Maryland Colonization Journal Vol 3

Author : Maryland State Colonization Society
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330346488
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Maryland Colonization Journal, 1847 written by Maryland State Colonization Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, 1847, Vol. 3 But we now propose to use the argument of the thing, not of words. There is the "Liberia Packet." Six months since she was on the stocks. She has been once to Liberia, freighted with aspirants to freedom and liberty. She has returned again to this port laden with the products of that country. She brought home not one, two or three, but twelve witnesses, ready to declare to you " the words of truth and soberness." They are not hirelings - they are not suborned, perjured witnesses and slaves - they come not at the call or command of the "Colonization society," or any other society, but are engaged in the prosecution of their own labors, pursuits and purposes - and when these objects are accomplished, they will again return to their home. There, we say, is the Liberia Packet; and if it is an object for any of you to see for yourselves, if there is, for you, a better country, a better government than this, go and see. In four months from the 1st of September, the day of her sailing, she will again return to this port, and then, if you choose, you can return to your brush or razor strop, your curry comb or your dray cart. If, after having once enjoyed the bland breezes of the tropics, after having seen the free ocean waves dashing on the free soil of Liberia - if after having seen the thriving towns of Monrovia and Harper, with their schools, churches and halls of justice - if after having seen the magnificent palm waving over the hamlet of the contented and free colonist, you can again return to the lanes and alleys of a crowded city, or quarter on some worthless pine barren of some lordly proprietor, and take permanent rank below a refuse European population, without any privilege, save to toil, or any liberty, but to live? Do so - and thereby confirm the assertions of your worst enemies. Dr. Alexander on Colonization - Continued The 3d Chapter of this work contains a brief history of the origin or first conception of re-colonising the expatriated Africans, in the land of their ancestors, and we trust no apology will be required of us for giving it entire. The whole matter relative to Dr. Hopkins and his promising protegés, is entirely new to us, and doubtless so to most of our readers. The names of Dr. Hopkins the veritable founder of Hopkinsianism, and Dr. Stiles of Yale College, the Historian and almost cotemporary of the Regicides, sound strangely indeed as "Fathers" of the colonization scheme; but, "It is a legacy worthy of such fathers." "If the scheme of colonizing the free people of colour, on the coast of Africa, should eventually prove successful, it will hereafter become a matter of curious and interesting inquiry, where, and with whom, the idea of such a colony first originated. As it relates to America, it has commonly been supposed, that the first distinct idea of transporting the descendants of Africans to the land of their forefathers was entertained by the Legislature of Virginia. But it is a fact well known, that the colony of Sierra Leone had been planted on the western coast of Africa, some time before the secret resolutions, on this subject, were adopted by the General Assembly and Senate of the state of Virginia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com