Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Maryland Colonization Journal, Vol. 2: January, 1844
Coast of Africa, instead of being held up as the promised land of the bond' man, has been made a Botany Bay; instead of representing a return to the land of their forefathers as the consummation of a providential interference in favour of the coloured man, it has been represented as necessary to the interests of the white man, enabling him to hold his property in greater safety, while it would augment the value of slaves by withdrawing. The competition of free coloured labourers. All this has been done to secure the favour of those in the Southern States whose favour appeared to be necessary to the success of colonization, and hence we may allow the best motives to those who contributed to it. But the effect was injurious. It armed the ultra abolitionists with weapons which they have successfully wielded against the colonization cause, and enabled them to wake up a hostile feeling among the free coloured population all over the United States against the Colonization Society.
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