Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1827-03-31
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SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 81


tour of this continent, migrated TO the western
part of the $ ato Of Tennessee, and locating her
self At an Old Spanish Fortress, now called Nom
phesis situated on one Of those eminences which
rarely adom the banks Of the VI ss'ssppI R'er,
established, through her own individual eAert'ons,
AMI with her own funds, place for The colonlza-
ton Of gro slaves. Her success, we apprehond,
has not been commensurate with her zeal, ana al
though her project was d good and humane
one, it was lst such an as never can succeed.
AT the co .'sencement of her establishment, she
plrchised eight negro slaves, and something lie
two thousand acres Of land, with which she began
the establ shmsut Of emancipa'ing colony
Thus setting an example herself, IT is probable
she supposed that others moved bya spnt equal
" phlanthropic, would follow it, and heartily CO.
operate with her views. Her pln was 10 pur-
chase slaves, to set them at work on The piaha-
ton, allowing them fair equivalent for her SER
vices and whenever they, BY their l'bour. accl-
mullted sufficient refund the or gnal price pr d
r,r them, they were to be emanc p,'ed; and the
fund thus created was to be lppropy ated 20 tie
purchase and emancipation of Others, held n un-
righteous bonl,ge. The project, no ever f'yorr-
able IT might appear TO hu'e been, was very
d r,r,ntly considered bv her neg, bours, tire
slave holders; and nste,d OF receiving their Sup
por', it met with their warm and decided dsap-
rotation. Il was in vain to tll< to them about
humanity-and phlanthropY; and whilst they could
hold feIlov ng in bondage for life, they We're
not disposed 70 lsen'o Mss Wr pht's arguments;
bot urged that a bird IN the hand IS worth two in
the bush At the onset, Mss Wright made as
much noise about her plan of colonization, as
Mr.. Robert Oven did, but recently she has been
rem Ikabiy silent, so much so that we had begun
70 think, that she had either given up the ghost,
or the project. But on opening western paper
tho other day, we gratifed 20 learn that she
IS We, in the land of morals, and has not aban-
doncd her colony, alhoqgh she has materially al
tered the polty originally established for its gov
ernrnen'.
In the New Harmony paper, edited undcr the
auspices OF Mr.. Robert o ven, We find publ g. I'd
ber last will and testament, IN which she beq'elta az
10 General Ia Faycue, General Mcclure Of New
York and several other gentlemen, her lands,
con- sting of gteoa hundred and sixty acre', be-
SIDES negroes, 10 b- held by them and their heirs,
in f~ust, Cor the bcneft Of the negro race; and in
addition to tins, she places IN the hands of those
gentlemen, flmly Of slaves, enrus'ed 10 her
care, bv tie celebrated Robert Wilson, Esq. Of
SoIth C1rol'na, who, it viii he remembered by
e., friends ot liberty and Of the h'piess negro, at
his de ,tl, benc forbidden 10 manumit his slaves,
IL - 4IN-a Cfafa
placed them under the srpernterdance Of Miss
Wright From the document to which we
sudo, We fear that Miss Wright has found her
plan % be somewhat visionary, and IS about to
abandon t, to tbe " mercy OF rude world
There is a degree Of eccentricity connected
with the history Of this yirtuous and phanthropc
lady; and she possesses traits of character, which
VIII long endear her TO the good and humane
When yet quite yolng, she acquired by her VIII
tings, no mean distinction as q literary lady, and
bas'ed N the sunshine and favour of the British
metropolis Nor was her fame confined 10 the
"flst anchored sle'' alone---it had been sounded
in France, it appreciated in this country, and
m any an American lover Of literature, has perused
her pages with intense admiration. Some years
ago she visited tbs c0untrg; made a complete
tour Of the continent, and on her return to Eng
land published her travels work, in which she
dd ample Justice % this country, its political and
literary institutions, and ably yndicarcd us az INST
the lspars.ons of Kendall, volnsy, Ashe, and the
kindred gang of hbcllers, who, after having en-
10 ed our hospitality, and a. feas'ed and grown
f,t' on our bountes, repaid US with Their vile and
m,cions reyilmCs.
After the publication Of her travels in America,
Mss Wright spent considerable time the
tinent; and in the year 1924 returned to Ameri-
ca and arrived among US about the time General
La Fayette landed on the shores of his adopted
counfry When the General made his Southern
torr, she accompanied him. though not MS MEM
Der of his family and it whilst on this Jour
ney, that she conceived the project of establ sh-
ing the colony Of .Nashoba, near Memphssis.
II is singular, that literary lady, possessing
the means Of living in aiiuence in the metropolis
Of England. and Of enjoying fame which has not
been secured by hundreds of her cotemparies,
should consent to take up her abode in dreary
Wilderness, far from the busy haunts of civza-
ton, and shut out from the world Of letters