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Image 1 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for …- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 2 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … _- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 3 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for …- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 4 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for …- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 5 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … eh Gee ___ CONTROVERSY BETWEEN CAS GRACCHUS AND OPIMIUS ro by IN REFERENCE TO THE Awierican Society FOR COLONIZING THE Free People of Colour of the United States First published in the…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 6 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for …- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 7 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … THE following Note is in reply to one asking the consent of Caius Gracchus to this pub lication AmeiA Decemser 1st 1826 Sir My neighbour Mr Penick having communi cated to me…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 8 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for …- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 9 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … GONTROVERSY BETWEEN CAIUS GRACCHUS AND OPIMIUS To the President and Members of the Auxiliary Colonization Society of Powhatan GeENnTLEMEN The recent organization of your Society in my vicinity has attracted a degree…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 10 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 6 Caius Gracchus No 1 efforts of some of its members coupled with a spirit of fana ticism which is equally calculated to amuse the fancies and to alarm the fears of…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 11 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 1 ra ing to prove the truth of this remark let reference be had to the history of the early settlement of the Colonies in North America in relation…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 12 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 8 Caius Gracchus No 1 fiecting part of society at this day to be informed that pri vate charity is always unsteady and irregular in its contri butions and never to be…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 13 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 1 of the private Association by whom it was first established That from the latter period it was taken by the British Government into their own hands and has…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 14 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … iv Caius Gracchus Wo i charity alone as sufficient for their object and that they are in fact looking for protection from the Federal Govern ment For that purpose I would beg…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 15 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 1 ii This view of the subject directly leads me to the examina tion of the second topic which I have suggested for your consideration And here permit me…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 16 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 12 Caius Gracchus No 2 Government of my country will thus act notwithstanding all the sickly sensibilities and mistaken impressions which are known to exist upon the subject of slavery on the…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 17 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 2 is iest I should be charged with imputing to your Society an ob ject which the style of your Association does not imply nor the provisions of your…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 18 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 14 Caius Gracchus No 2 every point of view to which it may lead the way It tends and may powerfully tend to rid us gradually and entirely in the United States…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 19 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus NV 2 i5 Colonization Society are perfectly disposed to frame their measures with reference to the entire suppression of the slave trade and to a gradual and prudent but complete…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 20 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 16 Caius Gracchus No charity sake to surrender one million and a half of slaves 5th To overcome the individual habits pride and prejudi ces of twelve states And finally after all…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 21 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 2 17 there is a peculiarity in the love which most masters enters tain for their slaves that does not apply to any other species of property Few of…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 22 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 18 Caius Gracchus No 2 be effected Is it not worthy of remark too as we have been recently told by Mr Mercer in one of his late attacks upon the good…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 23 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 2 19 from a condition of political slavery to be able to sustain a republican form of government in their country can it be doubted that any thing short…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 24 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 20 Caius Gracchus No 2 and at all times heretofore for men of liberal sentiments upon the subject of civil liberty and I presume the South will have no occasion to decline…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 25 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 5 24 cal question may be tortured into a theme for pulpit decla mation Once let it obtain a place there and the Christian religion which has so many…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 26 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 22 Caius Gracchus No 3 i do not expect to be able to change your opinions upon this subject or to make a proselyte of you by any efforts of mine Many…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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- Date: 1827
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Image 29 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 3 25 point out the pernicious effects of the free negro population on our slaves he closes by these further remarksHe would conclude by saying that he had thought…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 30 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 26 Caius Gracchus No 3 attempt by direct means the general abolition of slavery The peculiar constitution of society in the South and the safeguards which the Constitution and laws have thrown…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 31 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus Vo 3 97 ject and whether the late political movements to which I have had allusion being subsequent to the establishment of your Society have not a close moral if…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 32 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 28 Caius Gracchus No 8 are compelled to be informed and which has not even the excuse of good motives or good feelings There is known to exist to a considerable extent…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 33 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … Caius Gracchus No 3 a9 eriods and circumstances under which they have occurred eave the impression that they owe their origin to the coun tenance and support which your Society is giving…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 34 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 30 A Member of the A C 8 to Caius Gracchus To Caius Gracchus You have passed judgment in a cause which you have not hearedAlarmed at what you deem an approaching…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 35 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … A Member of the 4 C S to Caius Gracchus 3 Is this a purpose so inherently vicious in its nature so calculated to excite extraordinary political movements to affect the proceedings…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 36 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 32 A Member of the 4 C S to Caius Gracchus of alarm to have imagined that the Missouri Question arose at their bidding that the Legislatures of Connecticut and Ohio were…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 37 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … A Member of the 4 C S to Caius Gracchus 35 attached to the third Annual Report of the Society gravely penned and made up of different extracts from the speeches and…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 38 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 34 A Member of the A C S io Caius Gracchus attacked as they were by others who declared their design to be selfish and only calculated to make servitude more secure…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 39 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … A Member of the A C S to Caius Gracchus 35 slaveholders and feel and know and admit that the utmost caution and prudence are essential in their measures Had they been…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
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Image 40 of Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for … 36 Opimius No 1 accompanied with comments showing very strongly how they are dangerous and what consequences may be appre hended from them Might I not have asked can you believe this…- Contributor: Fitzhugh, William Henry - Caius Gracchus - Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
- Date: 1827
About this Item
Title
- Controversy between Caius Gracchus and Opimius in reference to the American society for colonizing the free people of colour of the United States ...
Names
- Caius Gracchus.
- Fitzhugh, William Henry, 1792-1830.
- Joseph Meredith Toner Collection (Library of Congress)
Created / Published
- Georgetown, D.C., J.C. Dunn, 1827.
Headings
- - American Colonization Society
- - African Americans--Colonization--Africa
- - African Americans--Social conditions--To 1964
- - Slavery--United States
Notes
- - "First Published in the Richmond enquirer."
- - Article signed Optimus written by William Henry Fitzhugh.
- - Also available in digital form.
- - LAC tnb 2020-10-06 update (1 card)
Medium
- 118 p. 22 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- E448 .C13
- AC901 .M2 vol. 14, no. 2 Copy no. undetermined.
- E448 .C13 Copy 2 Toner Coll.
- E448 .C13 Copy 3 Toner Coll.
- E448 .C13 Copy 4 Toner Coll.
Library of Congress Control Number
- 11025870
Online Format
- online text
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