Litchfield enquirer., 1862-09-04

aPerhaps you have not been here all you lives. Your race is suffering the greatest wron! that ever was; but when ,;i, cease to suffer your sufferipgs are far from an equality with ou sufferings. Our white men are changing thei base of operations daily, and often taking Nal vern Hills. This is on your account. You ar the cause of it. How you have caused it I vii not attempt to explain, for do not know bI is better for us both to be sep ,rated, and it vilely selfish in you do not speak unkindly) t wish to remain here in preference to going t' Nova Zemhla. The fact that we have alway opposed you renders you still more blameabIe l especially when we reflect upon the fact tha you have never shown resistance. A trip ol iyonr part to Nova Zembla- will beraft both ra lces. cannot promise yon much bliss righ away. You may starve at first or die on tho passage; but in the Revolutionary War Gen Washington lived exclusively on the future He was benefting his race and though dc not see much similarity between his case and yours, you had better go to Nova Zembla You may think that you could live in Washington perhaps more so than you could on a foreign shore This is a mistake. None but white army contractors and brigadiers on furlough can live here.
 The festive isle of Nova Zembla has been in existence for some time, and is larger than any smaller place know of. Many of the original settlers have died and their offspring would still be living had they lived long enough to be ac. customed to the climate. You may object to go on account of your affection to our race, but it does not strike me that there is any cogent reasons for such affection. So you had better go to Nova Zembla. The particular place l have in view for your colonization is the great highway between the North Pole and Sir John Franklin's supposed grave. It is a popular route of travel being much frequented by the facetious penguins and the flowing seal. It has great resources for ce-water, and you will be able to have ice cream every day, provided you supply yourselves with the essence of lemon and patent freezers. As to other food, can prom ise you nothing. There are fine harbours on all sides of this place, and though you may see nc ships there, it will be still some satisfaction to know that you have such admirable harbors. Again there is evidence of very rich bear-hunt jug. When you take your wives and families to place where there is no food nor any ground to be cultivated, nor any place to live in, the hu man mind would as naturally turn to bear-hunt. ing as to anything else. But if you should die of starvation at the outset, evrn bear-huntng may dwindle into insiguiGcance. Why l at tach so much importance to bear-hunting is, it will afford you an opportunity to die more ea- silly than by famine and exposure. Bear-hunt- ing is the best thing know of under such cir cumstances.
 You are intelligent, and know that human life depends as much upon those who possess it as upon anybody else. And much will depend upon yourselves if you go to Nova Zembla. As to bear-hunting, think see the means availa- ble for engaging you in that very soon without injury to ourselves. l wish to spend little money to get you there, and may possibly lose it all but We cannot expect to succeed in any thing if we are not successful in it.
 The political affairs of Nova Zembla are not quite in such condition as I could wish, the bears having occasional fights there, over the body of the last Esquimaux governor but these bears are more generous than we are. They have no objections to dining upon the colored race. ... ...
 Besides. would endeavor to have you made equals, and have the best assurance that you should be equals of the best. The practical thing l want to ascertain is, whether can get certain number of able bodied men to send to place offering such encouragement and attrac- tions. Could get hundred tolerably intelli- gent men, with their wives and children, to par take of all this blessing? Can have fifty? Ii had but twesty five able bodied men, properly seasoned with women and children, could make a commencement. These are subjects of very great importance, and worth months study oI the paternal offer have made you, If you have no consideration for yourselves, at least consider the bears, and endeavor to reconcile yourselves to the beautiful and pleasing little hymn of childhood, commencing,
 "I would not live away;
 Iwould not ask to stayl'' aa"
 At the termination of this fattering aud pa ternal address, my boy, the delegation took thei hats and commenced to leave in deep silence thereby proving that persons of African descen are utterly insensible to kindness and much in ferior to the race at present practleing strateg. on this continent.
 l Colonization, my boy, involves scheme o human happiness so entirely beyond the humal power of conception, that the conception of will almost pass for something inhuman. Yours utopianically,
 's ORPHEUS 0. KERR.
 NEW YORK IN 176l.-New York at this tim contained about l3000 inhabitants. sTher