Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-09-25

in the United States having skins vari-
ously colored from dark black down to |
the slightest Johnsonian tinge; and !
whereas God hath made of one blood all !
nations of negroes for to dwell in Edna. !
Liberia and Bassa Cove; and whereas
the aforesaid 100000 persons are found
at large in this Christian and republican
country-many of them being in a state
of fearful and dangerous proximity 10 the
peculiar institutions of our slavehoIdinp
brethren; and whereas the histories Of
Egypt, Saint Domingo and the West In
dies clearly show that coIored men are an
inferior race, so debased as scarcely to be
reached By the heavenly Light and
whereas the brilliant success of African
colonization for the last twenty years, as
displayed in The removal of 5000 negroes
from this republic, " opening a drain for
the increase beyond the means OF pro6ta-
BILE employment lin the planting Of re-
publican institutions in Africa governed
by board of managers who are Ameri-
can slavebolders-in the surprising thrift
of agriculture, commerce, and manufac-
lures,-in the opening of extensive mar
kets in which American produce and pro-
visions are sold at an advance-o of only 200
per cent. on their original cost in the u.
States; and whereas Upper Canada, ia
maica and Trinidad are very ineligible
and unpromising parts of the earth !. for
the relief and improvement of the colored
race; = and whereas we deeply share in
the yearning sympathIes of those pious
Christians, Henry A. Wise, Henry Clay,
and William Winans, who desire to send
missionary laborers to benighted Africa
and put an end to the wicked machina-
| tons of the incendiary abolitionists, and
cooperate with the Government of the
United States in their laudable efforts 10
put an end 10 the African slave trade, sal
ready efectually suppressed for 800 miles
| along the coast" &c. &c.
If the above preamble should be object
ed to on the ground that the portico is lar
ger than the house, we reply that it has
the advantage OF combining nearly all the
orders of colonization architecture. When
Lord Dexter published a volume, he con-
sidered that there would be a diversity of
tastes as to the punctuation. He accord
ingly ordered his printer to fiji up one
page at the end with commas, semicolons.
in:errogations, &C., leaving each reader
to pepper his dish to suit himself So we
would prefix to the constitutions ofcoloni.
cation societies the whole medley of mo-
tives urged by shareholders and their nor
thern dupes in support of the system OF
expulsion.
Butlhe Windsor Society. it would seem,
is got up on new and improved model
Las distinct, indeed, from the American
Society in its declared objects, as the As
Quincy Mill Dam Company. The Amer
lcan Society, In It's constitution, declares
that :" The object to which its attention is
to be e1etusiceIy directed, is to promote
and execute plan for what civiliz-
| ing and evangelizing Africa stopping
the slave trade2 benefttine either bond or
free, in or out ofthe United States None
of these. But TO "execute plan for COL
oNIzING with their consent) the free peo-
pie OF color residing in our country in AZ
RIGA, or such other place, as Congress shall
| deem most eXpedient"
The naked and exclusive object ofthe
parent society has been found to be i'll
adapted to the meridian OF Vermont
Hence the agent finds it convenient, ia en-
listing new recruits, to erect another plat
form. What better is this than a spious
fraud, TO raise money under the auspices
OF society protesting various apparently
benevolent objects, aud then cast the funds
50 raised, into the treasury of another so.
ciety protesting an object totally difTeren,
and distinct? The evangeizing of Afri-
ca is an object foreign to the Am. Coloni.
nizailon Society-as much so as the build
ing OF Notifications, or the growing oil
Fsilk. James G. Birnev, when its agent,
stated publicly at New Orleans that the
object OF the Society was TO render slave
property more secure by sending from
the country the free people Of color whose
residence here tended to disaffect the
slaves. Other agents of the society have
I repeatedly stated the same thing at the
south, though at the north, different Ian.
guage has been held. The Managers
themselves, in the Society's I'd Report,
page 9, declare that the colonization OF
the tree people of color will render the
Stace t0aO remains in America, more obe-
dent more honest, consequently more
useful TO has MASTER Such sentiments.
however, would not De relished in Yer.
mont. Colonization to he made tolerabIe
here must be dressed up iu a full suit Of
new garments. Hence, the model societa
Just born ut Windsor.
And then the principles upon which
the Windsor Society bases its operations
are PEACE and TEMPERANCE in aid OF
religion This will sound strangely 70
those who will call to mind the sanguina-
ry conflicts in which the colonists and the
| natives have heen enoaUed with scarcaI,