Elliott Cresson ALS to M[athew] Carey, April 1, 1833

Cavers Scotland 4 mo 1. 1833

{The following text is written in a different hand and ink: Recd May 30 ansd June 5}

M. Carey Esq

Respd. Friend

Meeting recently with thy pam-
-phlet on Colonization, the quotation it bore on its title page, af-
-forded me pleasing collateral evidence that the slanderous al-
-legations so incautiously credited, & so hastily circulated by thee,
were now treated as they ought at first to have been - I therefore
incapable of cherishing unworthy feelings of hostility after so
public an amende honourable, hesitate not in addressing
thee on a subject of such vital importance to the best interests
of humanity - of such promise of blessing to Africa & tranquility
to ourselves - I do this, because, deeply grieved by the sentiment
that Penna. - once nobly the first in the cause of the oppressed
African - the first to unfurl the Standard of Emancipation, & set
a righteous example to her sister states, & to that parent which had
rivetted the curse around our unwilling necks - is now dead
to the cries of the thousands who are demanding the just tho'
trifling sacrifice at our hands, of restoration to that land for
which alone Providence has fitted them, & which thro' their
teaching, may be in some degree recompensed for our former
crimes, by restoring the stolen free - the Pagan christianized -
& the savage bearing the means of light & knowledge to his degraded
brethren. I feel, more than I can express, that while I am
fighting, here, single handed, & unsupported by an ally at home, the battles of
Africa in an Enemy's Country, & disputing the ground inch by
inch at the expense of my health, my home & my property,
I cannot adduce the proof of my own fellow townsmen
giving the slightest evidence of their sympathy in so noble
a cause. I trust therefore that I need not appeal in vain to
one who has hitherto done so much, once more to incite Penna.
to her duty. Among other means which suggest themselves, is
that of earnestly soliciting each body of Christians at their approach