstances !: twelve persons on an
average in fine weather, twenty-four when 1t
rains"
A young lady asked o clerk in dry-goods
store in Chestnut street, if he had "any sa6dsted
,aouse-color silk?" "No." said he, "but we have
some eRrdged rdt-colOr.'
Counterfeit gold-dolars are getting to be quite
FREQUENT. They may be known as ballet-dancers
are--by their light weight and brassy appear
ance.
Good company and good conversation are the