Indiana State Gazette, Volume 1, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1829 — Page 4

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JVOKE iS liCKPOilBS ADDRESS. l-KU-o-v-Lini:.:

It l.CvOiiu j ;r duty, in con:-e.i.cnce ol n.c appuuv.mc r.i vatn

vhch I hre V'M '10IU;r',-j 10 ad in si to yo;i some observations iclative to the object fo wluch vc have convened. A S:atc Society has been recently creir;;. 1 "'r wvixiii iry to tin: American Colonization Society, established at ,u ,',v ff Washing on : an ! ;hw x.) the day of our First Staled Meeting. 1 set-

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i'l CM H'llfO Ot tiie impor.ihce OI Hit" i.V..i;iVJ.J, in iwv aiuuuuiiu' t..i uus imin.Hii a:. I lespeciable u;.hence. It u i.ot only the subject of our counties v.eb'a.v, v i:c!i imi'cs our attention; but it is the sai led cause o: humanity alc, tint assembles us together tht cause which is i'.mdly cherished in every vnuioMj bosom: a:.d whit! r.cver appeals in aiu to a generous community.

The "ve it ob.ee t of oar Taretit Institution is to ieuioe, with their consent, the iM ople ef colour v. ho are now free, or shall hereafter become so, from the V:ti;ed State'; and to Colouizo them ujxai ti e western coast ot" Africa. The

ruccsitv of takir.'i ?o!iu me .sarcs to n moe the tree blacks from among us. hi- Ion 2 laeti obviou? to eevy retlectit.g man. The rights of those unlortun i e people, md the inc: eaiiitig degeneracy of their morals, are pressing themsalus more stronidy, every day, Uhh the consideration of the public. It is verv vr.er.dlv admitted, th.it the. introduction of negr-KS into the .New World. U the jreatest misfortune tint has ever befallen it. It now more than t'.i hundred voar vmce r practice was cemmenced, by the Curopeans, of fo.cinj the un.-iVcmding inhabitants of Afrioa fioin their homes, and transom inn me n to the VY. - rn Colouie-s ;s acs. The Portuguese led the way, a? early .-u in this nefarious buMiiess. The Spaniards, Fie.'ich. Dntcii, liiilis'n soon followed tin example; and hae been ulikedi-tinnisii-id in tiieir bar!aruj ca.ccr. Some of the Colonists in Am iica tot, aid cvr;1 si- it v.ith reluctance ;ome of the citizens of the- I'nitod Slatt s,

tie if to the voice of inercv, have acted a consp.cuous purt m this tragic scone.

extenavelv und tcrmtHiCiitiv UwCtul. lint ihc.-e mconvcnierifc?, it is nop c, i:,e

will soon bo p ut. Associations arc already feniiinir hi the Lnitcd States, to secure to these Cc!c:ii?ti: the best opportunities of education; ami Missiona

ry Societies, both here and m r.uropc, arf? already sc.uiing to tlieiit ttieir -ues-? enters cf peace. The progress in agriculture and commerce, made by these blacks within the few years of their Colonial existence, displays an industry, an enterprise, and a canac.it v, of which thevrnav be nroud. It not onlv sliows us the height,

to which they may be destined tori.re; but that also from which, -amid the revolutions of the world, they Irae probably fallen. Many of them, from their attention lo business, are already worth sc.eral thousand dollais. They have, at their own ports, built and lilted on, several small vessels, for the purposes of commerce. During the. last ver, tiiev had four schooners sailing under

t lie labcnan mii winch were iifr d in trading wiUt the natnes on ttie coast, and with the Kurotean sr tilen -nbi at Sierra lavue, the Cape of ( Oud Hope, and olhr plice?. 'l'i:e country produces, in abumlance, Indian corn, Hice, ColFir, Cotton. Indigo, Su.ir C'a!:e; Mines. Ciangts, Tine Apples, (I rapes; Sweet Potatoes, Vt u,-, ; He..! r, Vvu !vi:.s, Ceciiml eis. Kcry account IV( 111 there is of a favourable character. The Annual Reports ot the

lmard of Managers; thr e ; ntatiows ofthe Cohiual Agent.s; the circular

addles X the Colonic.- t!i"in b.cs, in lNJT, to the f;ee people ot colour in

tht? I'iiited Stat-sjth - b'-.'inionv if .entlemc!i, unconnected with the Society,

who h.ie recently visited the Colunv that ofCao'aia Nicholsim ot the l-ni-

:at-3r.nd sciences of civilized life, and the divine religion of the Saviour oc

of the woihl, into the u'enlightened and pagan regions ot Atrica, be an ob,h t liitfHv dcseivin" the attention of cveiy good man? The v.hcle human

species belong to the same family. Inhabiting nearly cveiy country on the alebe ac1x-n'ii:odated to every climate, from the equator toCue-nland in the north and to Terra del Fuego'in the south living where spirits of wine boil

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with the heat, and where mercury Ireezes v.itn me com o.ey pirjs one l A,. 4...... tlw c:.,,i.r n-ufTll- :ili? -l 1 1 .rt ri

