The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-07-27
Colonization---EIliot Cresson.

COlOnization---EIliot Cresson.
We learn by a notice in the Vermont Chroni-
ice, duly signed by the President of the Vermont
Colonization Society, that the redoubable Mr.. FL
liot Cresson, "a gentleman of great respectable
ty," who formally presented the project of re-
building Pennsylvania Hall as public nuisance,
is about to revisit Vermont to give information
on the important subject of African Colonization, :"
&c.
Information! Why Mr.. Cresson, the people
Of Vermont are already in possession OF quite TOO
much information on this subject to allow of their
being duped by the Janus-faced abomination.-
The intelligent and phlanthropic citizens of this
state have found out a more excellent way Of ap-
propriating their charities than for the purpose Of
shipping Americans to the Shareholders Botany
Bay If colored Americans must be sent out of
the country, in mercy send them to Upper Cana
da to join the 10000 selfemancipated men and
women, who have run the gauntlet thro' the free
North to Victoria's dominions! There, they may
enjoy in reality, what has only been held out in
prospect by the gubernatorial spectators of Bassa
Cove. Or, what would be still better, let them
be furnished with the means of removal to Anti
qua or Jamaica, where they are wanted to work
out the experiment.
We here throw in an item of Conformation"
from the Society's official magazine 1t is from
the pen of his X L N c Governor Pinney, who
has figured as a champion of Colonization in
Pennsylvania for some time past
Extract Of a letter from Mr.. Pinney to Tie Sccre-
tary Of the Western Foreign Missionary Board.
"The Colonists are very ignorant of every
thing about the interior; except Of the tribes along
the coast, nothing at all is known, and of them
little but their manner of traffic. Nothing has
been done FOR the natives hitherto, by the colo
nists, except TO educate a few who were in their
families in the capacity of servants. The natives
are, as to wealth and intellectual cultivation, re2a-
ted 10 the co1onists as the negro Of america is to
The wtite man and this fact, added to their mode
of dress, which consists of nothing usually, but a
handkerchief around the Joins, leads to the same
distinction as exists in America between colorS
A colonis Of any dye land many there are of
darker hue than the Vey, or Dey, or Kroo, or
Bassa,) would, if at all respectable, think himself
degraded by marrying native. The natives are
in fact menials, Il mean those in town. and sor-
ry am | to be obliged to say, from my limited OBJ
servation, it is evident that as little effort is made
by the colonists to elevate them, as is usually
made by the higher classes in the United States
to better The lower. "-Atiic0m RepoS. vol. l. p 60.
The above needs no comment. In conclusion,
we ask the attention of honest colonizatonists to
the following interrogatories, originally PROFOUND
ed to the public by Charles Stuart:
!. How long will it take to christanize heather
nations, by sending the most corrupt, depraved &
abandoned people of the United States, as mis-
sionaries to them?
2. If benevolence to Africa be our motive, can
we send the a0orSt part Of our population thther
3. If benevoence to ourselves be our motive,
can send away the best of that acorSt part, lea
wing the acorSt without any leacen Of good, to pu
trify and rankle among US?
a. If benevolence to that worst part, be our mo-
tive can we send them away from our liberty and
our light, and our laws, and our power, and our
benevoence, to foreign, uncviized, and heather
land
s. If qualification of prejudice be our motive
how much better is it, to yield to prejudice than
to cruelty it ito fatter, than to give it no quar-
ter?
s. If it be true, that every sinner must repent
Or perish, what must be the fate of those who
strive to put away the annoyance produced by an
evil, without repentng of the sin which produces
t?