1828 State of Georgia Objects to Negroes being Returned to Africa

Stocks, Thomas. Georgia : Report adopted by the Legislature of Georgia on African Colonization. Washington: Printed by Gales & Seaton, 1828. First Edition. [11908] Removed, newly stab-sewn, 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches, 9 pages. Good. Pamphlet. 20th Congress, 1st Session, Document No. 126, House of Representatives. Georgia objects to the Federal Government appropriating funds for the passage and settlement of American Negroes to Africa. "That the people of the South, at the time of the adoption of the Constitution, considered not only the retention but the increase of slave population, to be all important to the welfare and interests of their States, is manifest from a reservation in that instrument itself, which, it cannot be doubted, was inserted on their express requisition." - p. 7. Condemns the abolitionist societies and predicts that unless the pressure from the North in regard to slavery subside, their enemies "are unwittingly preparing a mine, which, once exploded, will lay our much beloved country in one common ruin." - p. 9.