Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-09-16


in your circular ten dollars my account and i've
dollars behalf Of my mother trust the response on
behalf Of object so humane may be general The cause
Of African Colonization commands my warmest interest
and sympathy Of the noblest schemes OF christian
benevolence which presents itself to the people Of
this Republic and to the world"
st respond to your note with my check here ncosed
for seventy dollars which amount has been contributed
with the most generous feelings by the names mentioned
underneath This communication is made to by the
hands Of my daughter account Of the loss Of
"Your letter Of the 9th instant directed to at Phi
ladephia forwarded and received by here avail
myself of my being at this retreat to apply to
such visiters thought would be most likely to aid In
the humane work to which you ask my assistance and
succeeded in obtaining from them eighty dollars as wl
be in the nclosed list which, together with fifty dol
lars contributed by myself and family make up the sum
of one hundred and thirty dollars for which send you
inolosed check, payable to your order"
"Your circular addressed to my mother in law Mrs.
-, was duly received by her family. 1t issued too
late her eye before its date, she was cold in
death Those who survive her know with what alacrity
she would have responded to your appeal and they take
sad pleasure in contributing to an object in which she
manifested lively interest Ipclose you forty dol
lars toward the object mentioned in your circular
We might greatly extend these extracts nearly oil
the numerous letters we have received convey similar
pressons interest in the object of the appeal and in
the success of our enterprise Indeed all the donations
seem to have been made with hearty good will and
many to whom we sent the circular, not content with
contributing themselves received donations from their
friends to accompany their own We cannot however,
close without another extract from letter received from
o gentleman in Buffalo, New York, and which is as
follows:
M sincerely hope that the plan you have adopted may
prove successful have however proposition to make
w.t. that if you will raise the named in the man
ner you propose, then will be of four to give an
equal amount provided three other individuals can be
found who will each give onefourh, Isl 065 or will
be one of three provided two other individuals can be
found who will each give third, Isl, 1907 which would
put that into the treasury of the society and at
the time will give my influence to further the OBJ
ect set forth in the circular Ii what propose cannot
be accomplished you may rely me for one hundred
and twenty dollars in furtherance Of the object of your
circular" ...sl ....
We confidently hope that two three Of the friends of
this society will accede to the proposition Of this gentle
man and thus place an of funds in treasury
which will greatly aid in present time of need
There follows list Of donations received in answer to
the appeal, which we omit.
1t will be that many of our friends have sent US
much than asked them for One person, for ex-
ample, instead of ten, gave us one hundred dollars
Another showed the appeal to of his friends and
sent us two hundred and fifteen dollars! And others
cordng the statement So that all the four hundred
and twenty persons respond have to be-
leve they will, it will put into treasury more than
the four thousand hundred and sixty dollars in which
we shall ask the donors for permission to apply it to
help send several other families whom their owners
offer us sail this fall if we raise the means to
pay their expenses One family Of seventeen persons in
Georgia. family Of six and another Of thirteen per-
sons in North Carolina; family Of ten, another Of
eight and another of four persons in Virginia. making
in all eg persons who anxious to 60, and whose
going depends being able to raise the money
send them We earnestly hope therefore, that friends
will not hesitate to respond to appeal under the i'm
preston that their money is not needed is a and
more than all, needed And pressing is the case Of
many of these people that shall probably be obgedtc
Issue another extra appeal in their behalf.