improvements of the axe, hoe, wedge, and plow, with the simple switch to direct — that these same lights may now be gradually returned by 10,000 annual installments from the present 60,000 liberated Africans in Virginia, and their increase, that they may be planted on the soil of Africa, their native land.
This was the object of the old, generally popular, African Colonizing Society, seen afar off by America's mental lights, in the persons of Monroe, Clay, Adams, Webster, Calhoun, Marshall, Wright, Jefferson, Madison, Jackson, and many others, including the now living John Tyler — believing, as they did, that freedom and liberty was such a priceless boon, that as soon as many of the African slaves were voluntarily liberated by their kind and generous masters, that they would fly, in the ships of the world, across the Atlantic back to their own native land in Africa, forgetting, or ignoring, the truth, that the inspired Moses had not only to persuade the Hebrews from their 400 years bo
Wm. Schell,
J. Thompson Brown,
H. J. Smith,
David N. Walker,
Thos. Howard,
Shirley King,
Thos. Whitworth,
Nat. Tyler,
G. Townsend,
Sol. A. Myers.
Patrick Shay,
T. Marshall Hewitt,
Pat. Kane,
Thos. Boudar,
Robt. Chandler,
Hector Davis,
Peter Doyle,
Benj. Davis,
Chas. H. Moore,
Geo. Baughman, Jr.,
Jas M. Macon, Jr.,
Thos. M. Jones,
Philip Haxall,
C. G. McMury,
Chas. R. Skinker,
Jos. Marsh,
E. M. Alfriend,
E. Lorraine,
Wm. H. Palmer,
Wm. A. Wright,
Ro. P. Pulliam,
W. R. Bird,
L. Sutter,
Powhatan Weisiger
W. B. Church,
Wm. L. White,
John Appleyard,
A. J. Cheatham,
Geo. L. Bidgood,
Mat'w P. Taylor,
E. G. Higginbotham,
John Allan,
E. W. Blackburn,
J. H. Cochran,
Jas. W. T. Banks,
Wm. Cardwell,
S. N. Davis,
C. H. Johnson.
P. A. Blackburn,
Richmond, March 29, 1861.
To Messrs. John Stewart Walker, George W. Hobson, O. Jennings Wise, John A. Belvin, Mark Downey, and others:
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