The Virginian History of African ColonizationMacfarlane & Fergusson, 1855 - 116 páginas |
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... Jefferson , Madison , Monroe , Mar- shall , and nearly all the governors of the State , and by a greater number of eminent Virginians than ever concurred in favor of any other measure of State policy . In the year 1607 three English ...
... Jefferson , Madison , Monroe , Mar- shall , and nearly all the governors of the State , and by a greater number of eminent Virginians than ever concurred in favor of any other measure of State policy . In the year 1607 three English ...
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... Jefferson pre- pared a comprehensive plan of coloniza- tion in 1776 ; but nothing definite was done , probably because when the report of the committee of revision was acted upon , Jefferson , its chairman , was in France , and ...
... Jefferson pre- pared a comprehensive plan of coloniza- tion in 1776 ; but nothing definite was done , probably because when the report of the committee of revision was acted upon , Jefferson , its chairman , was in France , and ...
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... Jefferson , howev- er , continued to agitate the subject from his retirement at Monticello ; saying , in 1811 : " I have long made up my mind , and have no hesitation in saying , that I have ever thought this the most desirable measure ...
... Jefferson , howev- er , continued to agitate the subject from his retirement at Monticello ; saying , in 1811 : " I have long made up my mind , and have no hesitation in saying , that I have ever thought this the most desirable measure ...
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... Jefferson , then President of the United States , in stimulating and shaping those acts of the General As- sembly of Virginia which led to the for- mation of the Colonization Society . We shall now see his agency in a higher sphere , in ...
... Jefferson , then President of the United States , in stimulating and shaping those acts of the General As- sembly of Virginia which led to the for- mation of the Colonization Society . We shall now see his agency in a higher sphere , in ...
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... Jefferson ; its nurture by Monroe , Madison and Marshall ; by the Gene ral Assemblies of 1800 , 1802 , 1804 , 1805 and 1816. If our space sufficed , we would adduce the acts of Assembly in 1825 and 1828 ; of 1833 , 1849 and 1853 ; and ...
... Jefferson ; its nurture by Monroe , Madison and Marshall ; by the Gene ral Assemblies of 1800 , 1802 , 1804 , 1805 and 1816. If our space sufficed , we would adduce the acts of Assembly in 1825 and 1828 ; of 1833 , 1849 and 1853 ; and ...
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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.