The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1892-03-16
4 New Agent for COLONIZATION.

ciety issued the following appeal in 1889:
ADDRESS OF THE NEW JERSEY coLoNlzATl \
SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1859.
And now for our appeal. Our sole OBJ
ject is to CltristianiSe africa. 1t has
been hardship that our aims have been
stated so differently. The fathers of the
enterprise had but one thing In view. We
have on our continent the seven millions
OF English speech, who are the only COM
pact body Of negro Christians on our
planet. We can pick out from among
them regenerators of a continent. Six
teen thousand previous emigrants, slowly
sent ever (and not picked carefully 40 we
can now pick them out), have grown to
tweRty-oue thousand Liberians.
These, governing themselves, and with
no help of whites, possess a territory Of
five hundred miles of coast, and have liv-
ing under law in four Republican co0n-
ties, one million native heather.
Europe, turning her eye to Africa, has
Dutch and Scotch and Belgians,. Portu-
guese and Englishmen, and now Germans,
and on the East, Italians, struggling for
colonies on her soil. The hybrid charac-
ter OF mixed white and black which medi-
cal authorities warn Us arc nc, q per;ns-
nent race, and more Immediately to the
point, the fever, which acclimates the
black colonist aud finally kills the white,
are already disturbing Europeans. Oar
black citizens, humanity speaking, have
Africa in their hands. 1t sheis to be won
by colonists. they are the colenists. We
pronounce Liberia already the champion
| mission, and we say that one hundred
dollars, settling a Christian among the
heather IS it does among the millisn Of
the Republic, Is the most effective mission
money that can be spent for Africa, and,
In fact, the most frugal appropriation for
knowledge.
Our Society, acting under this stimulus,
have commissioned Rev. George F. Love
as their agent. Their work Is to be puF-
sued with method. They will depend
| on book subscriptions. A pile OF books,
one for each town, or city ward, will re
present the plan OF the Society. The sub
scriptions one year will he memoran-
dun for the subscriptions Of the next. We
will depend upon newspapers and public
meetings and personal intr0ductions to
friends as preliminary to our agents en-
trance to plant hook, and we hope that
this method will advance, and become an
example to other States, aud, perhaps, to
our National institution la it's mode OF
getting forward.
Meanwhile, we hope this paper will in
troduce Mr.. Love and thoroughly authen-
ticate his aim with those whom he may be
able to visit, and would say that each sum
that he collects will go upbroken for some
time to come TO the sending of emigrsnts,
for that benevolent lady has undertaken
his own personal remuneration in the first
period OF his agency, and that the Ma
tional Society. at the instance of one OF
the Jersey Managers, has unanimously re-
solved permanently to pledge themselves
TO their auxilarles to use their own funds
for office expenses, and TO pass what an
| auxiliary RENTS, without diminution or
expense, directly to the work Of sending
| emigrants. Under this offer hundred
dollars, which is Just the cost, will send a
| picked man to Liberia, and sustain him
there six months.
w. T. FINDLEy,
DANIEL PRIoR,
JOHN WOODBRIDGE,
| JOHN MILLER.
Committee on Appeals of the New Jersey
Colonization Society.
! w. w. BoYD,
| j. f. WrLsoS,
| 4. r. CRAVEN,
| ). X. WILSON,
G. b. Fisk,
Managers.
They sent out with 1t the Rev. g. F.
Love, a Baptist minister who, along with
the President of the Society, Rev. Johr
Miller, succeeded In raising, chiefly IL
Princeton aud Newark, $500, sum large
than any other State gave to the cause IL
the year Of Mr.. Loves agency. Befor,
bis retirement, partly from III health, a
the close Of the year the Society was with
out an agent, and has continued so till th,
appointment of the present agent, Mr.
Fred. W. Rochelle, who Is In town, and
who Is 10 begin bis work In Lambcrtville.
A Princeton lady again offers to pay the
agents salary. The two Studdifords,
father aud son, Ashbel WEIGH aud Other
citizens Of this region, have left an In.
fuence that would make it favoritr field
for the support Of Colonization. and may
well recall it's friends to Lambertvile when
they wish to begin again a movement 10
| its behalf.
Thirty thousand colored people are
eager to emigrate, and though nobody
dreams Of sending even one thousand, YET
the application OF SO many gives a splen-
did opportunity to choose few, and with
a little care on the part of the Society,
will at the cost Of 500 each, make noble
additions to the Christian thought Of the
Republic.
Sixteen thousand have been sent 10 the
past. Twenty.one thousand they now
amount 10, they and their children. A
million are under allegiance to their gov
crnment as confederated natives. The
ablest negroes In the world are there and
10 the colonies of Great Britain, and every
superior American that goes (and we ne,
choose only such), for so frugal cost as
one hundred dollars, raises the average Of
the whele and helps TO assimilate to the
truth the masses Of the heather. Where
was there ever better mission
We trust that Mr.. Rochelle may be
taken by the hand by the old friends OF
colonization, and that In the families that
favored it a generation ago, now that the
motives are even stronger, still better
work may be done, and stiIl warmer
friends may be raised up, to brighten
this wonderful light In that savage land.
J. ii.
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| Don't Do 1t,
Said my physician, who for six months