An Address Delivered Before the Tallmadge Colonization Society On the Fourth O
An Address Delivered Before the Tallmadge Colonization Society On the Fourth O
Elisha Whittlesey
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If it was the object of the officers and managers to rivet more firmly the letters of the slaves, as you have been told it is, by a man whose testimony stands before you impeached, why, I ask of you, have they rescued the cap- tive Africans from the operations of the laws of Georgia, and retur-. Ned them to their country 1 Why have they encouraged, and still do encourage the manumission of slaves, on condition of their being sent to Africa? Of all the falsehoods that have been fabricated to dec...eive a humane, and confiding people, this is the most infamously base ; and is so proven to be, by every act of the society. The act of May, 1820, declaring the slave trade piracy, owes its existence to Charles Fenton Mercer, an officer of the society. He followed this up by a resolution he introduced into the house of representatives, " requesting the President of the United States to enter upon and to ])rosecute from time to time, such negotiations with the several mai- atime powers of Europe, and America, as he may ileeiu PApcdimt, for the eftectual aboHtion of the African slave trade, and its ultimate ilciiuuvi^t; — — t--.
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