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Report of the naval committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States to Liberia: also to increase the steam navy, and to extend the commerce of the United States. : $b With an appendix added by the American Colonization Society.United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs

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Report of the naval committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States to Liberia: also to increase the steam navy, and to extend the commerce of the United States. : $b With an appendix added by the American Colonization Society.

Name: Report of the naval committee to the House of Representatives, August, 1850, in favor of the establishment of a line of mail steamships to the western coast of Africa, and thence via the Mediterranean to London; designed to promote the emigration of free persons of color from the United States to Liberia: also to increase the steam navy, and to extend the commerce of the United States. : $b With an appendix added by the American Colonization Society.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs

African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa; Mail steamers -- United States

To return from this digression to Virginia. An auxiliary society was
formed in Richmond in November, 1823, at the head of which was placed
the Hon. JOHN MARSHALL, (clarum et venerabile nomen,) who continued to
preside over its deliberations, and to guide it by his wise counsels,
to the day of his lamented death. He was succeeded by the Hon. JOHN
TYLER, late President of the United States. The Richmond society, by
its able reports, its energetic agencies, and its stirring appeals, was
instrumental in diffusing information and procuring contributions, which
rendered very valuable aid in a time of need to the Parent Society at
Washington. It also obtained from the Legislature, in 1825 and 1828,
donations in clothing and implements of agriculture, which supplied
very opportunely pressing wants of the infant colony in Africa. The
Colonization Society, at this period, had a task of great delicacy to
perform. The questions growing out of the admission of Missouri into
the Union had fearfully agitated the whole country, and threatened to
overwhelm this benevolent enterprise in ruin; but by following the chart
of her original principles with the strictest fidelity, and steering
between the rock of indifferentism on the one hand, and the whirlpool
of abolitionism on the other, she was enabled, with the blessing of
Heaven, to weather the storm. At this critical juncture were heard above
the roaring of the tempest of fanaticism the voices of her gallant
commanders, Madison and Marshall, cheering her onward in her noble
mission.

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Mr. MADISON, in a letter dated Jan. 16, 1832, said, “the Society had
always my best wishes, although with hopes of success less sanguine than
those entertained by others found to be better judges, and I feel the
greatest pleasure at the progress already made by the Society, and the
encouragement to encounter remaining difficulties afforded by the greater
and earlier difficulties already overcome. I cherish the hope that the
time will come when the dreadful calamity which has so long afflicted our
country, and filled so many with despair, will be gradually removed, and
by means consistent with justice, peace, and the general satisfaction;
thus giving to our country the full enjoyment of the blessings of
liberty, and to the world the full benefit of its great example.”

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