Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-29

between different sections Of our widespread republic
It's bearing delicate and difficult question of policy
among ourselves was obvious and this alone was well
worthy of all the effort and oil the expenditure which it
might cost to accomplish the purpose proposed.
Mr. s. said that his friends were aware that he had
been absent for the last three years from the United
States public service and this the first time since
his return that he had enjoyed the pleasure Of looking
an American audience The Colonization Society," with
all its objects and plans, American interests and
the scheme now proposed for consideration was in an
especial purely American measure, from its in
uence at home BY colonizing free coored popula
ton and establishing them, with Government OF their
own, upon the coast Of Africa we laid hold boldly and
effectively, upon subject which from any other position
was be touched approached but with the utmost
risk of stirring up all the angry feelings of the human
BOSOM 1t dealt with the great question OF the disposal
of colored population, and proposed the means by
which the whole difficulty connected with might ut once
be fully met and effectually removed.
Let any other subject be shown, Of like decacy and
like Importance in which all portions of the country could
concur heartily unite but this of colonzng our
coored people the shores of their native continent
Here there sectional difficulty. There was no
Mason and Dixons line in Liberia, no Nebraska bill, no
Wlmot proviso to minge the elements OF strife and dis
union with this question You, sir addressing Judge
WAYNE, who occupied the chair you, sir are from the
far South where this population has its more immediate
seat and where every thing relating to it is most sens
lively felt lam from region where all the habits and
oil the feelings of the people in the most decided hos
ty the very existence of the institution which yet
in great strength in every Southern State and yet We
strike hands in friendly union and meet each other on
this and strictly neutral ground Look at the
original organization Of the society itself That great
statesman recently lost to the country he loved
a statesman whose name was never to be pronounced
without feeling of grateful presided at
its first meeting and lent the design his powerful per-
sona influence. He from slave State, while his
compeer and coadutor, Judge MCLEAN, was from the
slaveryhatng State Of Ohio. Yet they concurred in
counses and united in effort and in action, and so
were the Larobes and the Whitteseys and the Corwns
and from all parts of the Union at the present day.
They could all meet on common ground and could act
together because they thoroughly agreed In their
views about the thing be done He therefore took the
ground that measure like that before this meeting,
tending as did further the designs and purposes for
which the society had originally been formed was In the
strongest of the term most American measure
The particular object for which this meeting had been
convened the establishment of regular line OF COM
muncaton with the coast of Africa by steam or other
means with view to promote the common interests and
augment the friendly relations already existing between
the two republics. 1t surely needed no argument to
show that communication regular certain and at regu
lar periods infinitely to be preferred to those rregu
lar casual, and uncertain MEANS obtained at hazard
and starting regular certain periods by which
emgrants had thus far found their way to Liberia Let
the free coored who master OF his own means
and his own time know that fixed and regularly
recurring day in each month each two months liner
would leave shores for the African coast how much
ofener should find him ready and desrous of making
the voyage And if the slave owner in the South pos
sessed the certainty how much otener would he be
found nduging his benevolent feelings in emancpatng
those who in bondage and providing them with a
house in the land of their fathers 1t would happen in
this did in all other cases. that knowledge of the
facility Of eecting any design had natural tendency to
induce to engage in it, Suppose for illustration,
that between this metropolis and the neghborng city Of
Baltimore instead of train or several trains starting at
fixed and generally known hours from either city, as
now there nothing but CASUAL OCCASIONAL uncertain,
and irregular means Of intercommunicaton how much
less intercourse would in fact take place? 1t uni
versal conviction derived from every days observation
that the increase in the facilities Of travelling had
immensely increased the number of travellers. There
were hundred thousand persons who crossed the At
lantc now where had crossed it in the last century
SO it would be in the present On this point Mr.
S. said he had had some personal experience. There
were regular lines of communication between Rio
Janero and several ports in Great Britain Before their
establishment when there means of passing from
country to the other but the occasional and uncer
tain sailing of merchant vessel it often happened that
after months advertisement of her day Of sailing but
some four passengers could be obtained But now you
must speak many weeks beforehand or you could not
secure passage, and the vessels which formerly
started with but four cabin passengers often sail
with than sixty. And so notorious and SO certain
had this increase been that it had led to the establish
ment Of five other lines different parts of Europe There
now besides the first line Southampton another
Liverpool, another to the Mediterranean, another to
Havre and another proposed though not yet fully
arranged So it would eventually prove with passenger
and freight lines to Africa though, Of course, not in
short period of time If the sight of the means at
why might it not prompt to the achievement of good
purpose as well Trade everywhere augmented by
the facilities afforded for it. How this desirable
object to be effected without aid from either the National
or the State Governments? He replied, by firm reliance
and strong appeal to the benevoence and bounty Of
the American people.
But ought to give up all hope Of aid from the Ma
tonal Government? He thought not No one, after the
able and lucid argument recently delivered by the homo
rable gentleman in the chair, could retain the sha
dow of doubt to the constitutional power of Congress
to grant such aid And why should its fostering hand be
withheld from design patriotic and so fully sane
toned by experiment? Look at what had been doing
for other objects of public interest Within few days
ample donation Of lands had been granted to provide
asylums for the INDECENT insane, and the question thus
settled that it held constitutional in Congress to give
of the public to mitigate the miserable condition
Of those beret of Lands had in like been
largely granted to aid the general interests Of education
especially in the States Lands oo had been given
in of the States to contribute the support of the
clergy; colleges had been amply endowed; money had
been appropriated to facilitate the removal Of the Indian
tribes. Now, why did the of the red man appeal
strongly to the consideration and the bounty Of the
Government than the case of the black man? Look at
relations to the two. We found the Indian here
his native SOIL We had compelled him by advancing
settlements retire further and further into the depths
of the forest and had provided the of his
mova besides granting him large annutes to emeorate
the hardship of his condition. But what had been the
conduct of the Indian under this coercion hands
He had turned his invaders, and his tonahawk and
scapng knife had marked the track Of his retiring foot
steps with the blood Of his oppressors Not the poor
negro. He had been to a meek, patient and most
the wild and erocious savage, who waylad trains
in fhp Of tho