Daily Richmond Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1828-1831, 1829-09-12

tile Various difficulties aud u.lscarrages wAch have
taken place at Sierra Leone aud Liberia.
Let us examine both these objections candiiy.--
Aud first OF the-expense.
II appears by the tenth report of the Colonization
nocety, That the expense OF the transportaion and
the maintenance for year, OF each individual, Is
aoout-twenty dolars.t Accordingly TO calculation
stated by Mr.. Clay in speech delivered before the
society," the annual increase of the coorcd population,
slaves andfree, Is about $4,000 per annum 10 keep
them TO their present nunbcrs, by export equal TO
the increase, would OF require about OO00
dollars per annum. This, it must be confessed, Is
truly a large sum-but 10 n country with revenue
OF above e0,0O00o0 OF dollers per annum, OF which
about 100000 dollars devoted 10 the payment
OF the principal and interest OF national debt,
which Is rapidly diminishing, that sum, for such
object is trihc unworthy OF consideration. And If
conviction of the ncucu!ablc advantages Uf the
measure should spread generally throughout the
Union, might be the case by adequate efforts on
tue part of It's frienis and II should be regarded
beyond the legitimate power OF Congress to apply
the public treasure To this purpose, there would be
no difficulty IN procuring an alteration of the Con-
situon authorizing such al apps opration. IN which
case an adequate portion OF the supcruous public
revenue might be devoted to- this grand object.
With respect 10 the various difficulties aud dlsas-
ters that have attended the Colony Of Sierra Leone,
we are not sufficiently acquainted with the admins
tration that colony be able to state their extent,
their causes-nor is IL essential. Our grand con-
Germ is with Liberia where the difficulties eXpe, len
ccd have been utterly insignificant, compared with
Virginia and North Carolina. An account ut the
awful situation and gloomy prospects of Virginia. for
twenty five years from the first settlement, was pub
iishcd some time since in few ofour papers--but as
II was not generally circulated, and it is well cal
cuated TO obvate of the two leading objections to
The measure, II is once more submitted TO the serious
consideration ot the public.
mh LEFT the Colony furnished with ships good for
uhcatons, twenty-five pieces of cannon, arms
apparel commodities for Ding and tools all labor
AT James Town there nearly sixty houses The settlers
liant pNd i,tf hun.a
The number OF inhabitants nearly five hundred They
had just gathered their Indian harvest and besides
considerable provision IN their They had between
and six bundled hogs, equal number OF fowls goats
ana some sheep They had also boats, nets aud good
modaons for fishing But such the setion deness and
dissipation of this mad people, that they reduced 20
lne most serane NO sooner was Capt Smith
gone than the savages provoked by their dsote practices
aud encouraged by their of government revoed hunted
the falls and all the Settlements, abandoned In
short time, nearly iorty OF the company the
enemy Their and provisions we've consumed in riot their
killed and carried off by the Indians The sword without
famine and sickness within soon made among them
destruction Within the OF six months of their whole
number, sixty only survived These the poor fam
Such the famine fed skins of their de
horses they boiled aud the flesh the dead Indeed
they TO such extremity that had ,hev NOT
relieved the whole colony eight days would have
extinct Such dire effects deness faction and want
p. 50. -'''''' ''' -
This hdeous state things took place in 1916 and first
attempt AT settlement was III 1885.
An the difficulties and calamitcs that have atten.
ded the Colony OF Liberia during the twelve years of
its EXISTENCE are not tythe OF the disasters that
took place in Virginia in six moths.
North Carolina was settled in 668; and in 1924
the list of taXables, according to Willamsons Histo
ry, Vol. I. p. IA, did not exceed 1877, being lille
more than hdiFHe number that there IA 1877 Sc
renteen gears before. Such says this writer "ore
he banetul effects of rapine, anarchy and dleness
tits highly satisfactory To find that the system of,
colonization has host Of powerful md Influential adj
socates in Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina
But the opposition to 1t 10 almost universal in South
Carolina and Georgia; which States, from circnm-
stances TO be hereafter explained, most iuteres
tedin its success It s the only measure by which
the mass of evils attendant slavery can be mtps
ted-for mitigation is all that be hoped for in
such an extensive and nveteratc evil. And many of
those who are aware of the magnitude OF the disor
der and shudder at its contemplation, dscourn-
gedf from making am efforts TO apply remedy, in
consequence of regarding it as incurable. TO both
those clnsses these pages are particularly addressed
That slavery is curse, and a grievUus curse, 10
The States where 1t generally prevails is readily adj
nItted by all who have considered the subject unn
luenced by prejudice. That large portion of the
distress prevailing in Virginia and North Carolina If
not in the other Southern States, arises from that
source, is too papabe to escape the observation of
the most superficial. While southern produce c,un
manded ready markets and high prices slave labour
employed in agriculture, though not rs productive
"a the !abour of freemen, still profitable. But
at the present prices Of -four, corn, tobacco &c. the
labour of slaves is, in general not more than equal
to their maintenance. HAMILTON
Philadelphia. September I, 1929.
- (To CONTINUED)
Fr0m the actual experience of the Society derived from
the expenses which have been incurred Transporting the
persons already sent TO Africa the entire average EXPENSE of
each coens young and old, including passage money and
subsistence may be stated at twenty dollars per headrenth
Report page b.
The State Of Virginia. early the year 1916 passed
resolution directing the Executive conesrond with the
Presden ofihc United States for the purpose obtaining
'eriory upon the Of Africa other race moi
Fiihn any of the States Territorial Governments Of the
Uned States asylum for such persons Of color
as Free and desire the same and those who
msy hereafter be enancpated within this Commonwealth
This resolution probably rise the formation
lonzaon Society, Of which, therefore, great State If Virgil
n1 fairly claim the tile If legate parent The Iegsa
Of Maryland, the sh Of March, 1877 passed resoton
ousans dollars year. for years in aid
Of the funds Of the SOcieiy The is snaand Is op,y
mentioned indication ohe Of respectable State
this important subject Throughout State ofN Carolina
the most friendly feelings ards the scheue-anh num-
bers Of citizens have elucpa,ed their slaves condition of
their being conveyed 10 Liberia Some only enan
cpa'ed Them but have made provision fo the payment their
passage.
Correspondence If tie Jol1nal If CO,amerce.
LONDON, July ~ l829.-You win sec in late