The Democratic advocate., 1878-07-20

The Philadelphia Times is no friend of
the project Ofnegro emigration from the
Southern States to Africa, the land Of
their fathers. It says
When the ship Azor, bound for Liberia,
LETT Charleston, two months or more ago, with
a lot OF coiored emigrants packed as tight as
herrings between decks, the passengers sang
The Gospel Ship is Sailin' . and Were
Bound for the Promised Land. - The poor
creatures who had fought TO get on board
soon found that the Azor was anything but a
gospel ship and that Liberia was anything
but the promised land. The Charleston
Nelrs and Courier has a nine column letter
giving graphic story of the incidents Of the
voyage. 1t ought 70 serve as q warning 10
the colored people who are disposed to trust
themselves TO the tender mereies.of the Ii
ber1an Exodus Association. The bark was
scarcely fairly on the ocean before evidence
OF gross mlsmanagement and criminal care
lessness appeared in matters great and small.
Nineteen deaths occurred during the voyage,
and sickness and suffering were general. The
food was bad and never well cooked; -four
coarse and black, rice broken and dirty, meal
"kiln-dried stuff, only fit for hogs to eat,
and every thing limited in quantity. Scnrvy,
ship lever, measles, vermin, filth overpowered
sea-sickness, which was the first foe encount-
cred by the emigrants, and it is a wonder that
there was not a larger percentage of death.
The stencil that hovered over the vessel was
terrible. Towards the last the water supply
began to fail and every body was reduced to
half Tations of food. 1t was joyful day
when the coast Of Africa was sighted, for the
ship fever was raging between decks and star
vatiOn seemed imminent to those who escap-
ed disease If the voyage had continued little
longer. This report ought to check the fool
ish movement of the southern negroes to-
wards the land of their fathers They are
better off at home and il IS no philautbrophy
to help them get away.
The Times characterizes the emigration
movement as afoolish" one. Some very
eminent persons have taken very differ
ent view OF it. John Q. Adams, Henry
Clay, and many Of our most eminent states
ment were friends of emigration, and CO.
operated in the founding of the colony of
Liberia. Our own Latrobe was an earnest
advocate of it, and for a long time Mary
land paid ten thousand dollars per annum
out of her treasury to forward this project
1t is the true policy Of the black man, and
he is mistaken friend of the negro who
makes a mismanaged expedition an argu-
ment against that policy. Africa is the
land Of the fathers of the negro race in
America. Its climate, soil and produc-
tions, are congenial to them The warmth
of It's climate renders little clothing neces-
sary. Many of its productions spring
spontaneously from the soil without labor,
and rnany more yield abundantly with but
slight care and culture, These conditions
are eminently suited TO the nature, habits
and temperament of the negro race, en-
abling them to live well with the least
amount Of labor, and making life much
easier for them there than here. Here
they have to toll or starve, and live in
squalor and in rags. There the earth
yields them of its own bounty much that
they can have for the mere taking. There
they encounter none of the rigOrs Of win
ter, and the bread.tree and other spontane-
Gus fruits and vegetables are q guarantee
against the pinchings of hunger. There
they live under government founded and
maintained by their own race, where they
are absolutely free and unembarrassed by
the distinctions of race, froms which they
can never hope to be exempt here while
the world stands. The most rabid and
uncompromising New England negropho-
list will not consent TO recognize him as
his social equal, seat him at bis board, put
him In his bed, or admit him to the most
remote relationship. 4 solitary departure
from this rule, here and there, FOR policy S
sake, is but an exception, which only
proves the rule. While they enjoy here
equality before the law, they are, and
must eyer remain, subject to the law of
race. They are citizens. under the civil
law, but aliens under natural law, and this
condition must ever remain. II is beyond
the power of human legislation to make
1t otherwise, Citizenship, as conferred
upon them in this country, is but mock
cry and n cheat. This government was
founded By white men for the benefit of
white men, and the negro has no natural
right of citizenshiphere. They themselves
have recognized the propriety Of an utter
separation Of the races by excluding the
white man from citizenship in Liberia.
They would have no ground of complaint If
the white man should exclude them from
citizenship here. A mixture of races upon
the same soil and under the same govern
ment is not good for either. The blacks OF
the South begin to see this, hence their de.
sire TO 20 back to the land of their fathers
from which the cupidity of the white man
wrested them. Nature, or the Creator,
planted the different races Of men in differ
ent subdivisions Of the earth, but man has
deTangcd the natural order of things, and
the races have become in some measure
mixed much to their disadvantage, The
most learned ethnologists aver that each
race succeeds best by itself II is the part
of wisdom, therefore, that they should be
separated and kept separate. The Cauca-
sian, or white man, to himself; the Mon
golian, the Malay, the Indian and the
African, to themselves Nature has created
them different, with different compilations,
habits and dispositions, and different men,
tai, moral and physical constitutions 1t
is doing violence to Nature to disturb her
laws by attempting to mingle together and
barmonize races of men utterly dissimilar
and incapable of such relation. Let the
blacks 90 to AFRICA, aud lot the Chinese
confnc themselves to China California
is right in wanting to rid her self of this
class of population. There is no commu-
nifty of sentim ent, taste or feeling, between
them and her white inhabitants The
decision Of that most able jurist, Hon.