Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-06-26
From the Comm North and South, Saturday, May %.
LETTER FROM HON. FRANCIS P. BLAIR,
ON EMAN CIPArION

SILVER SPRING, May 10 1858.
EHhu Bur1iH Corresponding Secretary Nafiondl
Emancipation Society:
DEAR SIR You have my thanks for your letter,
communicating the design Of the Emancipation
Society, for which you act. need not tell you that
my most cordial eympathies enlisted In favor OF
the Oh ect you seek to accomplish. The deliver
ance of this continent from slavery, gradually,
peaceaby, without a shock to the great manufac.
turing, commercial and planting interests connees-
ed with it, and without violating any Of the COZ.
stitutonal securities that belong 20 the sayehold.
ing states would he result next in Importance to
the deliverance from colonial bondage 1t was in
deed looked TO by the fathers Of the government as
the consuma:ol Of the Revolution.
1t seems to me the period approaches when the
liberation of the white and black races from d
mutual bondage may be effected. Providence
has brought about state of things within the
American, tropics, that invites the freed Christian
ized blacks OF our region to go, guided ard pro-
tected by our Angl0-Saxon race on the mission Of
making useful to mankind the most beautiful and
luxurant portion of the earth, now lost to the
world under the anarchy and lethargy which BY
turns oppress it.
To the efectuation Of the benign scheme which
your Society contempates it is essential that this
contiguous territory, adapted in climate and soil
to the negro constitution, should be opened to the
industry of the intelligent of its race educated in
our habits and iangage, and capable, if counte-
nanced by our government, to establish its free
institutions there. All attempts at emancipation
must prove unavailing unless such provision for
the migration of the nation of blacks born among
us shall be made, will render their removal ad-
vantageons to them. to the country which they
leave, and that to which they 60, and as conse-
Iquence to the family of nations. The ehfahei-
patton of the existing four millions of slaves, OF
any considerable portion, to remain in the coun-
try, is already barred by state legislation. The
laws of the slaveholding states are inexorable
against it, and 1t is now purpose to drive the
freed blacks beyond their confines or reduce them
again to slavery. 1t is clear from the laws Of the
free colored race to come in competition with the
white labor which they cherish and mean to ele.
vate The suppostion that the foar millions Of
slaves in the South, with their increase, eah ever
lind homes in the North, if manumitted and BAN
lsbed by the South, is preposterouP. The idea of
mingling people just let loose from bondage.
with the laboring class of our own blood III eth.
er section, has hitherto proved fatal to all the
schemes which have been formed for the ibers-
ton OF the slave from his letters, and the country
from the shame, and grief and misfortune of fas-
tonng them upon him. AT the suggestion, on tbe
part OF the Shareholders, that emancipation is to
bring four millions Of slaves into com petition and
upon an equality with white men, the prejudico
OF caste is reused among the latter everywh
North and South, and every laborer Of the supe-
rior race Is ready TO enlist soldier to crush the
movement and make the slave moro helblessly q
the masses Of our countrymen to such d reAsmpi
iion
let your compensation scheme looks III the
right direction and is fraught with great results
1t is certain the removal &C slavery from otf con-
hnent can never be effected without the aid Of the
general government, and without com tnpehSating
advantages are anticipated to indemnify the slay6
owners and the country large, for the transport
tatlon of the labor in which the community is in,
lerested. This result can only come from the ac-
QUESTION of a new dominion by the transplahta-
ton OF the freed blacks, which will be more tSlua-
bic to all concerned than the slaves in their pres
ent condition. There can be no beneficial exodus
OF the manumitted slaves, unless the government
ot the United States obtains portion of the vast
uncultivatcd region to the South for their settle
ment. The right of the nation to provide homes
for the civilized black race among US. that bas
become an obstruction to the superior white race
which is its first care, can be doubted shan
its exercise in the case of the Indians removed
for that reason
The removal Of the freed blacks TO Central
America OF South Mexico, would be fraught with
results OF vastly more value than that Of the red
men. 1t would redeem from anarchy and barbar.
ism and give Us the possession Of portion of this
continent every way essential to the aegrandise-
ment OF the nation. 1t would give us tlIe link
between the oceans that wash our eastern and
western states 1t would give us a defensive
posinon to protect our southern fahks on both
eoasts, from INVASION by iormi liable foreign pow
ers and prevent them from making dangerous es-
adjustments there or in Mexico 20 threaten our
peace. 1t would open up to the enterprise of our
countrymen region rich in everything--mines,
woods and agricultural tropical productions, all
suited to give new impulse to our commercial
farming and mechanical interests. 1t would lead
to the extinction of slavery in the West Indies, in
South America, as well as in the United States.
and as consequence, put an end TO the African
slave trade. In these results it would be q coun.
teraclion OF the only banelul consequences which
which have grown out Of the purchase of Florida,
Louisiana and Texas, which cos. immense sums
and war to propagate slavery. If the free
states bore such Lurden, for such a purpose,
compiacently can it be doubted they would cheer.
fully encounter much greater charges to convert
that slavery into freedom, and make the whole
South respondent in prosperity conferred by we'll
directed voluntary labor
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