The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-10-21
NEGRO COLONIZATION.

~ Ohlo, BASES his argument
races. T. 1fsEts are neither : pleasant thor nor
ereditable to white Americans. but they are
not to be ignored hat account,
our readers WIT remember the plan
proposed by Gen. Cox. We printed his
letter containing it last week. 1t is that
the negroes shall be colonized sin contigu-
Gus territory in South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama and Florida, under the sover-
eighty of the United States, and with all
the facilities which the power and wealth
of the Government can give" With "full.
and exclusive political privileges"
This is the plan the Republican virtu-
ally approves, 1t is in violent contraven-
ton of the Constitution, which denies to
the General Government the power or
fright to take any such : contiguous terri
tory" from within any of the States /; yet
the most respectable Abolition organ in
New England favors the project. To give
them full and exclusive privileges
would be to allow them a Delegate in
Congress, and who else but a black man
would a colony or territory of negroes send?
But what is the evil Gen. Cox and the
Republican would escape, and how is his
plan to remedy it? He argues that it is
fatal or at least most injurious to the in
~terests and welfare of both the whites and
negroes for the two races to live in
the same community together-hence he
would separate them. How? By COM
pelling the negroes to remove from among
the whites at the North, where they pre-
fer to reside, and where the Abolitionists
have professed such great regard for them,
to a territory South, where they are to be
kept entirely aloof from the whites, and
permitted only to live by themselves as a
distinctive people. This is freedom for
the down trodden negro" with a ven
geance. He is to be free, but must per-
force depart from where he wishes to
dwell. and remain where he does not want
to live! No other than Abolition logi-
clans and Puritan humanitarians could
ever devise such an argument. or insist
upon such conclusions.
The North makes war upon the South
for depriving the negro of his perfect
freedom it insists hat he hal be in
vested with every right and privilege of
freemen it declares that he is IA man
and a brother;"" and yet, when the war is
over, and they who assert all these things
are successful when they have marched
and lured and driven thousands ofnegroes
from contented abodes in the South to
places in the North,-they turn about,
declare that the two races cannot harmo-
niously, or ~benefcially to either. live to-
gether, and coolly say to the unhappy
victim of their kind consideration"
that he must go South to the spot they
have selected for him-not which he has
selected for himself-and there end his
days.
And in addition to the outrage they
thus perpetrate towards the negroes, they
would inhict a far greater one upon the
people of the South. They have no
more right to seize upon and appropriate
= contiguous territory in the States
named than they have to do the same
thing from out of any States in the
North. Indeed, if this is to be done, it
Is from the Northern States-New Eng
land especially-the contiguous terri
tory" should be appropriated. In that
section they have always professed the
hveliest interest for the welfare, culture
and happiness of the black race. They
have for years seduced and stolen negroes
from Southern masters, and protected and
defended them from capture, and kept
them there. Now, let them prove their
devotion to the blacks by doing what
Congress cannot do-setting apart !: con-
tiguous territory in their own States,
and Offering it to-not forcing it upon
the negroes as a grant to them and their
heirs for settlement forever. The people
of the Southern States named viii not
yield up any portion of their respective
States for such a purpose. 1t is not just,
not right, to ask them to do so. The
North waged war aga6st them to compel
them to surrender>6p all their negroes it
is unjust &nd unreasonable, when they
have donf this, to force the blacks upon
them again. 1t was the demand of the
North against the protestations of the
South, Which took from the latter the
negroes Having won its point, the
North ought to abide its own acts, and
hereafter keep the negroes, and assure to
them the " perfect freedom" it promised
them. To compel them to return to the
South on particular territory is an out
rage; to compel the people of the South
to receive them, and to strip their States
of the territory upon which to place them,
is doubly an outrage, But the Aboli-
~tionists, in this plan, reveal something of
their Punic faith even with their black
allies, and illustrate the little regard they
have for constitutional or other obliga-
lions, for justice, reason or humanity,
when self-interest inspires them.
The CASE HERE.-The Chairman of the
Ohio State Abolition Committee lately de-
ciared that Negro Suffrage was to follow
the Constitutional Amendment This is
precisely the real intention of the party in
Oregon, but they will attempt to conceal or
deny the fact until after the next June cleo
Etion, all their protestations to the contrary
notwithstanding.