Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1866-08-23
Interesting to Freedmen.

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We find the following letter from the Fl.
nancial Secretary of the American Coloni-
zation Society published in our Georgia
exchanges. In connection with it, We copy
the following commenta of the Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel.
Many of the colored people are inspired
with q laudable ambition to rise in the social
scale above the general degradation of their
race. 1t is very evident that, no matter
how many civil rights bills and declarations
Of equality cumber our statute books, the
white race is bound to be the governing
class. 1t is 80 in New England, where most
of the pestilent champions Of equality ori.
ginate, and it has been so from the ime
Noah entered the ark, wherever the wE..:s
and black races come 10 contact. Il is not
strange, therefore, that the oolored people,
who wish to have fair and open field 10
the race of advancement, should seek tho
land Of the black man, where all the avsn.
ues of advancement are open, and where
there can be no jostling of races. The his
tory of Liberiau progress, it is true, is not
of the most cheering character 1t is much
fairer, however, than the history of those
localities where the colored people have
sought political power in connection with
the white race.
The only place in history where the COL
ored man, as race, has made any progress
in the scale of civilization, has been in the
condition of servitude. The voice of oivili.
zation and philanthropy Gao called) have torn
him from that con genial and happy sphere,
and inspired bin With restless longipgs for
condition Of equality which is iucompat-
ible with the structure of our society-ab.
horent to reason and repugnant to nature.
1t is better, therefore, that those who aspire
to rise above a condition Of dependence,
should be colonized and removed from the
disturbing influences which attend their
present condition. 1t is for these reasons
that we commend the circular of the Coloni-
cation Society to the attention of all freed,
men who have imbided the teachings of
equality which have obtained mischievous
currency among them: @s.
.Y- COLONIZATION Rooms,
WASHINGTON, D. c., Aug 6, 1866. ID.
MY DEAR SIR In your paper of late
date, you mention that many of the color.
ed people Of your State are agitating the
question of going to Liberia, and you want
to.knoW where are the agents of the Coloni-
zation Society 1t is true, we have no agent
at present in your State, but we have not
been idle We have written to many, and
have sent copies of the african Repository,
and of our last annual report and of various
tracts and short articles to thousands in
your State. We have had many letters
from persons in Macon and in Sparta and
we have promised to have ship ready at
Savannah the LIST of November, to take one
hundred people from each place, and about
fifty to seventy FIVE from Newberry District,
South Carolina, and we promise them free
passage to Liberia, and six months support
there. And we are prepared to promise
the same to as many worthy people as will
be ready to sail by the 1st May, 1867.
We shall be happy to have you state these
facts in your paper, and say to any one who
wants to go this fall or next spring, that if
they will inform US, We viii give them all
information and every facility in our power.
I send you herewith specimens Of the
tracts we are circulating among the oolored
people. You may find in them material for
a paragraph that will do good.
We will send you the Repository regu-
larly, if you desire it, that you may see
what is going on in this CLINE.
W. McCLAIN,
Financial Secretary. A. g. g.