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pungency and effect of tiie best managed irony. There is a sort of 4 faint praise' which is fatal to a cause. I Ie asks 4 What is justice Whatever it may be, one thing surely it is not. It is not wiUiholdicg from rthers that to which they have a right, cither brause they are ignorant and vicious, or because it is inconvenient to yield it. I would refer O.

C. and others who 'wish more light on Una point, to the 5Sth chap, of Isaiah. The use which he mates of his facts in regard to the frays said to occur among the slaves when allowed to attend the funerals of their comrades, has doubtless reminded the reader of a certain amusing specimen of Hibernian logic. Pat had lain all night upon a rock. Arousing himself in the morning, he happened to espy a solitary feather beneath him.

'Och said Pat, 'if a single father was so But the great proportion of crime among the free blacks shows that they are not fit for liberty. It is on this point that I wish to say a few words. Let me not divert the attention of any one from the slaves. It may ba that our country is trembling on the verge of destruction, because the christian community has not allowed itself to feel what is the length and breadth and depth of the wickedness and woe comprised in that horrible statistic. It might easily be shown that the degradation and crime of the free blacks is the a prejudice due to slavery as its origin the necessary result of that wicked system which strives to monoplize, not only the boun ties of Providence, but the light of the Sun of Righteousness.

Let U3 hear a word from the Prison Discipline Society. They say in their First Annual Report, after having given the statistics of the subject: We derive an argument in favor of education from these facts. It appears from the above 'statement that about one fourth part of the expense incurred by the states above mentioned, (viz. Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont, New-York, New-Jersey, and Pennsylvania,) for the support of their criminal institutions, is for the colored Again 'The expenditure of (the Bum expended for the support of colored convicts in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New-York,) in so short a time, for the purposes of education, among a people consisting of only 54.C0O souls, would very soon raise their character a level with that of the whites, and diminish the nimbus of convicts from among them, about ton fold If, however, their char-ater cannot be raiszi, were they are, a powerful argument may be derived from these facts, in favor of It would seem from the language of the Colonization Society that the experiment here proposed must have been made that Ameri- i it. I.

1 i i colored men; alter havinsr nut forth their uni ted energy, to collect them into common and Sabbath Schools to pour into their ears, in the house of God, in the prayer meeting, and in the domestic circle, the healing, elevating truths of the Gospel had at length given over in flat despair, and be taken themselves to resort. A most forlorn resort truly, if, when all this expense of -education, moral ayH mental, has left them sunk ten times deeper in crim? than the whites a perfect mr.sance,7 they are to be sent to Africa to be elevated Would a christian father, after the best discipline of his own country had left his son a reprobate, send him to Paris to the fascinations of the Palais Royal to be elevated Eat what are the facts in the case Simply these. I. In every State, colored men are the subjects of degrading and vexatious civil disabilities. In many, they are excluded, by the very constitution, from every civil riht II.

In regard to the common elementary education of the blacks, no State government, if I am correctly informed, nor any considerable brly of Christians, have done any thing which deserves to be called an attempt. HI. E.Trts have ben made occasionally by individuals, which have been almost uniformly successful. IV. In many places the colored people support schools of their own, and are ris'ng in moral and intelligence.

V. African Sabbath Schools, wherever es-t ib-lsherl, are successful. VI. This success has been achieved in the face of unrelenting prejudice. Look at the little corner enclosure in our magnificent churches, entitled 'colored seats' insulated as if occupants were pestilential and to be subjected to a perpetual quarantine, on account of their color.

