The Liberator

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT.

It is known to our readers, that the establishment of a College in New Haven, or the education of colored youth, is contemplated by some philanthropic individuals. This benevolent intention has created a high effervescence of feeling in that city. A public meeting of the citizens was called on Saturday last, to take the subject into consideration. Here follow its resolutions, as advocated by Judge Daggett, N. Smith, R. I. Ingersoll, and I. H. Townsend, Esq. and adopted by about 700 'freemen'!! The Rev. S. S. Jocelyn (one of the most devoted philanthropists living) and three others opposed and voted against them. We are compelled to defer the expression of our astonishment and disgust at these proceedings, until next week.

At a City Meeting, duly warned and held at the City Hall, in the City of New-Haven, on Saturday, the 10th day of September, 1831, to take into consideration a project for the establishment in this City of a College for the education of Colored Youth, the following Preamble and Resolutions were unanimously adopted, viz:—

Whereas endeavors are now making to establish a College in this city for the education of the colored population of the United States, the West Indies, and other countries adjacent; and in connexion with this establishment, the immediate abolition of slavery in the United States is not only recommended and encouraged by the advocates of the proposed College, but demanded as a right; and whereas an omission to notice these measures may be construed as implying either indifference to, or approbation of the same;

Resolved, That it is expedient that the sentiments of our citizens should be expressed on these subjects, and that the calling of this meeting by the Mayor and Aldermen, is warmly approved by the citizens of this place.

Resolved, That inasmuch as slavery does not exist in Connecticut, and wherever permitted in other states, depends on the municipal laws of the state which allows it, and over which neither any other state nor the Congress of the United States has any control, that the propagation of sentiments favorable to the immediate emancipation of slaves, in disregard to the civil institutions of the states in which they belong, and as auxiliary thereto the contemporaneous founding of Colleges for educating colored people, is an unwarrantable and dangerous interference with the internal concerns of other states, and ought to be discouraged.

And whereas in the opinion of this meeting, Yale College, the institutions for the education of females, and the other schools already existing in this city, are important to the community and the general interests of science, and as such have been deservedly patronised by the public, the establishment of a College in the same place to educate the colored population, is incompatible with the prosperity, if not the existence of the present institutions of learning, and will be destructive of the best interests of the city.—And believing, as we do, that if the establishment of such a College in any part of the country were deemed expedient, it should never be imposed on any community without their consent:—

Therefore resolved, by the MAYOR, ALDERMEN, COMMON COUNCIL, AND FreeMEN OF THE City OF New-HAVEN, in City Meeting assembled, that we will resist the establishment of the proposed College in this place by every lawful means.

And on motion it was voted that the proceedings of this meeting be signed by the Mayor, and countersigned by the Clerk, and published in all the newspapers of this city.

DENNIS KIMBERLY, Mayor,

ELISHA MUNSON, Clerk.