The Liberator

HOW COLONIZATIONISTS CAN INSULT JEHOVAH!!

[From the Cincinnati Journal.]

AMALGAMATION.

It often happens, that the advocates of a good cause do it serious injury, by the imprudence and mistaken zeal, manifested in its defence. It is so with the abolition of slavery, and in our judgment, nothing can so effectually retard this desirable object, as the indiscretion of some of its headlong friends. We have read, within a few days, the first address of the first anti-slavery convention, ever published in this country, and it breathes the most peaceful yet dignified spirit, and has not a word calculated to give offence. The result of the efforts then made, was to abolish slavery in Pennsylvania, so that now it is known there only in name.

We pray with all our hearts, that the oppressed may go free. Born and educated in a free state, we imbibed, from infancy, a hatred of slavery in every form. But even in the 'city of brotherly love,' we never heard the doctrine urged, that whites and blacks must be amalgamated, in order to accomplish the annihilation of slavery. We believe no such thing; but we do believe that to attempt it, is to war against the government of God, and to impugn the wisdom of his providence. Who ordained national distinctions, and all the characteristic differences that exist among the sons of Adam? Who gave the shades of mind, among the whites, that constitute the immeasurable disparity that obtains among them, from the rising of the sun to the place where he goeth down? And is it not palpable to the commonest capacity, that a line of demarcation between the colored and the white population has been drawn by the great God himself, so indelibly, that no human device can blot it out? What though many of the blacks, as well as the whites, will shine in the firmament of glory, forever and ever! do not the stars of that firmament present an inequality of character, which shall cause them to differ from each other, while heaven endures? [!!!] God has said it, and let him be true, though every man should be a liar.

We feel that the time has arrived, when a decided stand should be taken on these matters. We are willing to aid in erecting houses of worship for the colored population, and to supply them with the regular administration of gospel ordinances, and to make them in all these respects, as free as the air we breathe. But we will not consent to the needless, uncalled for commixture of those persons with our own congregations, and we trust that such innovations will not be tolerated in this christian community. We know that the blacks themselves do not desire such a state of things. They have always preferred, where their liberty has been the most untrammeled, to be alone. Look at Philadelphia, for proof of this assertion. By their own voluntary efforts, they have now in that city, not less than six places of worship, for their separate and distinct use. No law forces them, no undue influence moves them there; they yield to the voice of nature, which in this matter is emphatically, the voice of God. They sit under their own vine and fig-tree, worship the Father of their spirits in their own tabernacles, having none to molest or make them afraid. Let those who desire the spiritual improvement of the colored people here, put them in the way of obtaining similar advantages, and they will render them a real service. But to attempt to force them, where their presence is not desirable, will produce, as we know it has already done in this city, a repellency of feeling in truly christian minds, that might be avoided and should never be provoked. Our God is not a God of confusion, but of order.

BENEZET.