Does the Gospel ever eros over into them Yes proof undeniable of its power, it does sometimes. Yet there is a repeljency in this arrangement, I which added to the heart's own aversion, drives many a poor sinner forever from the fountain -of life, and for which these refined and honorable worshippers i the body of the house, little as they think of it, ir.ay have one dav to answer. At whose door, then, I'm the sin of African degradation and crime Look again at the Legislatures of the free 6tates, at the present time, almost with one consent grinding to the dust, or scouting off, these poor harmless black men. Do not these sage lawgivers know that their own enactments increase the vice and crime of which they complain? Whatever may be said of fhe guilt of southern Iegilntinn, the preem- y1 inence in shame must be reserved for our' querable by bowing to them, as the ordina-own boasted Ohio It iwVht be well asked, i tion of Providence and by adjusting its move-with what narcotic drug did our legislators to the humoring and gratifying ot them i- it lends its whole influence to strengthen and manage to quell the feelings of common hu- cfim, thera manity within them, while with due formality That it wastes blood and treasure by at- they passed and placed upon our Republican i statute book, that act, of more than Turkish I intolerance, to prevent the immigration of blacks That law, which, if it has not caused us to blush, has caused the friends of humanity to blush for us, may be found in its place, and the miserable Jesuitism by hich it was recommended may be seen in the Ob server and Telegraph for Feb. 2, 1832.

But to be brief, if possible for a good medslave while it3 existence and opera icine, when it acts too violently, must be given in smaller doses I conclude, I. That Colonization, as a remedy for the evils of our colored population, is uncalled for, the previous and obvious and sure remedy not having been attempted. II. It is mockery to talk about their voluntary emigration, while the blacks are subjected here to civil disabilities, tliroWn into a distinct and degraded caste excluded from the mean3 of common education, and told by all that is 'good and great' in the land that they cannot rise here, even with God's help. These conclusions would stand, if there were not a slave in existence.

But, as we have seen heretofore, the abstraction of the free blacks does affect, most injuriously, the interest of the slaves. Thus the Colonization scheme is mischievous in all its tendencies. (Mark: I say nothing of the motives.) To the 319,509 it is downright persecution. To the it offers a delusive hope mere woeful than black despair. If there is even a semblance of truth in what I have said, how much do those men value the independence of the press, the rights of man, the interests of their country or the happiness of their race, who would hush up this controversy? Have they, in their own minds, met and vanquished our arguments, long ago Then in the name of pity let them bring forth their 'strong to reclaim a few whose breasts are beginning to be inspired with a zeal against their Society, which floods of degradation cannot drown.

E. W. It need not be said, after what the report alluded to has said, that the re-enactment was wholly imaipn-ary. Those who observe the tendency of present things must be allowed to guess, that the suggestion came down pretty directly from a certain hih place, where it was hinted, the measure would be quite acceptable. Htoso-n, Ohio, Dec.

22, 1632. To the litor of the LAberalors Dear Sir, I hasten to do justice to the a cent of the American Colonization Society, mentioned in my last communication, by say ing that on the fcer "urejety, he addressed to Professor Beriah Green the following note. The 'censure' alluded to, was the simple statement that he ourht in candor to have at least rea before the audi ence objections invented by himself. IIudsov. Ohio.

Dec. is imi Mr. Green, Sir, I am just leaving tow nnd have time merely to say that I shall address you in a few days, and ffive at'larjre the reasons I had to believe lhal you would have done yourself the justice to have called and apologized before this for the very unjust censure Jo were pieasea 10 neap upon me Uie oilier evening. I herewith send you, according to promise, die objections verbatim wilh the exception of two vords, and I shall, of course, exneel that von ill r.f,nr-,l .1,., favor and send me all that lay" on the table that even ing. 1 wish you to give them verbatim, except the tuMT vi buiiiu inning misiaKe.

Yours, respectfully, R- -PLCMLEY. Rev. B. Objections to the Colonization Society. 1st It is a slaveholding scheme, having for us oujeci inn continuance ot slaver) by removing merely the free colored people from among the slaves, masters are delivered from the fear of insurrections, and thus are enabled to rivet the chains more firmly on the necks of their miserable victims.

