Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1839-09-13


black man, that il has won its way TO the
love, and confidence, and gratitude OF benev
client proprietors-so that the Society has
from its very commencement been distress
ed by offers of cpaiion--distressed be
cause its funds have not enabled il TO relieve
q 1.-THE ofthe cases presented. There are a
this moment, between one s. two thousand ap
picants for the privilege of colonization, ant
thousands more are in state Of training ioi
the same purpose, and the late venerabl,
President Monroe assured the writer, that i
adequate funds were possessed by the Colo
nization Society, ho could procure 10000
slaves by voluntary emancipation in his ma
tive State alone. Each years development
ofthe ample resources OF the colonies for Sc
curing the welfare of the colonists, and o.
their importance to the commerce and man
ufactures of this country, will increase the
tide Of emigration, until with due did from
the national treasury, the stream shall ex.
coed the annual increase, and then rapid
decrease in the existing total colored popula.
tion will ensue This know will be deni.
ed--but appeal to facts as the best data for
my conclusions. Let us then remember that
BY official returns. the emigration from the
United Kingdom was 10000 last year. and
that during the year 1886, nearly 100000
emigrants were landed at New York alone
And have not our poor blacks quite as many
reasons for seeking an asylum in that grow
ing realm--so emphatically their own-from
the increasing severity Of Southern laws, and
horrors Of Northern mobs2 Will not this be
the more extensively felt. as these African
States open mp new channels 10 profitable
ind NATL tb<, 4.
$4,000 per annum-which was the average
yearly increase ofcolored population during
the ten years from 1920 to 1902 And
when we recollect that they would, under
our system, be waited thither free Of expense
10 themselves, there is every reasonto believe
their number would soon equal the British
emigration, which is in most cases at the
proper cost ofthe parties themselves. II on
ly that point was reached, an access OF 10000
per annum would accrue beyond the pres
enl natural increase. and thus create an ac-
tual dminution in our colored population
augmented too, by the circumstance that the
emigrants would generally be Of the young,
the active and the procrealing class-while
the relative disproportion ofthe races would
be rapidly felt through The grea, increase Of
the whites. Nor ought il to be forgotten that
it has been proposed TO introduce into all fu.
ture acts OF emancipation, clause emitting
the slave to the proceeds of the last year OF
his servitude as fund TO establish him in
Liberia, so that the colonies schen their re-
sources are more fully Developed. may re-
ceive any reasonable number of emigrants
without further cost to the benevolent insii-
tutIons now engaged in laying their founda
tions.
am well aware that it has been most
g.atuitously and absurdly asserted, "that our
whole marine is insufficient TO convey to Az
lea this annual increase I" And vet AZ, 600
tons ofshippng, only making two ships each
year, and allowing each emigrant six times
the space allowed on board the savers-or
one ton and half each-wou'd accommo.
date the whole What then shall we say to
those who assert that the wealth ofthis great
nation, with surplus often millions annual
ly, is unable 10 carry 10 Africa one third as
many Of the offsprings Of oppression as q
band Of pirates and outlaws each year drag
away in chains from her shores2 A late
writer in Blackwood's Magazine that
no less than 100000 slaves were shipped in
lS3l-Mr Walsh. that $4,000 were landed at
Rio Janeiro. dnoe in 1928. We NAV, then,
eventually colonize without difficulty 100000
annually--a number that would in thirty
yearstransier our whole colore3 population
to Africa, by an outlay of millions OF dol.
lars yearly;a sum which the weekly contr-
button ofthree cents by one-seventh of our
people would supply or, if voted as meas
ure of justice for the many wrongs received
at our hnnds by poor Africa and her chill.
dren, would afford safe mode of depicting
our national treasury Those who DENY the
possibility OF thus exhausting our colored
race because the emigration from Europe 10
the u S. has not diminished the population
OF the old world. seem 10 forget that while
this drain upon her l60 millions merely
give relief to an overburdcned SOIL and SINH
lar number taken each year from caste on
ly one sixtielh as numerous, must soon trans
fer the entire mass TO Africa.
Other considerations might be presented,
highly calculated TO incite rs to the prosecu.
lion ofths great measure of national retribu.
ton; buteroogh has perhaps been already ad-
vancedlo dispe the donbts expressed, and TO
rally every friend of religion and ofhumanily
every friend of peace on earth and good viii
towards men ;around the standard Of COL
nNiZAirION. Ifso Africa will soon be
numbered among the civilized nations of the
ear'n--her sons. no longer sold as beasts Of
burden, may sit under their own vine and fie
tree, with none TO make them afraid--nnd
America. relieved from her heaviest bur
cen,,her darkest stain--proeIam to the
world that all her sons are freel os
ELLIOT CRESSON.
Brattleboro Sept. /.
The Hon. Amos Kendall, POSTMASTER