The Kanzas news., 1857-08-08
Vol. l---No. 7.

States those which make the colored man
the nearest to equal the white, have, proper
tionahly the fewest mulattoes, the least OF
anlalgamatian. In New Hampshire, the
State which goes the farthest towards equal
ity between the races, there are just 184
mulattoes while there are In VIrsiinia-hosg
many do you think? 79, ,775, being 23, 126
more than in all the free States together.
| These statistics show that slavery is the
greatest source of amalgamation; and next
| to it, not the elevation, but the degeneration
of the free blacks. Yet Judge Douglas breads
the slightest restraints on the spread of slave
~, and the slightest human recognition of
the negro. as tending horribly to amalgama-
ton:
This very bred Scott case affords strong
test as to which party most favors amalga-
nation, the Republicans or the dear Union
Saving Democracy. Dred Scott, his wife
land two daughters We're all involved in the
suit. We desired the court to have held
that they were citizens so far at least as to
entitle them to a hearing as whether they
were free or not; and then, also,- that they
were In fact and In law really free. Could
We have had our way, the chances of these
black girls ever mixing their blood with
that of white people would have been dimin-
ished at least to the extent that it could not
have been with their consent. But Judge
Douglas is delighted to have them decided
| to be slaves, and not human enough to have
hearing, even If they were free, and thus
| left subject to the forced concubinage of their
masters, and liable to become the mothers of
mulattoes in spite of themselyes-the very
state of the case that produces nine -tenths of
all the mulattoes-all the mixing of blood in
the nation.
Of course, state this case as an iilustra-
ton only, not meaning. to say or intimate
that the master of Dred Scott and his fami-
ly, or any more than per centage of mas
ters generally, are inclined to exercise this
particular power which they hold over their
female slaves.
have said that the separation of the ra-
ces IS the only perfect preventative of ANAL
gamaticn. l have no right to say all the
members of the Republican party are in ia
vor of this, nor to say that as party they
are in favor of it. There is nothing in their
platform directly on the subject. But l can
say very large proportion of its members
are for it, and that the chief plank in their
platform opposition to the spread of slave
ry-is most favorable to that separation.
Such separation, if ever effected at all,
must be effected by colonization and no po-
litical party, as such, is now doing anything
directly for colonization. Party operations
at present only favor or retard colonization
incidentally. The enterprise is a difficult
one; but stwhere there is will there is a
way" and what colonization needs most is
Al
elements of moral sense and self-interest.-
Let us be brought to believe it is morally
right, and, at the same time, favorable to, or
at least, not against, our interest, to transfer
the African to his native cline, and we shall
find a way to do it, however great the task
may be. The children of Israel, to such
numbers as to include four hundred thousand
fighting men, went out of Egyptian bondage
in body.
How differently the respective courses of
Democratic and Republican parties inciden-
tally bear on the question of forming will
"a public sentiment-for colonization, is
easy to see. The Republicans inculcate,
with whatever of ability they can, that the
negro is man; that his bondage is cruelty
wrong, and that the field of his oppression
ought not to be enlarged The Democrats
deny his manhood; deny, or dwarf to insig
nifcance, the wrong of his bondage, SO far
as possible crush all sympathy for him. and
cultivate and excite hatred and disgust
against him; compliment themselves as I'm
ion-savers for doing so; and call the indei-
mite outspreading of his bondage ga sacred
right of self government"
The plainest print cannot be read through
a pold eapIe: and it will be ever hard to find
many men who will send slave to Liberia
and pay his passage, while they can send
him to a new country, Kanzas for instance,
and sell him for fifteen hundred dollars. and
the rise.