Litchfield enquirer., 1877-09-20
African Colonization.

long sort of tender to the ship of pro slavery conservatism, is now receiving an impetus from an entirely different direc- tion. Before emancipation, Liberia was much in the mouth of the old slave hold CT, who was desirous of postponing to an- other country the puzzling problem of ne- gro cisizenship. Within the past year. and especially since the overthrow of the Republican regime in South Carolina, there has been 8 strong desire manifested by intelligent blacks for general emi- grafton back to the country from whence they came. They recognize the fact that their political condition is to be one of dependence for many years to come; and they see no hope of ever conquering that social prejudice against thei. race which bids fair to be perpetual bar to any, thing like social equality with the whites, even should their political privileges re- main intact. t... ,t.tsl .za.f -.
 Believing that they can never be more than hewers of wood and drawers of water in America. "Exodus'' isocie- ties have been organized among the Caro- lima blacks to promote emigration to Li- beria; and 80, GOO in South Carolina alone are said to stand ready to remove as soon as the means can be provided for their transportation. Large meetings have been held iu Charleston in aid of this movement, and nothing but the extreme poverty of the eolored people as class seems to prevent as important an "exo- dus" from our Southern states as started out from Egypt some four thousand years since. Application has been made to the general government for the use of pub lie vessel for free transportation of emil grants. To this application, Secretary Ev- arts has returned cool negative, main- taining that it would r+quire an act of Congress to authorize such diversion of the navy from it's ordinary uses, and inti- mating that little is to be hoped from Con- gress.
 Nor does the Southern white seem op- posed to the withdrawal of the black from the country Aletter from the Rev. E. P. Humphrey, D. D., of Louisville, Ky, takes strohg ground in favor of the movement. Of progress in Liberia. he says:
 Liberia is entering on new career of fu oof. clement, struggling for a foothold upon the edge of continent occupied by bar barous tribes and white savages trading in slaves. .. The authorities are in hon. orable and peaceable possession of the outlying regions Their power of self protection against the hostile native tribes has been maintained by force of arms. The health of the climate is constantly Agriculture, the source of boundless wealth, is steadily gaining ground. Churches and schools and all the allied forces of Christian civilization. are in vigorous working order.
 The mixing of the two aces by amalga- nation. Dr. Humphrey regards with hor- TOT. He need have little fear. Emanci- patton has stopped illicit intercourse. in the main; and intermarriages will be fewas long as the prejudice of race remains.
 There can be no objection to thorough trial of this Liberian experiment.; but we have no faith in it as solution of the great Southern question. ''a The emigra ton of English Puritans to America had little effect on the question of Puritanism in England. Nor are Africans likely to ernigrate in sufficient numbers 10 serious ly effect the condition of their race in the Southern States. We look upon the ques- ton as one of adaptability, The white is best adapted to temperate climates; the negro, to torrid. The denial of citizenship to the white by the constitution of Libe. ria is unnecessary as well as un just. h. dividual whites may be able to exist there, but the climate secures the African from any danger of white rivalry. Our Southern States are a sort of middle ground as regards the rival races. Por- tions are best adapted to the white race; other parts, to the black. The former now has the great advantages of education. of property. and the great preponderance of their race throughout the adjoining Northern, Middle, and Border States. On the other hand, the negro has the climate of some parts of the South decidedly in hls favor. Re can endare labor and ex- posture to heat and malaria thatare dead ly to the white. r- ,...-. s- ...
 The black has the' further advantage that enures to tho class that de- pends on manual labor as distin- guished from the class that depends on inherited property or upon intellectual la- bor for support. With anything like fair play or just government, we shall expect the black population of the Far South to increase faster than the white: to become the owners of much of the land they
 till; and in the end to obtain polti-
 cal independence and fair voice
 in the local governments of which
 their industry will be the chief sup
 port. The social question seems to us
 one that can be trusted to answer it
 self. There will probably never be any
 law to compel a white person to marry a
 ''nigger," or pisa versa. The races may
 eventually intermarry; they may live side
 by side without intermingling; or. what
 now seems most probable. they may sepa-
 rate into different 'sbeltss of our broad
 Southern territory. h any case there is
 little danger of any war of races, nor does it seem probable that the political divis. ions among the whites that have prevailed
 for so many years regarding the treatment
 of the blacks will long survive the reno val of the causes that led to those divis. Is 3 -3Isu sudS zt 3a lEtHG eEaHTU} naHsWe lo's lso''ss 10 es.s3 a ,at ia4 ofii eg4s ii sa s The shooting at the international match at 0reedm, Q .alast week, was the best eyer
 Known. the Americans winning on the nn.
 precedented total score of 3334 against