New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1872-12-19
CoIorcd Emigrants to Liberia.

Twenty-Five colored people, the remnants
of near two thousand who went to Liberia
from Carolina about year ago, have re-
turned to their native State. The remain
der have all died from the effects Of the eli
mate and mode of living.
The foregoing is an extract from the Gin
ennati Commercial of December sth. The
facts to which it calls attention are such as
to demand the adoption Of some means to
check the influence Of that pharisaical charity
known rs the American Colonization Society.
Conceived in a cowardly compromise between
the church and the devil, it has never re-
ceived the recognition of the honest and the
true. Its lingering life of shame has been
prolonged because of the support which pro-
fessfonal phflanthropists derive from it.
Every year THESE ministers Of misery succeed
in deluding several hundred credulous ne
groes into the hope that prosperity and hap
piness awaits them in the wilds of savage
Africa. Hitherto it has been a matter of
difficulty 10 get evidence as to the condition
of the emigrants to Liberia. But now the
fact is coming to light that Liberia is a hot
bed Of restlcnce, and that the American
Colonization Society in their zeal to remove
the negro beyond the reach of predatory
Christians, are placing him within the
clutchcs of an enemy equally relentless
the malarias Of the African coast.
Think of it, you that are true to human
ity! Out of 1000 emigrants, all but 25 de-
stroyed in one year by the ravages of iadi-
a
Christian charity. Better would it have been
had they been left in the South, the prey of
the ku-Klux murdercrs for by this time the
sickening stencil from their butchered bodies
would have provoked summary vengeance
from an outraged nation. If the American
Colonization Society would prove itself an
instrument of good, let it change its base of
operation, and devote the energy of its pro-
fessionals to the work of teaching the OPP
pressors Of the South the spirit, as we'll as
the letter, of the Sermon on the Mount.
The colored people do not need to emigrate
to alleviate their suffering. They have the
ballot and the numbers in the South sufficient
to enforce their rights. Other nationalites
emigrate only when the Government, the
army, and the institutions of their country
are in the hands of their oppressors, and
there is no other resource left to them to i'm
prove their condition. Such is not the con-
dition of the colored men of this country. If
in any one or more States they are wronged,
there are other States and Territories with
an abundance Of unoccupied land to gladly
welcome them. Even in those States where
they are unfairly treated a patient waiting
will give them an opportunity to effectually
vindicate their wrongs through the ballot
box. In this country of ambitious men and
shifting parties, no injustice against large
part of the body polite can long remain.
The suffrage in our hands is too firmly fixed
to be overturned. And the sooner we begin
to recognize it as fact, and act upon it re.
CARELESS of party, for our welfare, the sooner
we let it be understood that so long as there
is single right denied us, we can be brought
solidly to the ballot-box against the party
opposing or evading, the sooner will the
wrongs that now remain, vanish.
GEO. H. JACKSON.