'.oriiHUin liaiUo , ila.C uesu iiucu m'i .'". 1 t -" ' "

i;c. .. . .1 v.-ill bo rewarded or uunisked alter death, by the s;.n.e At-

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throu:

ted States" navv amoiiif o!',rrs; the in rease of the liojnihilion since 'S.t

from oueh'.mdred and forty, to jif'een lmtuhed iuh :bit:mts; the fact, too, that, wihiri the list year,! he Co! mi jts themselves exported sevenly thousand doll irs"

worth ot prodiw r; all unite in proving the prosperity of the Colony. 1 he

fi st attempt ot (iiei llritain, to plant her Colonies m America, was not

successful. 'J'he stf'tleuiont of Virginia in lf07, af;er the lapse of seventeen

la cnrise pier.ee of the"s!ai-trade, thus earned on by f!urope.u:s and Amer- years.au emiirratitm to it of nine thousand poisons, and an expenditure ot one r ins 'he si .ive-population of the Columbian Archipelago exceeds, ery far, inunhed and f.ii- thousand j (minis, s- ueelv contained two thousand inhabit!ie number of the whites. In Cuba, for example, there in said to Ie secn tanis. The pae which shall reord the eens of me first years of Liberia,

hundred and tifrv-!no thousand inhabitants; of whom, four hundred and sixty- will present to the world a very ditlirei.t picture fo m that which describes the

iv. t mil mi ire Atncaii slaes. l no number 01 inuauuau in jaiu.uca, m -ariv saen;i a mui sulteniiL's ot our aucesters in America

w .s th;ae hundred and sixty thousand ; of whom, three bundled and

fif ecu tlav.s md weie negu'es. As tt the emj ne of Urail, tlieie were imported in'o one of its ports, dunng the ten last yeais, two hundred and sixty thou?md she-; a:. d, within the last year alone, foity thnv thousand lie hundred and rif:-t'oe. It is to t.he same sh uaeful trathc, that the I'mted States are inde' ted for iiieir black popul ition. Tins consisted, in WJO, of one million

live hundred and thirty-eight thousand one humlred and eighteen slaves. and

It was, at lies, a great pition, whether the free blacks would be generally willim to remoe to Africa. That onotioii, it is I elieved. is now set

tled in the alliimati'.o. A circumstance, sinkinulv illustiatiu; of their dis-

position to enimrate, o- urred in theeailv his'crv of the Celonv. A lew

days pn viomsU to the s li'.mg f lheCswto. in i"J!, tlie news arrived of the hostility of the natius, and of the war tl.ev had waed anainst the Colaas's. At that time, m ! v-ono ra-n. es wa re inst a:; mbled to embark, 'i'he

s of Africa, be an ob- .. ,n , tbev ! -.1. . V

f ambition, or fist, toexciiM ;,,.. '

ertion. incv -,. . "

ed ftcrn tl-MK- ,;"

pursuits in bu3:::.... those theatvc"-f,

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mi-ditv nowertliat cailed them into existence. Some ot them, possihly, may

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be more happily situated than ourseues; but mat manner is, imiiru.amipj: tielv small.' V'e have a temperate climate and a fruitful soil. W e lie under a

rovernment f.eeas theair we breatlie; and are blessed with an hgion puree?

the Spirit of Cod. But far, ery tar ddlerent, is the unnappv situation ot the Lneaterpartof the human family. The present occasion, however, dees not

permit me to take the slightest view ot their various iortur.es; ot thetyranm cal einnressifm of the governments, under which many of them groan; or o

the rnidni'dit darkness ot the idolatrous wors-hip. into which many 01 t:i-m

hae fallen. Nor is it necessary that 1 should now stoj) to p-.cser.t you with flie imperfect accounts, given to i s by traw 1! rs, f f the urdetteu d jnlatien of that extensive continent, on which tiro Society has established its Cnu.-

nv. 1 must be permitted, however, to remind you, tnat if, among all tie! torn r-,i:

hapless descendants of our common lamer, the re are any people who ban- a aea's h!

?Kcial claim upon our geneious sympathies, ami our chantahlr r.ssi.;a:ce. to : .injia'i.izo

ior v .

nd for Lij.f-, C1-; lowers of tl.e . which the ivcji, solve: had t:ot A.: scir. us that t!vr;'1 j se tiin3 C(i. it is unfair to

horn th

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that tl f ir rail!'!,, tare, are rnc'.:r..'',.,

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two niudred and tlnrfy-tnrtv thousand fue bundled tunl lifty-si-eii liee bbicks. ' al.irming news did not, (bra moment, shake ike resolution of one of the

I s i .11 no; trouble vou, at this tune, with any furthe; remarks upon this sub

yv T;i- reference now made to it, is merely to remind you ot the origin, a.id t!.:' process, of tl;e i lack population in the Western World. The ige in a hu h it u; mma'ed, h is long since passed uwuy ; ami the slave trader of tkose tr ies bs niouldermi in tl.eehist with the ?Les winch he imjNjrit d. '1 14t tl co! .- 'juences, however, ef the unhallowed act liae iieur, lor a niomen', te d ) operate; but have leen cuiiiiinially spieading far and wide, for me l,ii t,ir.e ceat'iru-s. their baneful intluence. '1 iie American Colonization Socie'v, m m.dtrtikm to restore to their own country the blacks within the l ie'cd S'aU-s, tims origin. illy introduced among us, who are now free, or shall in future Urome -o, apjals f-r assistance to the liberality, to the patu-01- , 'o the pfnkmthrepy of tiie Ameiican people.

