Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1854-04-27
THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY.

We publish the following, because it is, as it
purports to be, from colored man, and an IN
telligent one too, we are told and because his
people ought to have the privilege OF being
heard in the matter Of which he speaks But
we caanot say we fully enter into all his feel
ings. Though we have never taken any part In
favor of that Society, and though we have never
supposed that it would effect much towards she
liberation of the Slaves in this country, especl-
cially at present, yet we have thought there
we're considerations in relation to the society
which should secure it from the opposition OF
the friends of the African race. In the nrs'
place it is the working out Of the problem OF
the capability of the Blacks for self-gev'rnment'
which we have locked upon with much interest,"
in the belief that, if that problem was success
fully solved, it might have, eventually, an I'M
portant bearing on emancipation
Secondly, we have believed it to be building
up a more reliable barrier against the slave
Trade, than the fleets of nations whose policy is
SO liable to be changed, and if not changed, does
not prove to be very eAactual. And, thirdly,
we have believed it must be worth something as
a missionary station for enlghtening and Chris
tianizing benighted Africa.
With these views of its probable prospective
good and with our inability to see, with many
of our co-laborers in the cause of emancipation,
that it can much, if any, retard the cause OF
Freedom, for which the Free Democracy OF the
country are taking separate, independent and
holder action, we have thus far declined to take
any stand, at least in opposition to tho c~ie"i-
zation Society Ep.
For the Green Mountain Freeman.
Mr.. EDITOR Having received the paper you
sent me, though not till quite recently, owing
TO the unfrequency of my visits at Hinesburgh'
allow me now to say few words to the public
through the columns of your paper, touching
the prosperity of the Colonization Society.
shall bear down against them without cere-
mony nor does it require any. Sir, my attach
ment for good policy towards all men, and
particularly those whose color is identified with
nv own, will forever make me the antagonist Of
that Society. The small increase of the popu-
lation of that Republic, by emigration from the
United States, is alone enough to justify my last
allusion. Even in a quarter Of q century there
have been sent out to that Republic only seven
Or eight thousand emigrants from the United
States.
If the Society is actuated with such love for
my people, let the men SO interested and every
other, cease their efforts in behalf of that Soci-
ETY., (for their labor is in vain, 50 far as regards
the triumph Of their policy,) and lend their in
fuence in favor of giving us " liberty and equal
rights " in the land Of our birth. But they
very we'll know that if the colored people are
equal with their " white fellow citizens" that
their influence would be stronger for the imme-
diate abolition of Slavery in the District Of Co.
lumbia, (that is there tolerated, and with shame
we say it, before the very eyes of foreign am
bassadors) as well as in other places where Con-
gress has a constitutional right to govern.
Mr. J. X. Converse, Secretary Of the Society,
in his report made A. D. 1850, says there were
few colored people in the vicinity of Buring-
ton, whom he thought would go to the new
Republic. Let me say to the Secretary that |
am quite confident that no coorod people in
Burlington have gone or ever will go to Liberia.
The majority of the emigrants from the Uni
ted States are liberated slaves, who are compelled
by the laws of free America to leave their native
land and even some Of these, rather than 60
to that Republic, have been known to make
their way north, under pretence Of going to Ii
IBERIA after their arrival here.
The writer would warn all people whose color
is identified with his own, to resist, with more
than usual energy, extraordinary efforts now
made by the Colonizationists, inasmuch as they
are founded on the most unjust prejudice against
all the men of our race. What say you, Mr.
Editor! Are you in favor of Colonization II
you are, my language is plain,
| Hinesburgh, Vt. l.. j. LANGLEY.