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Their youth, fuii OF vgor Anniversaries wer-.
% M ocsaslon Of an almost crazy excitement.
the churches were thrilled with the sudden
i1ea that The milienum At handthe "evanseIlza-
ton OF the world" never blessed with fairer pros
pects-the "awakenngs to grace were the mos xe-
mondous scale Peace societies formed-tempe-
ratce societies hourshed more than cverFree Masonry
was attacked socially and politicay-the Sabbath mail
question became oi the absorbing topics the day
theatres lotteries, the treatment of the 'poor Indian
~ Tue general governmental came under the most
ieorous religious revewthe Colonization society estab
lshed IN 1916 enlarged is operations, and Short ths
sift oi reform became epidemic and the period one OF
unprecedented moral and political inquiry.
was period, too, when in many of the States Of the
ahd especially those upon the Northern border, he
saueet was freely discussed Of gradual and healthy
Snc @ pa'oho the slaves and various plans for this ob
49, "e.' presented ana entertained The most yaflabis
agencies We're set worknot BY aboltionists but by
- nsrs themselves in whose hearts there bad sprung
NE landing upon their shores Of the rst slaves OF their
| creasing and irrctfyipg had not The b,tercst
Of dennnciaton been launched against them and this
adverse pressure driven the assaulted an attitude G
sell defence whose defiant spirit now speaks the
assaant IN bold Justification Of the institution attacked
as natural and necessary and which IL shall be their pur
pos 70 Perpctnate forever.
AS early 1916 manumssion society formed in
Tennessee, whose object was the gradual emancipation OF
the slaves under system Of healthy and udcous state
legislation At later day Virginia. Mary land and Ken
tuck! were the theatres OF discussion Of the subject
and in all OF them the question agtated socially aud
politically, with freedom and liberty that indcatet
| general desire to effect the phauthropc object.
Various plans having the end in view like
wite proposed some OF them evincing a remarkabts
ingenuity One Of these in 1917 was to encourage by all
proper means emancipation in The south then to make
arrangements with the slavehodng States TO
the freed negroes and compel the latter by law neces
sary to reside in those States BY this It was
thought that gradual change of complexion could bs
Ell ced from natural causes, which would not take place
unless the blacks scattered and that thus from
simple association and advcntous mixtures the sable
color would retire by degrees and after few generations
black person would be a rarity in the community.
females TO the Northern States, where they should be
bound out in respectable families; those unmarried Of
ten years and upwards 10 he Immediately free, and all
the rest Of the stock then existing TO become at ten
Of age the proceeds Of the males sold to be appro
pated by the party making the purchase to the removal
education Of these females. IN furtheranee Of this
scheme, It was argued that while negro women would
st bear children, though settled among white persons,
they would not DO so half 50 rapidly and thus their pos
tety would iii three or -four generations lose the oien-
millions who are called white men In Southern Europe
and the West Indies and finally be lost in the common
mass Of humanity While It Is true that very few people
their fathers and mothers, the grand object would bs
attained and the world be satisfied.
Another proposition which emanated from distu-
guishcd gentleman in one Of the Southern States,
and filing ono Of the highest Offices in the
government Of the United States was that grade OF
color should be fixed in all the savehoidng States at
which person should be declared free and entitled
all the rights Of citizen, If born Of slave. fe
coteudcd that this act would separate all such persons
from the negro race and present very considerable
CHI ok the progress ol the black population giving
them the time interests and feelings Tho
children thus cmarcraed even tho parents should not
be wholly fitted for it, would into society with
advantages nearly oqu those the poorer classes Of
white people ana nj ght work their way independence
we'll without any counteractng detrimen TO the pub
| tic good.
| IN Virginia, in 1871, i. was suggested, through
| the columns OF the Richmond ENQUIRER, that
| Involuntary serviude should to exist in
hat state FROM and after the year 1000, has without
iecuc ing generations the value OF slave
roperty cent alordng ample time and opportunity
70 dispose Of exchange that dead property Tor more
In 1895, Hon Mr. King. Of New York, introduced into
he Senate of the United states the annexed resolution
That coon as the portion Of the existing funded @ ds1.
