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. — John Shaqi
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.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Naval Affairs
African Americans -- Colonization -- Africa; Mail steamers -- United States
Your committee are further well assured that the benevolent and humane
purposes of the society, and the political effects of those purposes, are
worthy the highest consideration of all philanthropists and statesmen in
the Union, whether they be citizens of slaveholding or non-slaveholding
States. It is believed by your committee that the memorial itself is
well calculated to present the subject in a proper point of view, and to
interest the public mind in the laudable objects of that society. They,
therefore, refer to the same as a part of this report. Your committee
recommend the adoption of the following resolutions:
_Resolved by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky_, That
they view, with deep and friendly interest, the exertions of the American
Colonization Society in establishing an asylum on the coast of Africa
for the free people of color of the United States; and that the Senators
and Representatives in Congress from this State be, and they are hereby,
requested to use their efforts to facilitate the removal of such free
persons of color as may desire to emigrate from the United States to the
colony in Africa, and to ensure to them the protection and patronage of
the General Government, so far as shall be deemed consistent with the
safety and interest of the United States.
_Resolved_, That the Governor he requested to transmit a copy of the
foregoing resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in
Congress.
_Joint resolutions._
During the year 1828 the following joint resolutions passed the Senate of
Kentucky, with only three dissenting voices:
_Resolved, &c_, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be
requested to use their best endeavors to procure an appropriation of
money of Congress to aid, so far as is consistent with the [Constitution
of the] United States, in colonizing the free people of color of the
United States in Africa, under the direction of the President of the
United States.
2. That the Governor of this State be requested to transmit a copy of
the foregoing resolution to each of our Senators and Representatives in
Congress, and to the Governors of the several States.
STATE OF INDIANA.
_Preamble and joint resolutions, 1829._
Whereas the members of the present General Assembly of the State of
Indiana view with unqualified approbation the continued exertions of the
American Colonization Society to ameliorate the condition of the colored
population of our country, and believing that the cause of humanity
and the true interest of the United States require the removal of this
people from amongst us more speedily than the ability of the Colonization
Society will permit:
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