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

mighty effort Is making, at the present time
to gather up and revviy the scattered ashes of this
dead and annihiated institution in Vermont. The
effort will be idle. Nevertheless it may be we'll to
put those ON their guard who might otherwise be
liable to imposition from SO arch deceiyer as FL
hot Cresson, the agent now employed among the
Green Mountains in that cause. When first saw
the notice of Cressons appearance in Vermont, l
purposed to give him and his cause fair show
ing up, from my own resources. But just as was
about to sit down to the task, l opened the Voice
of Freedom and found the following, which con-
tains SO many ideas that were in my own mind, and
some that were not, brother Knapp will allow me
to copy. and accept my thanks for the favor:
Elliot CressOn at Windsor.
Mr.. Cresson delivered three lectures in
the court house al Windsor last week, on
colonization. An anti-slavery friend who
was present at the second lecture, repre-
sentS that the attendance was respectable
as to numbers, but the performance did
not meet his expectations. Mr.. c.. was
very free in his dcnunciations of abolition
and Its friends, and as our informant
thinks, did not gain any converts to his
scheme of expulsion, by his second ad.
dress, whatever may be said of the rest.
AT the conclusion of his speech on that
evening, MIR. c. proposed the organiza-
lIon OF a society, but when the question
was put to Vote, not solitary hand was
raised F! The Chronicle, however, brings
us an account of Esquire Cresson's labors
IN Windsor, by which it would seem that
" at the conclusion of the last lecture, the
windsor Colonization Society was organ
AS Esquire Cresson proposes to spend
some time 10 this State, and as the Wind
sor movement may be regarded as sort
OF sample operation for other towns, We
may be pardoned for just noticing the in
iant organization, as presented to our view
10 the colonization organ of the State.-
The Constitution specifies the objects OF
the Society in the following terms:
81. To provide for civilizinp and
Christianizing Africa, through the direct
lnstrumentallty of colored emigrants from
the United States.
2. To promote, by all legal and con.
stitutional means, the intellectual and
moral improvement of the African race -
The principles upon which it is to aid
operations abroad are stated in another
article:
The principles upon which the Soci.
ETY. bases its operations, are peace and
temperance in aid of religion-dissuasion
from warfare on the part of The colonists.
and the prohibition of the acquisition Of
territory, except by fair purchase from the
native princes and proprietors of the soil .
The child bears resemblance 10 its
parent, In this, that it is born into the
world without head-that is, it has no
preamble, purporting to set forth the rea.
sons, the why and whereas. This is an
omission by no means to be excused, and
which we trust will be carefully supnlied
If another colonization society Should ey-
er be formed in the Mountain State
True, it may be a little difficult to frame a
preamble assigning any satisfactory rea.
sons tor colonization; but, that there may