The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-18

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YOUNG AFRICA AGAIN LETTER FROM LEWIS
q. PUrNAM-Our article in the HERALD Of
Monday, on the conventions Of colored msa
celled to meet at Philadelphia and Troy, has
called out various express ons of opinion from
several sources, white and black.
1t has also walked up Me-. Lewis Fl. Putnam,
colored man, of Bedford, in the State Of Lag
Island who sends us his ideas on the subject
referred to. Mr.. Putnam transmits two pro'ix
circulars and letter. We publish the letter
or reasons annexed, but must decline to re-
print the circulars. We must be mercifdl, Me-
Putnam. as we'll as just, aud we cannot bore
our readers with half column of abstr actioos
wien the mercury marks ninety degrees Fab
renheit.
Perhaps some ofouy readers do not know our
correspondent, Mr.. Lewis II. Putnam. We re-
member him He is like Crispos Attacks, the
mu1atto VINO was killed at the Boston massacre
in 1878; be ia like the nameless negro who
figures in all the pictures Of the battle of Bao-
ker Hill; be is like the battalion of blacks who
did such good service ia the RevOluti onary war,
and were publicly Thanked by General WASH
ington; he is like Captain Joha Tyler's b,'-
man, who followed his lord aud master from the
shades of Sherw Forest to the big wars and
could not get a land warrant; like the memory
of oil those heroes who have been immortalized
in abolition lectures hundred times. Mr.
Lewis II PutDem's name is inse parably inter-.
woven with the thread of the history of the
republic Thus
After General Scot. had reduced the city OF
tie Monteznmas and finished the war with
Mexico, Major Ripley, OF the army, wrote
book upon the subject, in the app endix to
which be states that when the pos Office in the
city of Mexico was overhauled, there we're
found letters from Lewis e. Putnam, to Santa
Anna, Almonte and others, Offering to stir
up revolution amoog the blacks 10 the
Southern States, aud lead them to take sides
with the Mexican government 1t is well
known that many Mexicsns believed that there
would be a slave instruction in the United
States, and that by the aid Of the negroes the
Mexican banner might be planted on the dome
Of the Capitol at Washington. Mr.. Putnam
who is plausible colored gentleman, hav.
ing more of the suauiter in modo than OF
the foytter in ve-was willing to elevate
the colored race and put Mexican dollars in
bis purse by helping along this praissworthy
object. We hope that when negro patriotism
is again referred to, Mr.. Lewis II. Putnam will
not be forgotten
Mr.. Putnam's plan at present is to colonize
part Of Liberia, and provide every negro
family with farm and tools to cultivate it
with Congress is to appropriate the ridicu-
lousy small sum OF six millions to pay for land,
expenses of one hundred thousand emigrauts,
end so forth. 1t won't do, Mr.. Putnam. Give
negro, or even some white men, farm, stock.
tools, ETC., and he will bssk laz,ly in the suo,
waiting for some one to help him work it. No,
the negroes must earn their own farms, their
own passage money. their own farming imple.
Who knows bat from the new republic yet to
be established on the shores Of Africa, mod.
ern Hannibal or Scipio might arise, overran
the south of Europe, and carry the banner of
Young Africs into the cantons of Switzerland,
or the vineyards of France. Give the black
man fair chance on his own SOIL and he may
work wonders.
Meanwhile, let Young Africa remember what
we have said. Its action in cutting loose from
the designing white trash, in giving the cut
direct to the hypocrites who have been filing
their own pockets while pretending to be at
work for the liberation of the slave and the
elevation o, the free negro is commendable.
But, their only safety Ia ia emigration--volun-
tary, gradual straightforward as paupers, but
as free citizens deliberately returning from
the house OF bondage to the sunny land Of
their fathers
Let Young Africa, as Mr.. Wise wrote to the
Granite Club, Number One, ofBoston, "be firm,
be united, be true, and We shall yet zee the
country safe" Above all, let Young Africa
beware of outside pressure and inside divi-
SONS. Look out for Seward, Greeley, Ray moad
and Company
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