E FREE LABOR SUBSTITUTED FOR SLAVE. We learn from a correspondent, says the Long Island Inquirer, that Mr. Wirt, the late Attorney General of the United States, has purchased a large tract of land in Florida, for the purpose of cultivating the sugar cane. Instead of employing slaves, as is usual for such labor, he has made an arrangement with several hundred German emigrants, who go on to Mr. Wirt's estate, under the charge of Lieutenant Goldsborough. This may be considered a good beginning, and may in time be the means of substituting free white labor where slaves only have hitherto been employed. We are desirous to see an end put to slavery in this free country, but not sooner than shall be compatible with the rights and privileges granted by our laws to the owners of such property. WEST-INDIA NEGROES. THE Hon. C. Fleming, Admiral of the British West India station, on a recent examination by a committee of the House of Commons, gave it as his opinion that the negroes would soon free themselves, if they are not freed by the government-that the free negroes are industrious, and will work regularly, even in the cultivation of sugar-that they are competent to fulfil the duties of governors, generals, and priests-and that the free blacks of Cuba and Hayti are incomparably better fed and happier than the slaves of Jamaica. The Admiral is also of opinion, that the negroes are equal in intellect to the whites. He thus speaks of one of the generals in the Caraccas :- General Peyanga was a perfectly black man—a complete negro; he was a very well informed man, a very well educated person, and well read in Spanish literature, and was a very extraordinary officer.' EXPEDITIONS. We have seen letters from Charleston, (S. C.) which refer to very gratifying accounts of the colonists who went out in the barque Hercules, dated the 30th of January. The writer adds, 'I suppose that a very large number of colored persons will leave here next fall to join their friends in Africa.' Of the party who went in the Hercules, one hundred and eighty in all, there were three Presbyterian and two Baptist preachers, besides sixteen Sunday school and other religious teachers. The mechanical departments were as well filled. There were one sawyer, four tailors, sixteen carpenters, two blacksmiths, four wheelwrights, three millwrights, three pastry cooks, twenty-five seamstresses and mantau-makers, three shoe-makers, four nurses, six farmers, one cabinet-maker, fourteen washers and ironers, one mason, one tinner, one painter, one schoolmaster, one boatswain, four house servants, one dray man. About a dozen emigrants have just sailed from Philadelphia for the Colony. They were furnished liberally at New-York, under the direction of Mr. Finley. Among the number was John Henry, of Maryland, farmer, aged thirty-two years, (wife already gone over;) William Gibbs, from this city, carpenter, aged twenty; Samuel Jackson, aged sixteen; Daniel Parker, carpenter; Hezekiah Shepherd, aged twenty-nine, of Salem, N. Y. shoemaker, with his wife, wife's mother, and child; Old Simon,' (so called,) member of a church in Littleton, N. H. We have had long conversations with Simon, and have obtained an interesting detail of his life. He was originally a slave, in Connecticut, and purchased his own freedom for two hundred dollars, at the age of twenty-eight. He is now sixty-seven. Simon is a remarkably intelligent man, and a dignified and devoted christian. Shepherd is an active young man, of excellent moral character. He brought with him the following testimonial, among others, signed by highly respected citizens of his own section: ROBERT S. FINLEY, Esq. Agent of Col. Society. Salem, May 6th, 1833. Respected Sir:-This letter will be given to you by Hezekiah Shepherd, who, with his wife, mother, and infant child, are destined for Liberia. They have been recommended to us, in the most satisfactory manner, for intelligence, industry, and virtuous habits, and we trust will be a valuable acquisition to that flourishing Colony. We have furnished them with money sufficient to bear their expenses to New-York, or Philadelphia, where it is expected they will embark. As our County Colonization Society has been recently organized, we are not yet in funds, but we pledge ourselves to advance one hundred dollars, about the first of August, towards defraying their passage for Africa, and expect to add other contributions to your funds during the present year. The Colonization Society, in our opinion, may be ranked among the most benevolent and interesting institutions of our country and age; and that it may continue to enjoy the smiles of the God of Providence, and the patronage of the philanthropist and christian, is the fervent prayer of yours, very respectfully, ALEXANDER PROUDFIT. CONTRIBUTIONS To the American Colonization Society, reported at the Agency Office, Joy's Building, up to May 1, 1833. Juvenile Sewing Society, in Rev. Mr. Abbott's church, Worcester, $14.00 1 50 Evening Lecture in Rev. Mr. Einerson's church, Salem, 23 03 46 14 37 Rev. Mr. Babcock's, Salem, to make him a life member, 30 00 Mrs. Tucker, 2.00 Scholars of Sabbath School in Welfleet, Mass. Sale of Earrings and Necklace, presented by a lady in Lenox, Mass. 8 00 450 8.40 20 00 20 00 5 00 100 00 12 59 Methodist society, Pittsfield, Rev. Mr. Nichols, 9 00 Unitarian society, Roxbury, after address by Rev. J. N. Danforth, Gen. John Kellog, of Benson, Vt. to constitute himself a life member, Caleb Mills, to constitute himself a life member, the donation to be Meredith Bridge village Cong. church, 11 50; Baptist, 4; Meth. 1 32, 16 82 Colebrook Congregational Society, Rev. E. Bradford, 10 33 Whole amount acknowledged in preceding list, $1,340 69 TO THE FRIENDS OF THE CAUSE. THE Publishers of the Colonizationist venture to take this opportunity of mak ing an appeal to the friends of the cause, and of a free discussion of the merits of the cause, throughout the country, in behalf of a work which has pledged itself to that undertaking. The State Societies of Massachusetts and Connecticut, it gives us much pleasure to say, have adopted measures which substantially express the confidence of those Associations, in the character and course of the Magazine. Will not the other State Societies bear us in mind? We have great reason to be encouraged with our present prospects, but cannot say that we feel satisfied so long as those very considerable sources of influence, to which we have just alluded, still remain unsupplied. THE COLONIZATIONIST AND JOURNAL OF FREEDOM. JUNE, 1833. AMALGAMATION OF RACES. The following well written Essay is inserted, not because we concur with the author in some of his views and we differ widely with him in others; but in pursuance of the principle of free discussion, which was laid down among the leading regulations of this Magazine, in the outset. During the course of the present century, the condition of our colored population has excited such an universal interest, as to have become one of the most important topics of political discussion. In those States where slavery has ceased to exist, there appears to be but one sentiment as to the policy or morality of the institution, and we believe that the more enlightened and liberal classes of our southern brethren concur with us in viewing it as a political evil. It is somewhat strange, however, that while all men at the North profess the desire of ameliorating the condition of the African, of elevating the free black to a higher rank in the scale of social existence, and of redeeming the slave from his bondage, there should yet exist any essential difference of opinion as to the principles which should guide us in endeavoring to accomplish these objects. This difference of opinion ought not indeed, to be deemed an evil. It may for a time impair the strength, by severing the union, of the friends of philanthropy; but it serves also to excite discussion, to keep alive public interest, and finally, by these means, to elicit the truth. The only opposition which the plan of colonization originally en |