Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-02-25
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Correspondence ofthe Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, Feb. Il, 1S6S.-Judge
Kelley presented in the House of Repre-
sentatives, on Saturday last, the petition of
three thousand Mississippi negroes, asking
Congress TO make an appropriation to en-
able them 20 emigrate 10 Liberia and col
onize there. They state the reasons which
impel them to make this request, and they
may be all summed up in this: That they
do not believe il possible for them 10 live
happily, or even peaceably, ia Mississippi,
under the present and prospective condi-
ton Of things. There is no reason to sup
pose that Congress will do any thing in the
matter Immediately, or that it will seri-
Ously entertain the subject Of colonization
as a topic for discussion during this session;
but no thinking man, who has the faculty
of seeing even a very short distance into
the future, can doubt thai before many years
il must command the attention OF the
country, and enter largely into American
politics as perhaps the easiest solution of
very grave difficulty.
Summers tongue, in fine frenzy rolling,
may talk Of equal rights and universal
brotherhood, and demonstrate how well
the two races can get along together in the
Sonth, bui Providence seems to have or
dsined that Sumner shall talklnothing but
gamm9n, and that continually. A war OF
races may be improbable enough to laugh
at An antagonism Of race exists az a fact
palpable TO the dullest observer, and exists
in exact proportion 10 the numerical equal
ity Of the two races in any State or COM
munity. The election last October showed
it TO have pretty strong hold Of the Ohio
mind, and il is not unfair to presume that
IL the question hSd been whether the right
Of suffrage should he conferred upon one
hundred thousand negroes, instead ofupOn
five thousand, the proposition would have
been negatived by a largely increased ma
| iorily.
Equal rights aud universal brotherhood
are commendable, after all, only in an in
verse ratio 10 the dose TO be taken. The
negroes begin to see this in lite true and
practical light They see that even the
Radicals, who pretend to be their especial
friends and admirers, have no particular
use for them in politics, except TO let them
vote white men into Office; and hence they
are turning their attention, at this early
stage Of their political education, to the
subject Of colonization. What has been
| done in Mississippi is only the initial step
in great movement which promises to
increase rapidly in magnitude and import
ance, until il challenges serious attention
as 3 subject for legislation.
The signers Of the petition presented by
Judge Kelley are philosophers Of an emf
nently practical kind. They state that in
asnueh as the whites own all the land, and
won't distribute foot OF it among them
they think they had better leave. Some OF
the eminent Radicals in Congress will nc
doubt look upon the refusal of the white.
to give away their farms as an evidenC'
that the Rebel spirit still dominates in tbs
South. and that the war isn't half ovel
yet" No record is kept Of the number Q
farms annually given away TO laborers ~
the North, but il is doubtless very large.