The Virginian History of African ColonizationMacfarlane & Fergusson, 1855 - 116 Seiten |
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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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Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 18 - Commonwealth ; and that the Senators and Representatives of this State, in the Congress of the United States...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.