The weekly Louisianian., 1872-12-07
THE COLONIZATION tsoClBqY MISCHIEF,

o inspiring the organization IL, Il
Colonization Society" over fft
IS years ago, and the work they PEI
l. formed from that period to th
i abolition of slavery, in behalf {
the negroes Of America, will al
tempt to think dispAadHq
speak or wi1,e- aisrespsctldll. i
their labors. Men of large heart
| full Of benevolence, with noble pulr
+ posseis, unda,1nted courage, and din
finching fortitude, witnessing til,
, dishonor, the sutferiags of a dow1
trodden race. and despairing of al
: hope Of alienation Or remedy fo1
the colored. people of the. United
States, bethougght them Of removing
as many Of this benighted race a.
possible, from the land where
nothing but persecution and IRENE
diable degradation blankly stared
them. in the face. "a,
No where seemed . more appro-
pirate "city Of refuge than the
coast Of Africa whence they: were
originally stolen by brutal slave
traders: Liberia was selected, and
to that infant republic they were
sent as fast as they could be col
lected. Any where being better
than helpless bondage in the United
States. the work was applauded by;
all humanitarias ~ But the war
and emancipation changed the CON
dition Of the colored people and
elevated then, to the position. Of
civil and political equals with /" all
men," There was, therefore, no
longer any necessity for expatria-
lion, except on the; silly ground
that the white and the .colored PEG
pie could not live in peace together
in the same country.
This doctrine is a pander to the
prejudice of caste, unsouna in phil
osophy, and false in fact. The con-
tinuance in a course impioyised
under . contingency degenerates
into positive mischief when that s
contingency no longer, exists, and !
his is precisely the attitude and , !,
he labors Of the Colonization Soci- S
at present. .
We observe that this organiza- 4
ion is now busily engaged in pro- ]!
the emigration of colored e
eople from Georgia and North i;
;aro]ina to Liberia. Already one b
undred and seventy-fye have "
allied for that bourne from which,
w will return. There is a pre- D.
'nce that "the negroes are willing te
nd anxious to go to Africa" and m
10 Colonization Society are only co
ding them in their efforts. But ca
lis can only be on the part Of be
'ose SO, ignorant and SO depressed es.
ON prescription and persecution, GU
at they neither know the land no
leave, nor care, to that to which the
go. And we think the humanita to.
ans Of the Society might better ha'
aploy their. time, energies and Ca
oney in aiding the remainder Of Ca
Q three Thousand more negroes lab
remove-if remove they must-1to
some other locality in this Amer Z
N Republic, stimulate them to cal
terprize and education, for surely to1
should not be said, nor admitted on
1T under the Government of the Oh
aited States, which promotes the tel
~lolesale immigration Of Chinese i'm
d all other. races, which is taxing no
energies to civiliza the nntame5 da,
dian Of the plains, negroes cannot '"'
permitted peaceably to dwell ,
! labor: There are other phases ore
this important question SO well un,
scented !. BY the Baltimore A'ne,1- .anc
: that we reprint it's article entire /: Der
We had good hopes that we had are
lrd the last Of attempts to deport ~.
ored people from the United States Aol'
The American Colonization end
,iety had its origin in the firm be- Ne,
Of a great many religious and
people in ante bellum ian!
rs that the truest kindness to the 9
o was to return them to the land Geo
m which they originally came. LIST
rhaps the effort was neither unwise aevl
unworthy Of its promoters in the We
Of slavery and fugitive slave laws. op ~
men who saw init the only . ~S;i
ef from the slave block and the thu,
mari and the system which ored
human beings at the absolute conc
9osal OF masters who were in some thei1
ances mereifM and just, but in then
ers monstrous' tyrants, might be men
perly r1e,xu,adad that their scheme Geo