Indiana State sentinel. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1861-04-03


'rsch ss tobacco, breadstuffs, cotton. coffee.
sug&r, molasses, potatoes, &C., were imported
tom abroad, and SO was their meat. All these
articles commanded high prices in their own
market, prices which ought to have induced their
cultivation by any human being willing to labor.
After they had been adding to the outfit which
they carried with them, the avaiis OF their own
labor, and all that had been given them by their
benefactors for more THAI twenty years, the as
sessed value of their agricultural wealth was
FIVE dollars and few cents per head. During
the whole of this time, their government had
cost them nothing, and our navy had given them
peace and security.
Statements, however, were in conflict, and its
friends from time to time, sought for information
that certainly could be relied on. The last
credited agent was Mr.. Cowen, from the Ken
lucky Colonization Society, who, in 1858, after a
soiOurn of seven weeks, made report. This
report, with respect to agriculture, presents the
same state of facts as those of lS43. The colo
rists have always affirmed that the climate was
healthy; vet, with q rich soil to give them food,
and a healthy climate to prolong their lives, and
forty years to multiply their race, there are now
about one-ffth less in number than the original
emigrants.
The general view have taken of Jamaica and
Liberia is derived from sources that are entitled
to the highest credit, but my information has
been obtained from different sources and at differ
ent times, and was not carefully preserved, sup
posing il could be obtained again at pleasure from
historical records and in chronological order, but
in this / was mistaken. There is nothing. how
ever in point of fact from any quarter, tending
to a different conclusion, from that at which L
have arrived; that is, that this race of people
have never as yet, proved themselves capable,
under any circumstances of retaining in freedom
what slavery gives them, or of making progress
sive Improvement unless they are subjected, more
or less to the control of the white For more
than three years have been trying to get stats-
teal and historical facts, concerning these exper-
iments on foreign fields. But the library of Con-
gress, the prOpretors of book stores, and some OF
the best informed of our public men, could give
me no aid This is suggestive fact. "He that
doeth truth comeih to the light, says Christ
Here are experiments that have been in progress
for more than forty years; one OF them by the
most enlightened Government in the world, the
other by many Of the most enlightened individ-
uals in the United States, that are almost Gov
cred up in darkness. Why is this?
One of the ordinances of God is, that man
shall eat bread by the sweat of his face-that is
that he SHALL by labor, contribute his share to the
common stock of supply for human wants
Christ has ordained that in His kingdom, no man
shall eat unless he work. We have sent Hams
descendants TO Africa to raise and govern fami
lies, and to assume the higher responsibilities:
of organizing and governing States From the
best authenticated facts can gain, we are
obliged to believe that they are not qualified tC
do either, because they will not perform voun
tary labor. Among Hams race, in freedom
here and elsewhere, there are but few lndivid
uals who are willing to labor continuously FOL
the support of family. No people can multiply
and raise families, unless they have homes and arr
well fed. In the Northern States, in Jamaic:
and Liberia, the deaths among the free black
steadily exceed their births. The slaves at th
South, multiply faster than the white race at tn
North.
On the field of experiment there is anothe
that deserves our notice. In Eayti, the slave
were emancipated by the Assembly OF France II
1893. In the same year they slaughtered tn
white race, and appropriated to themselves the
invested wealth OF the island. This island hac
been in a most prosperous condition before tina
event. Its exported productions had been i'm
mense. From that time its productions declined
and fiom the address of their President last year
they have reached the lowest level of lazinss
and poverty, are in very degraded condition, a
much or more so than the original inlabitant
when the island was discovered by Columbus, il
1892.
have said that the evidence which proves thu
un6tness of the African for freedom, stares US IL
the face the sun in the heavens. that it amount
to demonstration That evidence has beer
pseooCI III ICfiCN DclOic ~ SOhoiSS
inst, in the experiment at the South of givin:
freedom to the most promising OF the race. We
of the South know that it has proved cure t
them.
The North emancpated that portion of the
race they held in bondage. From the same un
willingness to labor, they are too poor to rais
families, are diminishing in number, and are de
graded by an amount of crime which exceed:
more than twelve times that of the white race.
In Jamaica, no wages can overcome their un
willingness to perform labor.
In Liberia, where they have been literally helt
up by kindness and counsel, and stimulated by
the prospect of regenerating Africa, we see thu
same incurable disease.
In Hayti, we see them sharing all the evil
which flow from self control, and unwilhngnes
to labor, while we see the slaves at the South
well provided for increasing in numbers, and i'm
proving in morals and intelligence
What have written thus far was intended t
disabuse mems minds as to the origin of govern
ment, as to its ''re5ting on the consent of tn,
governed'-as to being "born free and equal,
as to what constitutes slavery, as to what consti
tutes freedom, to the rule by which freedom
or self control is to be melted out, to the pro
priety, in civilized life of subecting eghth
of the human family to the control of one eighth
as to the justice of according freedom to tn,
white race at given age and Withholding it from
Africans for life, TO the evidence furnished tina
they are an inferior race and unfit for social anC
political freedom.