New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-11-27

We copclude to day our series of articles on
The EIiled Negroes of Canada, and in doing so We
EN- brace the opportunity to make few remarks Of
cur own. These articles, as we stated when we
commenced their publication, are the fruit Of per-
sopsl observation BY fully competent person, and
nobody, We think, can read them without perceiyIng
abur dant internal evidence Of the candOr and
,agacity of the writer As to the general result Of
the su1vey, we coincide with our correspondent,
that il is to degree hardly to have been expected,
favorable to these negro exles. 1t must be borne in
mid that they enter Canada under very unfavor.
able circumstances. Of course, they can carry
tbiiber no capital whatever, nothing but their own
personal capacity Of labor, with such moderate
degree Of skill, and such habits Of industry and
ttrft, as they may have acquired on
slave plantation. The climate is decidedly
opfsyOr.be to them, the most southern point OF
Cunses being quite too far north to suit the negro
constitution 1t is true that the British aud Cans
csn laws do Lot recognize, in the matter of civil
riebts, sny distinction Of color The public schools
are open 70 oil, black and white equally. Yet is
DO less true that antipathy Of races prevails in
Canada to about the degree that it does in the
United Siates so that, so fsr as that matter goes,
the e1iles gain very little BY crossing the border.
IL fact me angle decided advantage Of this change
of juJisdctOn IT, that they out of the reach of
the Fusitive Slave Law, and are able to devote
themselves to the business Of getting livelihood
free from the dread and drawback Of being any
DAY pounced upon AID dragged back to Slavery.
The sane thing that has been noticed of tho
negrO population Of tie Free States is Observable
ALEC IL Csn,da, They cluster along tho border, as
il anxious to get near the sun as possible. They
show disposition slso, as with US, to congregate
in the towns, though Cansds exhibits instances OF
tnriyipg rural negro population, such as can hardly
be found on our eide Of the border. The &C
count given Of the colony ut Buxton, which 10 q
purely agricultural settlement, affords an encoarag.
ing specimen If what can be cone in that way.
This settlement, which lie purely negro, having been
begun some years ago by fifteen emancPated slnyes
from Loui.ia1a, has already reached the number of
two hundred families, many Of whom are the OWL
ers Of comfortable houses snd well-imprOved farms
redeemed by their labor within that period from
tie depths of the forest 1t is true that this has
not been exclusiyeya negro achievement. Tho
former owner Of the fifteen slaves accompanied
them TO Canads and there exchanged the position
Of a master for that Of the founder Of Free
Labor colony, with no len satisfaction to
himself We doubt not, than benefit to
biz prot6ees. It was he who obtained on favora-
bic terms from the British Government the original
site Of The colony tract Of eighteen square miles,
witch be caused to be surveyed into fifty acre lots
snc has since distributed among the settlers-not
however, as gratuity. These negro settlers, BE-
side building themselves houses and supporting
their families, reimburse by annual installments
their quota Of the original cost of the land, amount
ing to about two dollars the acre. Many of the
settler. lave already paid in full for their farms,
and received their deeds Undoubtedly, very
large share of the credit of this success is to be
s.cribed to the Rev. Mr.. King, the energetic and
phian,hropic founder Of the settlement but il also
prove. what the negroes are capable Of when fairly
put in the way Of taking care of themselves.
The town of Chatham, in Canada West. which
n.y be considered in some respects as the head
quarters OF the colored population of Canada, also
presents condition OF things such as we might
look for il vain on our side of the border Here is
q busy manufacturing and commercial town, of
about six thousand Inhabitants, in which the ne
srOes, ABOUT third part Of the whole, instead of
forming, as everywhere among US, decidedly infe-
nor csss. come in for their full share Of wealth
ard business activity. In the environs Of this
tow \, there is also uumerou, population Of negro
farmers not at all inferior in prosperity and ikin
to Il cir white peishbors.
In Toronto, and the other large towns Of Canada
further east the eolored population occupies . po-
s.ion more ike that on our side of the border;
though there would seem to be among them, at
least in particular instances greater acsumula-
ton Of property than with Us.
On the whole, the condition Of the eIilsd negroes
in Caasds does not give much color to the theory
Of .he infeoty Of the negro race, or their absolute
ilcspscty to take care of themselves. /. may well
be doubted whether a similar number of white
refugees of any country, with no more advantages
to begin with than they would have succeeded any
better.