A t:.. h.-'0;V of that Society may be souawtiat newto a part ol my audi-

Cr.Mpoatl ,i;li their degradation here, whether bomi

iiee, the perils ot

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the ocean, the difficulties of settliiw on a distant, hostile coas had to th

nofc'.ror;. Tiiev we.e joire' to t.he native home of the 1 lack man; and to breath the air of liee.loni. The Socie'v has never had any diilh ulty in procoring emigrants. The iuun' er of applications for an opportunity to ;jo, is mcreasirirj ery year. The Twelfth Annu d lbeport of the Hoard of Mana."rs, made in .lanuaty list, states, that tilers were then nearly six hundred fee persons of colour, et king a passage to Liiieria; and that the owners of moie than tv.o hnndit d lai,-:. had. during tlie pre ions year, oik; red to liberate ihi m, providt I the Society oonld send tlam t r the Colony. The urea d.d'cnltv, a m 1 iiideed tlie enlv one, expo; ioneed at this tir.nf

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may nol ne oiners equaii luuoi uo. ie. mu u: .a. m .i: ..--hav have reason to complain of the injustice of our country 'hey ar the only people whose chains, in the language of a distintiui. bed orator, do not burst i'tomaround them, the moment they touch the- sod t,f frcei.ba.f. Th'-re iseveiy reason to b liee, that the establu-hment of our ( 'oh -nies in Africa, will l,ae hem l-cial inihieiice on her do ueiate so!.,-, li is st it'-i bv Hishoii White, that thenatiu- chiefs hae already s nt int I.ibirta more

b:m : bm died of their hihben to be educated. This s;mde 1

evidence, that the Colonies mnv nrove to be fount tins from winch the stream

of civilization may llow thiouuh deserts, ami fertilize regit ns, which c.cii j r.i.shak n f.; the enterorize of a Park, a l)-nham, or a ( iipin rtf.n, has not been able to; ware e sv e j-

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exjilore. Th( v may jaoe t be e tch a nuisoiy ot h'armng and piety itr

the neigtitiouiiiio, Mate.', as ua iai-rameo. icoimKin was once, o r u

vibirfi iinoii!..li-(l if I ini

........ ........... , Hut the iews of the Socieiv. in plantinf: theX' Coh.nies, an- not limitid 1 p.r.t t.-u; . to the abolition of the s! ave-tu.de, or the dmusingof ki.oledL'e in a tiueiun ! tl.evo j..-, j.i land. It ha other objects to cci mplish, intimately connect d with the pnan n,l? prosperity cf our countiv, and deeply adtclmg tiie future tletiny (?t its j Chra-tcn black population. The hr.-t oarY'o of coloured eoph', landed on cur s. il, Wa- ! It v e ; brought over bv a Dutch snip from tiie coast of e.umea, near where l.d.eaa is : t'a-l :n,i ,.

variety o) j 117 ll 7 . !

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.e Soeu-iv. is, that it e.'intiot command the binds n. c( ss ; lbr theijts-

i;io:i acr;-s !;i- Atlantic i

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c-:o e, a bru f st : ment of so . v of tlie leading circumstances connected with i ' -a ;ha of taking ver ea h individual la it;g abet;t twen v dol it- a o , m ,y. j-riiaps not be uiuccepuble. In looking around for the With nt vor e n-nleia c resources, hut little can at last be dene. The

