Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-31

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voluntary emancipation, to any great EXTENT is
becoming almost wholly Improbable 10 the slave.
holding States, for the waht Of some outlet fol
their free oolored population. The slaveholdine
States will mos permit emaucipated slaves to re.
main within their limits and the border ffee States
with a few exceptions, becoming less and less, re,
fuse to receive them. Shareholders, therefore, Who
would willingly liberate their slaves, are practi
cally prohibited from doing 80.
The people from the more northern slayehold
ing States, and especially of Maryland and vir.
ginia' already regard the large FREQ colored popu.
latioh OF those States as intolerable evils, and will
not perfiit them to bo increased.
The policy OF providing, by the General Gov.
%erntnehs, sothe means Of coloniiing the free peo
pie OF color beyond the limits Of the United sta,ea;
is one which cotimendS itself more especially to
the people of the South. 1t is a policy which, il
adopted BY the Republican party, and made one Of
its cardinal objects, cannot fail, sooner or later. &c
give that party a stronger foothold 10 many Of the
slateholding states.
we dc not mean to assert that the South alone
would be benefited by the adoption of this policy
To say nothing of the lhcalculable benefits which
we believe it would confer upon the colOred race,
the people of the Middle and Western free States
are deeply interested in it. There is nothing
which the people Of those States regard as d great
er evil than the free cOlored population which tHes
already have, and nothing which they more dread
than its increase.
There lie no argument which has been used
against the Republican pnrty With SO much effect
especially in the West, as the false charge that il
faTors perfect equality, political and social, be.
tween the white and black races in our midst
With all that numerous class Of population which
the West has derived front the slavchclding States
chiefly from the non slaveholding ~classes in those
States, an ineraditajle prejudice against the negro
race, and more Especially against Tree hegroes,e4 III
list. An entite separation of the faGes 10 wha,
those people most desire. The Republican doc.
tribe Of e~&tliSion of slavery from the Territories
would commend itself strongly to their favor, if
they could feel assured that free negroes would
be excluded also. But if the negro is to cohie
among them at oil they prefer that he should come
as a slave, or at least subject ID civil and political
disabilities. The charge that the Republican par
ty is in favor Of negro equality in our midst, has
been a standing raw-head and bloody bones to de-
ter them from any sympathy with it.
Let tho Republican party boldly take the
ground, that when it comes into power il will adopt
eficieht measures for colonizidg the free negroes
in sumo suitable country beyond the limits Of the
United States and the very class of people, 10
the free Stated. who are now most preiudiced
against US, will soon become our strongest. allies.
II the Philadelphia Convention of 1856 had com,
mitted the party to this policy; and if it had been
kept prominently before the people as one Of the
leading objects which the party had in view, we
believe that the Republican party would have been
nearly az strong to-day in che southern portiJn Of
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, as III the north.
ern sections Of thosE States. We sincerely
hope that the Chicago Convention will not fail to
take strong ground in favor of this policy.
THE N. Y. EVENING POST,
Is as decided as the Republic in approving of the
measure, but not quite so frank in saying who
ought 20 inaugurate it; but tie article indicates the
Chicago Convention.
The expulsion of the free blacks from several
of the slave states into the free states, and the
similar acts proposed in tho others, have drawn
the attention of the Governors Of Ohio, Iowa and
Wisconsin, to the obligation of providing homes
for these unfOrtunates. The necessity
of some such provision was long since foressen by
Mr.. Jefferson. Whilst the numbers of free blacks
in the free states DIRE few the truth IF Mr.. JEFF
ferscn's remark. that nothing is more certain than
that the two races, equally free. cannot live in the
sauie government is less obvious. But with
the increase of their numbers the indellble lines
of distinttioh' which, lie sage. nature as we'll az
habit and oplhiOn has drawn between the races, be.
come moro manifest, and conflict ensues, as form.
erly In St. Domingo and ho& 10 Chatham and 9th.
err places In Canada. Theorists, not living where
the distinction of caste exists, may ~imagihS them.
selves superior to it, and that it needs but enlight-
eminent to obliteratc 1t. But as this is as imprac.
ticable as to annihilate gravitation, the problem
for the true statesman is to conform his policy to
it.
The blahs of Mr.. Jefferson, the wisest and
most benevolent statesman and philosopher in ne
worlds history, are all founded on a profound
knowledge of the laws Of nature, and are for that
reason practicable and if those whose hearts res.
pond to the sontirnent that all men are created
equal, you'd make it anything but an unmeaning
generality, they must be guided By his practical
wisdom.
This truth Is now recognised by the friends Of
equal rights. and the Northwest proclainis, through
the recent messages of the Governors Of Ohio. To-
va and Wisconsin, that tho time for a movement
has come to apply it, by separating the free men
OF the two races. by granting honesteads to the
blacks in some rich regidh Of Genital or South
America. to be acquired for that purpots, where,
according to the plan of Mr.. jefferson, they NAV
30 established as a separate. free aud ludependen.
people, under cur patronage and protection The
measure ought to be acceptable to the people Of
the South, whose apprchensions Of these free
blacks have driven thom to the cruei measure OF
expelling them from their native sofia measure
which will scarcely diminish the danger. And
this consideration will find almost equal favor with
the North for though it is The policy of The oil.
9~arehists to teach the southern people that tbey