'2nd. It is ayankee notion, gotten up in New-England, and transplanted to Washington City, professing to have in view merely the removal of the free colored people, but whose secret and real design is to unite with ultra abolitionists in exciting the slaves to cut the throats of their masters. This is the objection of an advocate for slavery, and was never attributed to Mr. G. '3rd.

The Society in professing themselves competent to the isk of removing the great and rapidly increasing evil of slavery, are deluding the pub'ic with a hope. '4th. The Socie ty has waged war with the nativr-s of Arrica. 5th. The Society has carried on with the natives a traffic in ardent spirits.

''Ith. By exposing the colored Agents, and Missionaries to an unhealthy climate, they are causing an awful and unwar rantable destruction of human The following are the Objections and Ques tions laid upon the table by Professor Green and myself. As they were drawn up chiefly without concert, there is some repetition. I give them literatim, as they were penned in the. haste of the moment Professor Green says, To the Colonization Society I object That it refuses to make the eternal principles of rectitude the basis of its plans and movement-.

This it does in refusing to acknowledge and defend the natural, unalienable rights of the slave; and by admitting that he is the property of his master That it makes erpeditnry or a regard to whnt are apprehended to be the consequences -of tinman actions, the rule of its proceedings. This it doe by admittng that the -slave has a right to freedom, but denying, that it would be expedient to grant him "his rights That by regarding the prejudices, which are cherished against black nvn, as uncon- THE LIBERATOR. tempting to do at great peril and expense in Africa, what might be safely and cheaply done at home. The success of such men as her. Jocelyn at New Haven, Con.

in efforts to enlighten and save colored men, shows, that the blacks miirht be made good citizens and christians in this country That it hinders" the, manumission of. slaves by throwinsr their emancipation upon its own scheme, which in fifteen years has occasioned J.i I i A me manumission ot less man iour uuuuicu tions during a les3 time thousands were set free. The Colonization Society is understood to claim the character of christian benevolence how then can it justify the selling of rum to the natives of Africa? And how can it approve of shedding their blood in destructive wars The following questions were from my own pen. What facts go to show that the immediate abolition of slavery would be dangerous What does the Colonization Society mean when it admits the 'right of property' in slaves? If it means the legal right merely, why does it not tell the planters 60? If it means the moral right, how does it show that the holders have any moral right to tiieir slaves How can colonization tend to remove slavery when it asserts that the slaves are unfit for liberty present on account of their ignorance, and justifies the masters in holding them till they shall be fitted for liberty, it being understood that the law prohibits the instruction of slaves How can colonization tend to remove slavery, when according to the showing of southern colonizationists, it tends to increase the value of slaves, and make slaveholding safe How can it be pretended that the colored people go voluntarily to Liberia, when it is well known that force has been used to secure their consent in some cases, see the speech of Mr. Broadnax before the General Assembly of Virginia and when the colored men of almost every city and considerable town have unanimously and strongly expressed their unwillingness to go What authority has the Colonization Society to say that the prejudice against the blacks can never be removed, and that Christianity cannot do for them here what it can do in Af rica How can it reconcile its non-interference or silence on the rierht and wrong of the case with the divine injunction, 'Thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbor, and not suffer sin upon him Le 19:1, ccc.

The matter thus'spread out needs no Com ment If the reason hy the agent preferred to refute his otcn ejections is not apparent, I shall not attempt to make it so? ewight; Extracts from a letter addresssed to Rev. S. Jocelyn, of New-Haven, Connecticut, by Beriah Green, Professor of Sacred Litera ture in Western Reserve College, dated Hudson, (Port. Co. JS'ov.

5, 1832. Rev. and Dear Sir: A great change has, within a few months, been wrought in the views and movements of some of the gentlemen connected with this College, both as instructors and students, respecting the ground occupied by the American Colonization Society, and the tendency of the principles avowed, and the course pursued, by that institution. In a single word, the President of the College, Rev. Charles B.

