Year: 1862

struggle of 1850 General Foote in the Unite
States Senate though at first stoutly opposed Z
the peace proportions of Henry Clay, sool
came round and rsuVed himself one of Mr.
Clay's most earnest aed active supporters fol
the Union to tie end OF the contest 1t viii
also be remembered that from that day dowr
to 1860. Including that campaign, General
Foote was one or the most active and unq0ali'
fled enemies in the South Of the secession fac
ton. Hence we are inclined to the opinion that
in h peace proposition he means peace in the
Onion, as preferable to the continuance of this
useless war for Southern confederacy, and we
dare say that it will not be long before peace
of this sort will bemore distinctly foreshadossd
in the rebel Congress at Richmond.


Public Plundcrers-The Chiriqui Coloni-


zation scheme.


Whilst we do the President the Justice to
believe that he is thoroughly honest man, yet
it cannot be denied that, either from his kind
ness Of heart or the ingenuity of the rascals
who infest Washington, the rebellion 80 far
has afforded abundant opportunities to rob the
public and sguander money broadcast amongst
a host of vGgabonds, who do not scrupls to
prey on their country even in its hour Of
deepest distress. The reports Of the investi-
eating committees Of the last session expose
but small portion Of this infamous system.
Shoddy contracts, steamboat swindles musket
purchases, sach as Fremont and his agents
made in Europe, and through which fabulous
profits were acquired-all these form an
appalling list; but they are far from
completing the catalogue. The negro
the inevitable Sambo-must. of course be
dragged in to fill the purses of the cormo-
rants, and thus we find. in its latest phase
is used by the leeches on tho Treasury to
further their ends


In the remarkable address made by Mr.
Lincoln to the negro delegation at the White
House q few weeks ago, he told them some
plain truths as to the absolute impossiblity of
in the United States upon terms Of
equality, and he urged the necessity of the
black population seeking-by emigration to
some other region-a home where their color
would not initiate against them, and where, if
they really possessed those attributes which
their theoretical admirers claim, they would
have ample opportunity to develop them. So
far as the impossibility of the two races living
here on terms Of equality is concerned 1t is SO
selfevident proposition az to require no argu-
ment in its support. The pity is that its truth
was not SO generally recognized long ago as to
have prevented the demagogues in the South
from taking advantage of the abolition legisla-
ton of some of the Northern States to precipitate
the rebellion which is now convulsing the coun-
try. Once the inferiority of the negro becomes
an established and acknowledged fact, tho phi
lanthropy of destroying the patriarchal rela-
ton which exists in the South between the
white and black races-to send the negro
adrift as pariah, to starve or be exiled-is
stripped of that religious gloss which alone
rendered 1t excusable, and the agitators stand
forth in all their hideous deformity as dishonest
miscreants, who, like Wendell Phillips, Garri-
SON, Greeley, Cheever and others of similar
kidney, really seek to break up the nation, in the
hope that amidst the debris they may occupy
position and o prominence which, with all
their egotism and personal vanity, they could
not dream of obtaining If the government re-
mains intact.


The President, in his address to the negro
delegation, suggested Chiriqui ss . desirable
location for the colonization of such Of their
number as could be induced to emigrate, and
promised them, in accordance with the act Of
Congress, to assist such emigrants, not only by
furnishing them with transportation, but also
by moderate sum to enable them to COM
mence life for themselves. If there is anything
in the project Liberia is the proper des-
tination for any negro emigration from
this country. The system of encouraging
the colonization of negroes has been tried
n Canada, and the result has been that,
although the negroes are literally endowed
with land and provisions, yet those colonists
are worse of and more degraded at the present
moment than any others Of the black race ir
Canada. In Central America the Presiden,
thinks they may do better, las the prejudice
against color does not prevail there" The
idea, then, must be that as there is no prejudice
against color, they can intermix with the In





in due time they will be as mixed a community
as their neighbors. Like most purely philan
thropic ideas, an investigation but reduces Il
to an absurdity. But the parties who suggest
ed it to the President are much more practical
in theig IDEAS. For soWs years systematic
attempt has been made BY these parties to in
duce Congress to establish coal depot a
this identical location of Chiriqui. Notwith
standing the most strenuous lobbying and the
most liberal investment of "stock" ant
"scrip"-for, alas, the interested parties had
but little cash, or they might have succeeded
bettsr-ths scheme fell through. Congress de.
clined to pass the bill, and il slumbers till q
more suspicious opportunity. These spscula
tors claim that under certain grants from the
department in which Chiriqui Is situated one Of
their number owns all the land thersabout