The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-09
COLONIZATION

the GOOQu6SS Vi uoaScu
COLONIZATION.
The subject of African Coloniz alton is re-
ceiving fresh attention in the Northern
States. Colonization is the only rational and
practicable mode of disposing of the free ne
groes of America 1t presents an opportu-
nifty for them to acquire political and social
equality neither of which can they ever ex-
pect among whites. In Liberia they can rise
to wealth, to the respect Of their fellow men,
and to the most responsible vacations OF life.
In the United States they can never become
aught but hewers of wood and drawers of
water In the North their condition is worse
than in the South. They have none of that
sympathy and compassion Except in print
which is here felt for them, and they cannot
exist in competition with the white race, who,
in contest of energy and skill, will pulve-
rize them to powder.
1t is true they claim this as their country;
they say it is their native land. And so it is;
but how many thousands of white men vo-
UNFAIRLY leave their native land and the
home of their youth, to improve their condi-
ton The whole of the Western and South
western States of the Union were peopled
and built up by such. California and Aus
who have left far behind them birthplace
and friends, and that, when they might have
remained at home, without suffering the de
graduation and hopelessness, which is the lot
of the free negro. Nay, if our forefathers
had urged the childish plea that England
was their country, their native land, and
therefore they could not leave it, the United
States itself would never have existed Let
the free negroes emulate the enterprise and
consistency of the founders of the great Anne
ricsn Republic, and seek a mors friendly
fortune in distant land; which, after all, was
the land of their fathers, and which it may
be their noble mission to reclaim from bar
barism, and exalt among the family of ma
tions.
MILITARY CAPACITY OF THE SOUTH.
From the fippant manner in which some
ofthe Free Soil journals talk of an easy con
quest of the South in the event of civil war,
attenively the resources or the history of
this section of the country 1t does not fol.
low that, because the free States have ma.
jority of numbers, they can produce ma.
jority OF fighting men. Their numbers will
be required to till their fields, whilst the
South, in the event of war, need make ne
draft from its laboring population. More
over, it will possess unlimited supplies of
food, and have the additional advantage of
fighting on its own ground. Even in an ag.
gressive war, the South can in all probabiii.
ty bring more numerous army into the field
than the North. These Free Soil braggsrts
have forgotten, if they ever studied, the an
mails of the Mexican war, which proved that
the South, even in War of invasion, and
shat of a distant land, could out-number the
more populous North. To that war she gave
not only her due proportion of money, but
much more than her due proportion of men,
a. viii appear by the following statement of
the number Of volunteers:
From the South-Regme ats............ss
Companie s...........lS0
10
From che North but % regiments were sent,
and the whole number Of volunteers was. % o48
Thus. in the Mexican war, the South fur
1ished nearly two volunteers to the North
one Bear in mind that the population of
he North is nearly two-thirds greater than
hat of the South, and it viii be seen that
he South, in the Mexican war, furnished |
more than three times her due proportion of |
volunteers! What would she do in a war
lpon her own soil-in war for all that man |
lolds dear-in such war as Abolition |
vould force upon the South? Every male,
rom the boy of twelve to the man of Sc !
'enty, would be soldier literally and truly,
he whole population would be in arms. Can
be Free Sellers promise themselves much
rom such struggle