, 1862-06-17
THE NEGRO AND COZ. BLAIR,

Tie everlasting negro is still with us,
and however this great conflict may end,
it seems to be decreed that this country
and the colored man are bound together
for veal or woe, and must march to Fate |
abreast What then shall be done with the |
slave2 This question, so vital and so per
picking, receives various answers. Some
earnest men, who believe in freedom and |
the rights Of man, demand emancipation;
while others, who claim. that all extreme or
abstract opinions or measures. must be siren
uously resisted, or else the very existence
Of the country and all its precious institu-
tions will be brought into the greatest peril,
assert that emancipation without colonial
lion is both unHise and impracticab1e.
The negro, if made free, it is contendea,
will not be suffered to remain in the South
and will also be most vigorously excluded
from the North; so that to make him free
man is in effect to exile him in the most
ruthless manner. It is to Danish him from
the country, which is claimed to be un-
ayoidable if he be cnfranchised, and at the
same time to neglect to furnish home for
him elsewhere, and furnish him means and
facilities Tor getting to it, all Of which ne
Cessary and benevolent services are to be
rendered by the plan Of colonization. It
may be worth while to consider some Of
the reasors which are given in support Of
the position that the negro will not be per
mitted to remain in the country after he is
enffanchisel. We find some Of these wei,
statcd in q late speech Of Col Blair of
Missouri, who thus presents the condition
Of things:
when these millions Of negroes have been
liberated they will at the samc moment be e1I1cd
by the laws Ct the States, every one Of the slave
States having laws prohibiting the residence Of
negroes eaffanchised. They will not be able to 60
to Indiana OF Illinois OF any Of the free States
which have prohibited their immigration, and
they viii pour Ike IN inundatfon upon those
Northern States which have not adopted this pro-
hihition- How long will it be before these States
also adopt this provision: That they will Ger
ta!n1y do it can be safely assumed, because the
people Of those States have the same prejndices as
the people Of Illinois and Indiana, and as the pco-
pie OF all the e.ayeholding States. and the reason
why they have not already adopted euch laws has
been because they were not in any immediate dan
ger Of tnnndatfon By this class Of people, That
1hey Will pasR such laws fe clear from the areu-
meats even of those Who are urging the passage of
this bill, and who are attempting to reconcile
tbeir own people to 1t by saying there ia no dan
ger Of these liberated slaTes going North-that
they Will remain In the South They either for
get OF they do not know that all these Southern
States hare laws prohibiting the residence Of that
class Of people. Some Of the free States have the
same lawa, and Congress can neither repeal nor
modify them. sincerely believe that al the free
States will adopt the same laws, What will then
become OF the negro:
where Is the boasted freedom conferred BIZ
this hfus II Is a bill Of exile It's a bill to make
them homeless, house1cse, to make them destitnte
and despatI1ng wanderers upon the face of the
= earth. The bill introduced By the chairman ar the
Relect committee accomplishing rothinp for the
slave, except to destroy what little acytation il
left to him in his sad life. What is to prevent the
States passing laws against them as fag1ants. as
people without visible means Of support, being
within the States without License, and thus tine
1hsm, and imprison them, and sell them, and pu:
Them to hard labor. The same thing is done in re-
BARD to Migrants in al the States Of the Union.
shaA We undertake IL Congress to regulate the pol
e5 ot the different Statesf Can we do it? Shall
weahdertske to say that the slayeholding States
enau Ho1 execute the same laws against yagrancy
a. ate operation in New York and all Of the free
o1a'ee' ano which are made applicable even to
people o1 our own color? II re can dictate to the
awe otatee upon this subject, why have nc not
&ae@aeeo 70 MaesachuSetts, which has SONIC gtrin-
seAt reEa4a11ons aga1nst migration from En-
1ppef" -@N
He are ready to admit that there is some
torce IN this reasoning, but we would in
quire if it is probable that this hostility
and Prejudice against the negro will re-
man to exclude him from all the States in
that new condition Of affairs which ia i'm
med1ately introduced so soon as emanc;.
patton has taken place. The opposition
ana .nseterate dislike Of the non-sIayebold
7os class to Pe put On the same industrial