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Meeting cf the VI. Colonization Society

Meeting cf the Vt. Colonization Society.
MONTPELIER, Oct. 20, 1860.
Editors of Free Press:
The annual meeting Of
the VERMONT COLONIZATION SOCIETY last eve
ming attracted hut few Of the assembled wisdom
OF the State After the usual preliminaries Rev.
Mr.. Lord of this place offered resolution express
sive of great confidence for the future Of the
Society, and enforced the same in some Interest,"
ing remarks Taking for his ''text'' as he said.
three considerations. which he allowed all might
claim should be met and fulfilled in any enter
PRISE seeking approval or aid, viz. it should be
necessary, it should be 5enefeeHt, it should be
practicable. The necessity, he arguel, grew
on, Of the fact. among others equally important,
that always the negro has required the and Of
the Angio-SaIon to lift him to condition Of
credit snd independence, and that in the Bible.
no where else,the assurance is found, that al
nations shall be brought to enjoy the glorious
light Of the Gospel, and that the good and pious
Of our land can never shake of a sense Of obli-
CATION to help thus TO bring in the latter day
glory sud cause Africa to stretch out her hands
unto God II was 5cHcfesnt, since the white
man never will allow the negro to take position
Of social equality even though his constitution
could reach it by the aid Of his fellows Of the
more advanced and cultivated races-that how
ever much good men might urge and however
sincerely they might desire, and however ear
nestly they might hope, and however justly they
might demand j; that ill in point Of fact, the
black man never would be allowed TO reach
plane Of anything Ike an actual social equality
in this country,-thst the white man never
would admit the African to that intimacy Of
personal contact we are oflen - ready and eager
TO sccord to and desire from our own raee-thai
he never will. only in exceptional cases, be ad-
mittied TO an equal right in the white mans
house or to wed the white mans daughter-thst
,he universal voice Of history declares that the
Aug.o-Sa1on race always have and by some
manner of means they always will oPPTes' their
interiors, that their natural lust for domin-
ion, their domineering and tyrannicsl spirit, as
aI,rovs before, 80 now, will be sure to fnd its
victim, and that, right or rrong, while within
his reach the negro will most assuredly come to
feel his power.
It was practicable, as illustrated by the law
of mutual attraction and repulsion among the
Irish in their native land once almost as poor and
degraded as the negro, they have swarmed to our
shores, driven by the tyranny at home and drawn
by the liberty ere.And though it had never been
expected that the whole mass Of Africans IN this
Country should be expatristed, though If by
simple writ that could be done, he could never
consent to dcluge that young Republic Of Liberia
with the ignorance and debasement Of four MIL
lions OF emigrants from America consigning 1t TO
+, yraydfrom which there could be no resurrection,
vet by slow degrees as they are ready and eager
TO embark, many christian families will be en-
grated on that young republic and elevated to
all the high privileges of an independent and
noble nationality
II had Just now been whispered in his ear
"the end Of the rar is the end Of your society,"
But the end of the war is not the end of our
soeiety-hov can it be? Before the war We had
only mesgre few along the borders and in the
free States to act upon, but now with so much
nerr ,nGisriaI ready to hand, the work has but
w. he ~ Of he
white man and in the negro's breast as 1t IS now
and ever will be, the feeling expressed by Prof.
Freeman in late letter from Liberia, that his
first breath o. manhood. his realization of noble
aspiration, was after he stood the soil Of Africa
with that feeling OF repulsion behind them,
and that power of attraction before them, the
work was bu, Just begun. He Believed and had
always believed the negro might be found equal
/ to this great work. lie was willing to stand as
the prophet of the cause,-with one prophet
whispering in one ear. the war is the end Of your
society, and another prophet whispering in the
other ear your work is done, he was yet ready
in that their home to stand as the prophet Of the
society. Surely believing what he said he should
most undoubtingly wait to see the constant in
crease of the power and influence and usefulness
Of the Society.
cannot convey just idea Of the force and
beauty of the effort; the grace and propriety,
the earnestne.s and candor Of the speaker re-
qune to be seen and heard to be appreciated.
/ Yours, p. ID. Z.