Year: 1879

Dooittle was in the Senate from Wisconsin.
he made himself ridiculous by scheme for
the colonization of the negroes of the South.
One of his plans was to furnish them with
transportation to Liberia; another to send
them, bag and baggage, to San Domingo,
and third to give up the State of South
Carolina for their exclusive occupation. he
possessed sufficient influence to induce a
cargo or two of the Ethiopians to start for
Liberia, but returning vessels brought those
of the emigrants who had not died en- vouoge
or left their bones bleaching on the plains
of the malarial negro republic back again.
This much was determined by the expert
ment of Mr.. Doolittle and of the African col
onlzatlon society which was one. Of the out
comes of his agitation: that the negroes
| have no inclination as race to change their
| present habitations, and cannot be induced
to emigrate as long as they are reasonably
we'll treated.


Undaunted by Judge Doolittle's failure,
Senator WinGom, of this State, has in
cubated scheme somewhat similar to it.
which he offered in the Senate on Thursday.
and announced that he would offer some
remarks upon it at an early
day. In substance Senator Win
dom's resolution provides for the
appointment of a committee of seven Sena-
tors charged with the duty of inquiring as to
the expediency and practicability of encour-
aging and promoting by all just and proper
methods a partial migration of colored per-
sons from those States and Congressional
districts where they are not allowed to freely
and peacefully exercise and enjoy their con-
stltutlonal rights as American citizens into
such States as may desire to receive them and
will protect them in said rights, or in such
Territory OF Territories of the United States
as may be provided for their use and occupa-
ton.


AS before remarked, the negroes have un-
mlstakably shown that they don't want to be
isolated from the white population of the
country. They cannot live apart from tho
whites, for they have not as yet reached that
degree of civilization which renders them in
dependent of the dominant race. They depend
upon the whites for instruction in the arts
OF civilization and the science of self-goy-
ernment, with which they are of necessity
but little acquainted. They depend upon
the whites in great measure for subsist
ence and employment, for comparatively few
OF them have arrived at that state in which
they can enter business for themselves and
afford employment and support for their fell
lows. True, they are adapted by natnre for
agricultural pursuits, but few care to engage
IN the drudgery incident to that occupation.
and if they followed it to any extent thew
would inevitably become burden to their
white neighbors.


1t is extremely questionable if the iso-
latlon of the colored race will result in it's
improvement. The tendency would rather
be towards its degradation. The history of
all civilization shows that where an IGNORANT
race becomes isolated it either retrogrades in
the scale of humanity, or makes such slow
progress as compared with more advanced
nations, that it is left far behind. Associa-
tlon with the whites is rapidly giving their
former vassals valuable ideas of the ad-
vantages of progress; of the duties of citizen
ship, the science of government, and the
polite arts. To remove them from this as-
soclation would be equivalent to removing
child from school before he has learned the
alphabet of an education. He might pro-
gress, but that progress would necessarily be
slow, while the chances are that he would
forget all that he had previously learned.


The premise of Senator Window that the
negroes are deprived of their rights as citi-
zens IN any part of the country save in New
England, where property qualification is
required of voters, is false one. The in
ference that the negroes want to colonize in
any State or Territory is unwarranted. The
scheme, if carried out, would be iniurious to
the development of the race, because #
would remove them from Influences that are
beneficial and instructive. Therefore the
Senate ought to put an extinguisher upon
Mr.. Windom's colonization scheme.