New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-13

unity. Tnbes, races, have yleiaoo " VIC -" f
full moldiDg influences Of time and stuauon' aru
come cut homogeneous at the last. Inc ii''o i"'s
Of human eY,tence. flowing from tnousana
different sources. like the differing Hills OF mgoV
r,ver have each and all been but tributary 70 me
great channel Of human life 10 history, their varea
eomoos;tions losing their dist ctiye character in
their mingled flow, and fuspg at the last in one har.
mopons whole. This il not strictly true IN regard
To exstins natopates is held TO be so IN regard 70
the Grand march Of humanity in the nearer and re-
moter Past. Hence we may be met with obi seton to
our ideas on the ground Of their lack Of comprehen-
siyenefs But we imagine it is the director who is at
fault here. il is not generalization that is too
narrow 1t is the Objector's which is too broad The
interfusiOn and final homogeneOusness Of the races
we would divide, is a rem0ter consequence OF pro-
founder and slower actions than those we include
in our cOntemplatiOns We deal with compare
lively near events. These, IN their changes OF
developments, will constitute new series that may
rise to The position OF fresh elements in more dis
tant and wider combination. Our scheme thus
,tands uDiwpsached by considerations that fail 70
disturb it, because they fly over its head. Our
Judgment that tire African and the Caucasian On
this part OF our Continent, must frs, separate, IN
order to establish the conditions under which
future union OF fusion Of races is possible is simply
deduction drawn from what we see and know OF
our present national condition. 1t rests on the fact
that one portion of our people is degraded and
ignorant, and in servitude, and in the position that
no one race be will be instructed and elevated
by another The first step toward their ultimate
uniop if sucb in the lapse of ages, be possible,
which possibility we shall not assert nor do We
have the hardihood to deny, is thus, in our view,
the one We Indicate; separation.
The idea of the necessity of this separation OF
the White and Black races we insist is all import
ant as means Of promoting the national harmony
and progress; and TO mitigate the urgency of the
Negro question among us. 1t is the necessity to be
set forth and kept constantly in view, though the
achievement Of the result ia necessarily work of
| time.
We have been led TO these reflections from some
remarks in Senator Wa6es late speech. He advo-
Gates the voluntary colonization of our free colored
population, somewhere on our southern border. He
would make the scheme plank In our Republican
platform. The sane idea has been heretofore ad
yanced by Dir. Blair of Missouri, and by Senator
Doolittle of Wisconsin. The aim of the proposed
an asylum for class of our population who are
the victims of great prejudice, and often of
harsh legislation. Secondly, it looks to the relief
of the Republican party from the charge
that in opposing Slavery and it's extension, it's mem
bers advocate the raising of degraded, ignorant
and servie black population to civil and political
equality With the whites. In word, that that
party advocates Negro equality in its most offensive
form. There may be another motive in the advo
cacy Of this scheme; namely, that such q colony
would nterpose an obstruction to the spread Of
! Slavery southwark The views Of the gentenen
referred to may all be very good from their stand
point; but it may be questioned whether those
views are broad enough. Practically, the colo
nizatOn of free blacks from this country Is likely
TO be a small matter That class are the mere
tWiga ard branches torn from the great forest of
| Negro Slavery. They are being consumed BY con-
tact with the civilization of the Free States. We
think their sure fate is Absorption by the whites by
the operation of laws that seem to doom all cross
breeds to extinction. 1t would appear, therefore,
that that portion of our people may be safely
CROUCH LEFT TO the operation of the laws Of popula
ton. If we shall ever be forced to adopt system
for their protection against the cruelty and rapaciy
Of the States, the plan of colonization may prove
to be the only feasible one But we do not believe
that o colony Of free blacks on our Southern Dor
ders, fed enly by the stream of our own cOlored
population would ever amount TO anything. They
are feeble race with none Of the enterprise and
hardiheOd of the natural-bOn pioneer. They are
the frinees and parasites of old civilization and
cannot be MADE the advance guard of new. If
planted anywhere on The isthmus or in Northern
Me xieo, they could not be counted on ss barrier
to the spread Of Slavery; they would be far more
likely ~ be oveuun and e1tirpated by it. Northern
Mexico must be filed by white colonsts from the
Free States and Continental Europe. No other
Glars of men are capable Of forming the necessary
breakwater against Slavery in that direction.
While, then, the immediate purpose and great
duty Of the Republican party is held to be to mex
orally limit the area of African Slavery by every
possible method let its next aim be to get rid of
the negro population entirely, by msssing it within
its present limits. This is TO be the result 10 the
end and it ia just well to recognize The fact and
thus aid in aecelerating the period Of our final de-
liveraDce from the great burden and nuisance and
crime of Slavery. OF course, it is a result not
likely to be accomplished in eur day and genera
tion; but by presenting it as the final consumma-
ton Of AntSlayey labors, it gives ardor TO effort,
ample scope to every shade Of idea bearing upon the