"Article I.--The Society shall be called 'The American Society for
Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States.'
"Article II.--The object to which its attention is to be
exclusively directed, is to promote and execute a plan for
colonizing (with their consent) the free people of colour residing
in our country, in Africa, or such other places as Congress shall
deem most expedient."
In pursuance of this object, a Board of Managers have been organized; of
which Bushrod Washington, one of the judges of the Supreme Court of the
United States, has been appointed president. This body have submitted
their views to the Congress, by a Memorial.--And as this Memorial
embraces subjects which concern, more or less, every description of
population in the United States, its circulation cannot, perhaps, be too
widely extended.
_In the House of Representatives, Jan. 14._
Read, and ordered to lie on the Table.
To the honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America, in Congress assembled:
The Memorial of the President and Board of Managers of the
"American Society for Colonizing the Free People of Colour of the
United States,"