Washington sentinel. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1856, 1855-08-30
ABOLITION AND SOCIAL COLONIES
ATTEMPTED IN THE TERRITORIES
AND SLAVE sTATES-M. CONSIDER

coHstltullohai, anu IN many INSTANCES DdrDaTous
and brutal attacks-have made the right thinking
people of our country extremely susceptible and
sensitive. None have gone further in repelling
such attacks, in opposing the know-nothng
party, and in asserting the supremacy of the
Constitution and the naturalization laws, than
ourselves, but there are certain nterferences
that even we cannot and will not submit to- We
have a great country, interninable in extent,
blessed with every variety of climate, and
adapted to every kind of production. We have
vast uninhabited wilds that resound oftener with
the tread of the buffalo or the howl of the wolf
than with the step the voice Of man. We
have room for the oppressed, the enterprising,
the industrious, and the patriotic of every cline
and country. They are welcome We would
say to them, concur are open TO receive
you: Come and be NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and be
naturalzed as individuals, and you will be in
corporatcd into our free American brotherhood.
Yet when an effort is made to plant amongst
US, and that, too, in slave State, (Texas,) a
colony of French socialists and abolitionists,
(they are endorsed by the New York Tribune, }
then we demLr, most positively and absolutely
We want no abolition plantations or colonies
here, whether they be foreign or native. We
want no European ideas Of liberty. We carved
out, by our own strong arms, the independence
of this country, and we want nothing of foreign
origin infused into our system.
These remarks suggested by most judi
cious and sensible article which we have read in
the Ieras Stale Gazette, headed Socialism
will not do in Texas" The article in the
Gazette contains structures pamphlet by Vic
tor Considerant, entitled European Colonial
ton in Texas and addressed to the American
people.
The colony which NJ Considerant desires to
plant in the heart of Texas is a colony of social
lists. What socialism is, few at this day are I'M
informed. But, before consider the import
of the term socialism, we have a remark to make
on the general subject of colonization in this
country.
We are opposed to the whole system. We
are nation-a distinct and sovereign nation
Over the whole vast territory that belongs to US,
our government, with its free institutions, ex-
tends. That government being good enough for
US, should be good enough for all others 1t
should be, it must be, and is, good enough for all.
We want no other nationalties lifting up them
selves amongst us. We want to see no band Of
men, either American Europeon, either great
or small, colonizing a part of our country, at
tempting to maintain a separate organization,
carrying out new theories and systems of gov
rnment, and holding themselves aloof from US.
If hundred, or a thousand, or ten thousand
men, either from country or from foreign
countries, think proper individuals, and not a.
a separate organization, to remove and TO settle
upon the soil of State Territory, we woult
be the last to object. But we do not think tina
any set of men, whether aliens or natives, should
be encouraged to erect government within oul
.government-an emporium in imperio." We
already have the Indians, whom consideration
Of humanity induce TO leave to themselves
We have, too, the Mormons, who stole march
upon us, with their peculiar religion and mar
rage system, but who, fortunately for them and
for us, respect and venerate the Constitution o
the United States.
But socialists are system-makers, government
builders and communists-they are political in
cendiaries and propagandists, and would not only
plant themselves and their social institutions up
on our soil, but would endeavor insidiously and
furtively TO erect the system OF government which
they espouse, on the same soil. Their system il
altogether different from our system. 1t is en-.
trely antaganistic to IL. Besides, il is an aboli
ton system. II is useless for NJ. Consderant oil
NJ Anybody-else TO attempt TO disguise IT. They
want to get foothold here, and they will adop
any means 10 do So Ii sin vain for NJ. Conside
rant 10 attempt TO hide his purposes under thu
rubbish Of pedaniic and scholastic phrases
Those purposes are plain and palpable. lie may
say he does say in his pamphlet
81 am Of opinion that, with the scientific and
specific progress of the age; with the development
Of the social relations of humanity, America may
expect the Improvement OF her social institutions
but do not think that she ought to demand THU
by violent, sudden and revolutionary measures
in fine, believe il desirable for the interests o
the colored race, and for its future welfare tina
THE EVIL OF SLAVERY SHOULD NOT
BE INCREASED by an addition of peculia
grants-that Of war excited by this question be
tween the North and the South"
The meaning Of all this, though attempted L
be concealed under scientific, nay, pedanti,
phraseology, is the meaning given to il by the
Gazette. That journal says:
'Ihese well-turned sentences are perfectly un
derstood by Mr.. Greeley Of the Tribune, and al
other abolitionists. u have friends says NJ
Considerant, both among the ,aboltionists and
among the shareholders The social relation,
of humanity means 'nigger good as white man,
and 'the scientific and peaceful progress, is tn,
development Of this fact in the legislative depart
ments Of the State governments of the North
where the equality Of the negro TO social priv
eges, 70 the rights Of voters and TO free Il
the white schools, TO the pulpit, and TO the prac
tice Of law and physic, is being successfully de
velopcd at the North, by long array of spuriou.
proofs in support of negro equality; drawn from
physiology, history, &c"
Now, we would be the last 10 refuse welcome
10 any man or company Of men who come to set
tie in our country and make IT their home. But
let them come as individual citizens, knowing nc
law, no Constitution, no Government but ours
Let them buy lands as others buy lands. Tha
they should come in companies and settle in com
panies is but natural, for all men desire TO b,
settled among acquaintance and friends.
But slave State is the last place on this eartl
on which colony Of abolitionists, either from
northern State or foreign State, should be per