Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-11-04
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R6rIt would be advantageous to the
country at large, as we'll as humane to
the negro to expend the millions sppro-
priated to the Freedmen's Bureau to
the purpose of colonizing him in Africa.
This would accomplish the benefcent
purpose. Even if domesticated and SOW
ereign here, the reign will be brief The
wave of white population will roll on and
over and crush the negro out OF the
fairest portion of the land. He cannot
remain in it as a master. When the
Yankees have sufficiently gratified their
malice to the Southern residents by set
ting him over them, they will at once
covet the land and come and steal what
their poor negro proteges have made in
it, and force them out Even the New
York Citizen, which indorses the most
ferocious acts Of the war-Sheridan 8
barn burners and Sherman's bummers
included-says the prejudice against
the African race, reasonable or unrea-
sonable. well founded or i'll founded,
Christian or inhuman, is deeply seated
in the American mind. 1t is pride of
race, and is always observable where a
superior is thrown in contact with az
inferior race of human beings. The
same sentiment exists between the Eng
lish In India and the natives, and be-
tween the Californians and the Chinese
who have settled in their country. 1t is
natural, and easily referable to the
instincts Of the common mind.
The arguments so much ridi-
culed by their opponents, founded
upon the length Of the negro's heel, the
thickness Of the skull, and so forth, are
not produced to explain or defend the
feeling, but to prove the inferiority.
The prejudice is strongest among the
poor of the whites, not merely that they
are least educated, but because they are
most thrown in contact with their in
feriors. Admit the difference in posi-
ton, and all animosity between the race
is removed so long as the negroes were
slaves, even the poor whites felt no
hatred towards them; but attempt to
make them the equals of the latter, and
these will resist.
The Mobile Tribune has new and
sensible suggestion to the Radical party,
that it take up the colonization scheme.
If that party ever becomes friend to the
negro, instead of an enemy to the whites
South, it will do so. The negro can
never become the equal Of the white, or
prosper as the possessor of the right o.
citizenship on this continent Legisla-
ton cannot give him the capacity which
nature has denied. The Tribune says:
You may place cur among a pack of
full blooded fox hounds, and all the ma
tons Of the earth may vote that the cur
is hound, and has all the rights Of a
hound; but the hounds, for all that, will
never slip an occasion to double on the
cur, to prosecute him, chase him, and
make his existence little hell on earth.
Ills instinct, or the voice of God speak
ing within the hounds, that impels them
10 an action seemingly tyrannical.
Against that voice Of God the voice Of
man can never prevail.
The negro in America is precisely in
Al G r Il nh
Look at him in the city Of New York,
for instance For the honor Of his man
hood, so much talked of, he had better
be walking stark naked among the wilds
of Africa, than receiving equality direct
from the hands of Greeley and Beecher.
They can't gre IL 10 him; nor can the
thirty millions of white men in America
give It to him. These millions cannot
overcome the instincts, prejudices, or
whatever II NAV be named, that God has
implanted in their bosoms.
Would il not be well then for the negro
10 shake the dust Of America from his
feet and 90 back 70 the home of his an
cestors in Africa7 Liberia affords bne
field for the development Of whatever
manhood and capacity for self govern
ment the negro race possesses There Is
a vast continent TO open up to the com
merce Of the world. The explorations Of
Borth and DuChaillu prove the existence
there Of rich soil, navigable rivers, aHd
a salubrious climate. Four millions Of
negroes Who are said to be capable Of
helping 10 administer the most compli-
Gated Of governments, would assuredly,
within q few years, have the bosom Of the
Niger and the Congo freighted with IN
told wealth, and the iron horse snoring
sround the suburbs Of Tiubuctoo The
Imagination becomes confused 81 the
grand prospect Of a couuneEt hks thai
Of Africa redeemed from cannibaiism
and Wild beasts, and becoming United