Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-01-21

freight and emigrants and Of making four VOYAGES
year! Can such line be established! We beliey,
lit can.
The first line Of British steamers was enabled to STAR
by the English Government giving them contract /,
carry the mails
Let the United States Government give this Society
mail contract the genero terms allowed te
other steamships and then among the liberal friends q
colonization we can raise the money to build and equip
steamer.
Private enterprise seems inadequate the undertaking
without some aid from Government The same thing
was true in establishing the lines Of steamers that are
already ahoat and spreading the glory country
every seq.
this assistance is to be granted any body to
enable them to open steam communication with Africa,
it but right and fair that it be to this Society in
preference to any private individual or incorporated
company. has abored hard and long found Liberia
to the seeds of commerce, to open of
wealth to citizens fields for the extension of
trade and markets for the sale of manufactures
Surely then it is entitled any collateral advantages
which it may be in the power Of Government to be-
stow, while prosecuting her legitimate enterprises
in that direction.
Mr.. LArRoBE addressed the Society for considerably
than hour in which he gave very satisfactory
of the prospects of the Society aludng many
of the interesting points and epochs in its history and
strongly urging for the extension of its
to effect the momentous objects Of its organization Mr..
Larobe said that he joined the Society twenty
ago, and from time time had used his influence null
tpy settlements in Africa for the colonization there of
the free colored people of the United States The po
ton he heldone that had been filed by Mr.. CLAY,
whose sickness gave substitute in Mr. WEBSTER two
years ago-was elevated than he could have
hoped to attain for than the honor of the Pres
dentshp Of the African Colonization Society politics had
none important dgnifed. The cause is not now
what it was, Work pnnautnropyII mad become
uty Tn {Ia on
grants Lbera and each succeeding year the numbers
have been respectively 422, 5O7 670 &c., and last year
7s3. The things especially demanded for Liberia
are first, its recognition by Government secondly
that Government should furnish it mail service by
steamships sand thirdly, authorize scientific explora
ton of its interior.
Mr. LArRoBE dwelt long and powerfully on the vigor
and wisdom displayed by England in cultivating trade
with Liberia, so much in contrast with own Govern
ment From Liverpool and Plymouth there were regular
steam lines, that there semimonthly connexion
between England and Liberia. ..=
The Colonization Society is silent upon the whole sub
ect of slavery However various the motives that might
urge different sections States individuals to yield aid
to the Society, all looked upon with an equal eye
its only aim being to supply from country popua-
ton to Liberia.
The Hon. Judge WAYNE, of the Supreme Court then
be met and overcome in pursuing the weghty and i'm
porant objects of the Society Congress should act and
he had doubt about its constitutional power SO to do
Judge WAYNE gave succinct but highly interesting
account of the action of the Government of the United
States, from its very inception the subject of slavery
avoiding every thing partisan in his statement By the
Confederation the existence Of slavery distinctly
cognised On the acquisition Of the Northwestern Terri
tory the subject came up and there two stipula
tons in regard to it in the ordinance Of 1887 These
were the hand that slavery should not exist in
the Northwest Territory and the other that slaves
fugitive from the States where slavery prevailed should
be restored to their 1t was from this latter sti
pulation that the similar provision in the Constitution
had its origin. The Judge traced the several subse-
quen acts Of Congress the side of humanity as the
putting stop to the slave trade by people, confnng
to the domestic trade among the States and declaring
its prosecution abroad piracy He also alluded to the
joint humane action of England and the United States a
ter the of 1872.
In the opinion of Judge WAYNE the Government is en-
rey competent under the constitution to coonize free
negroes in any colony that is its own Liberia occupies
but seven hundred miles of coast and there are three
thousand more open to purchase and colonization if we
choose He quoted Mr. Jefersons opinion altogether
favorable to the power Of Congress in this behalf Whilst
Mr. Jefferson President he looked Congress for aid
in the matter, and actually applied to England and to
Portugal to acquire territory in Africa but failed in both
cases. Mr.. Madison held the views and it was Mr.
Monroe who had elected those declarations from Mr. JEFF
ferson Twelve States of the Union out Of eighteen had
expressed their legislative in the same policy
and Virginia ddone this twice. with On interval of M
teen years between the two acts.
The only real question: then, was, can the Government
coloni.e blacks well whites? Judge WAYNE knew
Of nothing to prevent it, and believed the power perfectly
constitutional Ever since the Government began it has
been coonzng Indians Of but in the United States
There must then be powT to do this. He referred in
complimentary terms to the late report of Commissioner
MANYPENNY Of the Indian Bureau as furnishing an ar
gument quite to the purpose
Judge WAYNE said he had not pretended more than to
give few leading hints be followed by his hearers on
this branch Of the subject.
The Judge had not concluded his remarks at 10
when our Reporter left the church
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