o re v c ice it oriirtriated, our attention cannot but 1-e directed to the Hut

i i C 1 my of .ici ra I .cone. It w is these, when the elo-pience ot W illrloice, a d l'o, i;,d Hi t,hid fu ed to aroust. the Hntih Smiate aijainjt the sk.t . i Ir.tiii? mdivid ual beneoleuee de.ermiued to exert lier humble tllints. T;u' C. l-)nv,o;i the we en coast of Africa, was settled in 17ll, wiibthe-few 11 t it a ii Knjlarul, and about one thousand hum .oa-Scolui. '1'iiese peo,.!.-, .ion.' i'ere in peace and independence, and imjiediiig when in their p-.wf" t'e pognss of ttie shve-trade, necessarily attracted the atteniion of the A-u r. in p dm iiropH. The Legislature ot' irginia accordingly projos d. mo-e etj.n luenty veirg t.go, t ! io ( .'olomzathm in Africa of our free jeoplc ol co! .i r. T'lfren a lettrr ot Ir. Je feriii's on tlu' subject dated m lMl;and a ine fen Dr. I'mlcy, of .( w-Jv.m y. in 1Mb In theeailv part otTMti, about thirty free 1 1 eki we:e indaiu o sad from Hoten, wiili i'til Cutli-e, in o-I t to unite thir fo fines with their brethren at Su rra Leone. 'I'he pdgrarn o- eie l th'Mo the !iand of fia ndahip, and hospitality welcomed them to 1 r s.u'.hng s'lo-es. In I er;n; e:, 1 Dr. Fin ley usited Washington Ci'v, uiid introduced In fivouti'e s i'ctot Colonization. A few diaiui-g'n-bed geritlcmen imuieilia'elv uni'edwitli him; and,m the litter fart of the I i nth, t;.ey o-gauized the p-cAcrit American Colonization S(K-iety. 'I'he Fi Annuil M etirig was held at Washington, on the first of January, lsls. I i the sp' iug fbljowmg, i's Agents, Messrs. Mills and Hurgess, exploied the v.o'rrn eul-r of Africa, pn-p iratorv to the contemplated settlement. It Jnj pe-i'-d, f .r'u.'t I'ely for the Society, that, in 1M'., the American Cong ess, in i's me is-ri s tor he prolnbitiori of the sb-ve-trade. autiior.zed tlie l'resident to c i.u- tin.- Afrtc:i', who should I e re-captured by our t rui'ers from the ;'.a'.e-sair;' n -1 broijjh' m'o the L'nbed St oes, to be restored to their nitiu-cm-itry; : ; r i J aut!iorized him -dso to establish an Agency, on the coast of A fpc a, f.,r the r ri f .'ion. In r c-cutirig this 1 iw, the Iht sident, .Mr. Monro -, jjr-ed in concert with the Society, and rrave to its mfant exertions his liberal report. In l-'JO, tlie f.rsi ship, ti e Flizibeth, sailed in this noble cause, for the

V'-tern toast of Africa. Hes,de two Agent? on the part of the government, and o ;e fbr die Society, this e-el earned with her alxmt eighty fic-e people ot ( oh.ur, to commence an establishment at the e.-nse of the United States; . ''. w ts to he not only ihe go'.ernrnent Auency, under the act of Congre.-s. tut yim offree-dorn, under the direction of the Society, 'i he place o a- ir te'aiKi"' ry settlement, the island of Sherbro, proved to U; unhealthy. '1 he Xir'-ntrin I some of the Cohiriists dieil : the others, in the spring of 1-21 , v moo d o Siepa Leotie.not ve ry far distant. In December of that year, an Ag- nt of h' Society, wnha naval otlictr of the I nited States, succeed-d in 1 siei' fiom the natnes, for aUut three hundo-d dollars, ibe Moinserado tetriorv, otua'e,l on the western coast of Africa, and now known by the app --;im i -e n no.' of Liboria. Kaily m 1S', the Colonists, who had previously goae Su rra l.ef,ne, hok pissesioti of their newly-acquired territory. Tht,r . rr. . , X 1 I ,, r .......... 1.. I ..I.I.'

j " 11 o eiiiiovem' ii, intuit;', mmiii aiarmeu uie ignorant, supcrsv ois ni'ivis; md war, in the autumn following, was the conspieiiec. 'I' i 's con' -,r, iio yeser severe for the time, was neither long nor doubiful T te b-,v (!r i their num-r being only about thirty exhibited upon thi.; ot sier,. oral, r their gallant el(( r, Mr. "Ashmuii, tlie skill and valour of veteran s !d s. Th.;y were fighting for a sjot on which they might eiect th st oi ! ed of librty 'hey coul I not but 1h- brave! A wild, 'disorderly crowd, of Iro n s h sn bed toijim- hund'ed assailant.;, were, acrordinuly, soon put to tligh'. Tins d.-'-isive ictory silenced, forever, all oj)jositi(jn. The n rrih i it .M-e ; b -came coninced that their new neighb(urs were invincible, i to n t ia time, the Colony date; its prospeiity. Other emigrants soon be--gmto ;,rove; and, in lsg., tin i r number had iucroa: d to me hundred and buy, t th- Annual Meeting of the Society, in 1VJI, ih,. name of Liberia w .s .d p'. d for the (;li r.ial ternt.irv; and, a ; a tiibutc of respect to its ear

