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were possessed by the Colonization Society, he

were possessed by the Colonization Society, ne
could procure 10000 slaves by voluntary eman-
cipation in his native State alone. Each year
Development of the ample resources OF the colo
MES for securing the welfare OF the colonlss, anu
OF their importance to the commerce and manu-
lectures OF this country, will increase the TIDE OF
emigration, until, with due aid from the nauonai
treasury, the stream shall exceed the annual IN
crease, and then rapid decrease in the existing
total of colored population will ensue. TINS
know will be denied; but appeal to facts as the
best data for my conclusions. Let us then remem
Der that, by official returns, the emigration from
the United Kingdom 10000 last year, ana
that, during the year 1885, nearly 100, 900 emf
grants were landed in New York alone And
have not our poor blacks quite as many reasons
for seeking an asylum in that growing ream--so
emphatically their own--from the increasing Sc
verify of Southern laws, and the horrors OF
Northern mobs! Will not this be the more ex-
tensively felt, as these African States open up
new channels to profitable industry, until the emf
grafton shall reach $4,000 per annum, which was
the average yearly increase of the whole coored
population during the ten years from 1871 TO
1890? And when we recollect that they would,
under our system, be waited thther free OF ex-
pense to themselves there is every reason to be-
lieve their numbers would soon equal the British
emigration, which is, in most cases, at the proper
cost of the parties themselves. If only that point
was reached, an access of 10000 per annum
would accrue beyond the present natural increase,
and thus create an actual diminuton i'll our colored
opulation--augmented too, by the circumstance
that the Migrants would generally be Of the young,
the active, and the procreating class-whlle the
relative disproporton of the races would be
rapidly felt through the great increase of the
whites. Nor ought it to be forgotten that it has
been proposed to introduce into all future acts OF
emancipation, clause emitting the slave to the
proceeds of the last year of his servitude, as a
fund to establish him in LIBERIA so that the CO.
lonies, arhen their resources are more fully
developed, may receive any reasonable number of
emigrants, without further cost to the benevolent
institutions now engaged in laying their founda-
tons. .~
am well aware that it has been most gratuitous-
ly and absurdly asserted, that our whole marine
is insufficient to convey to Africa this annual in
crease!" And yet $4,000 tons of shipping only
making two trips each year, and allowing each
emigrant six times the space allowed on board the
commodate the whole! What then shall we say
to those who assert that the wealth of this great
nation, with surplus of ten millions annually, is
unable to carry to Africa one-thrd as many of the
offspring of oppression as band of pirates and
outlaws each year drag away in chains from her
shores? A late writer in Backwoods Magazine
asserts that no less than 100000 slaves were
shipped in ls3l-Walsh, that $4,000 were land
ed at Rio Janeiro alone in 1923. We may, then,
eventually colonize, without difficulty, 100000
annually-a number that would in thirty years
transfer our whole colored population to Africa
by an outlay of three millions Of dollars yearly
sum which weekly contribution of three cents by
one-seventh Of our people would supply; or, if
voted as measure of justice for the many wrongs
received at our hands by poor Africa and her
children, would afford safe mode of depletion,
our national treasury.
Other considerations mi ght be presented, highly
calculated to incite us to the prosecution of this
great measure of national retrbuton; but enough
has perhaps been already advanced to dispel the
doubts expressed, and TO rally every friend of re-
ligion and humanity, every friend of peace on
earth and good will towards men, around the
standard of COLONIZATLON.-If so, Africa
will soon be numbered among the civilized nations
of the earth--her sons, no longer sold beasts of
burden, may sit under theirow vine and fig tree
with none to make them afraid and America, re-
lieved from her heaviest burden-her darkest stain
proclaim to the world that all her son sare free!
ELLIOTT ericsson.
fremont Hotel, Dec. 10.