The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1866-01-17
Proposition to Plant Negro Colonies With
IN the States.

4 4Freeomeu mas Iepofteo OIL autnorlz1ng
the setting apart Of three million acreB Of
good land in Arkansas, Mississippi and
Florida, to be allotted in parcels of not over
forty acres each TO freedmen This would
make $50. 600 parcels, and at least that num-
Der Of families, representing abou. hall a
million oi negroes, would be accommodated.
What is 10 be done with the remaining
negroes, amounting to about two and bali
millions, is not stated, bu. il is likely that if
this bill SD allspass, another one will be Of.
sered granting about fifteen million more
acres Of good land 10 them, in some of the
other States.
! 1t is bad enough 10 have an expensive
Freedmen's Bureau burihening the people
with taxes TO support idle and worthless
blacks; il is bad enough to be compelled
to maintain an extensive and costly military
armament for the double purpose OF backing
up the edicts of that Bureau and protecting
the whites from outrage and insunectiou-in
regions where the black race predominales;
il is bad enough TO have thousands OF fanat-
les and villains in and out Of Office main
tanning that The blacks must be made equal
to the whites, "befors the law" at the bal
Iot-box, in the jury-5ox and in the halls of
legislation. But, when j, comes to such
favoritism as has never been shown to white
men--lo the selection and almost free gift
10 them Of the best lands, in the very heart
OF the naiion-it il impossible 10 find words
sufficiently expressive and forcibIe with
which TO characterize the infamy of those
who are attempting to carry ont such
scheme.
II is, perhaps, needless 10 say that the
mass of the people OF the country will not
approve OF such a movement. Those who
most earnestly wish the negroes well, and
who would be willing to make extraord;na-
ry exerions to benefit them, whenever and
wherever it can be done without acTificing
tae vital interests and welfare OF the whites
have all the time been looking forward TO
emigration and colonization OF the blacks
elsewhere, without The boundaries of this
country, as the only proper and possible so
luton of the negro future.
II il but little while since one OF those
very>Statss iFlorida) was "cleaned ont" of
a gigantic stumblng-block 10 the develop
ment of physical resources and civilization.
There are many living Witnesses 10 the
long contest with the Florida sborignals
and the vast cost, in lives and treasure, of
removing Billy Bowless and his .remnart of
SeminoIss from the everglades and hum
mocks TO beyond the Mississippi. Do the
projectors of this negro colonizing scheme
renewal of such troubles, in
after years, when il shall be found impera-
lively necessary, 10 remove by force or
purchase an equally gigantic Stumbling
block 10 progress! Whether they design
such trouble for future generations or not,
they should know, if they possess pari-
Gle of common sense, and if the negro is
what they represent him TO be, that TO that
complexion it mus, come al last, or the
dread alternative of amalgamation and ho-
OF races which, God forbid. II
the negro is what radicaIism says be is, this
is The future in store for the country.
But, there is another aspect of the case.
To other than radical view, the negro is not
Ihe brave, the thrifty. the good aud progress
i've creature represented, Those who have
studied the negro character, and who take
into account the undeveIoped state of the
race, know that those three million acres OF
land would remain in the possession of the
for bot the briefesi possible time. !
Northern radical capitaiists-lhe ''lrne
friends Of tie colored racs"-would gobble
il up by shook or crook, for 1.-THE of its
value, before Sambo could realize that he
was a landowner; and then the duped
black would be granted the distinguished
privilege of cultiva;ing cotton at ten cents |!
a day, TO supply the mills OF his Northern
master.
The bill in question has probably no |
higher object than the opening up of
another wide and rich field tor 'IoyaI'
speculation but, according TO any of the |
views We have presented, the matter is de-. |
serving of reprobation. II il must be that !
he negro race shall be fosiered and sup |
ported entirely at the expense of the white !
aboring masses, let there be land sufficien.
purchased for them somewhere under the |
ropics-iheir natural position-and let them |
be cclonized there at once. If spectators
choose 10 follow them, no one will object,
1nless il be the negroes. But let there be
10 more fields for "Ioyal" speculation open
ID, nor Pandora's box of evils prepared |
or future generations.-PatriOt & Union.
The Rump Congress, it seems, is deter