The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-05-12
experience of the benefits to be derived
from emigration. C.
VICTORIA, Vaneouvers Island,
Nov. 80. 1889

Nov. 30, 1859.
MUCH ESTEEMED FRTEND:--I have lust
been looking over a pamphlet which you
had the kindness to send me; / would have
acknowledged the receipt of it before, but
it came just after | had left San Francisco
for this my present home.
1t has always been source Of wonder
ment to me why the friends of the slave
did not refrain from the use of such articles
as are cultivated by him. l fully agree
with you that the great work of emancipa-
ton will be complete when we make slave
labor Improbable I also believe that
colored men must emigrate; whether it be
to Africa or not, they must be the judges;
but 60 we must, if we ever expect to be
on par with the more favored of mankind.
1t may appear very strange to hear me ex-
press myself thus, knowing as you do that
ten years ago / advocated remaining here
where we were. But why should l shut
my eyes to the truth? 1t is no evidence
to my mind that man is right because he
never changes; had l remained in Phila-
delphia until now, it is likely that my views
would have undergone little or no altera-
ton; but having got this far, think | can
Judge of the good effects of emigration.
Now, if Africa holds out good inducements
to colored men, then / say go. l have no
doubt the day will come when she will be
one of the greatest countries on the globe;
she is rich in all the minerals that are so
valuable to the civilized world-You do
not say much for America when you speak
of the different countries that have acknow-
lodged the independence of Africa, (Libe.
ria J it is not more than reasonable to sup
pose that she would have been first on the
list; but alas to her shame be it spoken,
l am afraid she never will. This whole
matter of free labor l am sorry to say has
not been rightly looked into by the colored
people They say, "well, what little
sugar, rice, tobacco, &c, | use, will never
bind the letters any tighter on the slave"
never thinking for moment that their
neighbors are doing the same thing, and
are excusing themselves in the same way;
and thus the STAKEHOLDER is enabled to sell
at high-fgure his ill-gotten gain, other
wise there is no doubt the cause would
have been advanced twenty five per cent
at least. | know the friends of the color
ed man have been toiling for many years,
and we feel grateful for what they have
done, we will praise them for their good
deeds, and at the same time thrash them
for their short comings.
The anti-slavery society has been too
much like the political parties. The great
question with them is, what can we make
by this or that move7 the money must be
all kept in the family; we will give our
agents liberal salaries to travel through
certain counties where they are well known,
or rather where there is no danger Of be-
ing mobbed, and at the same time sure of
getting good collection. Now one word
about this family. 1t is well known that
there has been few leading men and wo-
men who have had the control of the So
called Radical Abolition Society from the
beginning, and they are likely to hold
their positions to the end of their natural
lives. Do not understand me as finding
fault with them for being radical, for l do
not see how any one can be otherwise on
the subject of slavery. But this is the
ground upon which l arraign them: they
have not given away for the colored man
as he has become, or fitted himself TOR the
work. / am one of the many who believe
that colored men should be the agents in
every anti-slavery Office in the United
States. In word, | believe the white
men land women, too,) should give the
leadership of this reform into the hands of
colored people, for the best reason, namely,
it is our cause: therefore we claim to be
the proper opponents of it. We know our
wants, from the fact of having TO wear the
yoke. l look at the matter somewhat af-
ter this wise: The true friend of the color
ed man should not scruple to give way
when he knows there are colored men
qualified to lead; but am sorry to say
they appear of late years to think more
of the leaves and fishes, than they do about
the slaves freedom. This may be grave
charge, but nevertheless believe it to be
true. 1t has become question with me
whether all this talking (by either colored
or white) is of any benefit to the slave
The teaching we have received for the last
thirty-fve years has, | am afraid, caused
large majority of the colored people to
think that if they learn to speak well on
the subject of anti-slavery, it is all they
need, especially when they have the
privilege of travelling about the country on
steamboats, and railroad cars-now and
then becoming martyrs, in the way of be-
ing dragged out and otherwise maltreat-
ed.
Now, the best and surest way to gain
their rights in this particular, is, to seek
to have the same interest in these different
conveyances as the white man has. Do
you tell me that if the colored men
were conveying their wheat, corn, oats,
barley, rye, potatoes, &C., together with
their live stock and dry goods, as the more
favored are doing to the different markets,
they would not be treated better? The
day that we are engaged in business mat
tiers, so as to bring about commercial in
tercourse between the whites and ourselves,
that very day our chains will commence to
fall think as Horace Greeley does with
| raoard m mr. e1evation-that one we'll cul