The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-06


successful they viii make splendid thing; unsuc
Cessiui none out themselves will be the losers.
AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
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TO TUE EDITOR or THE HERALD.
see under the head Of "Ohio Politics." extracts
from letter from General Cox in reply to com
mttee from Union association at Oberln, whose
object was to elicit from the General, as Union
candidate for Governor more definite replies than the
committee believed had been given regard to some Of
the phases Of what known nowadays, as the negro
question.
Without the advantageof General Coxs letter In full
before me am obliged to rely the extracts referred
10, and among them ind the following
As foreign colonization IL hopeless well tyran-
nca the solution, says General Cox. thus narrowed
where they are While the races from Europe have
ama!gamated Ia this country, the African race will not
and ts salvation or ts destruction will be worked out in
It's nna isolation There can be no political unity, but
rather strife for the mastery In which the other
would 60 to the wall II would be immediate. He sees
no hope whatever that the eebler would not be
duced to hopeless subjugaton utterly destroyed.
He suggests setting apart contiguous territory In the
states =, Of south Caroline Georgia Alabama and Florida
ance analogous to th Of the Western Territories, &C.
The general view here taken Of the relations Of the
white and negro Of the United States expressed in
political canvass by candidate for popular favor will
probably attract attention than when proclaimed
as has been for the last twenty at least by the
colonzationsts in their otrepeated DOGMA that "two
races which cannot amalgamate by intermarrage can
only exist in the land as master and slave, or
the United States being now out Of the question: the
adoption Of the others by General Cox may be taken
as evidence that colonzationss instead of being mere
phianthropists may have been statesmen too and may
explain the connection OF Clay, and Madison, and Mar
shall, and Fillmore, with the American Colonization
Society.
But while the soundness Of General Cox's view in this
particular is fully and cordially admitted IL Is
panied with an assumption which seems when made BY
not perhaps otherwise receive random statement In
general conversation uttered Inadvertently careessy
written paragraph IN newspaper whose author has not
and needs no COMMENT but candidate In these times
for the Chief Magstracy Of the State Of Ohio dealing
with subject Of the EXTREMIST delicacy and greatest I'M,
portance is to be presumed whatever the actual fact
may be- to have verified every statement and ghed
every word Of such letter that in question: and when
hopeless well tyrannica many people will natu
rally believe that he knows what foreign colonization.
Uw sg In S and i
ever, that General Cox may not understand either
the plan Of African colonization, it's principles its
cuatod do injury the society Of which, In de-
gree, am the Official representative have thought IL
s 10 ne Se f %
onzaton, means African colonization.
Inverng General Coxs Order let see, frst II Afri.
supposes that it involves the forcibe removal Of the
negroes from the United States otherwise the word
srea orror The consuon Of the socety s unda
mental law speaks OF the removal Of the free people Of
color with their own consent to Africa Practically,
you remain In America IN c0mfort-so long you
satisfied with the future which this country holds out
for your descendants remain here It is not every one
of n 90 n
and toll Of pioneers You had better remain and die
whore you But II you that the war Of races will
you believe what such General Cox, practical
men, brave and true men, statesmen, who know little
say upon The subject~f You believe that yours as 1.-THE
fceber race must be reduced TO hopeless subsection
utterly destroyed.if you want, when you do change
low you then go TO Africa. Judge, however for your
selves Act on your own convictions. We believe
that be sees further into fSturty than you do
that he sees now what colonzationists saw forty
and more years ago-and were we negroes, we
would avail ourselves Of the aid Of the Colonization
Society and emigrae to morrow but your business
True, we think the day against the coming Of
has come-and General Cox thinks so, too-and that II
you do now. circumstances will make you see II
SOON but until you do see II stay where you are and
we will help make you comfortable humanity
Quires we should do
Now, the whole aim and scope Of colonization is
braced the above and II there anything OF tyranny
in t. il IT, at all events difficult to say where is
The only tyranny In the case 10 The tyranny Of circum
II Is the tyranny that grows out Of The foreign
Immigration and the natural increase OF our people, We
have now population OF some thirtynve or thrtyslx
millions more the close Of the present century
our eighth decennsI census, will be one hundred
millions in q lifetime OF seventy years from
to-day will be two hundred millions These calcula
tons, long since made by the colonzatonists, were
adopted by President Lincoln 10 Of bis messages TO
Congress, on the authority no doubt Of the distinguish.
Cd q the csnsu ", kenneay while
does increase Stop this increase, stop the foreign
immigration. and the negro In America may have fu.
however regard African colonization q tyranny,
but mighty and statesmanlike charity, whose sub
jects count BY millions. and whose result viii be tho
building up OF civilized nations and the enlightenment
and Christian cation OF continent.
In the next place. General Coz IL made TO say "as for.
eign colonization hopeless, as well as tyrannca 60,
Now If il Is hopeless it cannot well DO tyrannicai
What s meant, 1t Is presumed 10 that IL u were not
Il has been shown that ts not tyrannical but the
verse This Of course, s on the assumption that is
mot n "a: psn
General Cox does not think So aud suggests vast negro
reservation 10 South Carolna. Georgia, Alabama and
Florida. about which word or two presently such a
reservation as the Indians have west Of the MIsss.
sppi.
topaby hopeless II Is TO depend for the pc.
cunary contributions Of the United States The States
utterly absolutely hopeless; and II these
are the agencies 10 orne ABOUT wncn tenefa COX nao
In view he 10 unquestonabiy rght-atogether right
Such aid may OH tho machinery-prevent s grating
harsh thunder but the machinery OF African colonial
ton is created by circumstances beyond mans control
circumstances such The foreign immigration and tho
natural Increase Of people, which have already been
alluded TO- and which will produce from America TO AZ
RIGA lust such emigration W now takes plsce between
Europe and the United States voluntary, selfpaying
cmiQratlon where the motive 10 that desire 10 better
one VI condition which is Characteristic OF all cvillz cd
humaniiy white or back-an emigration which will free
the country In time from every negro In " and make
them az rare cities o. they are IN The London and
Colonization not hopeless then Circumstances have
made n a necessity Why, General Cox admits the
whole theory 10 this connection, wnen ne proposes
reedmenr but for the negroes OF other descriptions
pasmuch as he refers TO in active operation which
will. sooner or latter drive all to the South.
There is nothing new IN African colonization. II Is
Ike all tho calculations that have preceded u, aud
which have depended FOR their success upon the atac
tons Of the new home the repusions OF the old one,
on upon both combined Both causes are In combna.