Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-10-03
MI. w. p. Calhoun's Negro Colonization
SCheme. 4
AnnEylLnE, S. a.. sept. 2sd. 1850.

ABBEVLLE, .. VI, Sept. Z5d, 1881. 5
Editors Keo,oee. Courier: In your Issue
Of the 10th September is an editorial
headed, The Negro Colonization
Scheme" in which you take issue with
me OH that suhject. The object of this
article is not to convince you that the
position you take is wrong, but simply to
correct two errors in regard to my own
position. You say:
eve have read and liato,,e,l attentivelv
to tho plans of colonization as presented
by Mr.. VIM. p. Calhoun, of Abboville,
Senator Hampton and others, who by ono
| foil stroke would remove the negroes to
somo distant cline, and there establish
| thom in government exclusively their
own." r.......
Then again you say:
'That many Of our colOred population
can we'll be spared, we readily admit, and
would DO glad to SEQ them emigrate to
Sonic favored cline, and there become q
happy and prosperous people under their
authority to lay. hold Of any citizen, be
hc white or black, and against his will,
carry him from ono State or Territory to
another, and when thore say to him,
thus far shalt thou 60 and no farther.
Abide ye hero""
1t is very evident that you have con-
founded Senator Hampton's ideas with
mine. have mover proposed to remove
tho negroes from tho South at one "fell
stroke.' My plan is to colombo the
negro by degrees, taking t,ia South, State
by State, until tho whole negro popula-
! tion has boon removed. The South could
not we'll stand their removal in body,
and it will not be done, unless tho negroes
themselves force us TO do so.
AS yet have advocated no forced sepa-
ration of tho races. 1 distinctly stated,
when gave my plan to tho public, that
it would bo tho best thing for both races
If Congress would literally give New
Mexico to tho negroes and pay their way
there; the emigration to commence with,
say Virginia, and continue through the
South, State by State, allowing certain
time for tho negroes in each State to take
advantage of tho inducements offered,
namely, home in New Mexico FREQ, and
free passage to that home. further dis
tictly stated that before this could be
done Congress would have to be given
tho proper authority for doing what I
proposed by such all amendment to the
constitution as tho case required.
You will see plainly that did not pro
pose to clay hold of any citizen, bo he
black or white, and against his will, carry
him from one State or Territory to an
other" If any such forcible measures
have been advocated they were not used
i'll tho article in which gave my New
Mexico plan; but while that is tho case,
do not hesitate to say that if some such
plan as proposed by mo is not adopted
forcible measures will be used. Every
event connected with tho two races il,
tho South points directly to the fact that
they cannot 1.-Two together; and in the
near future tho issue will be colonization
or determination, and there is no use in
Disgusting the fact. I do not desire tc
see the negro suffer, nor do desire him
injured. The pacific measures proposed
by mo arc for the purpose Of preventing
extreme measures. The negro must and
will have to go; the question now is
simply as to the manner of his going. II
will not be many months before you vii
be convinced of this fact, without any
further argument from me.
Senator Hampton agrees with mo thai
the negro must go, but we differ yer,
much, it seems, as yet, as to the manne,
of his going, if he has been correctly re,
ported by tho newspapers.
With kind regards, remain, very truly
yours, VIM. P. CALHOUN.