Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-05-06
COLONIZATION.

Somebody sends us q report Of the Select Com
miuce of the House Of Representatives of Penn
sylyana recommending an appropriation OF firo
thousand dollars to the Pennsylvania Colonization
Society. The report contains the usual amount OF
CANNON relative to the Icnerolencc of Society
whose policy tends 20 pcrpctuate the prejudice
against the Afric-American, to root the impression
in the minds of the white opprcssors that tho two
races must be forever inimical thus TO furnish n
convenient excuse for the stakeholder, and compel
the Afric- American TO the alternative of opprcs-
sion here, or cxpatriation to Africa Like all colo
nization reports it is falso in its premises, puerie
in its reasonngs, and grossly unjust toward the
cOored people While assuming TO aim at the
melioratiOn of the condition Of the free colored
people, and at the ultimate removal of the slaves
to Africa freed men, the real effect Mt the North,
is to injurc the free colored people. by dycrting
benevc!ence from the really useful modes in which
il might be directed to their education, and moral
and social elevation and at the South, TO tighten
the tuttors Of the slaves, by enabling their oppros-
sors TO rid themselves Of the more intelligent and,
therefore, less manageable free blacks who disturb
the qnictudc ,f tie benevolent Patrinrchs. The
report referred to, like all of the Colonization prog
env, has the ear marks, by which its origin can
always be traced. II deals in deception as q
familiar trade All the old timeand-agan rclutea
tales ub0ut the thousand of miles Of the African
coast where the slave trade has been eXtnguished
tho "cyilizirg and Chrlstiani2ing," results OF
COloni2iHg Africa with set OF Ignorant, vicious
and degraded 1--WE quote from the Colonization au-
thorizcs) slaves and other black people, who. eay-
our shores thus characterized or stigmatiscd on
Colonization authority ITSELF by somo miraculous
sea transformation, becomes only yiruous and
intelligent. on the passage, but most fitting
missionaries of Republican Equality, Ciyiliza-
ZION and Christianity among the heathcn of
Africl! rruly We need Theological
Seminares my, no schools of any kind here at
homc-if this saltwater transmutation is a rule
for whites rs well as for blacks.
And what bencfccnt discovery it was that the
African climate is the one best suited to the health
OF the native American colorrd men-"thc native
home Of the race" and therefore the "Laud OF
promise" to which he must go--will or Mill. Will
the committee do the favor to seek out the native
lhsnes of NIL the other (whitc) American races
AMI provide for the expartria;on OF those that We
may not like any better than the natives !--who
by-thc-bye, did not come here voluntarily, and
should il possible be left one choice at least that
Of staying in peace, if, they preferred to do so.
| As specimens of trickery-thc report Of the leg
islatye committee says
During the past year, more than one hundred
thousand dollars were drawn from the State Treas
ury, for purposes Of charitable nature. Very few
of these institutions have conferred any benefit on
the colorcd population. BY the character Of the
Pennsylvania Lunatic Hospital, no person Of copi
can, under any circumstances, lie admitted into
pie rs class, have heretofore received very few
Of the bounties Of the Commonwealth
Ergo. proceed the committee, give $4,000 to tht
Colonization Society, which alone will extend it,
bonevolcnce to the colorcd people. And VIII,
should not the State more justly provide that al
its hundreds Of thousands of dollars Of charity
should be bestowed only where it will be used ~
humanity and Christianity ihstruct-to Ienef
the luuatic the destitute, the diseased, the suffer
Iit,sr .f ,nNn hn Ia
Samaritan alike.
Again says the report:
"The work is practicable to transport to Africa
three millions Of men, women and children. But
it cannot be dono without money
Yes, "all things nrc posgibla"--as the Dutch
man said, "a man might bite his own nose of
but where, in all human ken Of possibilities, is
the money to come from to purchase tor that
the South clams,) those three millions Of slaves
valued by Henry Clay at twelve hundred MILLIONS
of dollars and foot up the cost Of their transporta
ton TO and fitting out in Liberia, besides?
But, say the committee
at is asccrtained that there are over four mil
lions of Europeans, and the immediate descendants
of Europeans, in the United States; and they arr
now coming to our shores at an average ofa thou
sand day. lfthe emigration should continue Il
advance for the next years has done the las
We shall have five millions of people in ten years
And all this without Government aid to any appreci
able extent. The whole NOV emcnt is founded upoi
private interests. Aud it has been officially as
certnined, that the Irish cmigrants, besides sus
tanning themselves in this country during thre
years, sent home to their kindred in their natiy
land, fifteen millions of dollars. Are we to b'
told then that, these States, in connexion will
State appropriations and private benoyolcncc, can
not in the course Of generation or two transpor
tho colOrcd population, Of less than three aud
) half millions, to the Western Coast of Africa
Especially, as it is measure of public peace an,
safety, public Justice, public beneyolencc, publ
honor and national prosperity"
Very good logic, but ior one flaw. Those emf
grants were free to own themselves, to accumuat
property, and most Of them able thus to pay 70
their own conveyance to cur shores. NO master
owned their bodies and souls, and pocketcd all IA
wages OF their labOr--they were not 10 bc pul
chased from those masters at l.C0COOO COCO Of dol
lars. Not SO with the American cOl0red pcopl
. three millions of them slaves to 100000 slave
T. holders
But perhaps We may have overlooked an inter
ton first to abolish slavery here SO that the con
lmitees benevolent scheme may he achieved /
like economical manner Not at all. We ris
} nothing in saying that Messrs. Hunsecker Mile
c llillcr, Abrahams, and Kilgore, are decided foe
y of AbolitiOnism- would call us a "ianatic,
I freDand, an enemy to the Union and to Demo-
racy, for advocating Aboitionism and the sla'
must remain save, ignorant, vicious ana ueSr
ded,' or take the alternative OF going from h
o prison house to the Colonization ship, and bccon
? ing transformed presto miraculo into missional
d Of Liberty, Civilization and Christianity. SO th
e Uncle Sam, or we the people, must foot the who
l. bill Of Sl200000000 for ohatte property, and Il
costs of removal besides. We may suggest, to
o that the three millions Of slaTes before tho plt
J. may begin to be accomplished.
e Ono more extract, and wo close, The Commits
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