Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1862-03-05
Shall they Be COloniued.


If there be anything in the following
which We copy from the N. Z. 7rid,e,e,
that is unreasonable, untruthful, unpatli-
otto or wrong, we would like to know it:
A solution Of this great question was
suggested to us a few days since by a cor
respondent, which is worth little consid-
eratioD. That suggestion was, that instead
Of colonizing the slaves, we should colonize
the shareholders. The slaves are peaceable,
industrious, and orderly people, whose la
Dor we can hardly dispense with. The
Shareholders are disorderly, idle, lazy and
troublesome set, who have kept the coun-
try in hot water. for the last twenty years,
and have at last, by the foulest treason and
rebellion involved it in desperate and
costly civil war Let us keep the slaves,
who are valuable, and will make good cit
liens, and getrid Of the shareholders, who
are only nuisance. 1t is almost hope
less to attempt to reclaim these gentry
Their habits, opinions, and even their very
religion, have become so corrupted and
perverted by Slavery that they cannot
be expected ever to settle down into quiet
and honest workers for theirown livelihood.
We shall have no peace till the country u
rid Of them, fully and foreyer. TbeiY
aoss, oi s.se is in Africa, where alone they
w Vii Ind the institutions to which they are
SO fanatically attached. If left anywhere
on the American Continent,tbey will soon
er oil later resume their fayorito project Of
bringing Africa over here to civilize it,
Instead Of permitting them to bring Africa
here, let us send item to Africa. In that
immense and fertile continent they would
have an unlimited and uncontested field for
the propagation Of their peculiar form Of
civilization and Christianity. There they
could rear their slayeholdiug republic or
empire on the broadcast foundation, unyex-
ed by Abolitionists, and unshackled by
W;lmat Provisos, and could demonstrate
ito their hearts content the awful failure Of
free society and the superiority Of institu-
tions based on .nudsils. To soldiers like
Beauregard and Bragg, to statesmen like
Davis and Toombs, the conquest Of Africa
and the reduction Of its countless millions
of barbarians to plantation civilization and
patriarchai Christianity, would be an easy
as well as a grateful and a profitable task.
Above all other lands Africa IS rich in
"niggers," the only wealth which the true
Southelner considers desirable, and It's
plumber, therefore, would be a booty sur
passing that of Ormus or of Ind. At pres
ent, and on this side Of the Atlantic, the
scarcity Of this species Of property is such
that to each white person III the South
the census reckons only half a niger
In Africa, on the contrary, there are enough
TO give every head Of family a number
sufficient to stock large plantation. On
every principal Of political economy, there
fore, the removal Of the shareholders strikes
US as much more desirable and feasible
than that of the slaves. The slaves have
no desire to 90. They, we m he sure
Will rot complain Of the abolition Of Sla-
very, nor declare that il has made the coun-
try unfit to live in. The Rebels on The
contrary cannot fail to be delighted at thC
chance Of escaping from land ID which
i Abolitionism is dominant, in which nlg
gers are regarded as men and in whiel
every principle Of the patriarchal anJ Mo
sale dispensation is sympaihet cay s1aled
They have proclaimed that their mission
is to ciyize the African, and to bring tn,
race Of Ham into proper relations with tina
Of Japbet. They surely cannot shrnl
from their destiny and refuse to 60 if they
are offered free passage to the only quar-
ter Of the globe where society exists q
their own sancti6ed and philosophical ba
sis--and where alone that society is sus
ceptible Of unlimited expansion.