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

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Objects as the Ascuney Mill Dam Company
The American Society, in its constitution, de-
clares that The object to which its attention is to
be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute
plan for'-what? civilizng and evangelizing
Africa! stopping the slave trade ! benefitting Ell
Their bond or free, in or out of the United States
None OF these. But to execute a plan for COLO
MIXING with their consenD the free people of col
or residing in our country in Africa, or such other
place. as Congress shall deem most expedient"
The naked and exclusive" object of the parent
society has been found to be -adapted to the me-
venient, in enlisng new recruits, to erect anoth-
er platform. What better is this than a pious
fraud" to raise money under the auspices of a So
ciety protesting various apparently benevolent OBJ
jects, and then cast the funds, raised, into the
treasury of another society protesting an object
totally different and distinct? The evangelizng
of Africa is an object foreign to the Am. Col. So
cietyas much so as the building of Notifications,
or the growing of silk. James G. Birney, 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 dis
affect the slaves. Other agents ofthe society have
repeatedly stated the same thing at The south, tho
at the NORTH a different language has been held.
The Managers themselves, in the Society's Cd
Report, page 8, declare that the colonization of
the free people of color will render the Slaue acho
remains in America, more obedient, more honest,
consequently more useful TO his MASTER" Such
sentiments however, would not be relished in YER
mont. Colonization to be made toerable here
must be dressed up in full suit of new garments.
Hence, the model society just born at Windsor.
And then the principles upon which the Wind
sor Society bases its operations, are "PEAcE and
TEMPERANCE in aid of religion" This will sound
strangely to those who will call to mind the san
culinary conflicts in which the coonists and the
natives have been engaged, with scarcely years
intermission, from the beginning of the colonies
down to the latest dates from Bassa Cove In the
Liberia Herald of March g. 1882, was advertised
by c. M. Waring and F. Taylor 500 kegs of
powder, 500 muskets, $50 cutlasses, 10 bags off
shot, 10 puncheons of Rum 2puncheons of Bran
dy," &c. In the same newspaper of Sept. I, 1882,
G. M. Waring advertises 60 dozen spear-pointed
knives, 10000 musket fints, 1877 gallons rum,
$50 kegs of powder, l40 muskets," &c. This Mr.
Waring was at the time preacher of the gospel
The rum and powder trade have been extensive
ly prosecuted by the colonists. In several pur-
chases of lands made by the colonists, rum
has been paid to natives by the barrel. The
editor of the Liberia Herald in letter dated
November IS, 1929, says tobacco, rum, pipes,
cloth, iron pots, Powder and Shot are considered
the currency of the country" There is reason
to hope that better currency has since come in
to use; but to claim that peace and temperance
are principles peculiar to colonization, is to rife
with the public.