The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-17
COLONIZATION OF THE NE
GRO RACE, NO. 8.


THE ONLY RATIONAL HOPE FOR THE |
Poffticai. Social, and Industrial Renosa-
ton Of North Carolina. and Of ths so q sh. |
VIII he Pound In ta~ Gradual D@psr'a-
tlen and ssttIemeat of the Afro-A mert- |
cans. Upon some Portion OF the Pabife
Domain, Outside the Limits of the Uni
ted states, Where They shall be Free la
Govern Themselves, Under the National
trots ctorx.e.
Editor CAUCASIAN.
In your last issue | quoted, in
support of the above proposition,
the opinions of some OF the sages
Of our revolutionary era, and most
largely those OF Thomas jefferson
for the reason, that he has had the
singular good fortune to be recog-
niZed as An authority by all parties.
Canonized, even before he was dead,
his name, since then, has stood al
ways first in the popular hagiology-
And SO true Is this, that the found
ers OF every political party since his
time, has taken some distinctive
doctrine of his. as the cornerstone
of its political creed.
Thus Henry Clay, treading in
the footsteps of this apostle of HUI
man liberty, took up the cause OF
African Colonization where Jeffer-
son had left it, and pressed it with
zeal which was the more honor
able in him since he consented, for
its sake, to sacrifice the Presidency
OF the United States. Addressing
the Colonization Society Of Ken
lucky in 1929 the Great COmmoner
had this to say
II we were to invoke the greatest
blessing, which Heaven could bestow
upon this nation, it would be the sepa-
ration of the two races of it's pOpuia-
ton, and their comfortable establish
ment, in distinct and distant countries.
If this is not done, who can cOntem-
plate the future without the most aw-
full apprehensions? For if this pro-
miscuOus residence, Ct Whites and
Blacks, is to continue forever, who,
without shuddering with horror, can
imagine the wars, and carnage, and
crimes, that must be it's probable con-
sequences?
And Abraham Lincoln following,
as he protested always to do, the
leadership of Clay upon this ques-
ton, in his first annual message OF
Dec. 1861, submitted the follow
ing
| recommend that Congress take
steps to colonize all slaves, that shall
be cOnfiscated for having been used fOr
discretionary purposes, in some
place aud innate cOngenial tn them
1t might be we'll to consider too
whether all free-born negroes could
! not be included in such colonization
SO far as they may desire. TO carry
, out the plan of colonization, may in
vOlve the acquisition of new territory
aud also the appropriation of money
beyond that to be expended in terrific
5 rial acquisition. Aud if it should b.
said, that the only legitimate object o
q acquiring territory is to provide home
q for white men, this measure effect
: that object, since the emigration o
4 black men will leave additional room
: for white men remaining here, or com
y ing here.
q Andin his second annual mess
a age, of Dec. l 1862, when his Eman
# cipation Proclamation was suspen
# ded, and just one month before
Il was to go into effect, and while
# was still open, to the acceptance Q
l. the people of the South, he said
IS lean not make it better understoo,
than it is already, that strongly fave
y the colonization of the negro rae
With his Deportation, even to limit
"a ed extent, enhanced wages of he whit
1t labOrer is mathematically certain. TT
lr price of labor, like that of other con
e. modities, is regulated by su. ply an
demand. If therefore you reduce tt
To supply of black labor, by cOloniZir
lc the black lab0rer out of the countr
- you will, by precisely so much, II
OF crease the wages of the white Lahore
at And U. S Grant in the last cha
% ter Of his Personal Memoirs dictate
from his deathbed at Mt. McGregc
has this to say of the treaty viii,
l he had negotiated in 1871 for tt
10 annexation of Santo Domingo, b
ri which was rejected by the Senai
as and, with blind and besotted ign
~ rance, was denounced throughc
IL the South, as the "Santo Domi
d go job" and for no other reasC
OF than that cotton, at that time, w
o &C. worth ten cents pound
tn The condition of the negro ra
ali within our borders, may become
source of anxiety, to say the least. 1t
"o possible that the question of &C
as fl,ct between races, may come
I'D in the future, as did that betwe
1rt freedom and slavery before. And
he was looking to a settlement of Il
les question that led me to urge the {
m. nexatiOn of SantO Domingo, duri
M the time [ was President of the U
.;te ted States. The island was offered
us almost without price, is situated
US on our shores, is vers fi-'i!e. and is
OF pable of supporting 100000 of p
his pie. took it that the Negroes wO
are go there in great numbers, so as
mt, have an Independent State, govern
X by themselves, but under the prot
ton of the General Government.
~ Here, Mr.. Editor, I finish tn,
~, citations, that might be multipl
ens Indefinitely. But in bringing tn
H. to a close, I ask if there has e.
90 before been presented, in
l ha, Tense of proposition as clear a
The sound as this, an array of autht
en- ties so strong and convincing
~ these? In making choice of Fral
..ss lin, and Jefferson, and Clay, &
GO Lincoln, and Grant, have selec
~ those only, who have been the
tho cognized moulders, of the thou,
> ~ and action, of every political 2
80 ty that has left an enduring
nc press upon the nation-Federal
oral Republican, Democratic, Wing, {
an+ Republican again, And have g
tho en- the prominence to LETTERS
because his name since the h,
j, ~ Of his death. has been the rally
cry of them all.