foregoing bounties until they shall reach the limited amounts; and said bounties shall not apply to articles introduced into the Colony from the adjacent or neighbouring country. IV. That there be purchased and sent to the Colony good agricultural implements, including ploughs, harrows, scythes, hoes, axes, &c. to the value of $500, which shall be sold, from the public stores, at prices amounting to twenty per centum in advance on their first cost in addi tion to charges for freight, commission and insurance; this limitation being fixed to avoid any discouragement to the regular trade in these articles. V. That there be purchased and sent to the Colony working mules, to the value of $500, and that they be sold at public vendue. VI. That a garden be established at Liberia, if deemed expedient by the Colonial Agent, principally to ascertain what useful plants, as well foreign as indigenous, can be successfully raised, and to show the mode of their cultivation; and that the Colonial Agent be authorised to expend thereon a sum not exceeding for the present year, $500. Any further appropriations to depend on the pleasure of the Board of Managers. The Committee are aware that there are other, and, in some respects, greater objects of cultivation, worthy of the enterprise and industry of Liberia; such as plantations of coffee, of sugar, of cotton and tobacco, and orchards of orange trees, all of which, it has been ascertained, flourish in the neighboring countries, and will eventually, in all probability, furnish the great staples of the Colony for foreign trade. But as the profitable cultivation of these articles may require a considerable capital they decline for the present, offering any specific recommendation relative to these, reserving this branch of the subject for a future Report, in which it is purposed to examine the expediency of forming plantations by, or in connection with, the Society, which, if successful, will embolden the colonists to use their own means in forming similar establishments. To carry the foregoing views into effect, the Committee recommend the adoption of the following Resolutions:— Resolved, That the Secretary forthwith, in concurrence with a Committee to be appointed, take the proper steps for the accomplishment of the above objects. Resolved, That heinstruct the Colonial Agent to cause this Report to be published in the Colony. Resolved, That the measures, incident to it at Liberia, be taken by the Colonial Agent. Resolved, That the Report be published in this country, with a request to the friends of the Colony to aid these important objects by such donations in money, or in the above articles, as their means and dispositions may justify; and that so far as donations in such articles may be received, their purchase be superseded. LETTER FROM ENGLAND. We have received a communication from a distinguished gen tleman in England, from which we make the following liberal extracts exhibiting the principles of those in that country, who view the general measures of the Society with decided approbation. Nothing can be more just than the opinion of Dr. Hodgkin in regard to the moral influence of the Society; even should the great mass of our coloured population be destined forever to remain among us: yet we cannot hesitate to avow the belief that the establishment of this class, with their own consent, as a distinct community, in another land, is a work of unquestionable benevolence, which must conduce immensely to the benefit of those colonized, to the United States, and to Africa. We cannot understand how any well-informed and virtuous-man can be blind to the glorious promise which an enlightened and christian nation, founded in Africa, holds up before the eyes of Humanity and Religion. RESPECTED FRIEND: NEW BROAD STREET, LONDON, 7th mo. 4th, 1832. In acknowledging the receipt of your diploma, making me a life member of your African Colonization Society, I wish not merely to thank you for the honor you have done me, and congratulate you on the highly encouraging and increasingly satisfactory reports received from various witnesses, respecting the progress of the Colony of Liberia; but also, to offer a few remarks which seem called for, from me as a foreign, and more especially as a British member of the Association. The cause of the oppressed African race, has long been espoused by advocates, at least, as numerous and as warmly interested on this, as on your side of the Atlantic. It might, therefore, be very reasonably anticipated, that a measure calculated at once to render some compensation to those who have been forcibly expatriated and unjustly held in bondage, or to their descendants, and likewise striking at the root of the African slave trade, would have been hailed with general applause, and met with liberal support amongst us. My present object is to explain some of the reasons which have unhappily rendered this feeling so limited amongst us. Those who, at a distance, form a judgment of individuals