Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-03-31
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY AND NEGRO
COLONIZATION.
We have here thrown together extracts from
some of the speeches and other documents
referred to in an article in our editorial columns.

I'VE have here thrown together extracts from
some of the speeches and other documents
referred to in an article in our editorial columns.
THE FOUNDATION STONE BIZ JEFFERSON.
Nothing is more certainly written in the book
Of fate, than that these people 1.-THE negroes) are
to be free nor ls 1t less certain that the two ra-
ces, equally freej canuos live in the Same Govern
meut. Nature, habit, opinion, have drawn indel-
lible lines Of distinction between them y \
The second object, and the most interesting to
us, as coming home to our physical and moral
characters, to our happiness and safety, is to pro.
vide an asylum to which we can, by degrees, send
The whole Of that population (the negroes) from
among ts, ahd establish them under our patron.
age aud protection, 40 a separate, free. iudepend.
ent people, in some country and climate friendly
to human life and happiness.'
FRANK p. BLAIR,
or Missouri, in a speech delivered in Cincinnati
on the 25th Of last November, gave his views os
follows.
What I propose is no measure of rashness or
inconsiderAte haste, but the deliberate and ma
tured thoughts Of the most far-seeipg and saga.
cious Of all our statesmen. 1t is simply to pro-
vide an asylum, in the congonial regions of the
American tropics, for such of our negroes az me
now free, or who hereafter may be enfranchised
by States or individuals. and who may choose to
go there, and to offer them such Inducements, by
securing them selfgoverDment, free homesteads,
and protection against foreign or domestic moles-
%tation, as they will not and cannot refuse to &C:
cept.' y
Those who believe that the negroes are an in
ierior race will rejoice in a complete separation OF
the races, and thus avoid that contact which de.
teriorateS our own nor is it possible for those
who think differently to oppose the opening of new
~regions, where the negroes shall be invited to 20,
and take up free homestesds and enjoy free gov.
eminent Under the protection of the United States
4 y
i have spoken of this plan of cOlohising Gu,
slaves as a means of enabling them to attain a hieh
position and greater comfort and happiness but
this 10 not the only object. or even the chief one
to be attained by this grand movement. Mr.. JEFF
ferson did not SO regard il. lie was not urmiudful
of the interests of this dependent race, and was
animated in ali he said and did by a sincere desire
for their elevation and improvement. lie recog-
missed their claim to the rights OF manhood, and
desired to place them in a position where, the le-
gal status of freemen being conceded to them. they
could not be sunk into social inferiority by the
pressure of a different race, stronger than them
selves, and in whom nature, habit, and opinion,
had engraftsd an iDerad cable antipathy. Hence
be favored the separation of the races for the ne.
gro, but still more for the sake Of his own race.
Our physical and moral characters our bappi-
hsss and safety to use bis own impressive words,
demand that this shall be done, or worse will fol.
low 9 il not accomplished by the generous ener.
gies of our own minds, then il will DO brought
about BY the bloody process of St. Domingo
lie knew full we'll that the chief evils Of Slavery
do not fall on the slave dp to a certain point, il
Is undesirable that tho slaves in this country are
improved BY a mild subsection to a cultivated
and enlightened race. Who does not know thai
The nsgfoeS In the United States are superior 10
what they we're when brought from their native