An Address to the Public: With an Appendix (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Connecticut, Colonization Society Of The State Of

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ISBN 10: 1331675154 ISBN 13: 9781331675150

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from An Address to the Public: With an Appendix

We ask your contributions. A subscriber of thirty dollars at one time becomes a member for life of the National Society. The payment of ten dollars at one time, or of one dollar annually is the condition of membership in this auxiliary. How many men are there in Connecticut who might, without material in convenience to themselves, and without subtracting any thing from their ordinary charities,-constitute themselves life members of the parent institution? How many more who might with equal ease become either annual or life subscribers to the Con necticut Society? How many ministers of every denomination might be constituted members of the National or State Society, by the benefactions of their people? In which of our towns or villages might not the exertions of a few spirited individuals secure a public contribution to this great national object, on the anniversary of our independence? There are in this State one hundred and twenty-nine incorporated towns. If the average amount of only thirty dollars could be raised annually among the citizens of each of these towns, it would send nearly four thousand dollars every year to diminish the yearly increasing pressure of the greatest curse which rests upon this nation, and to build up the institutions of freedom and intelligence and piety on a continent over which darkness and misery have brooded for uncounted generations.

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Excerpt from An Address to the Public: With an Appendix Friends and fellow Citizens, In behalf of the Colonization Society of the State of Connecticut, we beg leave to address you on a subject intimately connected with the honor and the dearest interests of our common country, and identified with the great cause of human happiness. You are often called upon to lend your influence to schemes of patriotic enterprise and Christian benevolence. The elastic spirit of our age has long been busy here and has been moving you to effort. You have founded and are sustaining noble institutions of education. You have engaged in the work of sending the Scriptures into every family. You have long been contributing to impart the means of instruction to the ignorant and destitute. You have not held back from the enterprise of giving to Pagan tribes the blessed influences of the gospel. The spirit which has prompted you to effort aims at doing good to all within its reach; - it finds none too degraded for its beneficence, none too distant for its sympathy. It seeks to perpetuate and to brighten that bright legacy of character and of privileges which has come down to us from sainted ancestors. It seeks to scatter every where the seeds of social improvement and of spiritual life. It seems to forget none of the children of degradation, or of intellectual and moral want. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1331675154
• ISBN 13: 9781331675150
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 36