Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1862-08-27

The COLoNIzATIoN PRoJECr.- Senator
Pomeroy of Kansas, whom the president has
secured to look after his scheme of colonizing
the free colored population of the country, has
issued the following address to the people
whom the subject interests:
To the Free Colored People Of the United
States:
The hour has now arrived in the history of
your settlement upon this continent when it
is within your own power to take one step
that will secure, if successful, the elevation,
freedom and social position upon the Amer
lean Continent. The president of the United
States has already signiied his desire to
carry out fully, in the letter and spirit of the
late act of Congress, the desire of the Nation
al Legislature, which made an appropriation
to facilitate your emigration and settlement
i'll some favorable locality outside Of these
states; and at his request l have consented
and agreed with him to aid you in organizing
this emigration, and in selecting a locali-
ty that will be valuable and attractive to
your people in itself, as well as give the
promise to you and to us that it shall be a suit
able location for a great, free, and prosperous
people. | now address you as one awake
to this momentous revolution in American
fiict of arms, whereby you are led to hope that
in this unsettling of established institutions
your people may go free. This, then, is the
hour for you to make one earnest effort to Sc
cure your own social position and independ-
ence, by cooperating with those who now
reach out their hands to aid you. l ask you
to do this by the pride you may have to
make another exhibition to the world of the
valor heroism, and virtue of the colored
race; by the love you may have for your
struggling and oppressed people now among
US, as well by the hopes you may indulge of
making smooth and prosperous the pathway
of coming generations.
| propose on the LIST day of October next
to take with me one hundred colored men as
pioneers in this movement, who, with their
families, may equal the number of 500 souls,
and for whose benefit the appropriations in
the acts OF congress referred to were made
The president will provide us the means of
transportation, and the protection of the set
Element. Being familiar with organizing and
settling the early emigration to my own state,
(kansas,) indulge the hope that that ex-
perience may be made serviceable to you. [
am in earnest for the welfare of your people,
present and prospective. | want you to con
slider this as an suspicious period for you
If this travail and pain Of the nation becomes
the birthday of your freedom, let us plant
you free and independent beyond the reach of
the power that has oppressed you. Consider
this as an opening by the wisdom of Divine
Providence when you are called of God to 90
with me to country which your oppressed
people are soon to receive for their inheri-
lance.
l propose to examine, and if found satisfac-
tory, and promising to settle You at Chrique,
in New Grenada, with the approval Of the
government only about one weeks sail from
Washington, ID. c. All persons of the Afri-
can race, Of sound health, who desire to take
with me the lead in this work, will please send
their names, the NUMBER sex, and ages of
the respective members of their families, and
their post Office address to me, at the city of
Washington, ID. G.. No white person will be
allowed as a member of the colony want
mechanics and laborers, earnest, honest, and
sober men, for the interests of generation,
it may be of mankind, are involved in the sue
cess of this experiment, and with the approba-
ton OF the American people, and under the
blessing of Almighty God, it cannot, it shall
not fail.