South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-06-17

Colonization, by the will of the late General
Blackburn, of Staunton, Va. seven by the
late Rev. John Allemong, and five by the late
Mrs. Washington, of Frederick county, Va. !;
while four were emancipated by the Rev. c.
w. Andrews, ofFredericl1 county; six by the
late Jedediah Atkinson, of Petersburg; seven
by Thomas S. King, Esq, of Portsmouth !;
one by Mr.. Davidson, of Charlotte county;
one by Mr.. S. O. Moon, Of Albemarle coun-
ty, Va. and two by MIR. A. M Neil, of Neck
lenburg, North Carolina. Several others were
free persons of color from Norfolk A NUM-
Der that were expected Gas stated in the last
Report) failed to embark in this expedition
Most Of this company were young men, sew
eral of them preachers of the Gospel, and one
minister and missionary of the Methodist
Church, the Rev. Beverly r. Wilson, well
known to many of our countrymen as having
after visit and examination of the Colony
during fourteen months, returned to the Uni
ted States for the purpose of concluding a fl
nal settlement ofhis affairs in Virginia and re-
moving with his entire family to Liberia His
statements concerning the Colony made in
sundry places and before large audiences in
the Northern and Middle States, convinced
many that the scheme of African Colonization
merited their decided and earnest support
The effects of these impressive statements
were manifest at the time, and we doubt not
VIII be permanent.
'sThe Schooner Swift left New Orleans on
the 28th of April, with forty three emigrants,
recently emancipated, mostly from the State
of Mississippi, and arrived (after long pas
sage Of 46 days) at Monrovia on the 7th of
July. Among these were about twenty
slaves liberated for Colonization by Edward
B. Randolph, ofLowndes county Miss. The
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Mississippi Colonization Society," assisted by
an advance of $s25OO by the liberal executor
(James Railey, Esq.) Of the estate of the late
James Green, by whose will provision was
made for the manumission of part of his
slaves {26i number, whose removal to the
Colony.Was mentioned in the last Report and
the application of a generous portion Of his
large estate to aid the object Of the Society
A majority of these emigrants were young, ac-
customed to labor on plantations nthe South,
and we'll furnished with the utensils and stores
necessary to comfortable settlement, and
the successful cultivation of the soil, in the
Colony. They are represented as intelligent,
moral and industrious, several of them adorn-
ing by their lives their professions of chris
tian faith, and all as inclined before their de-
parture from our shores to organize them
selves into Temperance Society OIL the pin
ciples official abstinence from ardent spirits.
''A Select company of emigrants is now
preparing to sail in the Brig Rondout, char
tered by the Society, from Wilmington, N. C.
These people are from Virginia and N. Caro-
lima, and among those from the latter state is
Lewis Sheridan, "a free man ofcolour, of respec-
liability, education, and property, who goes
accompanied by his family and a number of
his relatives, with the means and the view of
devoting his time and exertions TO the devel-
opement and improvement Of the agricultural
resources Of Liberia.
''There will also go in this vessel, eighteen
coloured persons, consisting Of men, women &
children, late the property of DR.. Shuman, of
Stokes county, N. c., who not only generous
ly manumitted them that they might go to A.
trica, but also gave them one thousand dollars
in money to be employed in their comfortable
establishment in the Colony of Liberia.
"The Brig Luna, Capt Hallet, with eighty
four emigrants, fifty of whom were slaves re-
Gently liberated Con condition of their remov-
ing to the Colony in Kentucky and Tennes-
see, sailed from New York On the 9Th of yuly
and arrived at Monrovia on the 18th of Au-
gust, This expedition was fitted out under
the direction of the Auxiliary Colonization
Society of New York City; and the emigrants
proceeded forthwith to the settlement found
ed by the joint endeavors Of that Society and,
the Young Mems Auxiliary Society of Penn
sylvania, at Bassa Cove. Of those who libe-
rated slaves that they might embark in this
vessel, Mr.. G. W. McElroy, the Jealous and
Agent of the New York Society,
who was employed for several weeks in col
Letting these slaves and other emigrants to-
gether, and conducting them TO the port of
embarkation records the following names, with
the number manumitted by each: From Ken
Marks, one; George Halen,
Esq, eleven; Thos. Hopkins, Esq, six; Ben
jamin Major, Esq, eleven; Colonel Andrew
ten. From Tennessee-Mr. Alex
ander Donelson, eleven; Mr.. Peter Fisher,
six. 1t is to be regretted that the influence
of the enemies Of the Society at Pittsburg was
powerful to induce fourteen of
these slaves, liberated by Messrs. Donelson
and Fisher to leave the company on their way
to New York, although 800 dollars had been
placed at the disposal of the Agent for the be-
neit of those of Mr.. Donelson, after their
arrival in the Colony, and 400 for those of
Mr. Fisher Ofthis company nearly all were
members of Temperance Society, most of
them were by profession christians, and sew
eral preachers of the Gospel"
Mr.. ZAccHEUs Collins LEE, of Balti-
more, Maryland, offered the following resolu-
ton:
RESOLVED, That the friends of this socie-
ty are urged, by powerful considerations Of
patriotism and humanity, to exert their influ-
ence to form public sentiment which shall
sanction the application of the treasure of the
nation to effect, on a large scale, the plan of
this Society and that it be recommended to
the friends ofthe cause throughout the Union
to solicit for this plan the patronage Of their
State Legislatures.
We subjoin an eloquent extract from the
speech of Mr.. Lee in support of his resolu-
ton:
Twenty years ago, Mr.. President,
a few wise and good men assembled in
a private apartment of this city land laid
in silence and comparative obsctlrity
the foundations Of this Society. They
had seen and felt for years, with alarm