The weekly Anglo-African., 1860-04-14

my mission stand pre-emlnent IN the opln
z ion ofthe people of this country.
The fact that your history is a perfect
, blank is sufficiently humiliating to justify
the most vigorous efforts to rouse up youl
+, energies, that you may perform your duty
to the generations to come The impress
sion that slavery is the normal condition Of
the colored people must be removed by
some development on your part, or you
must fall into the position to which you
are exposed by your indifference to the
exigency of the times. The fact that you
are natives of the country is not sufiient
to jstify you in sacrificing yourselves and
the interests of your posterity by false
veneration for the land of your nativity,
where your claims are denied by the domi-
nant race.
While the operation of the plan to es-
tablish agricultural districts in Africa
would accomplish two-fold object by
opening field for the elevation of the
emigrants and lead to the regeneration of
that country, yet another plan of emigra-
ton will be submitted to the people of the
United States, and between the two you
may expect radical change in your posi-
ton. If you can realize the Importance
and the necessity of emigration as the
means of deliverance, think the PROPOSE
ton to establish colony in Mexico or
Central America is sufficiently serious to
create the most profound reflection in
your minds If the elevation of the white
laborer depends upon your removal, the
law of selfpreservation will prompt the
efforts to establish a position for you as
treemen, as you must choose between it
and slavery in this country. The plan
written by me will give the subject an as
| pect which will be more universal in its
development, for while the spirit of phi
lsnthrOpy may not be sufficient to lead the
people in the Southern States to consider
it, yet there are elements in it which cam
not be overlooked by the statesmen who
are laboring for the relief of that section of
the country. A solution of the question
of emancipation upon the basis of this plan
would make emigration necessary to lin
lied extent, that the result may show the
capabilities of the colored people. 1t will
require an outlay of not less than 81, $780,
600 to improve the districts in Africa, and
$4,7OO,00O to supply agricultural imple-
ments and provisions, and convey the emf
grants to that country family to
be supplied with farm of twenty acres,
improved to the extent of three acres, with
a house, and each district to contain not
less than six hundred families.
The plan of emancipation by compensa-
ton, in connection with emigration to Lii
IBERIA or to Central America, is the next
phase to open field to the people of the
Southern States, with the aid of Congress,
or be carried out by voluntary measures
where the disposition may exist among
those who may be DESTROYS to be relieved
of the responsibility which the system
imposes. In considering this branch of the
subject in its remote relations to the agri.
cultural interests of the country, am driv-
en- to the conclusion that it is the only So
luton that can be applied as the initiative
to the general question The proposition
for the relief of the entire country would
be limited to the emancipation of the fe-
males in every State, by compensation by
Congress, with the concurrence of the State
Legislatures, and place the males in po-
sition to be redeemed by establishing a
limited relation with the emancipators, to
enable the emancipated to pay an indem-
nifty for themselves and the land they
would occupy. The elevation of your
people by making them owners of farms
and leading them into agricultural pursuits,
under regular system, would preclude
the necessity of emigration, as the improve
ment they would undergo would give them
a higher position in the opinion Of the
American people. To modify the laws in
the several States to enable planters to
make the experiment where they may be
DESTROYS to emancipate their people and ell
vate them as farmers, would give the sub
ject a sublime aspect, as prejudice could not
exist with the force it is felt in the free
States, to neutralize its operation. The
signs of the times show the aspect of the
issues, for while emigration may relieve
the free colored people, yet the agitation
will only subside by the force of the solu-
ton to the question of emancipation. 1t
will be controlled by the voluntary efforts
of the people upon the basis of compensa-
ton, OF by the pressure of the free labor
interest, without any reference to it.