ly a-in ois mguine.i n teioT, ihe n uik

;:rs. So

ciety, ; hat i! may be e:. abb d to pms-ie its object in a der e somew hat commensurate to its important- !iaing sho'.vn wh it may i.e accomplished i i;ow ap, .lying t'or a--is ance. with loc.t solicitude, to the ci'izei-.s of the difU rent Matt s. Fulihc op.imt.n ise'.erv wh le i : 1 1 1 1 s i ir ir. its favour. Virginia, the State most iuteies't d, is tak;:g the lead, .lud.e Washington, of that Slate, has always been the President. Tiiere are thete, mote than thirty Auxiliary Societn s, beside the State Institution. Of the latter, iheChiet Just.ee of the I'nited Stats is ihe l'resident; ; nd .Mr. Mat!ion ; nd Mr. Monroe are Vice-1'n sidents. He.-id.e more than ne !n ndied Auxdi tiv Si -eieties, in various p;-rts of the I'nion. thetewerc, at the co:nmemement ot his year. S ate Institutions in eh- en of the States. Ours, j.ist commencing, is now convened tor the purpose, nmon-j others, of t ; k 1 1 : i a brief iew of the proceed ovjs of the l'arent Soc h ty ; and of piesentui:; to the patriotic, the tiumaiie, ami the generous, its 1 iiin for iheii support. It is anxi. a:-!y b,.p d that the l.ibt nan I olenv, with such t.tl.t is ;.s its benevolent touiideis s!i .!! t t ibb'i on tii'- African const, in ly lurnii onibnIiTahie aid in tiie reat ni'i t now- m tkini'. by the European i ml Aino m an e(, -eriinicnts, for the suppia ssion of the s lava-trade, 'lo that barbarous lo.lla, 1 Iiave aheady had occasion to advert. Its prosecutiou tor the last thue hundred yeass, forms the dot K st and the hbukest s'ain m ihe i harm-tor of civilized nations. It w;o; nearly twenty ye tts ifter the introluctioii of the subject into the Hriti-di I'arliament, befoie her distiugui-hed statt.smen could sin -ceetl aganist it. InlMlT, however, that n jIioim n;.c ted a I ivv for us abolition. In ic-coidmg t.his bulliant Lta in the lit gl.sh iinnals, well may Iter historian boast ot the magti:"iimou example, which h:s country had thus set to the woild. The constitution of the United Slates prohibited Con mess from preventing the impottab'-n d' slaves, previously to le;. On tiie insi of January in tnal year, an act of ong-ess agaitiM il took eliect. The United Stales and(iie it Hritait!, in ihe treaty ot jn uce rMsi.ed in iM." , pledged their exertions for the s;ipp'et-ion of tins inuie in slaves; and, in the same year, the Ivjtopeail l'o-.ve;s. at the C(;i:-;e-s (f Vjeuiia, tlid I he same. France, Spam, Atis-tna, Fottuiial, and oti e; nations, liave taken mcasuies

against it. In 1 '

land, in ltji, lollovved the examnlt

Alt tiios,.; pioeeefbngs, hovvt ver, have ia t aceouij-lishcd t!;e object. The .-lave t ratio lias U cn cariied on, during tt.u presen' ve;r, as g oal an extent, -and ii:;dercircums!ai:ce- as ag' rivaled, s it li "d cer bcar7oefore. It is so proiitible a business, tlmt. as yc, it h..s put at deliance all opposition. Ihere is no n sic, not even that ef life, that Hie sh;ve-tiader Hesitates lo i:udeitaue lot the accemplishmt nt of his purpose. '1 here is no crime, not oven ilial of murd- r, that be does not cheerfully commit. At the snnne ol Avarice, he saenht es cvt ry ft -cling, ami every prmapic, v.luch distingnisJ.es thecnaiacter ol man from the nature of a brute, lie leans the unoitcnumy Aliican Irom lus t ountry; liom his Ih-ihc; in in his: friencs; fiom his family toe cluhlien from the;r parents even the mother tiom her iniant babe.

ue .sto-.vstnc-uiaway m t;e !.,ld f bis ship, and chains them iheie. Tiiose, un-

toituaaely surviving the dreuv pass;....-, belauds in the West 1

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iiat any tifal. in iaic-

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sitmited, ami sold in viounia, a! out twohunurtd vearsajo

been for our country, bad slit- then, and h rever afu r. rt Ii.

such I'amlora to approach her shoo s. We have 1 eer: scdmvd, hewevi r, bv i Hie Li.i'ru Stus. tlie gilded prosjiCcts of wealth, of eae, and luxury, piesei.ted to our v lew inr.-r e, an n r,. . by the laboiir of slaves : arid have admitted into our host m, an extensive black J country It v.;.; -. ; Hpulatioii, whosi existence here ii a reproach to u nation, boasting of its ; over, always so. A' .' . tieidom; and whose rapal increase is evervwhea: contemplated w ith serious wo know that u alarm. In the extensive couirrv north-west of he Oliio, there are noshes; Afiica was the dieir introduction having been prohibited by the ordinance for its early gov- j the arts at.d sea t.-o einment. In the noithem and most of the middle Stales, they have been ! place whence th-,.... genendly liberatt d. Their number 1 here, ctmparatielv sjeakn g, was al-' civilii-ation were ;. ways small. This may be principally attributed to the fact, that slave-1 tbour t r'1 d mto I. .". ;t. is not generally profitable in those States. 'J'he productions of the South, j inow. tro, a:.- ':

tlie a:!.ititatioii ot the Atrican constitution to that climate, have made the lMrt 1,1 11 ( o;i.. r.u :

ot a Republic, v.... ... : tended fur w w itli Rc-iuc 1 - :. the euij'ire -f U.c v.. : Hut the -d.irv c: :.

