Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1848-02-24

isisl TOT ~ yeeil, peiiets Ntosc pro5ects % be
impraciicablei and am persuaded that if,hs
same energy and eiiou which have been ex.
pended in getting up abolition movements Ind
been directed 20 tho work Of eolinizalion. a
vast amount Of benefit would have resulted 10
the cause Of humanity and 70 lhe colored race.
Why should they uuack usi We do not inle,-
ere with them. Their project IS 10 emanci.
pate al one blow the whole colored race. Well
Il they can do that then our object begins.--
The Office Of colinizaiiOn commences only
where thens would end. The eolOred race be-
ing here capable Of enjoying state OF equality
with the whites around them, our obiecl is 10
carry them 10 place where they may enjoy,
without molesiaiion, oil the benefits Of freemen.
Here is no ineompaiibilily; and in point Of fact
we have thus Car gone on our way without dis.
tuIbing any body, either on The right or on the
left.
But il is said that orr Society is incapable of
effeciing any great object. That our aims new.
er can be accomplished without aid from the
State Governments, or unless the General Cow
ernment shall send out Of The country all the
free blanks. lis eur purpose to show the pow
er Of Colonization, in competent hands, fully 10
carry out the benevolent ends We have in view,
TO work all the great results for which this So.
eiety was formed. Our purpose is TO demon.
siraie 10 The American people, that If they
choose 10 take hid 0f this great project in their
State LEGISLATURES, or Otherwise, the end sought
! IS practicable, and the principle Of colinzaIion
competent 10 carry abroad all the colored popu-
laIion who shall be emancipaled. That dem
onslration has been made.
( But II is urged that this is the country Of the
black man; and that therefore be should not be
sent 10 Africa! Africa is not his home. Why,
u Is true IN some sense, that every naliYe.born
eoored man may claim this as his country
And so might the lsraeites, while caplives in
Egypt, have claimed Egypt astheir native coun.
try; and those born while travelling through the
wilderness to the land promised Them, might
still regard themselves as natives Of that wilder.
ness. But sill, in the contemplation of that in
finite and all wise Being who directed the pro-
gress oiIhat remarkable people. Egypt was not
their country, still less was that howling wilder
ness, where many of them first saw The light
| 1t was Canan, the land of promise; aud thither
accordingly were taken, as 10 their home.-
/ Who can doubt that Africa is the real home of
The black man, though, as a casual event, he
may have had his birth on these shores!-
There his race was found, and there alone, till
it was torn from thence by the hand of violence.
Here, though nominay free, he cannot live in
equality with, those around him; and il does seem
10 me one Of the disposals of an all-wise Provi-
dence 10 permit him 10 have been brought here
with an ultimate view 10 the further accom-
pIishmenl, by him, Of his own inscrulable, but
wise and merclul designs.
The separation Of free colored people from
/ the white race in measure recommended not
only by the mutual and separate good of both,
by the prospect that Africa, which has so long
lain in barbarism, worshpping unknown and
forbidden gods, may thus be brought 10 the light
and blessings Of Christianity. Those who met
10 form this Society saw not only that great
good would accrue from their design TO the COL
ored race, by eleyating their character, and res
torlng them TO the possession of rights they me-
yer can enjoy here, bat that it would be proba.
be means, in the end, Of carrying 10 Africa all
the blessings Of our holy religion and all the
benefits OF our civilization and freedom. What
Christian is there who does not feel deep in
itercst in sending forth missionaries 10 convert
the dark heathen and bring them all within the
pale OF Christianity But what missionaries
can be so potent as those it is our purpose to
transport to The shores Of Africa! Africans them
selves by birth, or sharing at least the African
blood, will not all their feelings, all their best
affections, induce them 10 seek the good Of their
countrymen! At this moment there are between
four and five thousand colonists who have been
sent TO Africa under the care of this Society;
and will venture to say they will accomplish
as missionaries of the Christian religion more
10 disseminate its blessings than all The rest of
The missionaries throughout the globe. Why,
gentlemen, whathave we heardl In ihethe colo
ny of Liberia there are now twenty five places
of public worship dedicated to the service of
Almighty God, aud the glory Of the Saviour Of
men; while thousands of the neighboring hea-
then are flocking into the colony 10 obtain a
knowledge of the arts, and who may ultimately Y
receive the better knowledge which Christianity
alone can bestow.
These are The great purposes we had in view
when a few Of US met TO form this Society. As
soon as Il purchase Of territory had been effec-
ted by the agent we despatched TO Africa for that
purpose, the first coloniss, about twenty five
years since, left the American shores, and were
safely transplanted to The land Of their anccs-
tors.
know that it was then urged as il has been
since. that other places might have been selec-
ted with equal advantages. do not concur in
that opinion. Look at The question of expense
alone. 1t has been stated in your report thar
the sum Of fifty dollars is sufficient TO cover the
expense of transporting one cmigrant to Libe-
ria, and of maintaining him there for six m onths
after his arrival. To what other position in the
known world could he be sent at so cheap Il
/. -ata1 Not IN tho Pacific. nnt IN OrnOOn. NOT
TO Mexico. Then consider the advantages of
this position in point of navigation. remember
the shor'ness of the voyage. When these
: things are duly considered, it must be eviden'
that 10 no other spot on the face of the globe
: could free coored people be sent with so much
propriety as to the coast Of Africa. Besides, in
any other place that might be selected you
would deprive yourselves of accomplishing these
high mora! and religious objects, which, in
Africa, may be so confidently hoped for.