The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-09-13

deed extraordinarily where they cannot suffer for food and
raiment and where the Catholic faith and discipline
eminenty successful in cvlizng and Outstanding them
and where they have all the opportunities which they
capable of improving become amalgamated with the
Portuguese racewhere they may acquire right TO free
DOM intermqrriage social equality and where they
do become useful artisans. Among thousands assure
you earnestly aeVer ho tclling return 10
he 6ondage--and than 5ondage-cf Africa hap
py SO conented and improved in condition they in
Brazil And there too well as in the United States, is
a grand resultprovdential its aee-of this much
abused of slavery There too, may be we'll
spring nearer STILL the Masterpieces and the des-
erts of the negro therland which has evidently sprung
| from on Hgh-out of the hard rock of slavery Now,
who does not the finger of God in this, and pointing
directly the deny of the African race in their own
mother country Here the United States with near
half million of free colored, and there is Brazil with
how many not prepared to say ready to pour
back tide of civilization TO compensate thousand-fod
for that barbarc horde of heahens who brought to
the New World, in the economy of Providence to hew
the rocks and make the rough places smooth for
chosen and superior race who in turn for the sa-
very have given TO Africa the arts of civilization and the
knowledge and the worship Of the only true and living
| God
| My answer, then, TO your first question is
The destiny Of the sdge population IN the United States
tooards Africa My authority Gods providence against
all the futile and impious attempts of human Babel-buld-
earth His had better be busy about their
masters work.
| I'd. Your second question" what is your conviction
with regard the practcabty and usefulness to all
Of the colonization scheme Ps answered by my
reply to your first Providence has planned the return of
these free colored Africans Africa 1t is obliged be
practicable and useful to all concerned. But have few
observations to add on this topic.
! twill take centuries to accomplish the work. Two
centuries of the past have but begun it. have idea
! the free colOred
the United States fit for selfgovernment, have
the negro from youth upwards in almost all circum-
stances and know that his tendency if left to himself is
constantly back towards barbarism The colony in Africa
elsewhere continue to have for long period OF
time the and constrant of white superintend
ence and power The ba> X must be sent ahead to
open the Jungle but the white man must be behind him to
press him on guide and guard him, and to save him
when he fees falls.
Looking to the ends of ultimate colonization and to the
true policy of the States at home eouM especially pro-
habit By lac the future emigration q The free eoored po'-
laion from stare to free States. DR.. Drake was
right in his of laws driving away the free
groes to the free States. has been Of the most Jdn
ful causes Of aJolitionism in the North
agree they remain very long in the slave States
The end will be that they must accept the terms of coon
zaon and go the mission designed for them in Africa
elsewhere Where else they go? What else could
have been done?
| This question brings me to call your attention to
golden opporniy which lost by that very blindness
of anacsm which always berays itself and defeats its
own ends California the theatre for grand depeop
of this subject To have allowed her gold mines to be
worked by slaves would have produced marked revou
ton Every corn-feld in Virginia and North Carolina in
Maryland Missouri Tennessee and Kentucky would have
been empted of black aborers and doubt whether many
slaves would have been left work the cotton and sugar
estates of the other southern plantations This would
not haze added single Stare to the number in being
1t would hare d6used Stare pooe but would rather
hare concentrated The sldces all comparatively in State
and thus hare ueakened its federal strength in The Union
and ve gears Of their labor in the gold mines wouM hare
enriched Mat they could ably emancipate
them at The end Of that time than they could sell them
for taN market price; and when emancipated, there
was all Poynesa-all the isles of the Pacifc-before
them for colonization in the plensantest places for
them on earthi OH what mighty opportunity was
there lost for the workings of great philanthropy for
humanity without harmi And what was gained Why,
the Generalization Of hundreds Of thousands of whites by
the accused thirst and hunt for gold such threatens to
bring down ashes from Heaven minge with the dust of
Mammonl But !, too perhaps am impious in thus re-
pining. Such opportunity SO papably lost only
proves doubtless how weak is mans wisdom-God works
in His own way. He meant, may be that the African
should not be demoralzed by the ush but should still
taught and plant and plough and reap the crops
of mother Garth and be trained the mechanic and be
prepared 10 people ricaArica not the isles of the Ash
atics-or the African! console myself with That and
that is the best solacelooking to God always and espe
cialy and prevent the mischief Of many wrongs
done by the violent Californian outrage Slavery out of
the question: our constitution and form of government
stricken the fatal stab yet felt in his
tory, by the military induction into the Union of that
Mammon State The severes blow slavery in the Uni
ted States which aboitoniss could have given would
have been 10 offer bountes to masters 10 take their
slaves the gold mines But no. they were BLIND enough
violate the constitution of the United States and to
justify military usurpaton in the of Brgadie General
Riley, Who from the CAMP, proclaimed territorial goper
nenwho after thus meeting and satisfying the plea of the
saus popal" by organizing territorial government back
ed by naval and military force of the United States wen
further, and from the camp again proclaimed TIME PLACE
and of holding elections prescribed the electric fran
chisegape the right Of ootg to those who citizens
qcriinaely to Peruvan and Patagonan, Chinese and
Chdp, 10 xiea and ppIaitO, ard 10 member Of Con-
grcs from Georgia. and from this promscuous aggregate
of population masseaot people any organized sense
exercised the highest attribute of man, next TO that of
Deity the attribute Of organizing convention which to
create and did create State 10 be indicted into Mis Union
All this done By military commander from the camp
sustained by what called yree-sosmi God the
constitution and the civil from the domination of the mill
tary authority But abolitionism warning slavery
sorted to this extreme example to defeat what would have
done more for emancipation and colonization in the next
quarter of century than all the abolition societies in Old
England and New England do upon earth Such
is the madness and vanity of fanaticism
3D. your third question shows that your standpoint sir