The ... Annual Report of the American Colonization Society ...: 1828, Volumes 11-15The Society, 1828 |
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... present condition , or the past history of our Society's existence . The past has been fraught with diffi- culty , and the present is replete with glorious promise : Both make us ac- quainted with our power , but admonish us , that we ...
... present condition , or the past history of our Society's existence . The past has been fraught with diffi- culty , and the present is replete with glorious promise : Both make us ac- quainted with our power , but admonish us , that we ...
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... present , should not satisfy us . The spot on which we have founded our Colony was admirably selected ; and so long as emigration con . tinued in its present limited state , that spot would be sufficient for all our wants . The time ...
... present , should not satisfy us . The spot on which we have founded our Colony was admirably selected ; and so long as emigration con . tinued in its present limited state , that spot would be sufficient for all our wants . The time ...
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... present capital of our possessions . From the Senegal to Cape Palmas will then be our own ; and we have only to cast our eyes upon the map to see the admirable frontier , which will be thus formed for our possessions , —a frontier ...
... present capital of our possessions . From the Senegal to Cape Palmas will then be our own ; and we have only to cast our eyes upon the map to see the admirable frontier , which will be thus formed for our possessions , —a frontier ...
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... present motion is premature , and that the time has not yet arrived for making settlements at the places which I have men- tioned . But that the purchase of territory , the erection of buildings , and the gradual increase of the ...
... present motion is premature , and that the time has not yet arrived for making settlements at the places which I have men- tioned . But that the purchase of territory , the erection of buildings , and the gradual increase of the ...
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... present year , fifteen hundred emigrants . But , as it is , had we millions , it would be the height of madness , to send a number suf- ficient even to double the population of our only settlement . The number of emigrants must depend ...
... present year , fifteen hundred emigrants . But , as it is , had we millions , it would be the height of madness , to send a number suf- ficient even to double the population of our only settlement . The number of emigrants must depend ...
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adopted Africa American Colonization Society annual appointed ARTICLE Ashmun Auxiliary Colonization Society Auxiliary Society benevolence blessings Board of Managers Bulama Caldwell Cape cause Charles Christian ciety civil coast of Africa Colonial Agent Colonists Colonizing the Free Colony of Liberia coloured population Committee Congress Constitution Daniel David ditto ditto duty Edward efforts Elisha Whittlesey emancipation emigrants enterprise evil exertions favour feel following resolution Frederick county friends funds George Georgetown Gerrit Smith Government happy Henry honour hope human individual influence Institution interests Isaac ISAAC MCKIM James John Joseph labours land Legislature liberal Maryland meeting ment Monrovia Montserado moral nation native object officers Ohio patriotism persons Powhatan county present President R. R. Gurley Report Resolved Richard Robert Samuel Secretary settlement settlers Sierra Leone slave trade slavery spirit success Theodore Frelinghuysen Thomas tion Treasurer United vessels Vice-Agent Vice-Presidents Virginia Washington William
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Página 14 - And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God ? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath?
Página 79 - That our Senators in Congress be instructed, and our Representatives be requested, to use their best exertions to procure the passage of a law...
Página 13 - The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other.
Página 13 - The parent storms ; the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated, and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.
Página 59 - It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of the Society and of the Board of Managers...
Página 15 - And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy wine-press: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee, thou shalt give unto him.
Página 14 - ... nature and natural means only, a revolution of the wheel of fortune, an exchange of situation is among possible events; that it may become probable by supernatural interference! The Almighty has no attribute which can take side with us in such a contest. But it is impossible to be temperate and to pursue this subject through the various considerations of policy, of morals, of history natural and civil. We must be contented to hope they will force their way into every one's mind.
Página 11 - The object, to which its attention is to be exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for colonizing (with their consent) the free people of color residing in our country in Africa, or such other place as Congress shall deem most expedient.
Página 33 - That our Senators and Representatives in Congress, be requested to use their best endeavours to procure an appropriation of money of Congress, to aid, so far as is consistent with the Constitution of the United States...
Página xxiii - That the Governor of this State be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing resolution, to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, and to the Governors of the several States.