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iniSte feootc of t ^ lez ( we iquote frontbis memoirs ) thantfiat these peojple are to be free ; nor is it less certain that the two races , equally free , cahnot liW in the same government . Nature , Habit , opmion , have drawn indelible lines of distinction between them . It is stillin our power to direct the process of emancipation arid
deportation peaceably , and in such slow degree , as that the evil will wear off insensibly , and their place heparipassu , filled up by free white labourers . If , on the contrary , it is left to force itself on , human nature must shudder at the prospect held up . We should in vain look for an example in the Spanish deportation or deletion of the Moors . This precedent would fall far short of our case . '
Memoirs of Jefferson , ' p . 42 . The first public act recorded of Jefferson , on his becoming a member of the legislature in 1769 , was an effort for JlMfcpermission of the emancipation of slaves . It was rejected . rflBrit been granted at that early day , America would not now have had this blot upon her name . England then governed her , and , it does not become Englishmen to scorn her for the consequene § i %£ the work of their own hands .
Mr . Abdy refers in the course of his work to another great man , Dr . Channing , with whom he held a conversation on the subject of the condition and prospects of the blacks . It seems , however , hardly fair to have reported this conversation . It appears evidently to have been held on the spur of the moment , without previous consideration . The colony of Liberia is represented , in various passages of the
book , as in a wretched and falling condition . If so , it is contrary to the hbpes and the belief we had been led to entertain . That it should prosper must be a good , whatever feeling we may entertain as to the advantage of more settlers proceeding to it . At a ttiefeting of the Colonization Society , held during Mr . Abdy ' s visit to Cincinnati , accounts of its highly flourishing state were given ; but fie considers these to have been deceptions , and says that at the time they were given they were known to be so , on the * anthority of Mr . Jones , an agent employed by an auxiliary
society to inspect the colony . Mr . Jones ' s report is most discouraging , aild at the end of it—• I ' was particularly requested , " he adds , " by some of the most re-BpectkBlfrcrfcizens , to disabuse the American public on the present con dition bf the Colony , and fearlessly to state the facts as they exist . For thd * g 6 ttUr if ho have been here , said they , have done as much harm by
givifrg more Haltering accounts than the truth would warrant ; and by thif means have induced many to come , who ever have beea , and ever wiH be » a burden to ihcicselves awl die colony . Others , a ^ ain , who wefe jn gooU ^ ircuuiBtancc * America , and might live in the first style in ^* e co lony , J > axc bee n sq deceived by these agents , that thpy have retiq | fl | po ^ perf ^ ji ) r 5 icke ^ e < l with disappointment . " * —vol . \ IL pp . 3 , 4 . lil * report wa * . H £ o ?« ipcuu 0 d t ^ y one from ' a convention of the dtmmjQti ' I ifrjcigj «« lWil by 4 *< fer of the agent of , the America
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7 * 0 Abdy ' s Jotirncu of a Renaenee ana Tour in
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1835, page 740, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2651/page/48/
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