The Liberator

LETTERS FROM OHIO.

The Letters of Professors Green and Wright, of the Western Reserve College, cannot fail to exert a wide and salutary influence upon the public mind, at this momentous crisis. The change of sentiment which has taken place in their own minds, and among many others connected with the College—a change confessedly wrought slowly and reluctantly— in regard to the Colonization Society, will be hailed with joy by the growing army of abolitionists in our land, and give a new impulse to the spirit of inquiry on this great subject.

Prof. Wright has proved himself, by his unanswerable essays in the Hudson Observer and Telegraph, the Charles Stuart of the West— and this we consider no mean praise. These essays we shall copy into our columns as soon as practicable. We have perused them, again and again, with increasing admiration.

Professor Green is also distinguished for his intellectual and moral qualities. He is a noble acquisition to the cause of abolition.
and colonizationists in that quarter, to prevent discussion, is pitiful. It is now as palpable as the sun in heaven, that the slaveholders and the colonization party are united together to suppress the freedom of speech and of the press, and even to exclude from the pulpits in our land those who plead for an immediate abolition of slavery. The Colonization Society dreads investigation—its deeds are evil, and it hates the light. But it is sinking-sinking-sinking--and in a few years more it shall be utterly cast down.

We are surprised at the strange conduct of Mr. Plumley. We do not think he had any claim upon us to insert a portion of his letter. He certainly could not have known the contents of Prof. Wright's communication; and yet he wishes his correction to be appended to it! Correction of what? If Prof. W. has erred in his account of the meeting, Mr. Plumley may now point out the error. We believe Mr. P. to be a worthy man, and have long ranked him among our friends; but we are sorry to see him continue his agency for so indefensible an association as the Colonization Society.

We listened to an address, on Thursday evening, delivered before the Lyceum, by Bela B. Edwards, 'on the duties of the people of the Northern States in respect to Slavery and the Colonization Society.' We took some notes of it, and shall endeavor to notice it more minutely hereafter. That portion of it which related to slavery, with a very slight abatement, was well done—admirably done; but his management of the colonization question exhibited a surprising deficiency of reflection and judgment. He stated, in the most unqualified manner, that the Colonization Society had emancipated between six and seven thousand slaves! This is almost equal to the monstrous fabrication of Elliott Cresson, that Liberia contains 25,000 settlers, including 2500 emancipated slaves!!!—If Mr. Edwards will substantiate his statement, we promise to prove that Africa is the native country of every colored man, woman and child born in this country, and thus make one fiction less put forth by the Colonization Society. We do not believe that Mr. E. intended to deceive his audience; but will he tell the public whence he got his information? We have long regarded him as a young man of extraordinary promise, most usefully employed, and for moral worth and intellectual ability surpassed by few. Further investigation, we trust, will convince him of the utter fallacy and pernicious tendency of the colonization scheme. Will he permit us to publish his lecture in the Liberator?