The Auxiliary Colonization Society of Buckingham County through its president and a special committed created for the purpose of petitioning the legislature present a resolution adopted at the society's last annual meeting. They ask that an appropriation be made and sent to the American Colonization Society. When they "reflect on the numbers of the free coloured population in the state" and their rapid increase, the petitioners argue, it cannot be doubted that "this unfortunate class of human beings is benefitted by a removal to Liberia." They are in fact informed, the petitioners add, that "those who before their removal were poor, depraved and miserable are now affluent, honest and happy." The petitioners thus feel assured that their subject will receive a "calm, deliberate and full investigation." The American Colonization Society has "already done so much as could have been reasonably expected by voluntary contributions. It has demonstrated beyond the reach of doubt the practicability of removing and colonizing all the free people of colour in the United States, and all slaves which may be hereafter voluntarily emancipated for this purpose and it is now unable from the want of funds, to remove the numerous applicants that are seeking an asylum, in the land of their forefathers."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia
