The Union. [volume] (Georgetown, Del.) 1863-1866, 1864-01-01


now afiicts us.
AS therefore, the responsibility of slavery,
the gains of it's early traffic, as well as its
evil consequences, have been and are national,
so the nation ought to afford an equitable
equivalent for the inconveniences attending
its removal.
1t is believed that the most formidable diff
ficulty which lies in the way of emancipation
in most if not in all the slave States is the be-
lief, which obtains especially among those
who own slaves. that if the so remaining after
their liberation, they may in some measure
be made equal to the Anglo-Saxon race 1t
is useless, now, to enter upon any philoso-
phical inquiry whether nature has or has not
made the negro inferior to the Caucasian
The belief is indelibly fixed upon the public
mind that such inequality does exist. There
are irreconcilaple differences between the two
races which separate them, as with wall OF
fire. There is no instance afforded us in his
tory where liberated slaves, even of the same
race, have lived any considerable period in
harmony with their former masters when de-
MED equality with them in social and politl-
cal privileges. But the Anglo-Amsrican never
will give his consent that the negro, no mat
ter how free, shall be elevated to such equal
ity. I: matters not how wealthy, how intel
ligent, or how morally meritorious the negro
may become, so long as he remains among
us the recollection of the former relation OF
master and slave will be perpetuated by the
changeless color of the Ethiop's skin, and
that color will alike be perpetuated by the
degrading tradition of his former bondage.
Without this equality of political and social
privileges, and without the hope of a home
and government of their own, the emancipa-
ton of the slaves Of the south will be but
adding new burden to their wretehedness
by compelling them to provide for themselve
and families, without setting before them
scarcely a single incentive to exertion, or, 1t
such incentive should exist, it would only be
in the desperate desire that by some bloody
revolution they might possibly conquer for
themselves that equality which their liberia
tors had denied them. The result of such q
revolution would doubtless be their utter an
Inhalation of reinstatement. 70 appreciate
and understand this difficulty, it is only ne
cessary for one to observe that, in proportion
as the legal barriers established by slavery
have been removed by emancipation, th'
prejudice of caste becomes stronger, and pub
lie opinion more intolerant to tho negro race
To remove this obstacle is work wei
worthy of the efforts of great people anxious
for their own future well-being, and moved
by spirit of humanity towards an enslavet
and degraded class of their fellow-beings.-
How. then, can tho separation of the race
after emancipation be accomplished Colonl
cation appears to be the only mode in which
this can be done. The home for the African
must not be within the limits Of the presen
territory of the Union. The Anglo-Americal
looks upon every acre of our present domain
as intended for him, and not for the negro
A home, therefore, must be sought for tn
African beyond our own limits and in thos
warmer regions to which his constitution |
better adapted than to our own climate, an
which doubtless the Almighty intended tn
colored races should inhabit and cultivate
Havti and others of the West India islands
Central America and the upper portions 0
South America, and Liberia, are all interest
ing fields of inquiry in relation to the futur
of the liberated negroes of the United States
There they may be provided with homes in
climate suited to their highest physical, in
tellectual and moral development, and there
under the benefccnt protection and friendshi
of the freest and most powerful of all tn
Governments of the world, they may enjo
true liberty with all its attendant blessings
and achieve the high destiny which the A
8 mighty has intended man should everywhei
E accomplish.
If the good which would thus be effected fC
an oppressed people, by their removal fro
our midst and their settlement in other par
of the globe, were the only object to be attai
q ed by the system of colonization, that alol
would be worthy the high and holy ambitiC
r of = great nation. But whilst we should Co
a fer untold blessings upon them, ours wou
t be even a greater gain.
First among the benefits which would
n felt by the removal of the slaves from any
n the States would be the substitution of t
n system of free labor for that of slave labo
y The advantages of the former over the latt
G have been apparent in this country to Il
e most superfscal observer for more than
: century. AT very early period in the hi
IT tory of the colonies it did not fail to attra
IS the attention of our fathers that those d
d tricts of country, in which there were Il
s. fewest slaves, increased the most rapidly
ss population and wealth. In some degree
ID might seem to be accounted for by the diift
" euce in the habits, laws, and customs of t
"a settlers of the several provinces; but VIII
a at a subsequent day these settlers and th'
" descendants in the peopling of the new a
n more fertile soil of the west intermingled wi
he each other, the same extraordinary result W
On witnessed at every stageof emigration. Wh'
,e- at last, the tide of emigration, rushing FRI
ed the south as well as the north, had reach
of that stream which the aborigines of
ur country had called the Beautiful River,
of great superiority Of free over slave labor v