New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1852-03-19
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LiHDA" Saturday, Sept. 20, 1851.

o. Ieferson's Notes on the State vi VIZ
,;r;s y written and published in l7Sl-e, IN an
ever TO certain queries propounded 10 the au'hor
hv the Count de Marbois, has become scarce
hook. I believe else a refereace to the BOOK
;,sslf for such of the Notes" as am desrous
to have repubiished in your columns, might nave
saved me the labor of copying them from an o'u
edition, printed in Boston in 1907 Inc discus
sion of what may. well be called Ire NeS'o
O,>.,;o,., occupies so many minds ana en-
nIoxs so MANY pens in this our day, I'm 100 many
,,s,.cc.s iniuriously to the cause oil truth anu
,nstice \ that have thought 1t might serve
GOOD purpose to set before the public what were'
nearly seventy years ago, Thomas Jeterson's
,;,xs of the Negro Race and Of Negro Stavery-
In reply TO the 9Th, 18th and 18th queries OF
N. de Msrbois, Mr.. Jefferson found himself
called on for some particular remarks upon this
subject, which he did not fail TO furnish. THESE
ELECTED and embraced the distinguished authors
views and opinions of the then existing con,
ditiop OF the negro race in Virginia the natural
and marked distinction between the white and
black races the true policy and moral duty OF
the one the true interests of the other, and OF
both. These views, written so long ago, wnen
the subject could be calmly and dispassionateiy
considered when ii was not, as 1t nor is, napie
to be drawn in and incorporated with, ana maze
subseryient TO the epheneral party Poll'lcs OF
the day. were presented with the naanJesny
single object Of promoting, in due season, the
cause of practical philanthropy ana lustfce In
the premises. High above all the grovehhg
marty propensities that actuate men, ana lnfiame
their narrow preJudices at this day, on TINS par
tieular subject, as truly are tne opinions mere
set forth by the great Phanthropist and States
A iica n
IONS cannot but be acceptable, am sure, to the
ne sdeys OF your very useful and popular puoicaron
And trust You viii, with your usual canoof ana
fairness give them place m re ISaoans LA ever
moved IL must be, or else - IL must De enec.eo
by Colonization and II ever by Colonization, the
states must be used. The races must be widely
separated Shall tcenfy millions 81 Whtes suneI
three millions of Blacks, by their mere presence
among u.s. either pomna Zee D or IN of tss gy.st
and mighty Republic Surely not II aremedy can
be found. For one, am prepared and ready noUto
give my voice unhesitatingy in favor OF any feasible
plsn to send every negro far away Ito Africa from
our land, with all possible dispatch peaceaoly,
we can, fOrcibly If we must" This must De oone IN
the spirit of Kindness and Christian philanthropy to.
ward the blacks, and from the pressing motive OF
self.preservation on the part OF the whites AND l
assume the ground that the latter cannot be secured,
unless the other is frat accomplished
A careful, candid Iteration OF this whole SUBJ
iect In all its bearings aided by Mr.. Jeersons mas
tsyy views here with presented cannot FAIL 1t seems
to me- to convince any rational mind that separation
bv Colonization Is the only remedy-that this rene'
dy mnsf be resorted to, and Can only be effectively
applied through the power and influence OF the Ma
tional Government acting in full concert with the
" Slaveholdlng States" Can all this De done iais
Is most conseq uential question, truly but, In be-
half OF the Republic, boldly answer Yes. 1t may
cost many millions of dollars but II the gold mines
OF California should be exhausted, and as much
more, in the enterprise, the consummation would
be cheaply purchased. G. C. S.
September 90, 1851.
nreply TO the 9Th query" The number OF its ia
habitants ir--MT. Jefferson makes the following
statements and remarks Free inhabitants $780,
$50 slaves, 270,762: 567,6l4 inhabitants, OF every
age, sex and condition.-Under the mild treatment
our slaves experience, and their wholesome though
coarse food, this blot on our country increases as
fast, or faster, than the whites. During the Regal
Government, we had at one time obtained a law
which imposed such duty on the importation OF
slaves, as amounted nearly to a prohibition, when
one inconsiderate Assembly, placed under a pecu-
harity Of circumstances, repealed the law This re-
and no devices, no expedients which could ever
after be attempted by subsequent Assemoes-snd
they seldom met without attempting them--could
succeed in getting the Royal assent to newal Of
the duty. In the very frat session held under the
Republican Government the Assembly passed law
for the perpetual prohibition OF the Importation OF
slaves. This will, In some measure, stop the In
crease OF this great political and moral evil, while
the minds OF our citizens may be Ipenng for acom-
pletc emancipation Of human nature"
In answer TO the l4th query" The adninistra-
ton of Justice, and the description of the Lsssl"-
The author, after enumerating several proposed
alterations in the laws, quotes the following, most
probably proposed by himselfD as plan to rid the
State OF the blot" Of negro slavery, and then pro-
ceeds to sive his views, fully and freely, OF the
character and condition the black race &c: ITO
emancipate all slaves born after passing the Act
- that they should continue With their pa
rents to certain age, then be brought up at the
public expense, to llage. arts or sciences, according
10 their geGiuses till the females should be eighteen
and the males twenty years of age when they
should be colonfzed to such place as the circum-
stances OF the time should render most proper ;
sending them cut with Armt, implements OF house.
hold, and the handicraft arts, seeds, pairs of the
useful domestic ANIMALS, &C., to declare the free
and independent people, and extend TO them our
alliance and protection, till they have acquired
strength, and to send vessels at the same time TO
other parts OF the world, for an eQuai number OF
white Inhabitants, to induce whom to migrate hither
proper announcements were TO be proposed" 1t
will probably be asked, why not retain and mcorpo-
rate the blacks int the State and thus the
pense OF supplying by Importation OF white settlers
the vacancies they VIII leave Deep-rooted preiu-
diees entertained BY the whites ten thousand recol
lecnons by the blacks Of the injuries they have sus-
tanned, new proyocatons the real distinctions which
Will divide us into parties and produce convulslons
which would probably never end but in the extermi-
naton OF the ore or the other 10 these oslec
uons, which are political, may be added others
which are physical and moral The first difference
which strikes us Is that Of coioT Whether the black
OF the negro resides IN the rst'cslar membrane be-
eween the skin and the scarfskaa in the scarskn
itsen, whether 1t proceeds from the color Of the
blood the color OF the bile or from that of some 9TH
or sseIetion the difference is fixed in nature ami b,
as real a. II It's seat and we're better kno wn 10
as And Is this difference OF no Importance Is i,
mot the foundation OF greater or less share of be a-
" IN the two races Are not the tue mixtures OF
red and white, the expression of every passion by
greater or less sutnsions Of color the one prefer
epie 10 that eternal monotony which reigps in the
cenntenances, that immovable veil Of black which
covers al the emotions Of the other race Add to
these, FLOWING hair, more elegant symmetry of
tefm, toen own judgment IN favor OF the whites de-
she preference OF the 0raa0ofaa for the black wsmen
over those OF their own species The circumstance
superior beauty is thoagh, worthy of attention in
the propagation OF our horses dogs and other domes
We snimAis-why not In that of man Besides those
coior hgors and hair there other physical dis
SihSstons, proving u Ulnerencc of face They hay