with whom they are personally unacquainted, labor under the great disadvantage of being led to form their opinions from general and sweeping observations, which though they may be true, as such, may be very unjust and erroneous when applied to particular cases. I know from very extensive observation, as well as from personal experience, that the national charac ter, attributed to you, of entertaining a degrading contempt for the African race, founded, not on the reports of prejudiced travellers, but on American evidence, has been the powerful and at first the not altogether unreasonable cause that the friends of the Africans in this country have looked with some degree of jealousy and suspicion at the measures which you have adopted—they could not help regarding it as a part of that same system which blots your land of liberty. It is not, I repeat, unreasonable that the scheme of African Colonization should at first suffer from the prejudice which this system is calculated to excite. The illusion is giving way; the process is now slow and partial, but it will soon be rapid and general. I am well satisfied that the unfortunate prejudice which you did not excite, and which you cannot at once remove, is one of the many reasons in favor of your Colonization in Africa. Though it may seem like giving way to and fostering that prejudice, on which account it has been objected to by many individuals in this country, yet it must ultimately tend to remove it, whilst it will have the certain and important effect of rendering emancipation popular amongst you. Another reason which may be assigned for the fact, that your laudable exertions have met with so little support from British funds, is to be found in the circumstance that although the cause of the oppressed African is one which ob tains almost universal interest in this country, yet very large demands having been made on the liberality of the public, connected with it, which seem to have a more direct and legitimate claim on the inhabitants of this realm; many who highly approve of your operations feel themselves excused from contributing to that which they consider as peculis arly yours, and for which they concieve that your flourishing country possesses abundant and unincumbered resources. I have trespassed on your time with this long explanation, lest some of us in this country should like yourselves be labouring under the disadvantage of having our views and actions misunderstood. It may also in some measure account for the visible results of the operations of my valued friend Elliott Cresson be ing so greatly disproportioned to the activity and zeal with which he is perseveringly engaged for the promotion of your undertaking. He has, I believe, performed more than can at once become apparent, and I trust that many like myself are prepared to admit the change which has taken place in their sentiments with respect to Liberia. Before I conclude, I would offer a suggestion which I hope will not be attributed to impertinent interference. Though I am far from wishing you to compromise the success of your exertions by a direct attack upon the prejudices of your countrymen, yet it is very desirable that you should not only carefully watch against the adoption of any act or ex pression which may be construed into a symptom that such a feeling has any hold amongst you, and also that you should take advantage of the important proofs which you are constantly producing to counteract it. I am, with cordial good wishes for the continued prosperity and suc cess of your benevolent undertaking, and unfeigned esteem for its supporters, thy respectful friend. THOMAS HODGKIN, M. D. Rev. R. R. GURLEY, Secretary A. Col. Society. REPORTS OF AGENTS. Rev. J. N. Danforth General Agent for New England and New York, reports under date of Boston, November 12, 1832: That in a journey of 170 miles west of Boston, he visited and deliver ed addresses, and (in some cases) took up collections in the following towns-viz: Lenox, Lee, Stockbridge, Great Barrington, Dalton, Lanesboro, Hinsdale, Peru and Williamstown, also, New Lebanon in the State of N. York. Most of the churches had contributed on the 4th of July, with which interesting day, they deem it peculiarly appropriate to associate the claims of the Colonization Society. At Pittsfield (the county town of Berkshire), a large meeting was held on the 4th of October, at which addresses were delivered by Hon. G N. Briggs, Rev. Profr. Dew ey, Samuel M. Nickay, Theodore Sedgwick, Jr. and V. P. L. Hall, Esqrs and a county Auxiliary Society organized. Mr. Danforth also visited Albany and Troy: at one of which places, he met the Agent of one of our most important national Societies, who courteously yielded his purpose to address the congregations, which gave our Agent the opportunity of preaching in the First and Second Presbyterian Churches. Collection in the former, $60. On his arrival in Boston, Mr. Danforth received reports from the Rev. C. Walker, assistant Agent