uffer. Not a cent of money have any
of us got. Now, mother, if you can get any gentleman to
advance the amount of three hundred dollars, or two hundred
and fifty dollars I will work for them for it four years. I
will serve as a waiter in a house, or any thing at all, to
pay for it. My wife says she would maintain herself and
sister, if that could get her home once more, for here they
can do nothing, for we are not able, the country is so
sickly--we have been sick ever since we have been here--* * *
I will serve any way or at any thing. _I will sell myself as
a slave_, for the sake of getting HOME once more. Try for me,
if you please, for my _family's_ sake. If I was by myself, I
might scuffle for myself.'

In a subsequent letter, dated August 3, 1834, this same writer
communicates the additional intelligence, that Mrs. C 'died of grief.'

'Every benevolent and right thinking person must see, that the scheme
of colonizing Africa by black men, is necessary to enlighten Africa,
and prevent the extirpation of the black man there.' So says Mr.
Breckinridge. Doubtless it was to _enlighten_ the poor natives, and
_prevent their_ extirpation, that a brisk traffic in rum, tobacco,
gunpowder, and spear-pointed knives, has been carried on with them by
black men colonized in Africa--that nine pound balls from 'a gun of
great power' were discharged into a body of eight hundred men,
standing within sixty yards, pressed shoulder to shoulder, in so
compact a form that a child might easily walk upon their heads from
one end of the mass to the other' and 'every shot literally spent its
force in a solid mass of living human flesh[B]--that by fraud and
injustice the colonists excited the hostility of the Africans, and
stirred up a war with King Joe Harris, which resulted in the slaughter
of numbers of the ignorant barbarians, who were unable to cope with
the superior arms, and discipline, and military prowess of the
American blacks--the 'missionaries in the holy cause of civilization,
religion, and free institutions.'[C]

[B] See Gurley's Life of Ashmun, page 139.

[C] Speech of Henry Clay. Tenth Annual Report of the
American Colonization Society.

'America,' says Mr. B., 'was christianized by colonization.' Yea,
verily! and in this case we have another precious example of the
enlightening, civilizing, and christianizing influence of colonies.
The poor Indian has felt, and f