The Virginian History of African ColonizationMacfarlane & Fergusson, 1855 - 116 páginas |
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Página iii
... Colonization Society a true exponent of public senti- ment , and a response to repeated de- mands of the General Assembly . Colo- nization and Abolition antagonistic : Colonization a safety - valve to the ship of State ; Abolition the ...
... Colonization Society a true exponent of public senti- ment , and a response to repeated de- mands of the General Assembly . Colo- nization and Abolition antagonistic : Colonization a safety - valve to the ship of State ; Abolition the ...
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... Society , as now embodied . But something more than mere political ex- pediency , or even motives of humanity , was necessary for the realization of this idea . Grand epochs in the history of man's amelioration are signalized by higher ...
... Society , as now embodied . But something more than mere political ex- pediency , or even motives of humanity , was necessary for the realization of this idea . Grand epochs in the history of man's amelioration are signalized by higher ...
Página vi
... Society were Rev. Dr. Findley of New Jersey , Bishop Meade of Virginia , and Messrs . Key and Caldwell of the District of Columbia . Henry Clay presided at the meeting on the 21st of December ; and address- es were delivered by him and ...
... Society were Rev. Dr. Findley of New Jersey , Bishop Meade of Virginia , and Messrs . Key and Caldwell of the District of Columbia . Henry Clay presided at the meeting on the 21st of December ; and address- es were delivered by him and ...
Página vii
... Colonization Society , whose be- nevolent designs were just ripe for exe- cution . We cannot tell how it strikes others , but for ourselves , we recognize with reverence in these proceedings what seem to us unmistakeable indications of ...
... Colonization Society , whose be- nevolent designs were just ripe for exe- cution . We cannot tell how it strikes others , but for ourselves , we recognize with reverence in these proceedings what seem to us unmistakeable indications of ...
Página viii
... Colonization Society , the fact which vitalizes it , it carries in its train many other benign results which enlist in its support the Philosopher , the Philanthro- pist , and the Politician . The Philoso- pher regards it as an ...
... Colonization Society , the fact which vitalizes it , it carries in its train many other benign results which enlist in its support the Philosopher , the Philanthro- pist , and the Politician . The Philoso- pher regards it as an ...
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abolition Abolitionists Africa agents amendment American Colonization Society annual meeting appropriation Assembly asylum Ayes bill Board of Managers Brodnax Bryce of G Cape Palmas cause Christian ciety citizens coast of Africa Colonists Coloniza committee Commonwealth Congress debate emancipation emigrants favor free colored free negroes free persons friends gentleman Gholson ginia Government Governor Governor of Virginia honor hope House of Delegates humanity James JAMES PLEASANTS January Jefferson John John Tyler land Legislature Liberia Lynchburg Madison manumission manumitted Marshall ment Messrs missionary Monroe Monrovia motion mulattoes native noes object opinion Patteson peace persons of color petitions population present Preston question Randolph removal of free Resolved Richmond Rives scheme Secretary settlement Sierra Leone slave-holding slavery slaves Smith Society of Virginia South territory THOMAS JEFFERSON tion Society transportation Treasurer United vote Washington William Witcher
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Página iii - And he said, BLESSED be the Lord God of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, And he shall dwell in the tents of Shem ; And Canaan shall be his servant.
Página 3 - However our present interests may restrain us within our own limits, it is impossible not to look forward to distant times, when our rapid multiplication will expand itself beyond those limits, and cover the whole northern, if not the southern continent, with a people speaking the same language, governed in similar forms, and by similar laws; nor can we contemplate with satisfaction either blot or mixture on that surface.
Página 18 - Commonwealth ; and that the Senators and Representatives of this State, in the Congress of the United States...
Página 51 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 51 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 5 - Having long ago made up my mind on this subject, I have no hesitation in saying, that I have ever thought that the most desirable measure which could be adopted, for gradually drawing off this part of our population...
Página 6 - Whereas the general assembly of Virginia have repeatedly sought to obtain an asylum beyond the limits of the United States for such persons of color as had been or might be emancipated under the laws of this commonwealth, but have hitherto found all their efforts frustrated^ either by the disturbed state of other nations or domestic caus.es equally unpropitious to its success.
Página 53 - ... more important to the slave States, is highly so to the others also, if they were serious in their arguments on the Missouri question. The slave States, too, if more interested, would also contribute more by their gratuitous liberation, thus taking on themselves alone the first and heaviest item of expense.
Página v - Whereas, the General Assembly of Virginia have repeatedly sought to obtain an asylum beyond the limits of the United States, for such persons of colour as have been, or may be, emancipated under the laws of this commonwealth, but have hitherto found all their efforts frustrated, either by the disturbed state of other nations, or domestic causes equally unpropitious to...
Página 5 - I received, in the last year of my entering into the administration of the general government, a letter from the Governor of Virginia, consulting me, at the request of the Legislature of the State, on the means of procuring some such asylum, to which these people might be occasionally sent.