for Vermont, and from Rev. Cyril Pear, assistant Agent for Maine. Mr. Walker has visited several ministerial associations, made some collections, awakened more general interest in favour of 4th of July collections, and explained the objects of the Society to many influential men. Ill health has compelled him to resign his Agency. Mr. Pearl in five weeks travelled 624 miles and delivered twenty-seven addresses. Three of these addresses were to large audiences at Camp Meetings. The following Resolution was presented and unanimously adopted by the Ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the Penobscot District. "Resolved, That we heartily approve of the objects of the American Colonization Society, and the measures adopted by it, for the accomplishment of its objects." The Conference of Churches in Lincoln County, on motion of Rev. Mr. Ellingwood of Bath, adopted unanimously the following Resolutions;— "Resolved, That we cordially approve of the plans and operations of the American Colonization Society, and that we will co-operate in the efforts now making, to promote its interests.” "Resolved, That this Conference earnestly recommend to the Churches in this County, to take up a contribution on or about the 4th of July, annually in aid of the Society." Similar Resolutions were introduced at the Conference of Churches in Kennebeck County, by the Rev David Thurston of Winthrop; but meeting with some opposition, for want of time to discuss the subject, a friend of the Society moved to lay them on the table, the fact is, says this gentleman, "we did not anticipate the slightest opposition to these Resolutions." Mr. Pearl visited and made addresses at Exeter, Frankfort, Belfast, Thomaston, Camden, Warren, Union, Dixmart, Thorndike, China, Woolwich, Wiscassett, Bath and Phippsburg. He conversed with twelve or thirteen Editors of papers, who are friendly to the Society as far as their opinions are formed. At Hallowell he encountered Mr. Garrison, who, says Mr. Danforth, "holding up the mistaken idea, that our Society is a plan of slaveholders, to add rigour to the bondage of slavery, with his associates succeeds in throwing doubts into minds, that will very justly entertain no plan which is inconsistent with the spirit of universal emancipation. The Hon. Mr. Sprague defended your Society with his usual acuteness and energy, and rebuked the spirit and measures which would array the North against the South." Mr. J. W. M'Lane, a student of the Theological Seminary, Andover, volunteered his services for the late vacation in that Institution. He laboured in the County of Essex, Massachusetts, delivered several addresses, and collected about $60. The Rev. John Crosby writes under date of Philadelphia, Oct. 16, 1832. I shall do what I can to induce the Ladies' Society here, to take the responsibility of sustaining schools in the Villages of recaptured Africans. I have no doubt they will do it. I think the interest in favour of our cause is increasing here. November 5th. I have received from the Ladies of Rev. James Patterson's congregation $30 to constitute him a life member. I report the formation of an Auxiliary at Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland County. In all the County Towns named in the following list of monies received by me, I delivered one or more addresses, and in some instances money was collected or subscribed, and not paid to myself. Congregational churches under the pastoral care of Rev. John Augustus Jewett in Loudon, Mercersburg and McConnelsburg, being a part of what was subscribed, received from others in McConnelsburg, donations in Bedford, Mt. Pleasant, 30 25 1 25 22 30 20 85 Mercersburg, (Presbyterian cong. chiefly), 29 00 20 00 Annual collection in the Methodist Church, Philadelphia, under 22 61 30 00 The amount of monies received by me during the year ending Nov. 1st 1832, is $2991 22. Alictions. More might have been, but for my domestic af severe indisposition of October 27th at Phil Mr. Crosby was compelled, on account of the his wife, to embark for Savannah in the Hercules adelphia, Mr Crosby wrote: The Ladies here are awake to the subject of schools among the recaptured Africans. Mr. Clarke (a superior man for one of his race), of Charleston, has offered to go, and he is an experienced teacher, writes a very correct letter. He will unquestionably be employed." The Rev. George C. Light, Agent in Kentucky, (and who has been authorized to fit out an expedition from New Orleans), writes from Frankfort, December 8th, 1832: That owing to unfortunate circumstances, the meeting of the emigrants at Louisville has been postponed to the 20th of March next.— "Mr. King, Agent for Tennessee, writes that 150 emigran's have enga ged to go from that State. About 80 emigrants from this State (Kentucky), are very anxious to embark: and about $1500 have been collected to defray their expenses. I have reason to believe, that every thing is so arranged, as to forbid apprehension of a further failure.” |