The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-01

execution on the 18th Of June.
The trial of Woodward, for the murder Of his wife,
having been commenced in the Criminal Court at
Washington yesterday it is probable the Of John
Charles Gardner will be postponed till September
next.
In addition to a variety of other interesting mat
ter to-day inside pages contain the Act Regulating
the New Currency; The Southern Commercial Move
ment; Presidential Appointments; The New Govern
ment of Minnesota; Commercial, Theatrical, Sport
ing and Miscellaneous News &c.
Movements OF the C0lored Men Dead against
Liberia
We have received from George 7. Downing,
colored American" $50 widely celebrated
for his extra fine large fat oysters fried roasted,
or stewed) the following diplomatic note on
the African colonization question:
PROVIDENCE, May 20, 1853.
DEAR FRIEND-Enclosed are the proceedings Of
meeting Of the colored citizens of this CITY, It will
be that here, as well elsewhere, colored men
are resolved upon doing something 1t will be seen
Colonization Society and the Fugitive Slave law,
and that they resolved to fight against all the
legal disabilities that they labor under in the State
call your attention to the same, as am aware
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The communication is from the Providence Post of
GEO. T. DOWNING,
Gas the HERALD would say, F. r. 81
The meeting to which this communication
refers was held in Providence. Rhode Island
on the 9th and 28th ult.. and its objects may
be guessed at from the following pointed and
comprehensive preamble to their opening reso-
lutions:-
Whereas we are an oppressed people, DESTROYS of
casting of our depressions; Whereas, we have err
and omissions Of our to correct; Whereas we
people widely scattered all the land with
scarcely any communion, with no friendly sympathi
sing press generally circulating in our midst Where
hearts; Whereas, there is an awakening conscience
abroad which can better be aroused by those striking
who would be free and believing that the time
has come for a continuous existence of some ma
tional organization Of our people; Therefore,
we hail with great satisfaction the announcement in
Frederick Douglass paper, Of call for national
convention OF our people to assemble on the 9th Of
July next, in the city of Rochester New York, and
do resolve to send delegates thereto, and otherwise
give it the hearty cooperation which its Importance
demands.
Mark that! A National Convention of the
free blacks of the United States in the city of
Rochester. on the sixth day of July, in opposi-
ton to the Fugitive Slave law and the African
colonization scheme And this Providence
meeting thus throws down the gauntlet to
the administration at Washington. and the
Castle Garden Union Safety Committee.
Resolved, That the Fugitive Slave law, while it
has the credit of awakening the slumbering Ameri-
conscience Of giving activity to the crippled re-
CARDS for dom existing in the American breast,
is the less entitled to execration and
tempt because it is blot upon our national charac-
or of hruf mi in
happy resides creating universal alarm and distress,
and because it sets at defiance the law Of God.
And George T. Downing, and his Rhode
Island associates, (who can't think Of giving up
the profits Of the oyster business in this coun-
colonization question, and indirectly against
hat iDsidious project Of George Sanders &
Company of the Ebony line Of steamers. for the
transportation of the free colored Americans
to Libcria:--
Resolved, That it is the wish of the Colonization
Society to get us away from America to Africa be-
cause they hate us; but here we will reman-we
have a work to perform at home before we can go
abroad-we have to redeem ourselves from the de-
grading position we have occupied-our country
men must here repair the injustice they have done
us-we have an inseparable identity with the mil
lions Of enslaved in the land. Aye, it would war
WIN the desire Of OOd 10 leaVe Jne continent.
Resolved, That the American colonization scheme,
ever false and unjust because conceived, existing
and persisting in and injustice, is no less
titled to our uncompromising condemnation and con-
tempt because it makes prominent the false plea
that it is the Outstanding and cvzing of Africa
that impels them TO effort
Here they are going to remain. That's fat
They don't intend to be humbugged by the cry
that they are proper instruments for Christian
izing benighted Africa. That's all moonshine
And. by the way. the letter of G. T. d., in one Of
the leading abolition organs Of this city yester-
day enlarges to some extent, upon the hostility
Of our free blacks to Liberia Downing has no
fancy for the pestilential coast of Africa-no
white memo oysters there; and besides, he
desires first to achieve the emancipation Of the
slaves Of the South, and the elevation Of the
black man to the same platform, political and
social, with the white man in the United States.
When all this is accomplished he will be ready
to discuss the question of Outstanding Africa
upon the scheme Of the Liberian Colonization
Society, but not before
We may, therefore, take it for granted that
oiasystem Of general cooperation between the