Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-06-21
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Hessfs Editors - Another objection to the
4 colonization scheme deem il important to notice,
as being the most prevalent among Us mud the
most formidable in itself. Colonization to Africa,
/ it is said. is u very slow nperat on, and can new
f or, with any means that ean command, bc
+ made 10 produce results upon large scale. II
+ would be sufficient answer 10 this objection
that npernting on a scale no wider than il has vet
+ done. rs respects emigration, the establishment
/ of the Iaberi in colonies Is work of most i'm
mense henefcence Where IN view of all the
benefits it eonfers upon the emigrant population
and their posteritv. with those it confers upon
Africa. in the extinction Of the Slave trade and
the introduction Of christianity aud civil ,ton
into the heart of great continent can man
rxpend his means Of charity to better account
tnan in the promotion Of this cause
But as TO its being "a slow operation, who
needs 10 be reminded that the greatest things
generally have small beginnings Aud it. rs
respects the removal of our blacks, now free. 'r
any yet To bccome free, the process may appear
slow, vel, in respect to whnt has already been
achieved in the time aud with the means EN-.
ployed, the operation ha. been most efficient and
successful Far more hns been don" toward set
Ting Liheria than effected, within the same
space Of time, at jamestown or Plymouth.
But If the operation has been slow, as To the
sending Of cmigrants, il has been just il ought
10 have been. A wise and henignnnt Providence
has ordered that il should he 50. Tho reasons
for this view must be obvious 10 every rejecting
mind.
Yet the annual emigration, though small, has
been steadily, and somewhat rapidly increasing,
having risen. in five years, from 100 10 7s3 the
first being the number sent from the /. States-
about one-third of them from Virginia during
the year 1853, beside some emigration 10 the
Maryland colony. And if the funds Of the So,i-
cites were increased, the number might be great
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ways ahend of the means at command.
Bat il is not TO be expected that Societies
are to sustain the whole work of carrying on the
peopling Of Iiheria. We ARE 10 carry on this
work for time aud leave the rest, in Providence,
TO be wrought out by the facilities which com
mcrce is to furnish aud the power of that aiirac-
ton which by the multiplying inducements il
will hold ont, Liberia is 10 exert upon all here
concerned in the mntter. And what reasonable
man can doubt thai, by these menus colonization
is TO effect all thai the interests and wishes Of our
country may demand
Is there not Hmple room, in the cnpHcious DO
som of TINT grcnt continent, for all That We may
SEN. tbiihcr Africa leaving ont her interior
wastes, cannot have "A population of more than
some ten Ia the squire mile. The fertility of
those magnificent central regions Which the ter
n,ory ol our new republic II probably vel t.
span, would accommodate at least ten times the
present number oi inhabitants, Liberia itself Is
already possessed Of territory sufficient 10 set
tie all the present free coorcd population al the
L. States.
The vast resources of Central Africa nrr +,
create great commerce between that co1ntry
aud our own and the two countries, il will be
rccolleeted, lie nearly opposite 10 each other,
cross the Atlantic, Before another generation.
steam will probably bring that great peninsula
within little more than weeks tlnYcl rf Us. And
when we see what the facilities and Inducements
in another cnsc, hive effected in drawing emi
grants to our shores, from Emopc,aud even from
ASA. who can doubt that the African Colonial
ton scheme Is capable Of any degree of eApon-
sion Who can question the capacity of colo
nlzotion Ia work cut all cur purposes for the half
million of blacks now free in the L. States, or
amy far greater number-whilo he bchclds whit
it has accomplished within the memory of man.
IN bringing millions across that sane ucean,irom
the eastern to the western hemisphere
will only add in closing, thit the accounts
from libern, rs to everything that can eonsti-
tutr the we-,long Of a county aud "A people,
continue 10 be of the most encouraging kind
Lieut.. Lynch, in his mte report to the L. :.
Government upon his Reconnaissance Of the Ii
bcrlan eoHst, hears the same decided testimony,
in regard both To the country and the people,
which we have heretofore had from Stockton.
Mayo Perry, and other distinguished officers of
our navy
For the State Society,
G. W. LEYBGRN.