Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-10-29
What Is to become of the COlOred Racea

The Albany Evening Journal has an article
arguing favorably of the plan advocated with
so much ability on the floor of Congress and
elsewhere by Senator Doottle, and F. P.
Blair, of obtaining some portion of Central
America, where the blacks of this country
may emigrate to and make themselves homes.
The Chicago Tribune, the New York Tribune,
and other prominent Republican papers have
also discussed the project favorably, and it ap-
pears to be growing on the public mind and
assuming Importance.
The Journal says -" Senator Doolittle, of
Wisconsin, followed up the very enlightened
speech of Hon. F P Blair, of Missouri, with
Resolutions which took Central America as
Home for the Colorcd Race. The subject is
discussed in an article which We copy from
the Chicago Prose &c Tribune. 1t is a subject
which must be generally discussed ere long,
for it vii! force itself upon public attention.
Instead of the miserably abcrtive efforts at
Colonization in Africa, we must provide tor
lhe welfare 0! Free People Of Color nearer
nome. Or, rather, we must avail ourselves
of Land already provided by tenctlccnt
providence, Il land flowing with ''rnlk ana hon
ey,"-whose fertile soil and genial climate invite
popula ion and labor. Central America pre-
sents numerous and strong attractions to
Race whose constitutions tit them for useful
ness, in developing, and happiness in the en-
ioymcnt Of its treasures. We can send to
the partially unoccupied portions OF Central
America Race vastly superior, physically
and intellectually, to its dwarfed and imbecile
natives. There our free people of color can en-
Joy Country and Government of their own.
There, industry will fad quick and abuHd-
ant reward. Instead Of the scattered fragg-
nents Of emancipation, banished to Liberia,
| Yucatan would attract thousands of willing
hands and cheerful hearts. The expense of
sending an hundred Colcnists to Africa would
plant five times that number in Central Ameri-
ca. Let us provide for the emigration OF Colored
| PEOPLE to Homes of their own, to which they
| will 20 from choice, and in ten years we
should be in the enjoyment Of Commerce
with Central America more valuable than our
present trade with the whole of South Anne
RIGA.
.'rhis question opens upon wide field OF
labor for Statesmen and Philanthropists.
We have, among US, many hundreds of thou,
sands of Free, People of Color, whose condi-
dition, tho Free, is one Of painful disabilities
They are not recognised, politically or socially
as equals We deny to them the rights and
privileges which we enjoy ourselves In nc
sense do they possess the "inalienabe" rights
of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness,
for by a decision of the highest Judicial Trlb
unal, they are cut off from every civil right
and degraded to the level of ''beasts of thu
fields
$40 demand the Emancipation of more
slaves, without providing homes, occupation
and perfect Freedom for them, is Mockery
The Emancipated Slaves, turned into State
where all doors are closed against them: wher
Laws exist which subject then to constant
persecution, renders tneir condition little
any better than that from which they ha'
escaped. But provide country for them il
which they will possess the attributes of Free
dom whose soil and climate is suited to thei
constitution and habits; where they con en-
: Joy health, happiness and prosperity, ant
then we may, with justice and reason, no
only invite Free People of Color to Emigrate
but, in the right spirit, advocate Emancipa
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