South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-03-25

senators, and requested their representatives
4 in Congress to promote, in the general gov
eminent, measures for removing such free per-
sons of color as are DESTROYS OF emigrating to
! Africa, and the Legislatures of New York,
Pennsylvania and Maryland, made large APP
preparations for the settlement and support Of
colonies there. Does he know that this be-
nevolent institution has always been sustain
ed by our wisest statesmen, our greatest PHI
lanthropists?. Is he ignorant of the fact, that
such men as Judge Washington, Monroe, Ma
olson, were Presidents, in their day, of the A
merican Colonization Society and that Henry
| Clay holds that office now land frequently en-
ploys his mighty talents and influence in its
| defence and III the promotion of its interests
Let me ask him too, if he knows that Chief
Justice Marshall, whose name is alike above
all praise and reproach, was the patron and
| the President OF our State Society' Ii he is
not appraised Of these facts, then can account
| for the singular position he has taken! But
| if these are facts which are familiar to his
mind, and if he is acquainted with the history
of African Colonization, as it has been CARL
ed on in this country, he exhibits degree and
| kind of eiirontery, which |, by no means,
envy, and from which would ever hope to be
| delivered.
ssAntifanatic" CONSTITUTES the application made
| by the Colonization Society to the Legisla-
ture, into design on the part of its friends, to
relieve themselves of the burden of private
contributions. And pray, tell me, Is any one
compelled to contribute to this institution
Cannot every man do, Just as he pleases, in
this respect, and if any one does not like to
bestow his fayors for such an object, is henot
perfectly at liberty TO withhold them But
the author Of this communication says, that
the Legislature has no rigL. to tax the people
for benevolent purposes In the name ofcom-
mon sense, what is the Legislature. fit is not
taxing the people for the best and 1nest be-
nevolent of purposes, when 1t apTroprlates
the public funds for such objects as the edu-
cation of poor children, the building Of poor
houses for the good Of the helpless, the cree
ton of asyIums for the deaf and dumb, and
lunatic hospitals! And if the people who are
thus taxed, ask the Legislature, who have the
disposition of the public revenue, to apply
SMALL portion Of that revenue Tor removing
to Africa, from our country, class OF degra-
ded beings, that are, and always must be
HERE destitute Of self Prospect, pest to the
community, and real injury to the slaves OF
the southern States are they asking any thing
more than they have right to ask viii our
MOST WISE s. very philosophic ''Antifanatie'
answer this question?
tits further declared by the author Of this
article that the Colonization Society is found
sertion; there is not a single particle OF truth.
It is an assumption that is entirely gratultous
for which he has no fact, mo authority mo proof.
The constitution of the American Colonlza-
ton Society reads thus: Art. 2. "The OBJ
iect to which its attention is to be EXcLU-
sIvELY directed, is to promote and execute
plan for colonizing, with their own consent,
the free people Of color, residing IN our coun-
try, in Africa OF such other place as Congress
shall deem most expedient And the Society
shall act, to effect this object, in cooperation
with the general government and such OF the
States as may adopt regulations upon the sub
jeet;"
1t must be plain to any one, even OF no more
discernment than "Antilanatic," that the Co.
lonization Society is no way and in no degree
allied to Abolition. The truth is, that the Co.
lonization Society find5 in Abolition more
inyeterate enemy than in sAntifanatic, Il his
MIGHTY production. Abolitionists, like the
writer in the Wing, are actively engaged IN
efforts to extinguish the Colonization society
and if they succeed, "Antifanatic" VIII nave
the pleasure of, at least, knowing that ne mas
co-operated with them in this work of des-
truction It has always been, and continues
to be an object of these incendiarles to arrest
the Colonization Society in the prosecution OF
its benevolent plan, for the simple reason that
the fundamental principles of the two instltu'
tions are directly at variance with each other.
Abolitionists are persuading, with too much
success, the free people of color to remain IN
this country, by holding out the deluslve pro-
mise. that they will soon be elevated to an e.
quality with the descendants Of the European
race, and the enjoyment OF all the clVll,soclai
and religious privileges of life. Fhe Coloaf-
cation Society, on the contrary, whilst it re-
minds them that they are so many out-cast ex-
lies, slaves without masters, depressed IN
moral, as wen as physical sense, erects tor
them an asylum on the Western coast OF Al,
rica where they viii have M naGe ob ana s Gea.
litionists wish to abolish slavery immediate
" without regard to consequences, either to
the European or Africa race. The Coloniza-
~ coo;dtu has noth;np to do with slavery as