The Washington union., 1857-05-13
From the Baltimore American
THE ABoLTrIoNIsrs AND COLONIZATION.

From the Baltimore American.
THE ABoLTTIoNISTS AND COLONIZATION.
The difficulties which beset in distinguishing truth
from falsehood appear to multiply with the advance of
civilization. 1t is indeed malignant incident of fall
estate that the tares not only ngo with the wheat
but thrive in compound ratio, requiring previous
reclamation of the soil and being indigenous everywhere
Thus grows ingenious faster than truth grows
strong; the cs descus Are illustrates itself in the
eageess with which accept the suggestions of evil
in preference to those of virtue and, in the end false
hood, borrowing the look and language of verify and
drowning with the clamor of numbers the modest
asprant usups her place and honors In nothing the
truth of these premises more apparent than in the diff
Guilty of distinguishing the genuine from the counterfeit
''philanthropy which affects to be the ruling moral
tor of the present age.
For years past the people Of the northern States of this
Union and of Great Britain have exercised their surplus
sensibes the subject of African slavery after having
themselves proted to the EXTREMIST farthing by 1.-THE
last by inauguatng and the first by contributing long
they had slave to SELL to build it in cotton and
sugar region And thousands and tens of thousands have
been led into the hue and cry upon this less by
conviction Of the sincerity of the agtatos than by belief
in the justice of the agitation They have continually
heard these seleacrcing friends of the African in
our country vaunting their readiness to peril e fortune
honor ITSELF to from the ndescribabe (per
haps because mainly imaginary horrors of slavery the
very people of the still living members of whom
they themselves sold to the South when slavery ceased to
be legal and profitable in the North.
If anything than has been thousand times be-
fore urged needed to prove that this phianthopic
outcry is preence and another of the muarious
smitudes of truth which fasehood dexterously
sume is to be found in the of these people to-
wards all plans tending to the tangible ameoron of the
African Not only at home do they sernly refuse
under any and all circumstances of Caucasian degrade
ton Ethiopian elevation, to acknowledge the negro
social and until driven by recent phase of
tagonistic fnatioism political equal but they virtually
on their showing cancel his very claims to spiritual
brotherhood by in most cases. drawing impossible line
against him in the temples of religion beyond which he
not allowed to intrude OF this of COURSE do
plain To it consistent that the gradations every
where found in Nature should be preserved-the dove
and the buzzard the eagle and the ostrich the squirrel
and the skunk, not expected to form natural
citation; does itrying the things of this earth by
the glmners the divine economy which reach us from
higher state-miltatc against the bliss and glory of
the angelic hosts that thrones dominons and powers
exhibit comparative degrees of celestial intelligence
cellence and honor To the social division of races
removed in capacity and physical significance is natural
and proper but from those who insist upon the univer
mortality of destiny and tho redemption, such a
distinction is not to be expected and where the practice
and the precept in defiant opposition leads to very
natural inference that the profession is sham.
If this be upon the abstract view of the matter how
much more does it appear when consider it in its pac
cal application to a where the demand and effect
immediate, specific, and tangiblc9 And yet, what has
been the of these very pseudo phanthropca
munes in the only comprehensive plan of practical
n or
the colonization schemea 1t is true some generous indi-
viual limited efforts have been made in the northern
States to assist in this measure but they have almost in
vaaby been made by those who have shared little in the
plove the philanthropy that breaches at its neighbors
expensewhch the political abolitionists monopolize with
such ncendiary zeal When it known that these
latter willing to step forward and place the negro in
position where he could stand upon whatever merit he
possesses in himself where he could become practical
freeman and contribute to the ultimate and evident benefit
Of his whole On the contrary, have said they
only find convenient apologies to avoid this apprecabe
enforcement of their prccepts, but they continue to
prescribe among themselves the object of their simulated
sympathy While their professions are vehement in one
direction their actions constitute argument in another
which amounts to saying, wish the negro free with and
equal to you but neither free with equal to II
rational conjecture, therefore, that governed by
impulses strongly resembling those of tho supercous
Pharsee do not care whether this equalization and
citation effected by your degradation to the negros
level uo Such is entirely willing to urge
the matter to the bitter end in cng his neghbor with
an unnatural and therefore degrading relation but he is
not willing to share it himself; nor in spite of his pro-
fcons of philanthropy and welwishing for the negro
he willing to assist him where experience has proven it
be of real benefit to himself and without injury to
others. OF the ten thousand negroes sent to Africa by
the colonization societies about two-thirds have been
emancpaed for the purpose by the shareholders of the
South and every year witnesses donations and contribu
tions from the to further the work of Afr
cas- redemption,
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