The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1847-09-29
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management and removal, which need specify. II in
making this charge have exac,ed than deserved
| am content to abide the reproach i
The commissioners appointed by the court to consu the
negroes arendy mentioned were directed also 10 scer
tain to what free State colony they preferred remove
They all elected TO go TO Boston, except about half dozen
who elected Tor themselves and their children go Ohio
Acr the disastrous experiment of settling Mr. Randoph's
negroes In Ohio, removal that State was regarded by
Mr. Selden as out of the question: and it was afterwards
understood that the negroes all copcured the desire TO
to boston, Accordingly the schooner Thomas ii. Thomp.
son. Capt Wixon chartered TO take them TO that ty
al the price OF four hundred dollars for sixty five provisions
to be furnished by Mr. Seldenhe vessel carrying besides
the slaves very nearly her usual quantity of freight
the Boston editor would have believed that his fine
specimen Of Cape Cod Ya,kee instead of making
handsome profit by the job, received these negroes
board out of pure philanthropy and took them Boston
lat considerable Inconvenience TO HIMSELF, for other
reason than to rid them of their troubles To what
this Slime specimen was moved by his philanthropy may,
in degree, be inferred from single fact One of the
slaves who entitled to have his expenses paid by
the executor, desiring to go with the rest, applied
captain to allow him to go without additional charge,
Mr. Selden to furnish provisions; but the captains
love of money too strong for his philanthropy and
made pay six dollars for his passage. Indeed
might mention other proofs not less conclusive that Capt
Wixon disposed to make few sacrifices of interest to
philanthropy any other Yankee" in all Cape Cod.
The commissioners who consulted the slaves-Wilam
B. HARRISON of Brandon, VIM. c. Rawlings, and Colonel
John Armisead-alvised them to remove Liberia in
preference any of the free States After they had elected
10 to Boston, they repeatedly advised and urged
10 alter their determination and 10 select other part
the United States In this advice sustained by
opinions of those who better qualified Judge. A
minister of the gospel actively engaged in promoting the
welfare of the coloed population writing in relation
to these slaves, says. "Were in your stances,
should by no means advise them to go free State.
They will be much happier and better off remain in
their present condition This is my deliberate Judgment
after having them in all free Staes.' Another
minister, residing in the neghborhood of Boston, being
formed of their wish that city, urged me- in
the strongest language, to dssuade them from doing So
Indeed Captain Wixon himself expressed similar views of
their removal TO Boston, and admonshed them, ae,
they had assembled embark of the folly ofther selection
The statement thatthe negroes told that they would
be sold for slaves at the North is silly for contradiction
have probably said enough repe the lbelous mpu-
ations of the Boston editor but ii it necessary
might add other proofs from documents before me- OF
the solcude which has been felt for the welfare these
people, and the which has been taken it,
trust that those papers which have published the
Gle from the Journal, will also publish this letter.
WILLIAM T. JOYNES.