Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-09-15

Every negro of the captured Africans is bound to
cost Uncle Sam all he is worth, if he were sold to
pay expenses First, there is Lieut. Maffit with the
U. S Brig Dolphin, cruising round in the Gulf at
considerable expense. Then there is the 1915 head
that the cap.ors have right to claim from the pub
lie treasury. Then there is the cost of their keep
until their case is acted upon by competent ribu
nal; this will be small item for those that are
sick must be doctored and those that are well must
be fed, and those that naked must have some
sort of clothing Then there the costs of the le
gal proceedings. Then the cost of carrying the poor
devils back in the most expensive national vessel
aAoat Then it seems that the Colonization Society
will kindly take charge Of them in Liberia year
for the modest Of fifty thousand dollars. The
cost of these Africans will be about four hundred
dollars head to the United States. That kind of
philanthropy won't pay. The Colonization Society
is liberal. 1t won't have to keep much over $50
negroes, for we question if more than that number
ever reach Africa alive Two hundred dollars
head for years keep Of Africans in Africa is
Uncle Sam has to pay roundly, and all round.
The New York Herald says
"The President has been earnestly attentive to all
laws, treaties and authorities the subject of our
obligations with regard to the slave trade, with a
view to decision in the of the capture of the
SLAYER Echo. The Attorney General has furnished
mass of valuable information, from which it ap:
pears we have not at present agent on the coast
of Africa for receiving returned Africans captured
board slavers, and that there had been great
penSe and abuses IN the SYSTEM In ten years two
hundred returned slaves had cost over two hundred
thousand dollars. On occasion, in 1S45, the
Government had turned over three hundred, cap.
tured by the Yorktown, on board the bark Pons, to
the Colonization Society. This Society presented
enormous claim, the settlement of which
thorized in 1851, by act of Congress-"
This colonization society we have always looked
upon humbug. 1t don't amount to anything,
and it costs great deal in money and great deal
more in hypocracy. As for removing the coored
population of the United States to Africa, that is
wholly impossible.
In the old Saxon and Danish times, some grim
robber, baron jarl, underlined into Early used
to throats guzze ale, Cypress the poor, and like
the western lawyer play Tophet generally, until he
got ready to "travel into another world, when he
compounded for all his sins by devoting the plunder
he could longer hold use, to the erection of
church or the founding of monastery. good
many people scattered around throughout the South
ern States, hold on with grip Of steel to every dol
lars worth they get in any way but leave a
clause in their will sending their to Liberia
and perhaps making the Colonization society their
heirs, to the injury Of the immediate community, Of
their natural heirs, and of the negroes themselves.
Our next Legislature correct this abuse so far
as North Carolina is concerned, by modifying the
law upon the subject of devses 1t ought to do it.
-WM Journal