New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-05-12

.xs,,st ri. The colored people are ph:,, H. ,hs
wealth 10 intelligence and n II Is easily seea hat
senres OF tne a. r. n,se and ,ectablty OF
Ss free eoorsd race the Neh men pose1 s "a
sertne aso assrs 10 not merely 70 get out OF th'
Us Dei o. ~, ges rs at convenient and harmless ds
coun' % Slavery And here Sir, think can speak az
lance foy the free coored people Of the United
~ suiT yeooIe OF this Republic may commit ne an
=, high handed atrocy OF driving as out Of me
s of ber borders They may virtually eoniscs,e our
n thev may invade civil and persona hoery'
our lives intolsrabla burdens so thst We may
a. tndaoed TO leave the United States but 70 coapsl
Nc 10 20 10 Africa is quite another thing InanE Co.. me
alternative no. quite so desperate as that sc nus
he slaves here go 10 the pestenai shores Q. Ana
Other and desirable lands open TO US We can
plant ourselves at the very portals OF slavery we eAa
hover about the Gulf Of Mexico. Nearly AL the Isles OF
fhe Caribbean Seas bid welcome. While the broad and
fertile valleys Of British Guiana, under the sway OF the
emancpang Queen inyite .: I, their treasures ana %
Canada on the North. may still keep within hearing OF
the walls of our enslayed people in the United safes
From the isles Of the sea and from the mountain tops 81
South America we can watch the meandcrng destiny Of
those We have lef behind Americans should remember
that there already on this Continent and in TIE
islands all Of 900 negroes who only wait sor ms NE
giving and organizing power Of intelligence N mould sm
into one body and into powerful nation. The following
estimate of our numbers and localities is taken from OF
the able Reports Of the Brsh and Foreign anti Slavery
Society carefully drawn up by its former Secretary John
Scobel Esq: -.
United states CSC 90 Daeh coloue. oeSo
Brazil Dansn 100nlts
s. American RepabEcs .i9oeos $500
Hayti '.a..... szo0 Total........,,257OcOo
Now Sir Il seems to me that the Slavery party viii gain
little by driving Of this country unless i DR. ses 10
of this Continent and the adjacent islands II seems 20 me
that il would be after all Of little a9vanag- to Slavery 70
have the intelligence and energy Of the free cooe1 people
all concentrated in the Gulf oil Mexico SIR am not Tor
going anywhere. am for staying precisely where an
in the land Of my birth But Sir, il must 20 from tins
counryf il is npos bile 20 stay herel am then for DO
ing the best and that will be- 70 20 10 wherever can
hope be Of most service TO the coiored people OF sh-
United States Ameres ans there is meaning IN those
figures have read God does not permit T-lve mion s
OF his creatures 10 live without the notice Of h eye Ina
this vast people are tending to oDe point on s GGnnsa
is not without significance All things are possible WIN
God Let not the cOlOred man despair then LIT MN
remember that home, country a nationality are All
stansbc this side of Liberia But for the present the
coored people should stay Just where they are unless
where thy arc COMPELLED 10 leave. have faith itit yet III
tie wisdom and the Justice Of the country aud may DC
that there enough left Of these 20 save the nation
Bot there j. third object sought by the Slavery party
namely. 20 render Slavery permanent system 10 is '7
public aud u make the relation Of MISTER AID slave re
speoed in every State in the Union Neither par, Of mr.
object can he accomplished Slavery has no means "hr
Itself Of perpetuaCB perInanance. u - huge ne II
is Of the devil and will 90 10 IT'S place tsagsns nature
Government q God. IL cannot stand. u has al enemy
IN every bar OF railroad iron IN every electric wire 10
every Improvement Ia navigation in the growog inter
course Of nations in cheap portage ID 'he reii1lon o.
tariffs in common schools in the progress Of education
the spread OF knowledge in the steam engine and IN nc
Words Fair nov about g. assemble IN New York, and 10
everything that will be exhibited there. About milking
Slavery respectable IN the North. Lave nave been maze 70
accomplished just that thing. The law o 90 and the law
| of 90 And those laws, instead Of getting respect
/ for slavery, have beeot di-trust aud adherence
| Congress might pass slave laws every day ~
The Wear for All me- II each one should be followed b,
such pul llcatons as Uncle Tom aud the Key" I'll
not in the power Of human law 10 make entirely forge
that the slave is man. The freemen Of the North car
never be brought 70 look with the same feelings upon
man. escaping from bis claimants upon horse running
| from bis owner. The save is a man and no slave &c
Now, Sir had more 30 say the encouraging aspects
the tines but the time fails will only say in con
cusOn greater j. be that is for Us than they that ar
against and though labor and peril beset the Ant
Slavery movements sure as that God Of mercy an
Justice is entlroned above all created things, wi
that cause gloriously triumph. Great applause
AZ the close Of Mr. Douglass address the Chairman TOOL
n vote on the adoption Of the resolutions, which wer
unanimously adopted After the singing of another hymn
tire vast audience dispersed.