The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1839-09-21
Elliot Cresson at Windsor.

Mr.. Crcsson delivered three lectures in thu
court house at Windsor last week, on colonization
An anti-savery friend who was present at thu
second lecture, represents that the attendance was
respectable as to numbers, but the performance
did not meet his expectations. Mr. G. was very
free in his denunciatons ofabolon and its friends
and as our informant thinks, did not gain any con
verts to his scheme of expulsion by his secont
address, whatever may be said of the rest. At the
conclusion of his speech on that evening, Mr.. G
proposed the organization of society, but wher
the question was put to vote, not solitary hand
was raised The Chronicle, however, brings us
an account of Esquire Cresson's labors in Wind
sor by which it would seem that at the conclu.
sion of the last lecture, the Windsor Colonization
Society was organized"
AS Esquire Cresson proposes to spend some
time in this state, and as the Windsor movement
may be regarded as sort of sample operation for
other towns, we may be pardoned for just noticing
the infant organization, as presented to our view
in the colonization organ of the state. The Con-
stituion specifies the objects of the Society in the
following terms:
IL. To provide for civizing and Christian
izing Africa, through the direct nstrumentality Of
colored emigrants from the United States.
9. TO promote, by all legal and constional
means, the intellectual and moral improvement
of the African race"
The principles upon which it is to aid opera
toins abroad are stated in another article:-
The principles upon which the Society bases
its operations, are peace and temperance in aid
of religion-dissuasion from warfare on the part
ton Of territory, except by fair purchase from the
native princes and proprietors of the SOIL"
The child bears resemblance to its parent in
this, that it is born into the world without head
that is, it has no preamble, purporting to set
forth the reasons, the why and whereas. This
is an omission by no means to be excused, and
which we trust will be carefully supplied if an
other colonization society should ever be formed
in the Mountdin State. True, it may be little
difficult TO frame preamble assigning any salts
factory reasons for colonization; but, that there
may be no lack on this behalf in future, we will
FOR once volunteer as craftsman. Take the follow.
ing:
Whereas, there are 100000 persons in the
United States having skins variously colored from
dark black down to the slightest Johnsonan tnge
and whereas God hath made of one blood all ma
tons of negroes for to dwell in Edna, Liberia
and Bassa Cove ; and whereas the aforesaid 4OO,-
900 persons are found at large in this Christian
and republican country--many of them being in
a state of fearful and dangerous proximity to the
peculiar institutions of our slaveholding brethren
and whereas the histories of Egypt, Saint Do
nngo and the West Indies clearly show that COL
ored menare an inferior race, sodebased as scarce
y to be reached by the heavenly light; and
whereas the brilliant success of African colonial
ion for the last twenty years, as displayed in the
emoval of 5000 negroes from this republic, "open-
ng a drain for the increase beyond the means of
profitable empoyment'-in the planting of repu6-
acan institutions in Africa governed by board
If managers who are American slaveholders-in
he surprising thrift ofagriculture, commerce, and
It's in which American produce and provisions are
old at an advance of only 200 per cent. on their
riginal cost in the United States and whereas
Upper Canada, Jamaica and Trinidad are very in
ligible and unpromsing parts of the earth for
he relief and improvement of the colored race y
nd whereas we deeply share in the yearning SYM
athies Of those pous Christians, Henry A. Wise,
Henry Clay, and William Winans, who desire
send missionary laborers to benighted Africa
nd put an end to the wicked Vaccinations of the I
lcendary abolitionists, and cooperate with the
Government of the United States in their lauda- +
lie efforts 10 put an end to the African slave trade,
already efectually suppressed for 300 miles f
long the coast" &c. &c. t
If the above preamble should be objected to on +
lie ground that the portico is larger than the 0
ouse, we reply that it has the advantage of COM c
ming nearly all the orders of colonization archi-
cture. When Lord Dexter published a volume, Il
e considered that there would be q diversity of h
stes as 70 the punctuation. He accordingly or n
cred his printer to fill up one page at the end u