The African Repository, Band 29

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American Colonization Society, 1853
 

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Seite 147 - Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to enter upon and prosecute from time to time such negotiations with the several maritime powers of Europe and America as he may deem expedient for the effectual abolition of the African slave trade and its ultimate denunciation as piracy under the law of nations, by the consent of the civilized world.
Seite 132 - If the residue should be sold at the same rate, the whole aggregate will exceed two hundred millions of dollars. If Virginia and the South see fit to adopt any proposition to relieve themselves from the free people of color among them...
Seite 132 - I do not deem myself so competent as other gentlemen to consider it, that if any gentleman from the south shall propose a scheme of colonization, to be carried on by this government upon a large scale, for the transportation of free colored people to any colony or any place in the world, I should be quite disposed to incur almost any degree of expense to accomplish that object.
Seite 273 - And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you | though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.
Seite 34 - Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana...
Seite 100 - If any negro or mulatto, bond or free, shall come into this State, and remain ten days, with the evident intention of residing in the same, every such negro or mulatto shall be deemed guilty of a high...
Seite 31 - And generally, from a conviction that we consider them as a part of ourselves, and cherish with sincerity their rights and interests, the attachment of the Indian tribes is gaining strength daily, is extending from the nearer to the more remote, and will amply requite us for the justice and friendship practised towards them.
Seite 134 - Commonwealth ; and that the Senators and Representatives of this State, in the Congress of the United States...
Seite 100 - ... and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail not less than two nor more than six months...
Seite iii - ... all other items of knowledge upon which it may be proper hereafter to prepare and combine the forces essential to the success of a complete and useful exploration of the interior. In the performance of this duty, under the most favorable circumstances, he will encounter the perils of a climate famed for its unwholesome influence upon the white man, and may hardly hope to escape the exhibition of hostility from the natives. The spirit which has prompted him to court this perilous adventure, so...

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