Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives August, 1850

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American Colonization Society

Title

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. : With an appendix added by the American Colonization Society.

Original Publication

United States: Gideon & Co., 1850.

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Adrian Mastronardi and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

HT: Social sciences: Communities, Classes, Races

Subject

Mail steamers -- United States

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 71220

Release Date

July 18, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Report of the Naval Committee to the House of Representatives August, 1850
2. 2.Untitled
3. 3.APPENDIX, ADDED BY THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. — From the Executive Committee of the American Colonization Society, to the friends of Colonization throughout the U. States. — Letter from Hon. Elisha Whittlesey , one of the Vice Presidents of the American Colonization Society. — Letter from the Hon. R. J. Walker , one of the Vice Presidents of the American Colonization Society. — Extract of a letter from Gov. Wright , of Indiana. — Opinions of Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, and Chief Justice Marshall, and others, on the colonization of Africa. — JOINT RESOLUTION for abolishing the traffic in slaves, and for the colonization of the free people of color of the United States—Proposed February 11, 1817, by a committee of the House of Representatives. — Nineteenth Congress, first Session. — Extract of a letter from the Hon. James Madison to the secretary of the society, the Rev. R. R. Gurley. — Extract of a letter from the Hon. John Marshall, Chief Justice of the United Hates, to the Rev. R. R. Gurley, dated — Acts and Resolutions of State Legislatures in relation to Colonization. — STATE OF VERMONT. — STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS. — STATE OF NEW YORK. — STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA. — STATE OF DELAWARE. — STATE OF MARYLAND. — STATE OF VIRGINIA. — STATE OF LOUISIANA. — STATE OF TENNESSEE. — STATE OF KENTUCKY. — STATE OF INDIANA. — STATE OF ILLINOIS. — Extracts from the report of the Committee of the House of Representatives on Commerce on the subject of African Colonization. Feb. 28, 1843. — Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay. — Resolutions delivered and proposed by Hon. R. W. Thompson, Hon. R. J. Walker, Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, Hon. R. M. McLane, Hugh Maxwell, esq., and others. — Opinion of the Hon. Daniel Webster on colonization at the expense of the General Government. — Extracts from a letter from Commodore Stockton to Hon. Daniel Webster, dated March 25th, 1850. — Extract from a letter from the Hon. Edward Everett to the Hon. Simon Greenleaf, President of the Society, dated Cambridge, 28th May, 1849. — — Extracts from the leading article in the African Repository and Colonial Journal for May, 1850, (the official organ of the Colonization Society,) on the establishment of the proposed line of Steamers. — Extracts from the July No. of the African Repository.
4. 4.Untitled

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