Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-01-25

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circumstances. IF we had thrown fifteen or twenty
Thousand persons year the coast OF Africa, it would
have been impossible provide sustenance tor them
They would have persisted by famine and there would
have bnen exhibited of distress similar to those
osome OF the countries OF Europe; but by SLOW gradual
cautious MEANS feeling way as we went doing no.
thing perticipitaely, carrying out persons OF good
character, making establishments Tor thel laying the
foundation of future aad accelerated emigration,
have done precisely what we ought to have done,
it we had had hundreds 'o thousands ct tons export
them But the time has now arrived when consider
able acceeraton should be given 20 the transportation
OF emigrants.
have heard 1.-THE friend in my eye is better informed
than any other person that ii the Society had adequate
means OF tonnage and money, he would stake his eX-
sence the fact that ten thousand Tree persons OF
color would go to Africa during the current year.
not prepared TO say whether the number would not
be greater, but increase the number consdera
bly,, and go from year to year subsistence is raised
IN Africa and rendering comfortable the emgrants du
ring their first year in that country This is the
things ought to take. In the meantime if Government
think proper there means, by packets, the
employment OF the navy to assist in the article which it
IS the most difficult tor the Society TO communicable
facilities Tor the transportation OF emgrants, OF vast I'M
portance TO the institution. Go on and increase the
coonies multiply the MEANS and In the course OF few
years the colonies will have so increased, and commerce
so augmented that by the mere commercial marine
which will be plying between the shores OF the conti-
nent and his vast number Will be carried out at less
have been considering the institution with regard
to the great object which led to its formation but
should not have performed my whole duty i'll limited
my observations to sing point. Ano Their great sub
Ject Is connected with colonization, and only less inn
porant than the objects which have been achieved by
successful colonization the western shores OF Africa
aude to the suppression othe slave trade [Applausel
What Is the best means! This has been desderatum
with statesmen OF Europe and of our own country
They thought that the best mode OF suppressng the
slave trade was by Keeping up constant armed squad
ron the western OF Africa prevent the egress
OF slavers IRON that continent to be brought to this
Squadrons have been there for number OF years By
our treaty with England, the Ashburton or Washington
treaty, we undertook to keep up squadron with not
less than eighty guns to assist her In the object of sup
pressing the slave trade 1t endure for five years
AT the end oftha time either OF the contracting parties
was lett at liberty to put an end to the squadrons. 1t
has so happened that in spite OF all the exerons Of the
French, English, and American squadrons on the coast
OF Africa the slave trade has been prosecuted to
greater extent perhaps than prior to any suppressng
efforts Documents laid before the Senate show that in
four years one hundred and seventy three thousand
Africans carried to the single prov ce of Rio
Janefo, without any account of the number carried
to other provinces of the Brazilian empire, and others
were carried, we know, to the island of Cuba | be-
leve that the Emperor of Brazil, with Great Britain,
consents to put end to the slave trade. And so
did Spain, but after the treaty between that government
and Great Britain, the slave trade prosecuted
with undiminshed vgor in the island OF Cuba. The
real imaginary interests OF Brazil induce her desire
TO import slaves One costs eight or ten dollars in At
RIGA, and in BraZis worth some hundreds ofdollars.
As trend OF mine said i horses Virginia cost ve
do you think it would be proper to employ any par
| tcuar to prevent them from going :heref
And if slaves be purchased in Africa at one-thr
eth the part they sell for in Brazil land notwthstand
ing the treaty which the Emperor Of Brazil entered
lnto, it will be impossible 10 suppress thy any squad
ron.
We have solved great aud interesting question as
to the mode by which the slave trade should be sup
pressed-and that is by colonization Three hundred
and fifty miles of the western coast OF Africa are now
occupied by the coonsts sent out BY this country and
in the entire extent of that coast there is not sol
ary slave depot not a solitary slave is exported from
that three hundred and fifty miles of coast any 9TH
part OF the world And all this is the result OF the
abors Of the Society. Colonization is the only certain
sure and esc,ual remedy for the suppression OF the
slave trade.
If her majesty Victoria were present, would appeal
to her. see that honored on this occasion by
the President of the United States. [Applause If
gould persuade her and him 10 employ the whole
amount expended by the two nations in keeping up the
African squadrons, mot less than Two or three Millions
per annum)-if could persuade her majesty and him
instead OF keeping up these squadrons to apply the,
money colonization, extending the settlements, un-
I'll the whole would he occupied by uninterup-
ted line OF colonies there would be vast saw OF mo-
ney, and what not less OF importance, vast saving OF
human lie.
All we all know the nhospable coast--not in re.
pec to the black race Tor coonsts have suffered
less than those OF jamestown and Pymou in the space
of thirty syears-but inhospitable to the white mans
constitution, and grave almost to him.
If 1--WE could diminish the number oil deaths, and APP
proprate the money saved by removing the squadrons,
10 the scheme ofcolonzaton, that could be
DONE as soon as the western coast could be lined
with colonies, II mankind would exut in the glorious
termination, and the complete suppression OF the
odious and nhuman traffic, which all are anxious to
witness.
Ii not my purpose to say so much. / am not
very we'll feel perfectly conscious that have
pied too much OF your tne and hope that the
ary will now read the report OF the Society. Jap
plause