The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-01-21

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own POSSESSIONS nnd our own homes, when
We can have such within our own limits.
A great central trunk route, with brpnch-
es at either end to accommodate all parts Of
our country, both upon the Atlantic and
Pacific, would meet our wants and commend
itself to the sound sense and calm judgment
Of our people. l also recommend that you
.memorialize Congress in favor Of that mea-
sure.
There 10 one aspect Of the vexed and ex-
citing question Of slavery to which wish 70
direct your attention as one upon which per.
haps our whole country can harmonlze.-
Recent events ID Virginia have drawn the
attention of our Southern brethren tothe
danger surrounding them BY reason Of the
great number of free colored persons among
them in contact with their slaves, and the
excitement of the moment has caused some
Of their State Legislatures seriously to en-
tertain the terrible proposition to compel
this unfortunate people either to become in
voluntary exiles from the land of their birth
or to become slaves. The repugnance, the
prejudice, IL you will, of the Free States,
especially Of the northwestern States,
against allowing any large influx Of these
unfortunates among them, is well known
and must be needed by those who make laws
for those States. The dangers and difficult
ties. attendant upon the pressnceQt free col
ored persons in q slaveholding eomnunity,
prevent emancipation by many who would
otherwise gladly set free their slaves, and
have in some States caused the passage of
laws prohibiting or greatly hindering eman-
cipation. Indeed these dangers and difficult
ties are to day the great hindrance to the
abolition Of slavery in and by the Slave
States, and the apprehended danger that in
case the Southern States should abolish
slavery, the Free States would at once be
overrun by the ignorant slaves just manu-
mitted, is skillfully used by partizan politi-
clans among US, to reconcile the Northern
mind to the extension of slavery in other
directions. Moved by these siderations,
deem it my duty to recommend to your
careful and favorable consideration, plan
for the colonization of the free colored pop
ulation of our country in Central or South
America, under the protection of our Gene
raj Government, brought forward in the
Congress Of the United States, by distin-
guisbed member of that body from the State
Of Missouri, with the view that if the mea-
sure shall meet your appreciation, you may
memorialize Congress in its favor. The
substance of this plan was subsequently pre-
sented in the U. S. Senate, by one Of the
Senators from Wisconsin, il, that our Gov
ernment shall by treaty with some OF the
Central or South American Governments to
acquire ssthe rights and privileges Of set
tlement and of citizenship for the benefit OF
such persons of color of African descent, as
may voluntarily desire to emigrate from the
United States, and form themselves into q
colony or colonies under ths laws of the
State or States to which they emigrate, the
United States, in consideration. of the COM
mercial advantages of free trade with such
colony or colonies making and securing the
necessary and proper engagements to main
tain them in the enjoyment of the rights and
privileges acquired BY such treaty or treat
ies." The colonization of this unfortunate
race in some country peculiarly adapted by
| climate and production to their use and oc-
cupation, has long been a favorite scheme
with a large portion Of the people in oil
sections of our country, and until time and
experience had shown the operations, Of the
Society which proposed to colonize them in
their native country, to be, by reason OF the
expense, impracticable as means for re-
lieving our country of the vast numbers OF
these people among us, that Society receiv-
ed, as it justly deserved, great degree OF
I public favor. That the operations of that
Society have produced and will produce
great good to Africa, have no doubt, and
I shall rejoice to see its ability for useful
ness largely extended. But experience has
shown it to be wholly inefficient as a means
of removing from among US this large and
rapidly increasing population. Colonial
ton in Central or South America by means
of the proximity of the proposed colonies,
would be much less expensive, and therefore
more effective, and if. the General Govern
ment, supported by the several States
/ should take the matter in hand with earn.
estness and zeal, it seems to me that ".
might congratulate ourselves upon having
done a work which would not only be pro.
ductive of great good to ourselves, but aist
enableus to commence the payment OF thn
vast and accommodating debt which We ow'
this wronged and unfortunate race, ant
which would, perhaps, enable US to see th'
beginning of that most desirable end, whel
our land shall Min trut ssthe land of tn
free y sas it has been Ind is I" the home o
|, the brave"
In conclusion, permit me to say. tha
although our political horizon is not un
clouded, although anger and jealousy hay
!. to some extent taken the place Of brotherl,
kindness and good will among our people
although some menseceupying high position
under our Federal and IN some of our Stat
!, Governments, influenced by pride and pas
i sion, utter sentiments disloyal to cur Union
, and others in like high position, but govern
, ed by baser motives, either openly or silent
: ily approve these sentiments; still, in m.
opinion, those who love our Constitution
: and our Union, have not very great caus
for alarm. Passion will subside, reason wi
resume its sway, and then our soutber
| brethren will discover that they have bee
deceived and misled, as to our feelings an
j purposes that the people Of the NORTH
: while hoping and praying for the day whe
: no slave slave shall press our soil, yet d
{ neither claim nor desire any power to inter
! fere with slavery in any OF the States wher
! it exists; and that the good old ways where
i in We walked, when to talk Of disunio
openly or to approve in silently, was to in
/ Icur the ecorn due a traitor, are ways Z
i pleasantness, and that the good old path
|, our fathers taught us to tread, are paths .
b peace. And they will join us IN believin
1 that the men who achieved our independenc
anu lFaineu OuE SOuStitutluus WtEo ao VI u
/ patriots, and understood the Constfsdtie
:; as well as the statesmen Of the present da
i will unite with US in following their teach
n Iings and walking in their footsteps, and ]
discarding these new measures. and this ne
: policy which has produced no fruits sa,
: those Of discord and bitterness, and vi
. : again pledge themselves as we to-day pied!
/ ourselves the full depth and force OF
!. meaning to the sentiment of the true ar
stern old patriot Of the Hermitage II
. Union-it must and shall be preserved"
SAMUEL j. KlRkWO0D.
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