Author : W. A. Scott
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330218952
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (189 download)
Book Synopsis Emigration of Free and Emancipated Negroes to Africa by : W. A. Scott
Download or read book Emigration of Free and Emancipated Negroes to Africa written by W. A. Scott and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Emigration of Free and Emancipated Negroes to Africa: An Address Delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Louisiana State Colonization Society To a great extent, the free people of color in the United States are a sort of intermediate class, having no bonds of common interest, no ties of sympathy; and are generally indolent, improvident and ignorant, and the consequence is, that collectively, they are the most depraved and unhappy race on the American Continent. The only hope of the free black man is his removal to another Continent, beyond the barriers of those prejudices and circumstances that oppress him here, and to a soil and climate for which he is suited. It is impossible for him ever to be happy among the whites. The frequent conflicts between the free blacks and the whites, in our principal northern cities, and the exclusion of them, or attempts to exclude them from entering many of our free States, show that to them, on our soil, freedom carries no healing on its wings; and liberty, that blesses all besides, has no blessings for them, and that the glorious flag that has animated the hearts of freeman on so many fields of battle, and carried our commerce over the whole world, has nothing but stripes and imprisonment for them. Another part of their misery, is their subjection to a feeling of inferiority. No man can flourish and grow in a state of conscious inferiority, any more than a vegetable grows in the dark. But the black man cannot come out into the sunshine of heaven's equality, among white people. The free people of color are not at home amongst us. The All-wise Creator has placed upon the black man, the mark of separation. Man being gregarious and social in his habits, it was necessary for the subduing of the earth to the arts of peace, that men should be dissociated, segregated and driven out from their cradles. It is a blessing, therefore, that there are causes sufficient, to prevent the perfect assimilation of all the races into one. It is not one of the least indications of divine goodness, that there is such a variety amongst the races of men, as to render their separation not only desirable but necessary, and at the same time, also, to fit them for different climates and pursuits, so that the whole earth may be the home of man, and made contributary to his welfare. The black man, socially and politically, can never mingle with the white man as his equal, in the same land. It is worse than visionary; it is vain and mischievous to labor to bridge the gulf that the Almighty has made impassable. And I regard it, as a most wise and necessary provision in the Constitution of Liberia, that it forbids a white man to own a single foot of soil in that Republic. No dream of the Arabian Nights is more fruitless, than the attempt to make the white and the black man, stand upon the same platform of political and social equality. They cannot sit down together, as equals, on the same soil. The one or the other, like Pharaoh's lean kine, will devour the fat and well favored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
