Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-11-06
States as may adopt regulations upon the

According, then, to the Society's consti- Il
alien, il il TO be devoted, Exclusively to
olonIxlng free people of color Not J"
word about slaves or slavery, in the consti- - y
0tion. Ii is the American Society for ~
tie Free People of Color Of the S
Uaited States"
The Society has been SHAREHOLDERS v
concern, from its inception to the present
hour, and will be, 10 the latest period of its :,
existence. When it is out Of the hands of /.
Shareholders, it will be out of being. 9th ,
ers belong to the Society, and labor 10 pro-
cure funds for it, and to aid on its opera ;
tons. But these are all lean minority
slaves to their own prejudice against the
colored man, and cats-paws in the hands of
shareholders. All the Presidents of the
Society have been Shareholders, and large
majority of the Board of Managers. The |
first President, Bushrod Washington, while
he was President, selected "a Of his slaves !
and sold them for $4,000! The accoun,
of The transaction may be found in Niles
Register for September, 1921. The second
President, Charles Carroll, Of Carollton,
died and left about 1000 slaves in bondage
The third President, James Madison, died
and left his slaves in bondage! The Pres
ident incumbent, Henry Clay, is a slave
holder, and has placed himself at the head
| of tho hostility tn ahnlition
AS further proof that it is shareholders
affair-not TO injure slavery but to guard it
D lake the following exlracts-they being a
r. few only of scores that might be adduced.-
: They are taken, it will be seen, from the
: Society's Annual Reports, from the Afri-
t can Repository, the Society's Monthly off
/ cial organ, and from other Colonization doc
# ments.
II "What greater pledge can we give fol-
!, the moderation and safety of our measure.
than our own interests as Shareholders
: and the ties that bind us to the slavehold
ing communities to which we belong p
IS speech of Mr.. Key.-Eleventh Annua
" Report.l
j. THE earnestness with which the LIE
it gislature [of Virginia. prosecuted thei
a. design [of coonizing the free blacks.
may be inferred from the fact, that tn
= Executive was requested to adopt meas
J ures of the same character with those Jus
e, mentioned, at three several times an,erio
OF to 1906. But all these, it should be oh
&c served, were private proceedings; an
no the injunction Of secrecy has not been r,
:. mOued, SO far as we know, TO this day
90 excepting as to the fact that such proceed
ings took place. The first public expires
sion of sentiment upon the subject of co
he onization was also made By the same bod
an This was In Dec. 1916" 9Th
as SYSTEM ORIGINATED IN THE WISDOM O
:. THE ANCIENT DOMINION, [OLD VII
GINA. 1t was generously countenance
~ by Georgia in lis earliest stages. Mar
On land has done more for it than all the OF
tic er States. Kentucky and Tennessee ha,
la declared themselves ready to support an
eff legitimate interposition of the Gener
N. Government in It's favor. Louisiana ar
= Mississippi are beginning to act vigorou
- Iy."-[North American Review, for Jul
ne 1921
ne "The second objection may be resol
W ed into this !: that the Society, under Il
we specious pretext of removing a vicious al
we noxious population, is secretly underm
res ing the rights of private property. Til
ho is the objection expressed in its full fore
and if your memorialists could for m
ment believe it to be true in point of fac
nd they would never, Shareholders as tn
he are, have associated themselves togeth
de- for the purpose of cooperating with Il
ate Parent Society; and far less would The
/ have appeared in the character in whiC
=. they now do, before the Legislative bodi
.o' of saveholding State" Memorial
TN the Auxiliary Colonization Society
So Powhatan, to the Legislature of Virgni
w Twelfth Annual Report.l
nth Nothing has contributed more TO r
tard the operations of the Colonization S
led ciety than the mistaken notion that it i
he terferes directly with slavery. This o
lection is rapidly vanishing away. al
en- many OF the slaveholding States are
ro- coming efficient supporters of the nation
ny society" -[From Tract issued by Il
o - Massachusetts Colonization Society
EN- 1881, for gratuitous distributionl
let, Your memorialists refer with con
th dence 20 the course they have pursued,
ne the prosecution of their objects for nh
the years past, TO sheW-that 1t is possIbl
o." without danger or alarm, TO carry on SUE
3d. an operation, notwithstanding its suppo
ed relation to the subject of slavery, al
on that they have not been regardless, in ar
cle- OF their measures, of what was due to Il
An state of society in which they live. tn
the are, themselves, chiefly Shareholders, a,
TIT live with all the ties of life binding the
to to a slayehoLding community ,=[Afem