The Kenosha telegraph and tribune. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1859-1860, 1860-01-19

tplying tho elements and means of oppression
and wrong, ought not to be encouraged or coun
tenanced either by the citizens of the southern
or northern states
Free labor languishes and becomes degrading
when put in competition with slave labor and
ideness, poverty and vice among large elias ses
of non-slaveholders take the place of industry,
and thrift, and virtue 1t prevents a~general
system OF popular education, and ignorance
abounds in the places where knowledge should
Ibe the brightest ornament af intellect
| The increase of the blacks in warm climates is
far more rapid than that of the whites Already
in some of the slave states the slaves outnumber
the free whites. Twenty-Five years from the
present time the ordinary ratio of increase viii
give slave population in the slaveholding
states ofnearly ten millions at least equaling if
not superior in numbers to the free white citi-
zens. Looking to future in the history Of states
! beyond that we. may well inquire what may be
the condition Ct the Southern States and Of the
whole country at the end of fifty years. What
can be done with twenty millions of slaves, with
out education, without fixed moral principles,
the subjects of whirn caprice, passion knowing
no law but the law of force smarung under re-
al or imaginary injuries; deeming themselves op-
pressed, and looking every day on their suppo-
sed oppressors more restrained of their liberty
through the fears OF the masters, and subject to
more rigid police surveillance and more extreme
exactions' becatse a multiplied dangers What
| could control the wild passions of that overwhel-
ming physical power once aroused So terrible
a wrath, with so re sistless force, would almost
inevitably lead TO war Of races more cruel, de-
structivo, bloodthirsty, than the world ever saw
before, beginning with conflict and ending with
butchery. In such n war one Of the other oftne
two races must be destroyed. In such contest
where would the victory be ? To precisely suqi.
| a result are we tending to day. Deny it as we
may the physical laws of the races and the eli
matte influences are driving us right onward to
such future. The sagacious statesman gather
| ing wisdom from tie history Of living as well as
OF the dead nations, looking forward to proba-
bic future; as he looks back at an actual past,
and seeing danger to his country and institutions
aiar off, should devise some means Of protec, on
commensurate witt the apprehended tiar oor h.,
which such calamieies may be avoide' 81 -
| 1t has been well said 81 it is the -, ~,
Of superior and enlightened ia" 70 nrotoct am
eStaoAsn WIN well founded .,stitnftons tbe fee
DIor races "-ynln its infaer zee - The general
Ienaie requires this, az renders IL the exalted
OF powerful ma ions England, France
ana hussl', thoug' subject to selfish monarch
lo', yer zee! Inc impulse of this enlightened age;
anG we see th| Car giving freedom and rights
70 ms Sky millions of serfs, and spreading civ
lllzatlan oTer all the North of Europe and Asia.
! England ard France hold up besotted Turkey,
and endca1 or to iastil life ogain, by parting
freedom and liberation to the masses England
extends her princ lies of representative govern
nnent, IN greater O. less degree, to her depend
encles aud France, propagating her power in
Africa ana Asia, carries with it the refinement,
! intelligence and skill which may Mt some time
elevate the people she civizes in the scale of ma
| tons .... t.....
! Shall the mighty states of this hemisphere, the
pioneers Of the liberal principle of The greatest
good to the greatest number, be known to the
red ana black races, struggling into existence,
under liberal forms of government, in neighbor-
ing CHIMES suited to their CASTE only as depre
datorand ensaver : They seem to have been
committed TO our Guardianship by the gracious
providence that has conferred so many blessings
| upon us IN the achievement of our own hbertiesi
onall we abuse the power thus conferred, by es-
Establishing bondage as the law for all whom we
can master
A remedy tor these anticipated evils, and So.
luuon OF this whole slavery problem may be'
Iound IN the suggestions of our early statesmen
Whle they were CT sting about for this purpose
impressed as they were that the relation of mas -
ter and slave was 10 be tolerated for the time
and ultimately to die out.
1t can be found by simply providing for the
peaceful emigration from all the States of this
Gmon, OF all the free coored persons of African
descent, who may desire to -emigrate to some
place in Central or SoutfAmerica in some of
che states of the pical regions in which rights
may be acquired by treaty, by the United State S
land large portion of the people there of tn G
colored race where color is no degradation, and
where they may mi; gle freely together, with all
he rights Of settlem mt and citizenship and form
themselves into colonies.
IN speaking upon this proposed measure, Mr.
Jefferson said " 1t was, however found that
the public mind would not yet bear the PROPOSE
tlon yet the day is not far distant when it must
pear IT, and adopt it, or worse will follow. No
tmng IS more certainly written in the book of
rare, IMAM that these people (the negroes) are to
DC nee nor is 1t less certain that the two races
equally free, canno, live in the same government
Nature, habit, opini on have drawn iudelibe lines
OIL distinction between them. 1t is still in our
power to direct the process of emancipation and
deportation, and in such slow degree that the
evil will wear off insensibly, and their place be
Poli pass" filed up by free white laborers.
" II, on the contrary, It is left to force itself
on, human nature must shud der at the prospect
held up. We should in vain look for an exam
pie in the Spanish deportation or detection of
the Mo0rs"
In u letter to LTr. Coles, Mr.. jefferson thus
| warns his friends in the South Yet the hour
OF emancipation is advancing in the march of
time. 1t acdt come, and whether brought on by
the generous energies of our own friends, or by
| the bloody process of st. Domingo x
| is a leaf of our his tory not yet turned over"
| III his letter to Mr.. Sparks, he says 1.-THE
second object, and most interesting to us, as
coming home to our physical and moral charac-
ter TO our happiness and safety, is to provide an
asylum to which we can, by degrees, send the
whole Of That population from among us, and es-
! tablish them under our patronage and protection
as separate, free aud independent people, in
some country and climate friendly to human life
and happiness"
In consideration of the commercial advantages
OF trec trade with such colonies, the United States
could well make the necessary and proper en-
gagements to maintain them in the enjoyment
OF the rights and privileges acquired by treaty
made for the purpose OF establishing them there
Here this government can do something worthy
OF great nation. A way of escape would be-
offered Tor the free blacks to escape a renewed
bondage inducements would be held out to
Phhanthroplc men to emancipate their slaves :;
the northern slave states, following the lead of
the Tree states, could quietly and gradually intro
oqce tree labor In the place of slave labor, thus
adding to their wealth and honor the great evils.
| TO be apprehcnded from an overcrowded slave,
population would be avoided and liberty prevail
throughout land universally prosperous and
under the sole dominion of the white race The
commerce OF these colonies increasing with their
age and civilization, would add to our accunlu-
latlng wealth and prosperity, and the wrongs of
ages OF oppression be blottod out from the book
OF remembrance forever. To this it must come
sooner or later, and delays only increase the DIFF
hcultes surrounding us.
10 lead IN invoking the ate ntion of the whole
people to this great enterprise, would well be-
come the vigorous young states of the northwest
tern territory, which have grown up under the
shadow OF the tree Of liberty planted by Viz
ginia.
a memorial to congress on this subject is Sc
riously recommen led.
Feaceabie and legal remedies alone can relieve
US 10 0t slavery extension and slavery agitation
Inc provoklng riots at Harper's Ferry, which
were dignitied into treason against the Govern
ment OF the state of Virginia, were the fit off
spring OF the torcble attempt to plant slavery in
Kansas. and the lagitimate fruits of the reneal