The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-10-28


the influence Of the pulpit upon modern
thought and life is to be discussed. The cs-
sayists are Bishop LAY and Bishop CLARK /;
the speakers, the Rev. f. CoURTENEY, whose
fresh, vigorous, Moodyish style OF pulpit
oratory has stirred the fashionable
Christians Of Murray HILL and the Rev DR..
SCnENck But the discussion Of Wednesday
evening on the relation Of the popular press
to Christianity in America. with the Hon.
joins JAY and the Hon. MoNrGoMEEy BLAIR
as cssayists. and Bishop DUDLEY, the Hon.
ERAsrrs BROOKS and the Hon. W. 7.
WALrHALL as speakers. will also attract
and deserve wide attention.
Emigration Of CoIored People TO Africa.
The petition that has been presented in
Congress signed 10y more than two hundred
colored men Of North Carolina. asking for
n small appropriation per head to aid them
In cmigrating to Liberia. recalls the cottro-
versy which ragged between the Aholitionists
and the Colunlationists from 1892 20 the
commencement Of the late civil war. The
| Abolition leaders never could endure the
| mention of the Colonization Society. They
unanimously regarded il cithcras n device Of
| the Shareholders for removing the free people
of color out of the country, in order to put an
end To their contact with the slaves. or else
as hypocritical sham design To relieve
slavery of it, odiuus character as merely
n hopeless form OF bondage. HAIR
! RlEr MARTiSEAU. in her lately published
Autobiography. allrms Of HENRY CLAY that
che was as wcllawarc as anybody Of the true
character of the colonization scheme of
which he accepted the Presidency; and hc
continued To- laud il TO foreigners as an
agency of emancipation. when he knew that
it was established and upheld 10y slavchold-
crs like himself for the protection and So
curity of the institution of slavery" Mrs
CHAPLAIN, too, in her "Mcmoirs Of Miss
MARTINEAU." calls the Colonization society
that lie with circumstance
Tho truth Is that the colonization Society.
which. like all such organizations. may
have drawn some Of its support from in
dividuals actuatcd bya variety Of motives.
was not intended either as an agency of
emancipation. on the one hand, or to pro-
tcct and uphold slavery on the other. IT,,
aim was To found II colony IN Africa to
which free people 81 color coull go who
wished to dwell in community composed
exclusively of their own race. and in which
the capacity of that race for srlf-go,crn-
mont and the development OF civilized So
cicty might have "a fair chance. Now that
there is no longer any slavery in the whole
OF this broad land. and now that there can
be no such motive as that which :he Aholi-
tiuni>t- always imputed 70 the Colonization
Society. it is a most curious circunl-
stancc that there should T." ten
d"ncy among colorri people in the
South e. cwiSratc To- Lilcria They
are no longer under that kind Of pres
sure which came from the insoriurty. or
| what they something's felt To- Ice the in
f"riurity, OF their condition to thai OF the
slaves who had masters responsible for
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| upon them comes from the competition
which they must sustain with the white
race; AMI il is likely to bee ono of the most
interesting problems that can engage the
attention of IN, people Of tine nitrd States.
what can he done To meet any tendency
among colnr"i people To- escape from the
contact and the depression caused by the
/ presence ol the tNo races in the -anlr COM
munity
This occurrence also recalls remarkable
e1lgg' stion made Icy DANIEL WrnsuR in
| his celebrated speech in the senate ON The
7lh Of March, 1850. in regard to a molo in
which the Federal Government might cx-
tend aid, collatorally, to the cause Of cnan-
cipaton;
81 hay" on" other ramark 10 make In my
! ol-"ryiii me- uuon slavery as il fas existed ia
/ thi. country, amt "a, II now exists. huV,trN-
/ i.i-hm. mt or mrliortlon. Iwi,l saw how.yor.
/ ihoH,h have nntninE to PROPOSE. h'"au-o tlu
not ,i.,, m myself 81, conn, trit az ..ut,-
/ To take lend llt.
/ y tuiirmau from tn South shall prpuo-n n
/ s,hrmc 10 be- carried ON hy this G',crnts.nt
/ upon lurg" scale. for the transportation of
I lr"c "ulnrrl people g. any cot NV cor any place
/ in the world, should be- quit di-r1-"d t. In
cur aim = any 9. .'r'' nl.cNp ns' - accomplish
] that oy"ct. Nay sir. following an cAampI set
i nor' tinn lwGnN y>nr~ s2 y sreq Man.
would riurn To- Virginia, and through her t.
/ lh' wh"1 south, the money received from the
| rinIn'm i"t any Su'h lurlo," ns g. remove. m
| Wlnr or ~ unli or IN my way - diminish or
! l'hi h"n"n. iiily With tn" lfre rnlorcd p1ru.a-
| lion 81 me southern States. have snid That
! 1nnnr irgnin for her cos-iln of Wis territory
! ih"r" hNv Wee N Gcived into tn Treas ury OF
| III" | nitcd states eighty millions of dollars th"
| pro'rcd-o l tho sales oi tho public LANDS coded
| 10y her. II the residue should hn sid at the
/ same rat" tho whole aggregate will rNcrc,l two
/ hundred millions 81 dollars. II virginia and
/ m" South 5000 III Ia 0doIt any prnpo- tion Ia 49,
/ hovn th"n.4 I've, from tho fr,,, linnr,ln 81 aoir
/ among them, cor such h- may % made free they
| huyo my full consent that tho Govcrumom .hu0
| pay them any sum Of money olu Of tho proceeds
N' ''N 'H's'i Nl4l'4l ltlh9 ~ N'ltiIiNlH To- inc
! purpose,
Undoubtedly there was time lrhcGih the
Federal Government might, in some such
way rs this, have com" 10 the aioIol any
southern State that wished t. put an end
pcaccably and gradually, To- the existence
of slavery within her limits. Such a scheme
as that suggested by Mr.. WEBSTER. with
two hundred millions of money at lis COM
mand, might have accomplished vast results
il it could have been carried ont. But If
IT was ever pWcticahl" thing, the
suggestion was too late Things were tend
ing strongly to that collision between the
North aud the South which finally ended i'm
the civil war; The anti-elaycry agitation
III the North WIS accompanied 10y Il deter
nination in the South to maintain slavery
at every hazard This determination. and
the consequent efforts to extend slavery
and increase its political power, ncc'~-n-
! nly intensified In" natural hostility to the