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20th CONGRESS, [ 178 ]
1st SESSION.
LN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATE$,
AI RIL 28, 1828.
MR. TAZEWELL MADE THE FOLLOWING REPOUT:
The Committee on Foreign Relations, to whom were referred sundry
petitions and memorials, and the resolutions of several Legislatures
of different States, in relation to the colonization of persons of colour,
have had all the said documents under their consideration and now
beg leave to
REPORT:
That they have not been able to discover, in the Sdveral petitions,
memorials, and resolutions, ttoheibre 'rrea,-any preclThe-d--- comton
object, which the different applicants desire should be accomplished,
by the exertion of the legislative powers of Congress. The memorial
of the American Society for colonizing the free people of colour of the
United States, recommends, generally, to the aid and patronage of the
government, the plan of that Society, for promoting its objects, by
colonizing the free people of colour; without indicating in what patti-
cular mode they wish the aid and patronage so solicited to be exerted
or furnished. This general recommendation of the American Colo-
nization Society, is supported by a resolution of the Legislature of
the State of Ohio, as general as itself. The petition of sundry citizens
of the State of Pennsylvania, is somewhat more precise. This prays
that a, Suitable asylum may be provided by the United States, some-
where on the coast of Africa, for the reception of such free persons
of colour as may wish to migrate to it. Sundry citizens of the State
of Ohio, and others of Minot, in the county of Cumberland, in the
State of Maine, have also presented memorials, containing similar ap-
p'lications; and praying that the asylum, so to be provided, may be
opened to such slaves as the humanity of individuals and the laws of
the different States may permit to emigrate thither. In connexion
with this measure, these latter' memorialists also suggest the import-
ance of setting apart, from the annual revenue of the government of
the United States, a suitable fund for furnishing not only the means of
transportation to such free people of colour as may be desirous of emi-
grating, but also the necessary aids to such humane individuals as may
think proper to liberate their slaves, with a view to their colonization
on th coast of Africa.
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