Storrs, a gentleman well known and highly esteemed on many accounts in New-England as well as in Ohio, Elizur Jf'right, Jr. Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, whose reputation as a gentleman, a scholar, and a christian, is elevated, if I mistake not, at Yale College; Elizur Wright, Esq. oj Talmadge, a Trustee of this College, and an early graduate of Yale, whose reputation as a scholar and a christian I need not describe, and some others, have, upon examining the matter in discussion between the abolitionists and anti- abolitionists, yielded to the conviction that the former occupy the only ground, which the Bible can justly be regarded as approving and sustaining. These gentlemen have been brought to this conviction, not without many struggles and much reluctance. They had been ardent friends and prompt patrons of the American Colonization Society had labored to sustain its claims to public patronage by their authority, their eloquence, and their purses.

They now feel, and feel very deeply too, that they had been blinded by a strange prejudice, which had the effect of infatuation on their minds. They have opened their eyes upon an object which has taken fast hold of their whole souls. They feel themselves impelled by motives which they cannot and would not resist, to give 'arm and soul' to the cause of African emancipation. They are now making the inquiry with unwonted solicitude 'Lord, what wilt thou have us to do A good deal of interest has been awakened in the College among the students, on the subject of African emancipation. The matter has, in" different forms and on various occasions, been pretty thoroughly discussed.

A number of the students take the ground maintained by the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. We hope the number may increase. Mr. Storrs has been almost universally perhaps I need not qualify the expression by any such word as alirtost regarded as preeminent for soundness of judgment, warmth of piety, force of mind, and general attractiveness of character. The posture which he has taken on the subject of this- letter cannot, we think, fail of setting hundreds a-thinking.

Professor Wright has written a good many very able columns for the Observer Telegraph the religious paper of the Western Reserve and would have continued to write, had he not been denied the farther use of this medium of working on the public mind. He is an attractive, powerful writer. His whole soul is engaged and I think no human agency can beat him off the ground which he has taken. We need the sympathy and aid of the friends of this good cause in New-England. We want facts far is facts.

One copy of Mr. Garrison's 'Thoughts' has reached us, and we take a few copies of his admirable paper. Chas. Stuart's late pamphlet on Colonial Slavery in the West Indies, we have and the African Repository, and the Colonization Society Reports and Speeches, which we find may be made directly and powerfully subservient to the cause of African emancipation. Every fact on this subject will be estimated here at its full worth.

Will you, as the friend of poor, persecuted, trodden down Africa, help us? We much wish to know the history of the efforts which you have made in the cause of wretched humanity in and elswhere. Your letter to Mr. Gurley I thank you for, and wish I had 5C0 or copies of it for circulation. Things in Maine and Massachusetts, I should think, were assuming a brighter aspect Mr. Garrison's reception in Maine could not but have been highly encouraging.

Our British brethren, too, the Lord Jesus bless them. We have here a great struggle to go through with, if the Saviour will help us. The strength of public prejudice, as such openly avoiced is awaking. We have, however, a calm and deep conviction that we are right, and that God will help us. This hope we cling to as the 'anchor of our souls.

may we not forfeit its high consolations its sustaining, exhilarating influence We hope before many days to bring our little forces together in the form of an Anti-Slavery Society. Pray for us, dear brethren, as I hope we do for you and for all who are consecrated to the gjeat and glorious design, to which, 'after so long a we are beginning to awake. Yours in the Lord Jesus, BERIAH GREEN. From the Boston Telegrapb.J AFRICAN REPOSITORY. Messrs Editors.

In the last number of the African Repository, is an article professing to examine Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization' and I frankly confess that I niujusiii-u, bo ean a. ret lew snouiu nave emanated from the official onran of the Colo nization Society. But that article is not only feeble even to childishness, but it is unfounded. The first retort is, that Mr. Garrison's quotations are This is the very last charge which can be truly alleged against Mr.

