The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1899-08-10
COLONIZATION OF THE NE
GRO RACE. NO. 2


Social. and Isdustrial Remove
ton Of North C.reiiss. .sd Of the seeth.
win be Found In the Gradual Deposts-
ton sad Settlement Of the Afro-Amest-
cana. Upon some Porties Of the Pebble /
Domain, Outside the Lamits Of the Uni /
ted States, where They Shall be Free to |
Govern Themselves, Under the National |
erot.ctornse.
Editor CAUCASIAN
Having made it clear, in a COM
that appeared In your
last Issue, that We are burdened, at
this time, with not less than TO-
OO0, 900 of Negroes, who are aliens
from us In blood, ard yet clothed
with the same constitutional rights
as ourselves; and having shown
with what fearful rapidlty they are
multiplying, | have reached the
What shall be done with this
vast horde Of cheap and thriftless la
bOrers ?
This is that one question which
has awakened the public mind, and
tormented the public conscience,
for more than a hundred years, and
has been successfully answered by
he best and Wisest men OF each gen.
Grafton, but only to be silenced by
the greed, and rancOr, and infatua-
ton of the times in which they
lived. Those whom we are accus-
toned to look back to, as the fOun-
ders and defenders of our free in
situations, have declared with one
voice, that the salvation Of this
country was to be sought in the
Deportation and Settlement be-
yond its borders, Of the whole ne
gro race. And that declaration SO
often repeated by them, l adopt as
my own, promising, that in quoting
their opinions, l have in some in
stances found it necessary, for the
sake of compression, to omit super
fuous words, or to substitute equiv
client terms, and some times to
transpose them, but always so as
to preserve the full sense and SUBJ
stance.
Among the first to speak out up
on this momentous subject, was
BENJAMIN Franklin who, in 1889, as
President of the Society for the Alb
clifton of Slavery in the State Of
Pennsylvania, had this to say
Slavery is such debasement of hui
man nature, that it's extirpatiOn, if
not performed with care, may open a
source of serious evils, making free
dom itself misfortune to him who re-
ceives it, as we'll as prejudiced to soci-
ETY.. 1t is therefore to be hoped that,
the instruction and control of the
emancipated Blacks may become a
branch of national police.
Thomas Jefferson, although thir-
ty-seven years younger than Frank
lin, preceded him in the agitation
of this question. In his Notes on
Virginia. written in 1888, he gives
US the history Of a measure, which
he and others had prepared, in 1776,
to be submitted to the first AS
sembly of that State, the purport
of which was
TO emancipate all slaves born after
the passage of the Act, the same to be
taught the industrial arts, until they
should arrive at certain age, and then
| to be cO'Onized in such place as the
circumstances of the time should rem.
der most proper, sending them out
with arms, with the in plements of the
arts, with seeds, and domestic animals
and to declare them q free aDd indie
pendent people, and to extend to then
our alliance and protection until the!
shall have acquired strength; and t.
send vessels at the same time to othe
parts of the world, for an equal mum
Der of white inhabitants, inducin,
them by proper encOuragements t.
migrate hither. But if it should b
. asked, Why not retain and incOrpO
rate the Blacks in the State? the an
swer is-neeprooted prejudlces enter
tanned by the Whites; ten thOusan
} recOllections by the Blacks of the inju
, RES they have sustained; new provo
cations; the real distinctions which n
, ture has made; and many other Gil
, cumstances will divide us into pal
ties, and produce commissions, who
will probably never end but in the ez
termination of the one or the othe
r race. The unfortunate difference {
3 color, and perhaps of faculty, are pow
s eIful obstacles to the emancipation (
: these people. Many who advocate i
while they wish to viDdicate the iii
!. erty of human nature, are anxious all
, to presume its dignity and beaut
Some of these embarrassed by the que
: tiOD, What further is to be done wit
s them? join themselves, in oppositio
with those who are actuated by sOrdi
g avarice only. Emancipation with U
therefore. must be different from VIII,
. it was with the Romans. With the
y it required but a single effort. Fl
= the slave when made free might mi
with, without staining, the blood of b
master. But with US second effort
necessary. For when freed the Neg
l. must be placed beyond the reach
mixture.
And in a letter written viii
. President of the United States, d.
n ted November "a 1901, and address
l., ed to James Monroe, then Cover
j. or of Virginia, he says
E. The West Indies offer q more pro
able and practicable retreat for o.
o emancipated slaves. Inhabited by
e people of their own race and colo
4 with climate c0ngenial to their natu
al constitution; insulated from 9th
u descriptions of men; nature seems
+ have formed these islands to becou
the rece Ltacle, of the Blacks that ha
been transplanted into this hemi
l. phere. Africa would offer q last, al
d undoubted resort, if all others, that a
more desirable, should fail us.
And in letter of instruction,
=, July Ii 1902, to Rufus King. the
minister to the court of Great Bri
1t ain, he writes
Although provision for the settI
ment of emancipated negroes MigI
n perhaps be attainable nearer hOI
=. than Africa, yet it isdesirable to exp
tfia.e some of them to the Colony
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