Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-05-21
From the New York Tribune.l
HOME FOR THE NEGROES.

Tho stropg disposition exhibited in our Southern
States to get rid of their free cOlored population, has
suggested TO the people Of Jamaica the feasibility Of
obtaining for themselves supply Of labor from that
source. Our files of Jamaica papers contain an
count of public meeting held at Kingston to pro-
mote that object The suggestion is by 40 means
new one, attention having been years ago turned
in that direction and two three ship loads Of
igrants have been obtained not indeed for Jamaica,
but for Demarara and Trinidad. One of the speak
ers at this meeting, Who, long ago as 1910, had
made visit to Africa for the purpose Of Obtaining
lsborers for Jamaica had taken Amerlcaia his way.
He found the free negro city population very little
suited for the object in view, but IN the Southern
States he met many who would make very desirable
emigrants. The oOlored people themselves he found
so he says-very willing to emigrate; but from
the whites be encountered formidable opposition.
The Anti-Slavery men and Pro-SlaVery men, though
thew could agree in nothing else wanted Illustrate
the project The Anu-Slavery men thought the
colored people ought to remain where theywere and
6gbt out the battle. The Pro-Slavery men, though
anxious to have the colored people CO. thought ia
maca too near and that, transferred thitheT, they
might become more dangerous than ever. The
partizans of the Colonization Society also stood in
tbe gay of this movement, as they wished the col
ored people to 60 to Liberia.
Another speaker gave his experience and obser-
nations among the cOloTed emigrants who went from
the United States to Hayti some twenty five years
ago, to the number OF thirteen hundred or more,
their expenses being paid by the Haytiau Govern
ment As a body they were a very inferior class,
and a great many of them became dissatisfied, and
4 great many of them became dssatifed and return
ed home; but the FIVE hundred or so who remained
did we'll, and proved industrious and thriving set
tiers.
Among the speakers were two AmeriOans-one
white, the other black. The white one was a Mr.
Dalton who had arrived six weeks before anger
in the colony on his way somewhere else, and who
being detained, contrary to his inclination could
not but see in that detention a providentia call to
take part in the meeting AID make a speech; though
if that was the case it must be admitted that Prov
idence occasionally calls upon people to speak who
have very little to say. The Rev. G. R. Ward
colored emigrant from the United States, now nat
uralized Jamaican, spoke much more to the point
and gave his Jamaica friends some hard hits about
the necessity, if they wished to attract emigrants
of more liberal provisions for education, and lit
tie more attention to their roads If they wanted
to get emigrants, they must 60 to work practically
send for them and hold out in iucements for them
to come. We have not the slightest doubt that the
great body Of the free oOlored people of the South
might greatly benefit themselves by emgrants to
Jamaica but all the obstacles which have hitherto
stood in the way Of inducing them to do so, still re-
main in full force. Indeed, a RsW one has bren
added in the disposition recently evinced at the
South to get rid of the free cOlOred population not
by removal but by returning them to slavery.