Letters on the Colonization Society; and of Its Probable Results V. 1

1 Mathew, Carey, Letters on the Colonization Society; and of Its Probable Results (4th ed., enl.) I (1832)

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COLONIZATION SOCIETY;
AND OF
ITS IROBABLE RESULTS:
UNDER THE FOLLOWING HEADS:
The Origin of the Society; Increase of the Coloured Population ; Manumis-
sioi of Slaves in this country;
DECLARATIONS OF LEGISLATURES, AND OTHER ASSEMBLED BODIES, IN FAVOUR
OF THE SOCIETY;
SITUATION OF THE COLONISTS AT MONROVIA, AND OTHER TOWNS; MORAL AND RELt-
GIOUS CHARACTER OF THE SETTLERS; SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUC-
TIONS, AND COMMERCE OF LIBERIA;
ADVANTAGES 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
TIE 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.
FOURTH EDITION, GREATLY ENLARGED AND IMPROVED.
Nearly two thousand persons have kindled a beacon fire at Monrovia, to cast a broad blaze of light into the
dark recesses of that benighted land; and though much pains have been taken to overrate the cost, and llnder.
value the results, yet the annals of colonization may be triunphantly challenged for a parallel.
Five years of preliminary operations were requ-isite for surveying the coast-propitiaVng the natives-and
selecting the most elit&ible site. Numerous agents were subsequently employed-ships chartered-the coast
sleared-schools, factories, hospitals, churches, go ?ernment buildings, and dwellings erected-and the many ex-
penses requisite here, were defrayed;-and yet, for every fifty dollars expended by the society from its commence-
ment, we have not only a settler to show, but an ample and fertile territory in reserve, where our future emi-
grants may Isit down under their own vines and fig-trees, with none to make them afraid.' During the last
year, aa amount, nearly equal to the united expenditures, has been exported by the colonists. Fro f Philadelphia
alone, eleven vessels have sailed; three of them chartered through the efforts of the Pennsylvania Society, and
bearing to the land of their fathers, a large number of slaves, manumitted by the benevolence of their late
owners.-1Crson.
PHILADELPHIA, JUNE 19, 1832.
STEREOTYPED BY L- JOHNSON.
Reproduction by Permmission of Buffalo & Erie County Public Library Buffalo, NY

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