I mted States ileel ued it lo ie piracy; and Lng-

nuics

lim..l, in sc.'.ne of our own States; and drives them to thu maikels of h

lave.v. W

'Inert, sukt to tlie highest biddei, ihey linger out Ihcir days

Liman

i.'l

e.v. nere is the man, in contemplating o r own conduct in tins busi-

icss, mil U' es not e ve! air.i in the Hi.r.i .... a" Mr i..m;.i..i. . I .r.. i'..

bo assist in outiin- a check

ol .! iiidVia was riven to t)a inu-n

r. gul r,s(em ofgovernmrnt ;d fi.rmtd b themo-jt cou.tent men, wis d'i'mg il.eamyfar, adopted tortln- Colonv ; ami has ever since continued m s.:, . , ,.1 ,,, ration. It consist oft. constihition, and a di'Tc,, (f .u 4 lie prricapd otti crs are an Ag, nt, appoinu d by the Hoard of Alan e'er- !.-ge-ber with a ,r,...g,.r. ?,( Cottiist Hot.-, a Shentb Regi.fer, and Trca-.i-rer thrte.1 ly the to; holders within the Colony. Tbt.eaieobo Juries ol the l. ;K-e,apjM,mted by the Agent. The com titutiori ; ecuics lo the Colonv, among, .ih'-r thing:--, the ef.mnion lav; of Lmda.ai; the wns,S the Lu'--'i1. and A-nrricancouits; and ih- trial bv jurv! N'.ne v ears have now passed away, ince the p.isw, rs of the Klizibr th h t bnded iu Africa. o t xtraordmarv dillicultv bus occurred, exreptm . the mc' ihssiii 1S-J1, ,,,4,ie i-landofSheibro, and the war d" lvjg, t, im" p--le the advance of the Colony. Its prosody, indeed, for the seven Lsi e ir-. Ii i. fe v ev irniilos i:i llie r. r f.fC.I i.:.... 'vt i. . i .. i

. i - . ii. i, 14 iu oi v.oioin u SLwie:nems. i.i:,rt

Uu-Mj ,;!,- of territory have been undo, within the three or four last ve;..,i i 1., there were eight Stations, within o ,e hundred and forty miles, tmt he gov, rumen? of the Colony; ;.r,d, in lSjs, there were fourteen hun- , 1 l,ff!ri'",,,!l'-1 'r,lCre an Jlt V'HU sevc-rnl fortification, clmrchr-s, h-.ibhouses .audotuerpubhcb.i.fdmg,. Some of these hive been erected

I .1 9 .

OV f.ie l, mted .Nfite f,,r fU! o-imn-..- eJ'f b. i, , .i . .i .. i .. o..

. F.,, .. .. 4 .--..vij..- uie ouieis oy me cjuV'i I , 7V'n; ""''"'flit education among the Colonics g. nerallv, will b'I'lyho found, for uwhile, one of their mt s-ious d.lhculties in an tuT'T' T Rvc,jn- tbin. can secure perpetuity to their Jiberttes, but the diffusion among thetn of useful knowledge- Of this great truth they appear to be conwimN Thnm t. i ..

b lUrspiid attho Colony for th-j Eup;,art of education; three hundred of liirharc mu W the ciety-the les-idue by the voluntary contribution of

v.,h...3.s uio.iN-a. s. j near instructors, however, being bhcks,are only "-HC, "IS VCb to tearb tbo rommr.r. .nr,,.t.CT ..C.J m . J

- w -w-- ------ v iiiuivii oiani in - ill I'lini- i ir. ii ooir itrtiow.M

my couutiy when 1 leliect that Cod is jus V

to me noma traliic, vvhu h is contmually p oducmg efk-cts like tliese, is, as i

nave ou.-erve..i, one ot the objects of the Colonization Socieey. The slavetardeus, it is well known, o!)t:u:i t!-.eir drgors almosi enlneiy V.oui the westem oo.-.tol Africa. Lveiy Colony , therefore, ,f civ liized inhabitants, established on that coast, and resolved to stop this trade to the eteu: of its means, will, ut all events, put an end lo it for a considerable distance. The Colonies ol Sierra Leone, and of Liberia, both pioduce tins elii-ct within their redu ctive vicinities. They furnish, also, many onveniene s to the national armed snip-:, sent out by their res Motive ginermu' ti's against tlie tlave-vcs.-is o:i the ctist; and, mdted v.ith the government Agencies, are places ol piotection, whither the re-captured Afiieans may be sent, and vvJieie they will always li.ud a home. Tiiere v ere at Sierra Leone in IS'1.

