The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-06-15
THE NEW ORLEANS BULLETIN, TUESDAY, JUNE IS. 1875.
COLONIZATION OF THE NEGROES.

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COLONIZATION OF THE NEGROES.
It is unfortunate that there has begun In
some quarters discussion on The proPnety
and expediency Of coionizing OF masstng the
coloeed population Of the Boufhszn States
In time these discussions must reash the eass
of negroes; causing apprehension and discon-
tent, while in effect as to practical good they
amount to less than nothing.
Our history has proved that when in con-
tact with the civilization ofthe Caucasian race
Africans steadily improve from year to year,
and from generation to generation. They
change in features and in form; they improve
In expression Of countenancs, =, gait. and in
action; they acquire new facilities 81 utter
ance, new muscular powers, new ranges Of
thought and either new set Of faculties or
new ways Of employing their senses. and that
seem like additional powers The wild African
is not brute nor brother to brutes by many
wide degrees, but in his passions, appetites
and instincts he shows many bestial qualities.
which can only be taken away by being forced
into an active contact with another and
higher raes. He then puts on clothes, and
learns 70 cook his roots, vegetables and meat.
he learns to sleep under shelter, and to work
with tools and machinery. Without knowing
in advance anything Of the effect Of what he
does, the African, when at work under the
guide Of the civilized and intelligent man, -
himself becoming civilized. Discipline, work
and civilization 60 together. Work and dis
cipline are the civilizers of the earth and 60
hand in hand.
Now that large degree Of enlightenment
has been gained by the Africans in this Re
public, any change which would at once and
forever remove from them the incidental r..
straints and stimulants Of the whites would
be an abiding misfortune The fire Of civili-
cation which has been kindled among them
must 20 out whore the materials are merely
African. A colony Of half million negroes
occupying exclusively q hundred thousand
square miles Of the best lands south Of the
Ohio, II walled in from the influence of white
men, deprived the use of white mems brains,
with few to read, fewer to understand, and
scarcely any to put in action the white
mems laws, such q colony would At
once begin to deteriorate, and in far
less time than it has taken to raise them from
their aboriginal savagery to their present
state, they would relapse to condition OF
loathsome barbarism, where the weak and
timid would be prey to the strong and bold,
where none would obey other laws than the
dictates of chiefs Of tribes, whore written
language would be only remembered as ira
dition, where all science would be forgotten
and all arts would subside into their rudest
elements. The African was lifted up from
the depths of darkness and heathsnism by
the white mans strength, and when the
white mans hand ceases to lead him and the
white mans mind to enlighten him, he will
fall a. low as ever. H.a.4l.e1
Situated Is they are, with white examples
always before them, with white Laws to re-
strain the bad and protect the good, with
every encouragement to work and to save,
with the benefits of sciences applied to arts
Ill around them, with books and schools in
their reach, and especially with the blessing
Of work to do, the negroes in the United
States are as favorably situated IS any race Of
equal merit on the earth. Situated ~ they
are, they can do more good and add more 70
the worlds wealth and progress than thsy
would bs able to do in any colony, to which
they might be sent or in any section Of the
Union in which they might be massed. II
there were no cruelty in driving them
from their homes, or enticing them
away BY false representations, there
would be extreme folly to mass them
where the destructive and degrading elements
of the African character would have I'M
checked scope and range. Their places j.
upon the lands nearest their present homes.
there in imitation Of their white friends to
create from the soil and by mechanic arts,
all the wealth they may. Their destiny d 70
work or perish, and while they, as race. do
labor enough to subsist themselves decently,
they are not doing any damage to the white
rsce or rstArding their progress. At the
present time they may not be N element Of
strength to the Republic, but the relative
condition Of things promises change for the
letter. ...-..t
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SUICIDE IN LIFE INSURANCE.
In policies Of life insurance il i the custom
to insert clause providing that If the ia-
sured shall die BY his own hand or act the
premium shall Be forfeited. This, Of course.
does mot refer to unforeseen accidents, -
whore one takes poison believing it 70 b
medicine, or walks over prscipice in lgno-
rance Of in proximity, or ruptures an artery
By sudden and violent exertion. 1T does not
refer TO death caused BY an cot done while in
. state of sleeper sonnambulim. When the
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