The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1852-06-30
sick report This is dismal enough
The command was composed of about
300 men.-.X Lotis Republican.
Liberia and Colonization.

DOt CcHtI"iIhtHB ITO Chci Sico Ill hhVIichi
is found in the attempt to erect repub-
lie on the shores of Africa, by the return
thithcr of the ensnarcd and enslaved ma
tivcs, placed among us by the vile traffic
of other ages Liberia is an anomaly
1t is an admission that the negro is
human being capable of self-government.
1t is an expiation for the sins of our
forefathers. 1t is an attempt to compen-
safe, in such measure as we may, their
barbarous man-thefts 1t is the pious
undertaking of the children to pay the
debts of the parent What we send back
may hardly equal the interest of the sum
stolen, but it exhibits penitent desire
to make restitution, and founds hope
that hereafter the restitution may be COM
plete Liberia is one of the proudest
trophies of the national picty.
1t is gratifying to note, as the enter.
prise Of Colonization advances success
sively, the prejudiccs against it give way
The abolitionist, who was wont to hold it
a cunning fence set up by the slavehold-
or to screen himself from direct attack,
admits his error. and commends the en-
igraticn to his colored clients Mr.. Birney
his atoned for numberless mistakes by
recalling his former Incorporate language
towards the scheme Mr. Horace Mann
,tses, in discussing it, terms of the live
liest approval The tone of the aboli-
litionist press is obviously amended.
And. as a direct result, the negro recov
ers his faculties sufficiently to recognize
for himself the benefits of home and
selfcortrol in land where climate and
nature are congcnial The difficulty of
overcoming the aversion Of the race to a
return to their fatherland. daily dimin-
ishes. The question rapidly narrows it
self to one of ways and means. How
can three millions and more of negroes
be transported from one continent to the
othcrl Can it be done at all And
shall this, or the next, or still another
generation, sec it accomplished
The enormous inward tide of Europ-
cans proves that the transportation is
quite practicable, and may be effected
promptly A half million year may as
. easily. and much more pro6tably, be sent
to Africa as imported from Europe.
it tIauSIOtttttpu tiRhO a.
long with it. The colonsts would, at
least temporarily, require food, which the
colony has ample means, in its exotic
productions, of paying for. They are
permanent customers for many Of our
= manufactures, especially those Of cotton
and iron. There is no doubt, We imag
inc, in view Of the German and Irish
: immigration, that million negroes could
!, /, be carried to Africa-if it would pay.
And will it not Tho slave popula
ton increases so rapidly that in fifty years
: the free and servile population Of tho
! slave States will be equal, supposine
the ratio of increase to be what
+ it has been for the last decade. NJ
= Southern man can view this result with
IS out alarm He realizes that emancipn
!, !, tion and colonization must be the RENE
II dy, if it be not the preventive; and on
: ly fears that the remedy will come to-
y late. Besides, more momentous ques
= tion is about to present itself to the
South, upon which, more than upon an.
e abolition or other agitation, the contin
II II uance of slavery will depend, Is ther
~ not other labor fitted for their soil, out
u valuing that of the negro by an infnit
is ratio, and at much diminished cost , !
Is this quarc be answered ycs; and if Cool
III labor, upon trial, prove what it has a
III ready proved in Demerara, Jamaic;
: California, and Cuba, the only difficult
ic will be, how shall the negroes be dispo'
nc ed ofl Colonization presents itself a
10 10 the only resource and it will, We sincere
VI III ly believe, be found profitable to pay fc
~ the removal of the negro to Liberia, an
VI import in his place the skilful and inte
IL ligent and laborious Chinaman. 1t wi
y pay, therefore, let the price be never S
-, cxorbitant, to give to Africa its own, an
~ employ the voluntary oriental
=" With these anticipations, we cannt
Il. exaggerate the Importance Of Africa
'u colonization We arc looking simply I
n an economical question The zealo,
II, Christian may justly cxult in the glorior
NJ promise of the future. when the enshrou,
" ed Ethiopians shall borrow gospel ligl
re from their Liberan brethren who, havin
81 gone down into the house of bondage, r
turn, bringing great prophet and be
| ter religion WIN tnclil. ne nope is
II reasonable one but we have only to q
,'s here with the effect of the exodus upC
h' our own shores The retirement Of IL
g, African race will leave us a comparativ
III ly homogeneous people The negro is
a' present an accident rather than 4 pa
III of the social system. He does not el
IN, JOY, because, from natural or social re
Al sons, he does not merit equality with Il
Irt Caucasian, in position or privilege I'll
Irt taste which tolerates the idea of int
marriage is as exceptional as it is exec
'p, tionable. So long as he remains anon
I'D us, he is helot, call him freeman {
rs slave as you will. Now and then, a
Ell individual rises above the level of h
Tn race; but ouly exhibits, in doing so, Il
iis hopeless abasement of his fellows. The
'n' presence taxes our purses, our patienc
&C. our sympathies displaces our own pc
70, pie from labor that would otherwise sa,
OF them from pauperism and the alms-hous
nc and tends to the culture of manners
re- mong us not quite as compatible as the
ne might be with republican simplicity an
Use equality. The removal ofthe negro cann'
nd fail to benefit the whole white population
'r' and to him the benefit is unquestiona5l
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