at Icist ten thousand blacks, who had been lo-eaptmed tVom the slave-ships by the Hntish cruisers-, and liberated; and Liberia can alrea !v bonst of a respectable number, indebted for their liberty to the American Hag. 'JiieColomes, established on that const, wi'll pioduce another salutary ll'ecl against the si iw-trade. The Africans theie, and iu the interior, are m a ru le, uncultivated state. They have neither learnimf nor religion among them. Tiie eonseuuence is, that the petty, d( luded pnnc. s of iJie country, eut.ced by die slave-nader with high rewards, are contiumdly waging war ag .m-L eaclioihcr, for the base purpose of making prisoners to be sold as s. aes J in.- they could not be prevailed ujien to do, were they a civilized people. In m 'king Tlicnii this Colonization plan must have considerable influence-. jth ij- advatilages the Colonies may v.ssess at the commencement, and the opportunities for improvement they will enjoy under the guardianship ot their founders, they will be so many luminaries in the deseris of a benighted laud. The Colonists, conspicuous for their religion and knowledge, for their industry and eiiterprize, for their love of freedom and abhorrence of the slave-trade, will spread abroad over that ill-fated country, the invaluable blessings which they themselves enjoy. In doing this, they must give a vital stab to the progress of the slave-trade; and, on this principle alone, had they no other claims, they would merit our support. That trade is a Hydra, which nothing but Herculean labour can destroy. Every measure within the compass of human power, calculated to impede its pro

gress, siiouin ami must be brought to bear against it

tountry, wha't-var

have bc-en, has it i in 7i v i .1 )

a.-.t

many

.1,

slaves app arendv profitable these. I lent e, neuly all the blacks of our countrv are resident within a few southern States. Virginia alone, in 1VJ0, contained four bombed and sitv-tvvo thousand. The whole number of these jiet pie, at present, in the I'nion. is estimated at two millions; and their annual increase, at fift-two thousand. Their increase, vvhirethey now principally are, and musi continue to lie while among us. !- moM' rapid than that of the whites. It isc ib ulated that their number, til y veats hence, will be twelve millions. .Many of you, to whom I am now sje iking, may live to s,.e tkat time. This whole black insulation, too, mnt be confined to a few States; and ten millions of the number will he absolute slaves. Where is the icrlectiug ,na,u ufK) can look forward, with indillerence, to a state of things like this! These people will piobably continue, in consequence of their degraded situation, what they now aie generally a low, ignorant, debased multitude. The- b;o thai inilm nee of an overwhebiiin:: Kpulation of this description, upon the habits ajid mannerseil" the

community within which they may live, is incalculable. And should tbev ever, when time shall have thus increased tht ir numbers, fly to arms to re-the-ss their wrongs, and to be the rulers in the ir turn, who among us can prediet the consequences! This much is certain : If ihey continue i-morant

tlunr demoralizing influence on the white population, must keep pace with the increase of their numbeis If they become enlightened, they will not long continue slaves. It were madness to shut om eyes lo these facts and conclusions. This rapid increase of the bheks is as ct rtain as the progress of time. The fatal t onse.juenci? of that increase, if it be not checked, are equally so. Something must bo done. The American Colonization Society proposes a remedy the remov d to Adiica of the blacks who are fiee, or shall hereafter become so, with their consent The number of those now lite is large; and their annual increase is estimated at six thous: nd. They are a burthen,' generally, wherever they are. The si ive-ho'.dmg Slates do not wish their residence within them. The iiou-s.lave-holdiug States would p-efer to be without them. irgima prohibits the emancipation of slav-s, except upon the condition of their lemoval within a ceitaan time. ( hio h is taken die stror'gt measures, to exclude them from her soil The solicitude through. m the l nitcd States isuniveisal, that we should he rehevt.l fiom the free blacks. The Society if sufficiently encouraged, can and will render this gat benefit to our country. It will do more. It will greatly irxiease the disposition of those having slaves, to emancipate ihcm. We know that their owners aie liberating them every year. '1 his they will do far more t ten.,ivelv. when the nir.t .a

Christianity shall be more widely diffused, and when the fiee blacks : hall j character, thaeb:t -havt; ;i comfortable home. I iuudreds, anxiously wishim to release ib ir Unbars in the I-

slaves from bond ige, are eh teried from mdidi'inj the noble li t lm-r h-t -tattsor in

cr J i . .i

since tusanu -.n

the inhabit.. r.'s cf rs terior have re:naii:t-.i. t." ages, almost u." ::.. and unknown. T.'.o t;. e ls of Park UiN? "Ivnvv J some infomiauen rting them; and tl.cs-: : Denhain ai d Chipp::- ' much me;e. 'lie Journal of CI. yy ' who died nc.r S.Cv .' n 1J7, iiitbm.s v. wherever he trv.e:. found the 1 lacks a: e . ly numerous, b "- and Idokitrous, it i- ': but frequcn ly c.y s to be hospitable M.u Ho repiesents tl..:r v. try, in n.anv smiling with fields' 'o.r

aim conen : ana ..

their cities, woa v twenty thoi.s ia! Te t. ty thousaial ir.iubit : lloiirishingauudh.ee and bustle, tl.c .C. and enktpiiie -'- e. merce. In viewing tie Atr.-.

