The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-01-28
Lecture Of rrsnk p. Ri.tr.

10 the defeated Republican candidate for tt
House OF Represent atives Ia the 81. Louis NJ o
district, delivered lecture upon the positio
OF parties, at the Cooper Ins itute, New Yorl
on the 18th instant, 10 large audience, com
poeed chiefly Of Black Republicans, the lee
turer having been invited by the Young Men
| Republican Union. The lecture is publishe
! al length in the Herald OF the 26th. In com
mening upon il, the Herald says that ii
| HkLfkR book was gotten up by the lecturer. o
| at least under his supervision. and that he VIA
| assisted by Grow and other Black kepu blica
| leaders. We have never seen the HELPkR boob
| but we hare seen extracts from it, and whethe
BLAIR was the author, or 10 q mere pIagiar,
| from its pages, there seems to be q REMARKABLE
| correspondence between the book aud the lee
| lure.
| Mr.. BLAIR begins at the beginning-cIaim
| WASHINGTON, LAFAYETTE and JEFFERSON a.
| the fathers Of the Black Republican party
| quotes the declaration OF Independence ant
| WAsHiAoroN's letter to LAFAY ErTE-dweli.
| with all his force upon the ordinance of 1851
passed by the old Congress under the Articles
vi Confederation, which had no more power
an the premises than ALEXANDER III. has syel
Oregon-and then calls upon his audience &c
countries upon this interesting subject
England, he said, had gotten rid OF her
system Of villeinAge, centuries ago. and re-
stored her viileins TO their natural rights
AS freemen- England had emancipated the
victims of feudai vassalage in Ireland-Eng-
land had destroyed the monopoly Of the East
India Company, and was removing the
tramTels OF yassalage TO which it had SUBJ
Jected the people. Nor was England alone in
this great work. 1t was proceeding in many
countries OF the Continental had complete
~ succeeded in France, was making progress
even in Austria-and had been taken up and
pushed to contamination by ALEXANDER in
Russia. There is but one reply to all this
absurd rhodomontade. The English yillein
was OF the same lineage with his master. He
was a achite man. with all the instincts and
characteristics Of the white race. Nothing
more was necessary than to free him, and let
him take his place among his own people who
were previously free. The negro, on the con-
trary, is Of different race. He never can fall
in with the white man upon terms of equali
~. Nature never designed that it should be
SO, as is evident from the fact that after few
generations, The amalgamated population dis.
appears altogether. In another part of his
lecture, Mr.. T. makes, without intending it, q
most opposite commentary upon this very
difference existing between the system of Eng
hsh villeinage and the system of American
slavery, when he proposes plan to remove
all the free negroes of the country, both North
and South, to some tropical island which we
are to obtain in some unexplained manner,
somewhere down about the Isthmus of Da-
rieD He gives his reaSDpS for tbic ro,ooxoI
enough He thinks free white Ia
Dor is degraded by being brought in competi-
ton with free negro labor. OF course The two
cannot exist together, and all Mr.. BLA1R's H.
lustrations, drawn from England, Russia and
rance, cease to be illustrations at all
Mr. BLAIR undertakes to show what will
be the policy Of the Black Republican party.
should it ever get into power. A President OF
mat stripe, he says. would begin by securing
me rights OF slaVeholders-wouldp purchase
pace, some"h own South, to remove the
rec negroes to-and would endeavor to lay |
'peh portions OF the most fruitful provinces,
lnd those rlch in minerals, to such CT the |
iaveholders as might deem it their nterest or |
nat OF their State, to remove their laborers
lpon composition with Them to a more con. |
enial climate. This system would be benefi- |
ial to the black, inasmuch as it would make
free man of him, and it would be a double
enefit to the proprietor, furnishing him with
he rich products of the tropics. and at the
anne time enhancing the value of his land at
ZONE, by opening it to free labor. Old Virgi.
la. under such 4. SYSTEM he thinks, would be
from her desolation and SO would
ii the South He is quite eloq uent upon this
sad. dwelling with great earnestness upon
he desolatiOn Of the South-of that country |
which furnishes S2c0,U0O,G00 out of SOS. 600 600
Vorth exports-Which suppliess the North
With the material tor its manufactures-which
furnishes the North with market that takes
i've times AS much of her products as ALI the |
ther markets in her reach, put together,
mere must have been manufacturers and |
Merchants in that assembly who knew tn.
alue OF Southern trade. to the Northern
tates, and if they took the representa- of
II. BLAIR for Gospel, they must have been
truck with curiosity to know how one land.
0 desolate and so PROSTATE, could uphold an
Their, in condition bordering upon the acme
f prosperity.
Mr. BLAIR seems to have been afraid that |
Is representation of what the slave. when
iade free man, and removed to a tropical
innate, might Go for his late master. in the
ay OF compensation tor his manumission
ould be met by certain stubborn facts. which
would be impossible TO overcome He had
he fear OF Jamaica before his eyes, and of a |
hole island turned into squash patches |
e therefore, like a skilltul navigator, eludes
he danger by throwing out an anchor ahead |
e quotes from parliamentary records to !
low that the exports of the West Indies |
ave trebled since the Introduction of free
Dor. Aye, but have those of Jamaica |
ebled There is the point. Jamaica is | :
e only West India Island whose circum.
ances bear any sort of comparison with Mr..
LARS black Utopia, down about the tropics
cause it is the only island on which there is
plenty of land for sqatters. The others are r
cultivated to the last square inch and |
ere being no room to squat, starvation does
the proprietor what the masters authori-
formerly did; that is to say, it makes The
gro work. But We will venture to say that
maica has not improved in the value OF {
r exports, and that she is not likely TO d
so unless the coolie system be introduced L
'e master who liberates his slaves. and sends ,,
I'm to the tropics under the hope that they =
II work for him when he gets there, will y
'st assuredly reap the reward of his folIy.-
sides, this parliamentary report, speaks n
ly Of the amounts produced. 1t aims at re- =
Its, and is perfectly indifferent as to the
inner in which they have been brought u
,ut. What has become of the old proprie- |.
3 Why, they have been ruined that is {
single large sugar estate, cut up into
ZEN smaller ones, each cultivated by a pro- o
etor formerly slave on the premises may. T
the aggregate, produce more than it did in
original condition. But we ask again. "
at is to become of the original master of +