Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-06-20
FOR THE NIRGINIAN

Messrs Editors: As the Virginia Colonial
ton Society is milking. in some parts of the tate
where your paper circulate, its annual call for
aid, beg leave, through your columns, 70 offer
some remarks ON one or two points connected
with the Colonization subject.
BY the act of 9TH April, lS53, the annual state
appropriation for colonization purposes was IN
creased to nearly 10000 dellars, with an all wv
ance, in the distribution, Of 80 dollars for every
cmigrant free before the passage of the act.
Now, it may be thought That having the ad-
vantage of this large State fund, the Virginia So
eety ought to hive but little need of pecunlary
aid from any other quarter But it is to be re-
memhcred that the benefits Of the act referred to
apply only to those who were free at the date of
its passage. aud that consequently our society
has to bear the expenses of all emigrants manu-
mitted since that time. Besides the state
pays the expenses Of the emgrants for whom it
provides only from the time of their embarkauon,
all previous expenditures, even IN reference TO
these must fall upon the Society, whose only
standing fund is the bcnevolenee of the Virginia
people Nor will il fail to be seen that the rela-
tive circumstances of the Va Society, in respect
to this state fund create an exigency, while they
afford great encouragement to private contrihu-
ton for if the friends of the carse would prompt
ly aud literally afford the means of carrying on
its operations the Society, by employing a larg
or number of agents, and giving them more time
! for operating, to procure emigrants from among
! our free people, might be able to make the State
! appropriation much more available. In this
! point of view, every dollar contributed to our
cause in Virginia, at the present time, goes much
farther than ever before; and the fact of the eXs
trncc of so large fund made eonditionally avail
! able to our purposes, instead of being reason to
/ the contrary, creates new and most powerful
motive to private literally. Ten thousand dollars
year from this source would furnish the Society
/ ample means for carrying on ITS operations, and
! trying, at least, the experiment of procuring sub
! iects for the States bounty. One thousand do
nations of ten dollars each. or two thousand of
five dollars-or five hundred only of twenty dol
! lar, weld make up this sum. Are there not
nlhny times thousand gentlemen, not to say la
dies, in our great and prosperous commonwealth,
who could give five or ten or even twenty dollars
each, without any serious effort With Your
permission, tomorrow | vii have something
more to say. G. W. LEYBURN.
SLAVES RETURNING FROM CALlFoRNIA.-The
| Steamship Pampero on her last trip from San
! Juan, brought up twelve fifteen slaves, who,
together with their master, were ON their return
| from California Il Georgia. These slaves were
! taken out to California by their master, in the
spring of 1850, aud as as practicable after
their arrival in San Francisco, started for the
! gold mines, where they have ever since labored
faithfully the proceeds Of their labor rendering
! their owner wealthy. When they returned to
San Francisco. the owner addressed them, and,
informed them that they were free. and offered to
rig them otfin style, and give each of them
sufficient sum of money to enable him to start
! fair IN the world for himself. Without single
exception they refused They had all been look
ing forward with great glee to return to the
cold plantation" and the "old folks at home,"
end So back they all came. and by this time per
haps, they are astonishing the young darkeys,
who have never left home, with the wondrous
] q. l.. 1 II Il
and gratifying them with a sight of the monkeys,
paroquets &c., which they picked up on the 18TH
mus of Nicaragua. The above facts are gather
ed from gentlemen who came through with the
slaves and their owner, and who were perfectly
cognizant of the matters stated.-N o. Pic.