when free, they should be less lesjiectable than they w. re when slaves

Libenan ( ohmy removes the; aj.piohension ; and presents lo the 'n neious (nvner,o:ie of the linest opportumiies for hi-. I encvolen.ce, that thi world can furnish. Hejides, thousand; of slaves, when the advantages of their ivmo avl shall Ih- belter imder-uood, and the spirit of emigration shall be more i-enerdly extended, will, by their own extra-exertions, and by the assistance of .their friends, become enabled to purehist: their freedom that tbev may remove to the Colonics. " '1! , . ' ...

liie Society, bom eonMderations like thtve, whilst it disclaims the remotest dcM of ever disturbing the light of property in slices, conceives it to be poibb- that tiie time may arrive, when, with the approbation of their owners, they shall ..4 be at liberty; ami, with those already free, be removed, with their own consent, to the land of tiieir ancestors. The patriot contempl ites, with delight,, this golden age. It w ill crown his country's fmie. Tin; Declaration of her Independence is, "That ail me n are created equal."1 This noble principle she will have reduced to practice, when, withm her borders, all men sh ill be lice. ' There is one other eliect to be produced by the operations of the Colonization Society, to which I must ask your attention before I conclude. It is the benefit that will be conferred on those fiee blacks of our country' vvho d-all Lesor.t tt, Atrien. They are of no service here to the con,muni,v, nor to themselves. I heir situation may be compared to that of the fabVd Wu-rer who surrounded by water and the most delicious fruit, is never peinutled to partake ol either. They live in a c.oiintrv, the favourite abode of liberty vitheut the enjoyment id' her gifts. It is ihe privilege ami the pride of an' V- ericanciti.en, to take a part in arranging, establishing, and inmroviriV'tlie forms ol his government. He may aspue to its highest office or to a -e it nuts Legislative Halls. It is he who exercises the right of sun'raeewho is one of the peers for the trial of his fcllovv-men-w ho defends by h,s valour, on the land and on the ocean, Ins country's rights. To all of these the black mat, ls aslranger. C.ve him lus freedom: (me him, if you please, wealth, nd vv isdom, and valour and virtue; Let him, l,ke the late Moorish prince, ,K; H' M1 0.. a k,m",:, h lVV,1I.l,,CSe av:iil lmn? U l11 ,k'V give him one ol those ,,ldical rights? Will he be received by the white man, as an 'qu i , withui the domestic circle; or even within the temple of his God!

ne lias no liberty He never can, in all nrobabilitv. havo anv in this

Afric . ! c:i

MM... i ev luehi n

u, . . . . .

blacks, fovvneso d' !

state 1 have refcrro , --' capable of bevetaUijiectable. If W I1'5"-';'; ev idence of this fuct ' e necessary, irnut i:.' fJ tlirect your attci.'i'Vi the r.eii hlnMiritc' h'',!-:'

licefllivti. Tht t..-Pj

there have not oam their valour, t stalks! .u an indepcu..'tat g',-,IJ'" ment; but liave ;.Lsa, their prudence, ed i for mar.y ;t:i!- " prosperity and !-':'7 Lvery d"-uM, YrC7;. entertained, n ta t.--:: dn. of tbo Atri:ai f-" ;' cevorniiiiait, ' r . -t i It -t a pvin a rci i' ouii within the ,ur.ilyol!iito..;iS by tht-evtr.ttu! ; that ib)i,n-i irr Uci ' ' put t. rt t f. Tt-vr-Thr-ilt-grcilatrn

tr.iar .-.

it !v

. fp. ' I m J Oil f 141 country. The negroes have been too long our abject slav'cs, they are genernil V. here, and always b-ivr hr-on trw ,ik...i , ,

(. ' . 7 :. - - -v..., utDJsm io uu leceiveu as our equals tmr prepidice agamst them, however unjust it may he, must continue It is as lived andjinchanocable as the peculiarity of their hair, or the blackness of their complexion. They are capable, however, it is k-lieved, to occupy, under different circumstances, a verv thllerent station in iho,.ri.i it .

. , i . ii une, vvue-:i we coinpaie

, t.ii .. .. ...

.Wngorth, tancd. have r.,1 " .... t.T.. 7' ,Mwr'. tr5''10"? :,s " 10 ljvc-tia!c sup-1 Uwm l, h lb, aocicy o,on,l Ihen,, llir inforiori, Tluir

u " l'u,"i; 11 "u" u ra",tKC-xo-a "oi a rauoml .,1m mtroducuig mind aw sMoti, if ever, tmsi into m-on CliaissJ down -e'l--'

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niir i i.nr.trv . ii O1

tiinr. n,U iheir iaii-i-

' ..e,. y... coiiit s ua, a-a civ--1-cliristian roninuiiaty, nitein every ratiwti" j1' proposed lor tl.e;r ' . ; not interfering v'it- f rights of other. ' . the American rok'i." Society to rcaiove t. -t-with their consent, to ; own countrv i"1 -,!iCn " -j They will there care. . anew life. They

o but the kWf fnrfdoni. The ece ; of thiaflanhas been t'' j

na .i nr cutca?i ' - v "

here are, at thHtii-.e,;

thy ana macp-y-