Garrison's volume. I have examined the work with great care and attention and I maintain that in not one instance has 'Mr. Garrison been guilty of such unfairness much less, 4 in many instances and I directly challenge all the Negro Stealers and their coad jutors to exhibit one fact which shall demon strate the truth of the charge made in the African Repository. I am impartial a student ot tins all important controversy, anxious for the truth, and a friend of liberty and am desirous to know the whole facts in the case Having therefore examined Mr. Garrison's ex tracts all their honest and legitimate mean ing, I maintain that the charge against his integrity and veracity, as implied by the writer in uie virican Jtepository.

is without thp slut dow of support; and I challenge the ReDosi- iory io point out one example. ne next subject has notluno- to do with the real matter in discussion. The question at issue between Mr. Garrison and the Colo nizers, is not, whether the Colonization Society is a beneficent Institution, but whether the Colonization Society be not incompatible with the rights of man I take.the Apologist's own tests. He talks of the benevolence of those who support the Colonization Society and of their beneficence by its effects.

I know many Philanthropists in the Northern and Eastern sections of the. Union who support that Society from the pur est motives, but they are acting ignorantly and under a delusion. To talk of a benevolent Slaveholder is no more like rationality, than to speak of an honest thief, or a chaste adulterer and to prate about a Negro Driver's beneficence, is just as evangelical as to expound the devotion of Beelzebub. The fact is, that the whole Colonization cause is more than suspicious from the char acter ot its originators, patrons and chfef up- noiaers uiey are an oiave unvers and it they wished the relief and improvement of the miserable condition of our colored popula tion, they would instantly desist trom their robberies, break every yoke, and let the oppressed go Colonization was organized solely and ex pressly to transport all the free colored people out of the Union, that the slaves misrht be re tained in deeper and inextricable bondage by enacting laws against all future emancipation. The Slave Drivers who espoused the cause, did it from this sole motive and it Southern patrons almost without excention yet support the Society from this motive alone for if they desired the melioration of the wretched state of the colored people they would abrogate their infernal code of laws a- gainst the moral and evangelical instruction of that portion of their fellow citizens.

They i i ouiu rcpcai uie laws against emancipation. Our wisest and best men, Uie clergy, the churches, the charitable, the pious, vVc. are all vilified' by Mr. Garrison. I deny this.

A wise man and good man can never be a defender of Slavery at least 'so far as he thus acts, he proves ius stupidity and his corruption. The clergy! Yes there are thousands of preaching Man-Stealers in this republic, and more they see the Negro Thieving Preachers, consent with thenv and these scandals to the world are held up as exemplars and there are thousands of nominal christian churches, in which there is not one member who is not a Slave Driver or a Slave what are they Like Priests, like people genuine Synagogues of Satan. Slavery, says the Apologist, has grown with our growth, strengthened with our strength, was introduced before we had existence, is interwoven with Uie whole frame- work of society, has been fortified by time, prejudice, habit and laws and this mass of deeply rooted indescribable villany, says Mr. Garrison, ought to be entirely and completely and instantaneously and Uie writer in Uie African Repository censures Mr. Garrison as dangerous to public society, and attempting to scatter the fire-brands of war and death because he and his friends are desirous Uiat two millions of American citizens should be enlightened and moral freemen and exemplary christians.

Of all the vile arguments which can be advanced for Uie extenuation and perpetuity of all wickedness none can surpass Uiis for a-trocity. Let us illustrate. A company of boys at school begin to falsify, 'defraud, and secreUy to pilfer and this felonious temper and habit grow with Uieir growth, and strengUi-en with Uieir strengUi. As Uiey become older, Uiey also become sensual, intemperate, and more mischievous. Thiir confederacy continues and is multiplied, and is interwoven wiUi Uie whole frame-work of Uieir society and as Uiey become more powerful and numerous, Uiey resist all attempts to counteract Uieir iniquity.

