LETTERS
ON THE
COLONIZATION SOCIETY,
AND ON

ITS PROBABLE RESULTS;
UNDER THE FOLLOWING HEADS:
Origin of the Society; Increase of the Coloured Population; Manumis-
sion of Slaves in this country;
LARATIONS OF LEGISLATURES, AND OTHER ASSEMBLED BODIES, IN FAVOUR
OF THE SOCIETY;

ATION OF THE COLONISTS AT MONROVIA, AND OTHER TOWNS; MORAL AND RELI-
GIOUS CHARACTER OF THE SETTLERS; SOIL, CLIMATE, produc-
TIONS, AND COMMERCE OF LIBERIA;
ANTAGES TO THE FREE COLOURED POPULATION, BY EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA; DISADVANTAGES OF SLAVERY TO
THE WHITE POPULATION; CHARACTER OF THE NATIVES OF AFRICA BEFORE THE IRRUPTIONS OF
THE BARBARIANS; EFFECTS OF COLONIZATION ON THE SLAVE TRADE; WITH A
SLIGHT SKETCH OF THAT NEFARIOUS AND ACCURSED TRAFFIC.
ADDRESSED TO THE HON. C. F. MERCER, M. H. R. U. S.
BY M. CAREY.
TENTH EDITION.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED
THE IMPORTANT INFORMATION
COLLECTED
BY JOSEPH JONES, A COLOURED MAN,
LATELY SENT TO LIBERIA, BY THE KENTUCKY COLONIZATION SOCIETY,
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TO ASCERTAIN
THÈ TRUE STATE OF THE COUNTRY—ITS PRODUCTIONS, TRADE, AND COMMERCE-
AND THE SITUATION AND PROSPECTS OF THE COLONISTS.
FOR SALE BY CAREY & HART, PHILADELPHIA.
PRICE FIVE DOLLARS PER HUNDRED.
MARCH 20, 1835.
TEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON.

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•Cay
1885

"We may boldly challenge the annals of human nature, for the record of any human plan, for
the melioration of the condition or advancement of the happiness of our race, which promised
more unmixed good, or more comprehensive beneficence than that of African colonization, if car-
ried into full execution. Its benevolent purpose is not limited by the confines of one continent.
nor to the prosperity of a solitary race; but embraces two of the largest quarters of the earth, and
the peace and the happiness of both of the descriptions of their present inhabitants, with the
countless millions of their posterity who are to succeed. It appeals for aid and support to the
friends of liberty, here and elsewhere. The colonists, reared in the bosom of this republic, with
a perfect knowledge of all the blessings which freedom imparts, although they have not always
been able themselves to share them, will carry a recollection of it to Africa, plant it there, and
spread it over her boundless territory. And may we not indulge the hope, that, in a period of
time, not surpassing in duration that of our own colonial and national existence, we shall behold
a confederation of republican states, on the western shores of Africa, like our own, with their con-
gress and annual legislatures, thundering forth in behalf of the rights of man, and making tyrants
tremble on their thrones ?"-Mr. Clay.
"It will enable them to become a free, independent, civilized, and Christian nation in the land
of their forefathers. Elevated in character, and in full enjoyment of the rights of man, they will
not only assume a station in the great human family, which it is impossible for them to attain in
this country; but their example and influence will gradually extend over those numerous tribes,
which, through all time, have remained in a state of barbarism and degradation, and cruelly sub-
jected to slavery by surrounding and distant nations."-Dearborn.
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They point to Africa, sitting beneath her own palm trees, clothed in sackcloth, and weep-
ing for her children, and refusing to be comforted,' because they have been murdered on her de-
solated shores, and buried beneath the billows of the ocean, and carried into hopeless and inter-
minable slavery. Wretched Africa! she has indeed fallen among thieves, who have robbed and
wounded her, and she is now bleeding from a thousand wounds.
of a good Samaritan ?
Who will act to her the part
Who will bind up her wounds, and pour into them wine and oil,
and protect her from her enemies, and chase away those human vultures, that are perpetually ho-
vering on her coasts, and feeding on the flesh and blood of her children? Who will light for
her the lamp of science, and publish the glad tidings of salvation to her sons and daughters?
and raise her from that state of moral degradation, into which she has sunk in the lapse of ages?"
-M'Kinney.
"There is not, we believe, another benevolent enterprise on earth, so well calculated to secure
the favourable opinion, and enlist the hearty good will of ALL MEN, as this, when its objects and
bearings are fully understood. In relation to this society, it is eminently the fact, that opposition
and indifference have their origin in prejudice or want of information. Ignorance may raise an
objection which it requires knowledge to remove; and to rest one's refusal to co-operate in what
he is told is a good work, on his own ignorance, is both weak and wicked. Especially in relation
to a benevolent enterprise of such magnitude as this, and which has been some ten or fifteen
years before the public, the plea of ignorance is made with a very ill grace.
“Is a nation like this, to be embarrassed by an annual appropriation of little more than a mil-
lion of dollars to the cause of humanity? A nation, that can extinguish in a year, twelve mil-
lions of national debt, and at the same time prosecute with vigour its majestic plans of defence
and internal improvement? A nation, one of whose states can hazard six millions of dollars on
the project of opening a canal ?—a nation, whose canvass whitens every sea, and proudly en-
ters almost every harbour of the globe ?--a nation, whose villages and cities are rising, as by ma-
gic, over a fertile territory of two millions of square miles?-a nation, destined, within the com-
pass of the passing century, to embosom a white population of eighty millions? With the past
smiles of Divine Providence, our national debt will be soon annihilated. And from that glad
hour, let the government provide liberally for all its necessary operations-let it push forward in
its splendid machinery of political improvement, and then give to our cause but the surplus of its
revenue: and as regards the expense of transportation, it will [at no distant day] furnish the
means of granting to every African exile among us, a happy home in the land of his fathers."
--Rev. B. Dickinson.
Every emigrant to Africa is a missionary, carrying with him credentials in the holy cause of
civilization, religion, and free institutions.". - Clay.
"We know of no cause in which the lovers of mankind, the patriot, and the Christian, can
embark, with surer, and more brilliant prospects of success, than in the cause of the colonization
of our free blacks on the coast of Africa. The philanthropist and the Christian may find in that
section of Africa, in which this infant

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bered thousands-where all the
a beacon fire is now blazing, wh
deserts glad with the sentiment:
"To the lasting honour of the
that continent, of which the bas
it happily through the perilous s
in the full possession of the mea
anticipated opposition, the stand
experimentally, to the world, th
1816-17, without funds, patrona
illions of imortal beings, as wild
annually into antivity its unnum-
rpetual. In this benighted land,
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founded a new empire on
onal liberty; has conducted
h;-has seen its members
nd sustaining, against any
Society has demonstrated,
they appeared 'before it in
human race, "Ashmun.

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