East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1862-04-29

race. How long would III DC endured by
the northern people, that MAR should
be waged upon the people Of their own
race at the South To make the blacks
their equals? | DO not believe that any
party could retain power at the North
upon such an Issue. We should not over
look another consideration in dealing
with this subject. Our armies are com
posed of men, and act slike under SINH
Lar. .elrc nnlstanGes. Northern men in the
South are not noted for any particular
prejudice against slavery, aad the soldiers
whom il will be necessary TO maintain at
the South in order TO secure the freedom
of the enfranchised slaves, may come to
look upon the matter in a different light,
and the result may be simply change of
masters for the slaves. 1t is notorious
that the contrabands are now the Sery-
ants of our soldiers.
We can make emancipa acceptable
to the whole mass Of non. Shareholders at
the South by coupling with il the policy
of colonization The very prejudice of
"a race which makes the non-slaveholders
give their aid TO hold the slave in bond
age will then induce them 10 unite in
policy which will rid them of the presence
of the negroes; and, as nine out of ten
of the white people of the South are non
shareholders, and as the right off suffrage
is almost unlimited, it is easy to see what
will be the result
sl IL is objected, however, that we have
no right 10 remove the negroes from
their own country against their will /
do not believe that comnnlsory coloniza-
-, ,b ,1tt,nota h.
of this plan; but neither do | legard it
with any adherence on the contrary, |
look upon it as the greatest boon we can
confer upon this racc--grcater by far
than the gift Of personal freedom in a
land in which they must forever remain
in condition of social inferiority, among
people who will treat them with every
Imaginable indignity.
Contrast this with the policy which
will build them up as great nationality,
in country peculiarly adapted to their
physical organization, in which their nat
ural vigor and endurance make them SUI
perior TO all other races, and whose veg
etable and mineral wealth exceeds that OF
any other portion Of the world.
Events are now Transporting on this
continent, beyond the limits Of our
country, which have bearing upon this
question, almost as significant as those
which are taking place upon our OWE
soil. The nations Of Europe have seized
upon the moment Of our great troubles
TO interfere in the affairs of the feeble
republics of the South, and to establish
thrones, to be upheld by European policy
and to be subscrvient to the commercial
power of Europe The fact that tho
time of our own weakness has been cho
sen for this attempt, is Of itself sufficient
TO prove to these American States that
heretofore the moral power of this Re
public has alone sustained them against
European rapacity, and its effect has
already been 10 restore to us the good
will which we had forfeited by the fill
buster schemes of the slavery govern
mcnts which have so long dominated this
Republic,
With the end Of this rebellion viii re
turn the power and influence which viii
enable us TO libeiate Mexico from ihel
threatened dangers; will return, also, IL
its fullness, the confidence and good vii
Of that people, and Of all her kindred
races of the Central and South American
States. They will all need the fostering
care and kindness Of our government tc
assist in organizing their own strength
md maintaining stable governments
With the restoration Of good feeling will
revive the commercial intercourse which
once existed between these people and
our own, and which was lost to us when
they became alienated by the injustice
and outragcs of our late flibustering
rulers.
1t is in this gorgeous region OF tho
American tropics that our frecmen vii
find their homes among people with
out prejudice against their color, and tC
whom they will carry and impart new
energy and vigor in return for the wei
come which will greet them, as tho
pledge Of the future protection ant
friendship Of our great Republic.
look with confidence to this move
ment as the true and only solution of this
question: question by which the life o
the nation has been 50 often put in peri
"a movement by which two races O
men viii be delivered from an unhappy
conjunction, fatal to both, and by which
two empires are to be established to bles
mankind by their bencGcent influence
through all future time.
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