Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1860-02-04


influences are driving as RICH. onward to-
ward such future. The sagacious states
man, gathering wisdom from the history
of living rs well as of the dead nations,
looking forward to propable future as he
looks back at al actual past, and seeing
danger to his country and institutions afar
of, should devise some means Of protection
commensurate with the appreiended dan
ger, by which such calamities may be
avoided.
It can be found by simply providing for
the peaceful emigration from all the States
of this Union. Of all the free colored per-
sons Of African Descent who may desire to
emigrate, to some place in Central 81
South America, in some OF the States of
tbs tropical regions, in which rights may
be acquired by treaty by the United States,
for that purpose and for their benefit. 1t
IS simply that these people may 90 aud
mingle with the population already exist
ing in those States (and large portion of
the people there is Of the colored ra5e,)
where color is no degradation, and where
they may mingle freely together. with all
the rights of settlement ana citizenship,
ard form themselves into colonies.
In speaking upon this proposed meas
ure, Mr.. jefferson said: III was, howev-
/" or, found that the public mind would
not yet bear the proposition; yet the
+" day IS not far distant when it must bear
9 il, and adopt il, or worse will follow
/" Nothing is more certainly written in the
" book OF fate, than that these people (the
negroes) are to be free; nor is it less
+" certain that the two races, equally free,
/" cannot live in the same government
]" Nature, habit, opinion, have drawn indel-
"ible lines of distinction between them
/" 1t is still in our power to direct tie pro-
g cess of emancipation and deportation,
7" and in such slow degree that The evil
g will wear off insensibly, and their place
g be pari passu filed up by free white la
/" borers If, on the contrary, it is left 70
g force itself on, human nature must shud-
!" der at the prospect held up. We should
6 in vain look for an example 10 the Span
q ish deportation or deletion of the Moors.'
In letter to Mr. Coles, Mr.. Jefferson
thus warns bis friends in the South
g Yet the hour of emancipation is advsnc
" ing ia the march of time. 1t aoiH come
"and whether brought on by the generous
" energies of our own friends, or By the
$ bloody process of St. Domingo =
- 10 a leaf of our history no. yei
|" turned over"
In his letter to Mr.. Sparks, he says
|" Toe second object, and most interesting
4. to us, as coming home to our physical
g aud moral characters, to our happiness
g and safety, is to provide an asylum to
/" which we can, by degrees send the
i" whole of that population from among US,
(" and establish them under our patronage
!" and protection, as a separate, free ana
e independent people, in some country and
9 climate friendly to human life and hep
|" pinesa."
In consideration ofthe Commercial ad.
vantages of free trade with such colonies,
the United States could well make all nee
cessary and proper engagements to main
tain them IN the enjoyment OF the rights
and privileges, acquired by a treaty made
for the purpose of establishing them there
Here this government can do something
worthy of great nation. A way Of es-
cape would be offered for the free blacks
to escape renewed bondage. Induce
ments would be held out to phiapthropic
men to emancipate their slaves; the north
ern slave States, following the lead Of the
free States, could quietly and gradually in
troduce free labor in the place Of slave la
Dor, thus adding to their wealth and hon
or; the great evils to be apprehended from
an overcrowded slave population would be
avoided; and liberty prevail throughout
land universally prosperous, and under the
sole dominion of the white race. The
commerce of these colonies, increasing
with their age aud civilization, would add
to our accunulatiag wealth and prosperity,
and the wrongs Of ages Of oppression be
blotted out from the book Of remembrance
forever. To this it must come sooner or
later, and delays only increase the difficult
ties surrounding us.
A memorial to Congress on this subject
il seriously recommended.
Peaceable and legal remedies alone can
relieve us of slavery extension and slavery
agitation.
The provoking riots at Harpcr's Ferry,
which were dignitied into treason agains
the Government Of the State Of Virginia,
were the fit offspring Of the forcible at
tempt 10 plant Slavery in Kansas, and The
legitimate fruits OF the repeal of the Mis-
souri, Compromise.
The disunion sentiments ayowed IN por-
tons of the corntry, and sometimes in onrI
Halls Of National Legislation, are unpat-
riotic, undiguifcd, disgracefnl Every
threat Of disuniotl shord BIZ held up toll
publ: reprobation in all sectors of the
Union, and every attempt al disunion re-
warded With halter The Union ofthese
states cannot be dissolved It may bel
but cannot be overturned. There
!. no conceivable contingency in which III
san be consented to. A disruption, in
stead Of relieving rs from present evils,
would involve all sections in far greater
evils.
While the North asks nothing that Isl