The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-03-23
Colonization in africa.

Tomorrow evening there will be a meeting
at the Old Court House of the friends of the
proposed plan for sending colored men to
Africa. At this meeting Messrs DRAPER and
MUNsoN-who propose to go to Africa-will
explain what they have done SO far, where
they have been, whar encouragement they have
had, what d-iscouragcment they have expert
enced, and what they now wish to do. 1t is
hoped there will be a good attendance as the
cause is lust and should commend itself to all
who wish to arrestthe slave trade at the fountain
head, and who wish well to the colored man and
would place him in a position independent and
in a position he never can attain In a country
where white men predominant. 1t matters
not why it is so, but the fact is and will always
be that the black race never can, in these
United States enjoy political and, least of all,
social equality with the whites. The sooner
the colored men make up their minds to this,
the better it will be for them, for until they
do SO conclude, their efforts for W ameliora-
ton viii be visionary and fruitless.- Gereldnd
Herald.
p When our friends of the Herald lay
aside their politics, they behave and talk "for
all the world" like white men, Supposed polit-
zeal necessities compel them to support a creed
of a tendency in direct conflict with the sent
.ments advanced in the above paragraph
When they put aside their party harness and
party goggles, andlook at realities through their
natural eyes, they view this negro question in
the same light as do Democrats and all other
white men, What is the issue which the Re
annublican party have made with the Constitu-
lion. with the highest judicial decisions, and
with the Democratic party? Why, that the
Constitution, the Courts and the Democratlct
anarty do not recognize negroes as Citizens, ead
as fitted for political and social equality. And
c IN the above the Herald, forgetting for the mo-
ment its fundamental p~artizan dogma, admits
!, all hat the Democratic party ever claimed
nameIy-shat "the black race meuer can, IN
these United States, enjoy political, and, zeas'
roof an, social equality, aoith the aohites." The
9 fact is. when it comes down to the p%ractlca
application of their principles, about nlne-tenths
of the Republican party always will, as the!
AWAY have, either dodge, or go directly agalns
the vital points in their faith.
The Herald speaks of the efforts OF the ne
eroes, "for their oun amelioration-" "hel
were such efforts, either by free or slave ne
oroes ever .made? Under the direction of Gel
tain white agitators, and to subserve partlza
ends, we do, it is true, occasionally hear OF "
Convention of colored men"-but all such e.
forts. with the exception of such as looked I
colonization, have only served to infame tn
-nre;udices, and embitter the hostility, that e'
- bat,vaen the races. All this clamor apo'
.b4 ,egro comes from white men, not from tn
-oo.o.s themselves. With the benevole1
,u,eromxsa which seeks to separate the race
"a tn Mace the negro in the land of his fatl
ore where only he can be realiy free ana napP
We heartily sympafhize, and will follow In u
sants with the Cleveland Herald.