Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-19

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from this land, and separate him from the ties that bind
hL his kindred No, they above that they taught
him, appealed to his judgment his heart and his interest,"
and content If they could these They did not
touch the rights of property that they left 10 the fanatics OF
the North. They had enemies enough the South No.
he ought not the word enemy for he could not be-
ieve in the heart Of any honest, fair of stable
Judgment and single particle of principle to harbor enmty
against the society. might be opponent of the
cety and not enemy. They touched not the rights of
property, and operated only upon the free black manthe
upon whom He that had made us all had put the mark
Of separation who, socially and politically can never
mix with the white man. his equal in the same land
Among them of The South though released from the cond
ton of scrvtude he yet slave, and must carry with
him from village to village and from county to county, posi-
bly, from State to State, the title to his freedoms he must
always carry the evidence Of his right to freedom through all
the South.
II not eproach to the people of the South that this
exacted it from necessity prudence, and safety that
was demanded. When Free in what condition was he
Was he useful There might be exceptions, but In many
he who had been the slave Of kind master when
cpaied became ide worthless drunken vagabond Why
this The was there to their mind no past
no sunshny present. and hope for the future Every STU
muiant to vrtuous action every motive to industrious habit
was taken away. He lived moving creature upon the
face Of the EARTH for animal indulgence and this must
ever be the condition Of the black in the country long
the white the of the country, and gave the
country law He had tempting associations; the profess
sions all closed to him pursuits remained to him
cept the most humble duties.
Such were the subjects upon whom the Society proposed
ACT different picture presented when the black man
had landed the coast of Africa and become man, with all
the rights OF freeman and in the enjoyment of Them He
would inquire the scheme the Society proposed posi-
be and whether practicable to from the United
States all the free black population within reasonable time
This not the work of day, but Of years. but when the
act Of consummaon came would bless both the black and
white races.
In 1900 there were n the United States 0S 900 free blacks
In 1920 when the first emigration passed the Atlantic
nonIfn lie MA Of hot
bad sweiled up 600, having than doubled in
twenty years. Ten thousand Of these those who had
been emancpaed in the State of New York In 1910 there
free black people in the United States and they
constantly increasing upon These the mate
rails upon which the Society TO operate If action
had in thirty years there would be least million of
this population in the United States. If there united
ton from North South and East to West eleven thousand
might be annually removed and this about the natural
increase Assuming the expense for carrying each emgran
to be 500, which nearly double the actual cost,
100 600 would be annually required for this purpose To
keep of regiments of hundred
during year costs much that and he would ask from
which the greatest benefit would be derived to keep reg
ment in service to take out eleven thousand of these de-
graded people to the shores Of Africa He believed the
tor this purpose could be obtained
The colony had already secured hundred miles Of the
coast and only hundred and fifty miles needed be
secured to prevent the slave trade that whole coast More
than eighty thousand Of the people in that region under
the influence of this colony had been built up and
churches erected the schoomaser abroad among them
farms had been opened and there all the marks Of we'll
regulated civilized society Black had been the agents
Of the society doing this work. and therefore he might well
say that this Society had done all this England with all
her and experience, with all her statesmen had
sunk $780, in attempting to coonze the black man,
and had failed and her colony Sierra Leone had been aban
doned This Society had not resored to the same instrument
taes which England had empoyedthe bayone of the sol
der and the armed vessel but had simply appealed to the
son. Judgment and Of those whom they acted
They had made the black man their agent and had worked
through their churches, schools, and workshops in carrying
out their scheme Of colonization. The colony but the
other day infant, which the Society had fosered with
mothers care and they had led that infant till it had
CURED the strength of and then they had said 10 it.
care Of Yourself This was the condition Of the CO.
lony Of Liberia They had taught this colony the principles
of segovernment and in their constitution they had one ea
ture of which he proud, which was, that white
should foot Of the soil of Liberia Another feature in
beautiful that took the black and carried him back
to the land Of his fathers They should go on them and
nue bless the white and the black races republic
the coast of Africa, and put end to the slave trade.
The report accepted and ordered to be printed.
The Rev. GEoRGE w. BErHusE, d D., then offered the
following resolution
Resolred That deem gratitude Almighty God, for
his past eminent blessings upon cause take courage
and 60 forward with redoubled zeal.
He said they had met upon common ground, where
advocates of that had right compromise the Society
by expression ofindydual opinions which clash with
appear to be antagonc the opinions of Others He had
consolation in being present that meeting He knew
that the President of the Society CLAY would open
with remarks He anticipated that they would be short
but falling from mouth that uttered word without
meaning, and whose sentence worth in express
and force than hundred such he could UTTER he
that principles would be advocated and established
behind which he might venture speak, and fear the
collision OF conflicting opinions than he should fear the spray
of the after had dashed against the adaanne rock
his Society had with the vrulent opposition by
fanatics, both in the North and the South and he called that
man fanatic who, under the influence of perverted
science allowed magny take the place of benevolence
and TO oppose without his honest opponent Some
time after this had been begun the Society charged
with doing wrong the free black man, because took him
away from his home in the South instead of leaving him to
be thorn in the side of those who held his eow-country
men in bondage This the language used And again.
urged that peposterous to attempt COLOMBO the
continent of Africa with such instruments hese-he re-
fuse, it said, Of the United States Now those men
doing the very thing for which they mpeached this So
cey for it notorious that they engaged in decoy
ing black from the South, and attempting establish
colonies the very borders of this Unon Canada in
climate which wholly uncongenal the negro Of all
the remarkable events which characterized the present
fury, there remarkable thin the establish
men of the colony of Liberia The history of the black
man. from the earliest days the present me had been that
slavery and the establishment of this republic was one of
the brightest efforts which distinguished the present age
The reverend gentleman entered into elaborate descrp
ton of the principles of this Society," and urged with much
energy its claims to public support.
The Rev. Mr.. GURLEr, who has recently paid a visit to
Liberia said there bad been made by settlers
the African since the day when he first observed
them At that time not exceeding 200 in number had pitch
tents upon the borders Of that great wilderness They
had adopted simple form Of government and under that
government during the last twenty five years the Of
Monrovia had grown 600 wel-consructcd houses
Many OF them built of stone and many OF tie