Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-11-09
Vermont Colonization Society.

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was held in the capitol, in Montpelier, on
Thursday evening, October Goth. Hon.
Daniel Baldwin, President. In the ab-
sence of the Chaplin, the Secretary, by re-
quest, read portion of Scripture and off
cred prayer. f..o 4
The Treasurer, Geo. W. Scott, Esq,
being absent from the State, the Secre-
terry, Rev. j. K. Converse, made state
ment cf the finances of the Sociey, show
ing that 50, ,178.S8 had been collected in
the State and paid over to the parent So
ciety. $500 Of this sum being legacy
from the estate of Mrs. Ann G. Burnell of
Woodstock. Extracts were read from the
Report of the Board of Managers showing
encouraging success in the labors of the
year, that the cause still has the sympath-
les of its old friends, and is constantly ac-
quiring, new friends from the ranks of
those who formerly opposed it or stood a.
loof from it. The annual address was de-
livered by the Hon. j. II. B. Latrobc of
Baltimore, President of the American
Colonization Society. The address was
rich in facts, arguments, and in illustra-
tions of his subject. ..t.. ..-....
The speaker said his sympathies had
been identified with colonization for fifty
years or more, that his recollection went
b"ck to the origin of the society in 1916,
that at about that date he was riding home
from Washington to Georgetown on horse.
back one evening when he saw lights in a
Georgetown church; with boyish curiosity
he tied his horse to a post and went in,
saw quite an assembly, lighted up by dim
tallow candles in tin sconces, and found
Francis S. Key was talking about Africa
and of some plan Of sending negroes there
What that plan was he was too young tc
comprehend.
From the date of that meeting the
speaker briefly sketched the great events
and results in the fifty years of colonizne
Liberia, till now. when we see a Christian
/ nationality of colored men and women ir
Africa, "a nationality which has become
q center of attraction to all the scattered
children of the race, and an object of sci
entifc and commercial interest to all the
nations of tho world. The scheme of col
onlzation had been wonderful in execution
with humble means, without the patronage
Of the government, it has built up re
public holding an honorable rank in thu
family of nations, with churches and sch
. ools, with free institutions modelled upol
our own; whose agencies are at work, no
r for the welfare of one people only, but fo
: two quarters of the globe benefting A
S merica, blessing Africa, obviating in th
t one an otherwise inevitable and securin,
e in the other the ful6lment of prophecy.
G The speaker alluded to the prejudice
b formerly INDUCED by many people agains
: colonization, and showed clearly how thes
p, prejudices arose from misconception, bu
: they had fallen with the fall of slavery
He showed that the real aim of the foun
e ders was to encourage emancipation an
$ build up Christian nationality in Africa
t He spoke Of the active interest tn
= State of Maryland had taken in this work
: that her Legislature had appropriate
!. from her treasury S250,000 within tn
c last twenty or thirty ears towards plantin
$ the Maryland colony, which is part ofth
Republic. He said the work of coloniz
4 alton has been going on faster since tn
: war than ever before that. 2,345 hav
d emigrated during the last four years. Ii
e predicted triumphant future for this en-
v terprise, and showed that causes are nov
!. operating which point to such future.
+ He asked, what are the causes tha
led to emigration? l'"' -
Colonization depends ON the attrat
- tions of a new home and the repulsionS 0
the old. Both these causes are now act
. ing upon the freedmen. What led to til
peopling of California? The courageous
the enterprising. q. II -f'--1 = M
d What led to tho peopling of Austria
ia2 Gold was found there. Now igol
d has been lately found in Liberia. .W
3 What brings 200, 900 of ths Irish yea
r. ly to America 1t is the repulsions Of Ii
,. old home and the attractions Of the ney
h These causes, with improved education
will ere long carry the freedmen to Lii
. eria, as the Irish and Germans arc no
p brought to this country, .u.ts,s 80
in This outline of Mr. Latrobe's addre
ID does not do it justice, it merely indicat'
l. some of the topics which were happi
!, and forcibly presented. t,
N The officers of the society for the ems
III ing year are as follows: o.r
I'd President-Hop. Daniel Baldwin.
pc Vice -Prssidents--Hon. Jno. Gregg
10 y. Smith, Hon. Samuel II, Kellog. ~.
,t Secretary--Rev., j. X. Converse.