New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1862-02-24
COLONIZATION.

cipated shall be cOlonized in some part OF the
Vast Indie. or Central America. Mr.. Gurley
of Ohio. in the House of Representatives. pro-
poses that they shall be settled in florida--a
place suggested originally by THE TRIBUNE.
It has been proposed by others to set apart
South Carolina as their future home and gath
eriug pace-by way OF poetlcal retnbution
upon that State for beginning the civil war,
with the express purpose of laying the founda-
tons of a great negrohoding empire on the
ruins Of the American Republic.
All these projects indicate the existence of a
conviction more or less prevalent in the minds
of thinking men, that after tho slaves are
.mancipated much trouble is TO be apprehend-
ed if they are left in immediate contact with
their late masters. 1t cannot but occur TO
those who reflect on the subject that the mas
tiers are a fierce, vindictive, arrogant, and lg-
norant race, to restrain whose turbulence the
whole force Of the United States has been
called out and who are yet only beginning to
be coerced into order aud submission to law
by arraying against them half q million OF
Dd(OItlS. Ou Oth't INV WV sAS'S' NV
singularly mild, peaceable, and inofiensive
people, who, for long time after they have
been restored to liberty, must necessarily be
very poor ard very feeble, socially and polltl-
emily, and little able to protect themselves
against their former oppressors. And those
oppressors, We may be sure, will not abstain
from tampering. insulting, robbing, and de-
grading in every possible way their liberated
victims, so far as can be done with safety TO
themselves. If the two races, therefore, are
left in contact. the weaker and less numerous
that is TO say, the blacka-will inevitably be
harassed and prosecuted by the stronger and
moro numerous race, who are not likely to be
very scrupulous or tender in their treatment OF
men whom they regard as property forcsosy
taken from their possession.
1t is the apprehension Of this continual
collision and persecution if the slaves are SIM
ply emancpaied on the spot and lett in the
midst of their defeated, but yet sullen and at
heart disloya eX-masters, that has led intelli-
gent and humane men Ike Nr. Gurley to ad-
yocate their removal TO some portion of the
country specially Sc. apart for them where
they will be ont of tie way of injurious con-
tact with eyil-disposed whites, and able with
out hnderance or moleslation to work for them
selves. and improve their own condition In
their own way. 1t is easy TO say, as Mr..
Frederick Douglass said in bis recent address
in this city, that all that is requisite is for the
whites TO let the blacks alone. aud they will
take care of themselves. We do not doubt
the truth Of this remark. But the question is
If the loyal whites Of the country let the
blacks alone and abandon them to their fate,
will they be let alone by the disloyal whites
Can tho blacks protect themselves and hold
their own in the midst of superior numbers Of
,till hostile and vindictve though beaten Rebels,
wbo in spite of any act OF Congress or mill
tary proclamation of freedom, will still regard
them as rightfully their slaves and property
solution Of this great question was sug-
gested to us q few days since by a correspond
ent, which is worth q little consideration.
That suggestion was that instead Of coonizipg
the slaves, we should colonize the shareholders
The slaves are peaceable, industrious. and or
DERBY people, whose labor we can hardly dis
pense with. The shareholders are disorderly,
idle, lazy, and troublesome set. who have kept
the country in hot water for the last twenty
years. aud have at last, by the foulest treason
and rebellion, involved it in a desperate and
costly civil war. Let us keep the slaves who
are valuable, and will make good citizens, and
get rid of the Shareholders, who arc only a
nuisance. 1t is almost hopeless to attempt to
reclaim these gentry. Their habits, opinions
and even their very religion, have become 80
corrupted and perverted by Slavery that they
cannot be expected ever to settle down into
quiet and honest workers for their own liyeli.
hood. We shall have no peace till the countr!
is rid Of them, fully and forever. Their proper
home is in Africa, where alone they will find
the institutions to which they are 50 fanatically
attached. If left anywhere on the American
Continent they will sooner or later resume
their favorite project Of bringing Ailica
over here to cviize it. Instead OF permit
ting them to bring Africa here, let US
send them TO Afica. In that immense
and fertile continent they would have an unlim.
tied and uncontested field for tho propagation OF
their peculiar form Of civilization and Christian
itv There they could rear their slaveholding re-
,ublic or empire on the broadcast foundation.