ardis pledged shall have psd OF iheacsroE,S d.
rceec s future thereof shall Constitute and
HhiSS 3 s na s
q ' aS S iss - aowe n % y us Sc ss or
moved y any territory Or country without the limits o. tue
This resolution, however, not called up by tho
mover nor otherwise acted upon.
stl another lan was 10 raise money by contributors
throughout tile Cnion and elsewhere, and buy all the
slaves at $3.50 each The value Of four million negroes
n $500 each, their average market value, would be
- Io0cG0 0G0 II IS unnecessary to say that none OF
| thcee propositions were ever adopted il practice In
.act while abotonism has pretended to feel for the
supposed suengs Of slaves, has never felt much ia
! its pocket 10 aid them.
| In yassont it may be mentioned that in 1927, by
| virtue OF an passed in 1877. every slave in New
Yofk-ten thousand numbcrwas declared 10 be free,
and they were emanoipated without compensation to
At such period-whep The rampant spirit Of reform
was attacking every imaginary evil Of the times--t Is
yielding to their anatical preudces and to the British
intrigue that was urgug them onward commenced that
acrnopiors agitation of he that has since been
leading characteristic. The negro pronounced -
man and brother and that was the beginning aud end
| q the argument Tracts speecAef pamphlets ana
| cut price" The pulpit We'd with the press,
] and every imaginable form q argument was used
70 hold up slavery the most horrible Of all atrocities,
the "sum Of all ylanies" Newspapers began to be
ACKNOWLEDGED element in the iand, and failing in the
train Of Tie young revolution rather growing out Of
| il. welded immense power among the masses. Among
those then devoted 10 the subJcc: Of reform the
In h.
90for published AZ Providence X l., by William Goodell,
u 1871 the Loo'or, by William Lloyd Garrison, at Bos
ton, in 1881 and The Euoncipotor, in New York.
The Grst abolition Journal published in this city
was the present journal of Commerce which com
hc principal Of whom was the famous Arthur Tappan.
Tie following extracts from It's prospectus issued March
- 1927, WI sufficiently indicate the Puranica charac
ter Of It's auhcrs and the general tone Of the paper
IN proposing add another daily 70 the number
e ss sy se Sa y asr dse%
deraken Men q wisdom nteigence aud charsc,s, have
Bsloyins as We do that he theatre Is institution
ccnseqaeny tending to The destruction republican
Ssi s.ssss""
sn nSa ss S nasp o Ss ~
y he setting % ,Pe, collecting sa,sa 2s ship prI peT.
S "a s SoS han as sa, sn as p.
ss''pse aus , by several r. hours % part
s yenSs Ts % MSedsy Se p ne new se
sfer the publication OF the Other morning papers. with
these views ash all no friendly to The cause oil mo
rality in encouraging undertaking.
\ yFlTNC or ME1cdANrs
oTntRs Ar InE aaiRIoAs IsscT sociFrrs Hovss,
SAEaH -. 1897
Resolved, That the prospectus OF new dairy commer1m
To be called the New Noik Jgarfoi ~ to,e nsvns
bcer laid before this meeting approve o. te re-" ~ ~,
which " conducted, and cordially rosn,u ai,v ~ ~
patronage all friends good morals and 70 me saos
our ''iuo"''n '"''''u'O"A ARTHUR TAPPAN Chairman
/ Rot Lockvoon, Secretary,
In its ssue OF October So 1925 We ind the following:
Iaprearsfrom an article The JgI,l of,he Times news
nsrs,f some promise established IA Bennington, W,
thai pe,ion 10 fof the abolition oi slavery In the
nsrt oi Columbia 10 be put Ia circulation In that
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with success That Congress has right TO abolish slavery tn
bs District reasonable though fear will meet
with Opposition sensitive the sxvehoding
communy every movement relating TO the abolition OF
slavery At the time II would furnish TO the world
beautiful pledge Of their sincerity they would unite with
The slavehclcng States. and by unanimous vote
claim freedom 10 soul within sight OF the capital Of this
free government We could then and the world would
then admit, preence that the voice Of the nation 10
lank