The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1864-04-16

The T.},.ns denounces the Hay. colon
iZgtloa enterprise. which! seems TO hare
been committed 10 tie direction Of Sens
tar IoNEROY, IL u CT uel s~IniiN' Accord
Iug 10 he statement OF t"at pscsr. the
Grents promised those InatitEt :.xtePn
aud ha.f acres Of land, and the si-gip
eight acres, al! with iouse. On and I'M
pfoy-ments. ana with SIX months prov!>
lions ahead. and promised tia; they
should be colonlzea in 4 body. As soon
rs they we're landed they were met by a
crowd Of farmers, among whsm they were
immediately and arbitrarily distributed by
aCpyernment official Their prolest.tion.
arailsd nothing They were worked in
the field for six months. were scantiiy fed
and ,Iothei, and at the end of that time
Were cast adriit, the season having ended.
with literally nothing for their half YEAR.
toll and privation They encountered 4
prejudice moroev' as foreig ignsrs more hate,
iul and personal than tie pre- jud!ce against
color Ia the United States they had been
/ persuaded TO enicrate away from. The
/ departure from the island was prohibited
| and closely watched. To all inteuts and
! purposes they were abjsct slaves in for
/ eign country to negro farmers who couldn t
! speak English. What is saved from this
wret h ii experiment is beng cared for a,
, the fit imam village.
| II this statement Is true, as we suppose
| 1t l. the trial Of coloni1ing our negroes has
/ been conducted d in way the best calcu,
~ ,-d to throw od!um en- all such schemes
and to reflect severely on President LIS
| coin And yet, SO far as it appears, TIE
! chief blame ought TO be thrown ON tn .
shoulders OF Senator PoNEgoY Taking
] r;,. &c hor tS Z XII -
that Senator has much TO answer for Nr
I L >cer.N is answerable ONLY for acguiescinS &
/ IN the belief shared by thousands. that
negro coionizat on is possible without in
/ jury TO the blacks, and perhaps Ultimately
/ with results beneficial TO the country
/ such t*as the opinion of a large part of
| the Republican party at an earl stage OF
! IT, existence. Not an organ, nor u man OF
! tlat party in Missouri, at that date, advo-
/ Gated the emancipation of the slaves IN
Missouri, without demanding as Que Of its
! prime conditions. the removal OF tho negro
after he was freed. Among the regions
designated 10y these Republicans AS tit
receptacle for our removed blacks, were
Central America, together with Hay ii and
other " est India Islands The reasons for
such a choice we're proximity to the Uni
ted States and populations already occupy
! ing, with whoM our blacks could readily
n,ng!e. Mr. LINCOLN has been acting on
! lvi accordance with this theories accepted
b. nearly al! the party which placed him
in power He Is not therefore TO blame
for trying the experiment on a small scale.
We do rot know that any body is to blame
for its being failure in the general sense
Of chat term. But somebody is grossly to
blame for the failure being made SO atro-
ciously oppressive and cruel to the subjects
Of the experIment WHO'S more to blame
fer this than Senator PoMERoY, we should
be glad to know.
Swirdling the freedmen or contra
bands'i is not confined to lIaytien coloniza
lion sch.me. So far, to great extent
these peop'e, where not absorbed by the
army. are va, rants, who are cheated by
the white men who employ them about al
badly as the French negroes of llayt
flepced their American brethren. 1t ii
often the that where they have wan
d-red OFT from their masters aud have
been getting such employment as they
could pick. ,i,5. they have, after two year,
Of suci, litit| Scarcely enough rags on thei
backs to cover their nsk~dness.
Whesher, when the blacks are all freed
their r4lationiS u the whites win be a.,