Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1849-01-10
LAGOON. NO. III.
10 the Honorable, the Members Of the House of
Delegates and Of the Senate of Virrin;n.

LS'SS"eS ara " HIe soeNuLe nJ Virginia
FIVE have calculated and reasoned rightly. the
removal OF the free cOlored population from the
State is desirable, and will soon become absolute
W necessary ii then be desirable if necessary TO
remove them, the question arises, Can it be dome
ought 1t to be done, and done no,c2 We answer
aiilrmaiiveiy-lt can, ought and must be done
They can be removed and settled in Liberia
Remaining here we hold them unchangeabv dis
franchsed and degraded. Can it be doubted then
that we do our duty IT when safety and interests
require their removal, we place them in commu.
nifty Of free men, themselves free and equal, the
ProprietoTs in fee simple Of The soil they cultivate
and under the protection of good laws like our own
IN their faherland. This we may do by providing
Tor their emigration and settlement in Liberia
by all act Of the Legislature Of Virginia in 1883
an appropriation made of 500, 900 10 be paid in
flve annual instalmenta for the deportation Of the
free coored people to Libera--thriy dollars to each
em'grant. No part OF this appropriation was ever
drawn from the Treasury, because TO voluntary eu.
igrants to be found.
Now if the Legislature instead Of forcb!e re-
moval OF this people, should revive the act Of S33
making an appropriation Of 100000, or what would
be SiI better, twlce that SUN, what would be the
effect? Would the free negroes avail themselves
o! The provision and if they should would lis dis
OuTsements make any sensible impression on their
numbers, either to extingush or greatly reduce
themf are they willing to go? Can they be in
duceu IN gOE
That the appropriation could now be easily ap-
Piled to ITS object, there be no reasonable doubt
1t may readily be shown that Liberia is the pro
per home OF The free colored man. He can be made
10 see that. II was very different in 1883. when
the former invitation was extended to him and re.
Jected. Liberia was then a Colony, struggling
with difficulties incident to its unsettled state its
climate not well defined, IFS virgin soil hardly turn
ed by the plough share its resources not developed
not even counted in their number and value. the
savage border tribes still restless and Of doubtful
friendship and all the early calaTitics Of the colony
IN It's infant state still fresh in recollection Now
the Republic Of Liberia stands among the nations
Of the earth, recognised by other nations, inviting
the emgraat 10 free government of constitutional
laws; TO soil not surpassed in fertility to social.
intellectual and religious privileges by means in
terror to those he leaves. We say, then. he may
become voluntary emgrant, betause is is for his /,
interest TO 60. 1t is not expatraon, but rather the
return of the exile home. So he sees it, whea he !
looks beyond his pejuGces 10 the facts in the case
But we are not left 10 probabilities in this matter
We are told by these who have addressed them on |
the subject, that they are easily made 20 desire |
removal to Liberia. Receiving The facts in the case
well authenticated, they ssy-"ieI US GO TO ourJd-
Uter-Land." The Colonization Society has now .
more applicants than means Of transportation This
is the po;gIsl flow Ct tho current when unobstruct