Thus they and Uieir children become fortified in Uieir nefarious course. Time sanctions them they become prejudiced in favor of kidnapping and sensuality Uieir habits render sin in all its inordinate acts and varieties a second nature, the very atmosphere in which they live and breatiie and Uiey craftiiy contrive to enact a series of laws, which declare Atiieisin to be pure and unde-filed religion cursing to be prayer sabbath breaking to be devotion murder to be beneficence lewdness be sanctity kidnapping to be honesty peijury and lying to be inlalli-ble truth and covetousness and despotism to be benevolence and freedom. And to cap the climax of their ungodliness, Uiey next slander, vilify, rob and persecute the honest citizen who doubts Uie propriety of all these existing abominations, and who happens to tiiink, Uiat Uie more numerous is Uiat confederacy of banditti, Uie more speedily Uiey ought to be disbanded and punished, and the longer Uie atrocious system has continued, Uie sooner it ought to be exterminated. But I must close Uiese remarks, leaving Uie remainder until anoUier conununication except a mere cursory notice of one sentence, on wliich I shall hereafter enlarge. On page 27G is this declaration.

Are Uiose who are as innocent of giving origin to Uie unfortunate system as Uie people of New-England, I contend Uiat the insinuation here is a gross falsification. I aver, Uiat Slavery is not defensible upon this deceitful pretext Admit that John Randolph's faUier stole fifty mm and women, and so left them to his son but when Uiose wretched victims of tyranny died, slavery was at an end. John Randolph of Roanoke originated it again after it was defunct by kidnapping every colored child whom Uieir accursed Virginia laws permit him to steal with impunity. Thus I maintain Uiat every existing Slaveholder originates the crime for Uiere is no justification for Uie- existing Necrro Uiief when he says, my father kidnapped the parents, and therefore I will his offspring. A creed but Uiey are par nobile fratrum two Man Stealers, growing worse with their growtii, and strengtiiening in villany with their strength, becom'mg more vile as time, prejudice, habit and law fortify them in Uie Devil's drudgery which Uiey so faiUifiilly execute.

Masters have, rights as well as says the writer in Uie African Repository. True the right of the Master is to quit stealing, and restore his ill gotten wealth and the right of the slave is to receive the reward of his past toil and anguisli, and to realize instantaneous and unconditional emancipation. This I shall prove in my next letter, wiUi a few other points which will be recommended to Uie writer in the African Repository by ONE WHO HAS RIGHTS. From the Vermont Statesman. REVIEW OF MR.

CONVERSE'S DISCOURSE. No. II. Since No. I.

was forwarded to Uie Dressi another paragraph, strictly connected with Uie subject of that number, has been discovered on page ICth, which affords another self-contradiction. It was overlooked while dwelling-upon the point wiUi which it is connected. The words are these We have seen from one to two millions of immortal beino-s. the same natcre with Of Uie same nature with ourselves; yet 'connected Dy no natural tie JHr. Converse, please to-explain.

His sentence continues Uius 'en dued with Uie same Dowers of mind I Fere is more of his own testimony Uiat the blacks 'can be raised to Uie rank and privi- 1 leges oi ireemen in this country, provided the whites can cease oppression. On pages Cth and 7Ui he says 'Taking Uie system of slavery and our colored population just as we find them, it will be my object to show that the plan of colonization is the best plan for improving Uie condition of our colored people, and for freeing our country from-Uie evils and dangers of a mixed population In regard to improving the condition of our colored Uie fallacy of removing them from an enlightened christian land, to oenigntea neatnen anarchiai shores, with a In short, they would give Uieir laborers that view'to improve their condition, has been no-whichis just and equal, and instantly desist 'ticed in answering C. W. and need not be ttuu ueiuing na tor- i repeated. In regard to 'freeing our country tunng and murdering adults.

The prolonsra- from the evils and dangers of a mixed population of Slavery is thus justified on page 275. tion' the masters, worse than brutes, are con-.