Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1859-09-02
GETTING SICK OF THEM.


love for the negroes, the Black Republicans are
beginning to find ont that they have been los
terinc Il nuisance in their midst Their worst
5.v.s work was their ceasclesS instiGition "i
,,,e .sc,ne of slaves from the Southern States,
and the barboring of them in their own limits,
until the free negroes. by their i,llcncss AMI
absolute habits, have become Il burden and {:
nest, The rapidly accommodating evil has be.
come so gricyous that the Phari>acal rhian
thropists have been compelled to confess tho
error they have committed and 20 search fjr .
dcliverancc from the pressing trouble. Tie
Albany Journal, following in the wake o.
the Chicago Pres" vcntilatcs the question
and warmly endorses the proposition of Senator
Doolit!lc, of Wisconsin, introduced into the
Senate last session, as follows:
Whereas, the numerous disabilities to
which free persons Of color Of African descent
are subjected in many Of the free States have
made it desirable on the part Of large numbers
of them, to seek elsewhere 4 more favorable
field for their labor and enterprise; and whereas
the same class OF persons is regarded with sill
greater di>fayor in the slaveholdins States
from considerations deemed controlling that
further emancipation in many oil them has
been prohibited by law, unless the persons
enumerated shall be at the same time removed
beyond the jurisdiction OF the State, and III
some of them the gravcr question Is seriously
entertained whether persons OF African descent
who arc now free shall not be again reduced to
slavery if they continue to remain within then
jurisdiction: and whereas in fucatan and Cen
tr,l and south America there are vast regions
almost uuiuhabitcd, Of the most beautiful and
prolucrye countries in the world, in climate
ycll adaptcd 10 the constitution of the African
race to develop its greatest power ami highest
activity: Therefore
"Rcsoycd. That the Committee Oh Foreign
Relations inquire into the cXpedicncv III ac'
quirin. by treaty in iucatan, Central or south
America. the rights and privileges OF settle
mcut and of citizenship for the benefit oil such
pcrsons of color of African descent, As may
voluntarily desire to cmigratc from the Inltcd
States, aud form themselves into colony or
colonies, under the laws of the State or States
to which they cmigratc; the lnlted States III
consideration of the commercial advantages oil
free trade with such colony or colonies, making
and securing the necessary and proper engage,
mcnts To maintain them i'll the enjoyment ni
the rights and privileges acquired by snrli
treaty or treaties.
The Journal cnloiccs lis position by the fact
Tint there are ''inany hundreds of thousands OF
free people of color whose condition, though
free, is one of painful disabilities and who
"arc no; recognised, politically or socially, as
EQUALS" 1t winds up with the declaration
'',llat to demand the emancipation OF more
slaves, without providing homes, occupation
and perfect freedom for them, is u m"rhcry. -
1t adds that the cmancipated slaves. turned
into States where all doors are closed against
them; where laws exist which subject them to
constant persecution, renders their condition
little, if any, better than that from which they
had escaped" These arc hard truths wrung
from tie lips of the protesting friends Of the
slaves" But it is an evil which they have
brought upon themselves hy their wicked
Vaccinations against the institutions Of the
South. and they iuti>t work out their own re-
mcuy. There Il one E!Nofaplc result l" Nv"
from the state Of things which now presses up
on the attention of the Black Republican lead
ers. Their cngincry against the rights OF the
South, where rt,e slaves are in the peaceful en-
ioyment Of happy and comfortable lie,
has been turned against the inventors, who
are beginning TO he infested with too large Il
proportion of the Salnbo race They cannot
manage those whom they were once so anxious
TO inyeislc into their hoSptahlc regions and
they will he willing TO put brake upon the
underground railroad 1t is vc:y prc>":np'
tuous in them, however, after all their mi$dccds,
to expect the South TO assist them in getting
rid Of an evil brought upon themselves, and
they must work out their own schemes Of deliv'
cramcc The facts they painfully acknowledge
speak cloqucn,ly to oar own people against the
wrong of elnancpating or happy slaves and
placing them in tue midst Of communities,
where starvation, vice and misery will meet
them at every turn.