East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-22

such there be, who think that the welfare
IF the colored race could by any POSSIBLE 4
tv be promoted by the success of SUCH
a movement, and who arc willing to pur.
chase that result by so costly sacrifice.
The colorcd population of st. Domingo
To but little short of half mil
lion, while the whites amounted 10 only
thirty thousand. The white population
of the southern States alone. in the agrc
gate, cutnumbcrs the colored race in the
ratio of two to one; in the Union at large
in the ratio of seven to one; and If (Which
may heaven AVERT they shonld be brought
into conflict it could only end in the eX-
termination of the latter after scenes of
woe for which language is too faint, and
for which the livelest fancy has no ade.
quate images Of horror. [Applause.]
Such being the case, some one may ask
why does not the South fertily herself
against the possible occurrence of such a
catastrophe by doing away with the one
great source from which alone it can
spring? This is a question easily asked, |
aud ] am not aware that il as our duty at /
the North to answer it but it may be
observed that great and radical changes
in the framework of society, involving
the relations of twelve millions of men,
will not wait on the bidding Of an impa,
tent philanthropy, They can only be
brought about in the lapse of time, ~ the
steady operation Of physical, economical,
and 'aoral causes. Have ti.ose who re-
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slavery considered that neither the pres
cut generation nor the preceding one is
responsible for its existence? The Afr.
can slave trade was prohibited by act Of
! Congress fifty years ago, and many years
earlier by the separate southern States.
The entire colored population, with the
exception, perhaps, of few hundreds
surreptitiously introduced, is native to the
soil. Their ancestors were conveyed from
/ Africa in the ships of Old England and
/ New England. [Cheers They now num-
Der between three and four millions. Has
any person of any party or opinion, pro-
posed, in sober earnest, a practical meth
cd OF emancipation? believe that most
persons, in all parts of the country, are
Of opinion that free labor is steadily gain
ing ground 1t would in my Judgment
have already prevailed in the two north
crn tiers of the slavelolding States, had
its advances not been unhappily retarded
by the irritating agitations of the day.
but has any person, whose opinions are
entitled to the slightest respect, ever un-
dcrtakCn to sketch out the details Of a
plan for efecting the change at once, 10y
any legislative measure that could be
adopted? Consider, only, | pray You,
that it would be to ask the South to give
up one thousand millions of property,
which she holds by a title satisfactory to
herself, as the first step. Then estimate
) the cost Of an adequate outfit for the sell
: support OF the cmancipated millions; then
, reflect on the arrangement of the entire
! industrial system of the South, and all
the branches of commerce and manuiac-
lures that depend on its great staples
then the necessity of comforting equal po
5 litical privileges on the emancipated race
who being free would be content witt
, nothing less, if anything less were con
l sistent with our political system; then The
e consequent organization of two great pc
c litical parties on the basis of color, anC
!. the eternal feud which would rage be
a tween them; and finally the overflow int
z the free States of a vast multitude 0
: needy and hel pleSs emi grants, who, bein!
:, excluded from many of them land anon!
il Others from Kansas, would prove doubl.
o burdensome where they are admitted
: Laughter and applausc.]
i Should zee, sir, with all our sympath
n for the colored race, give very cordia
:, reception to two or three hundred thou
II sand destitute emancipated slaves? Doe
e not every candid man see that every on
Il of these steps presents difficulties of TIA
c most formidable character - diificultie
/ for which, as far as know, no man an
e no rariy has proposed solution. And
l. it, sir. for the attainment of objects 5
l. manifcstly impracticablc, pursued, toe
I bv the bloody pathways of treason an
p murder, that we will allow the stipend
D, Gus evil which now threatens US to com
r. upon the country? Shall we permit thi
oi curiously compacted body polite, tn
&c incest adjustment of human wisdom,
is 90 to pieces? viii we blast this beaut
v ful, symmetric form; paralyzc this power
c. full arm Of public strength; smite wit
1t imbccility this great national intellect
le Where, sir, o where, will be the flag O
y the United States? Where our rapid
es increasing influence in the family Of II;
z tons? Already they arc rejoicing in on
ID divisions. The last foreign journ;
81 which have read, in commenting upo
r, the event at Harper's Ferry, dwells upo
ID it as something that "will compel us
n keep the peace with the Powers {
y, Europe" and that means, to take oh
le law from them in our internal relations.
ic l meant to have spoken of the wrcc
IL of that magnificent aud mutually benel
VI cial commercial intercourse which no
:. exists between the producing and mani
:" featuring States-of the hostile tariffs
~ time of peace aud the habitually recu
AZ ring borller wars by which it viii be Al
~ initiated. meant to have said a wol
=, Of the navy of the United States, al
Vo tho rich inheritance OF its common gloric
70 Shall we give up this? The memory
"s our fathcrs--of those happy days whc
w men Of the North aud South stood I
gether for the country on hard -fougI
mt Eolds. WHOM tho south cont hor \Nasbin