Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1858-01-22

more considered and appreciated. Mr.. Blair's
position as the representative Of all enamel
patton party in slave state is peculiar and
difficult. His opening effort gives assurance
OF his power and courage to make good the
expectations Of his friends. aud to command
attention and respect for his views. The &C.
casion was npportune. Gen. Quitman had
offered proposition to modify the neutrality
laws, the object of which was to facilitate the
introduction of slavery into Central Americs
with view to The Introduction of that cou,i.
try into the Union, thus securing the social
and political predominance of the southern
institution. Mr.. Blair favors the colonization
of Central America, but ms cad of making it
the means Of strengthening and perpetuating
slavery, he would make it the means Of its
gradual and entire removal from the Union.
His scheme contemplGtes the substitution of
free labor for slave labor in all the states, and
the removal OF the blacks as fast as they be-
come free to the congenial climate of Central
America, where they shall be protected in the
enjoyment Of free government and live as a
distinct community. Of all the plans of
emancipation hitherto proposed, this is the
most eminently practicable. 1t obviates all
the objections made to emancipation on the
SOIL and takes from the institution its strong
defence of necessity and the impossibility of
its removal
MI. Jefferson once made similar PROPOSE
ton to the Legislature of Virginia. Of which
he afterwards said
alt was, however, found that the public
mind would not yet bear the proposition, nor
VIII 1t bear 1t even at this day yet the day is
not far distant when it must bear it and adopt
1t, or worse will follow. Nothing is more
certainly written in the book Of fate, than
That these people (the negroes are to be free
nor IS 1t less certain that the two races equally
free, cannot live in the same government. Ma
ture, habit, opinion, have drawn indehble
lines OF distinction between them, 1t is still
in our power 10 direct the process of enamel.
patton and deportation, and in such slow de-
gree that the evil will wear off insensibly, and
their places be, pari passu, filled up by free
white laborers. If; ON the contrary, it is left
to force itself on, human nature must shud-
der at the prospect held up. We should in
vain look for an example in the Spanish de-
portation or depletion Of the Moors"
Mr. Blair also quotes from Washington.
Randolph, and other eminent Southern ers,
incidental arguments for the same policy,
which the more far sighted American states
meh- nave Always looked iHrWald to as the
only means Tor the removal slavery, and
argues mat the time tor such movement is
now eminently propltious. Having pointed
out the peculiar adaptation of Central Amer
lea 10 the colored race, Mr., Blair closes his
speech with the GLOWING clear and tOrcibe
resume of his main argument:
"Ihe starting point in this new career is
the resumption of the progress which received
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deliverance of the white laborinc class IF tbis
country from the superintendent weight of
American slavery. This redemption of onr
own race from its yassalage under slavery has
been brought to a staud-sIilI. and six miiliona
of our free white kindI ed endure derivation
corporeal and intellectual, from the slave oc
cupatiOn of the soil, and Of the pursuits which
would add to their means of living and their
sources Of mental Improvements Neither the
slave owners, nor slave States. are resnopsible
for the arrest of the enfranchisement which
promised blessings to the toilers of both races
For, whether as a slave or free man tbe
presence of multitudes of the black racs ia
found 10 be fatal to the interests of our race
their antagonism is as strong as that of oil and
water, and so long as no Convenient outlet.
through which the manumitted slave can
reach congenial climate and country will
ing to receive him, is afforded, the institution
OF slavery stands on compusion. But let me
suppose Central America tempting in gold
and every production of the tropical soil to
stimulate exertion, with climate innoxious
only to the black man-were opened up to
HIM, under circumstances to advance him in
the scale Of humanity, how long before mas
tiers in all the temperate slave States would
make compositions to liberate them on terms
that WOOld iuAeroujfx
ton Hundreds of more benevolent owners
would, from sense of public good and for
conscience sake, by wills, or by deeds ofeman-
cipatlon, make this deliverance, il the general
government would take the charge of the de-
portation to the region it might acquire for
them-a gradual and voluntary emancipation
by individuals, if not by States, would thus
III time be accomplished. l hold that it is
the duty OF the nation TO offer this boon to
Shareholders and TO the slave States, to enable
them to have complete control OF the subject,
which is the source Of so much anxiety and
mischief to them,
"What a change would soon be wrought in
the condition of MARYLAND and Vivlinia. Ten.
nessee and Kentucky, and in nv own state.
Missouri if a smooth way were opened
into the heart of the tropics - prodioal of
wealth III the soil, in the mines and in the
forests, where the labor of the robust and
skillful freedman, assisted by the capital and
instruction, and inspired by the energy of
enterprising American merchants, miners
or planters, would start everything into
new life. The mixed condition of the four
different classes which in our grain-growing
states, obstruct each other ;~the masters de-
pendant on the slaves, the slaves on their
masters; the free negroes on the skirts of
both; while the great mass, the free white Ia.