notices which we read in the public papers, we have ample reason for believ

that Being who delights in justice and mercy will benignantly light upon her. And O that Virginia may be honored by that gracious smile. I trust that she who has ever stood among the foremost in the cause of freedom and the rights of man, who was, I believe, the very first and loudest to protest against the

"But should any ask, has the American Colonization Society no greater object in its ultimate view, than the im-ing that this will be a great day for Afriprovement of the condition of those just ca, and a great day for Christian Ameridescribed? We answer yes.-It has a ca; that our beloved country will be design and a hope which reaches for- exalted still higher in the esteem of at ward to distant periods, and contem-admiring world, and that the smiles of plates a far more extensive benefit--one which it has ever boldly avowed and gloried in. It hopes, by the successful establishment of a Colony of these unfortunate beings, to invite the American nation to a work of charity and of justice, worthy of its great name : it hopes soon to show to the pious and benevolent how and where they may accom-introduction of this accursed evil; which plish a wish near and dear to many hearts, which is now impossible: it hopes to point out to our several legislatures, and even to the august council of this great nation, a way by which, with safety and advantage, they may henceforth encourage and facilitate that system of emancipation which they have almost forbidden. To such honor and usefulness does the American Colonization Society aspire, and thus hopes greatly to lessen, if not entirely remove, at some distant day, one of the most tremendous evils that ever overhung a guilty nation upon earth, for in vain do we look through the annals of history for a country in like calamity with

ours."

Were we not compelled, by necessity, to desist from giving quotations, we should we think, copy the whole speech. With the following extract however, we must conclude:

"The auxiliary societies and the va rious denominations of christians, have resolved and recommended that on this day, or on the Sabbath going before or following after, collections shall be solicited in aid of this cause. From the

was certainly the first in secret session of its legislature, some twenty years since, to recommend this very plan of African colonization, and which has been the first to make some appropriation of its funds to aid the incipient ef forts of the society; I trust that she who has done all this will still set a noble example on this day, and send in a generous contribution to her favorite cause. And I also trust, my fellow-citizens of Frederick, that as from the first origin of this society, you have taken a lively interest in its concerns, and rendered it most essential aid at a time when it was just struggling into life and operation; you will shew by this day's contribution, that you have not repented of your first works, but will do them again, and never weary in so good a cause. And

I do trust that the whole nation will do its duty, and show that it feels for the woes of bleeding Africa. It has shown that it can feel for the suffering and oppressed Greeks; it has generously sympathised in the noble struggles of our southern brethren to assert their rights as men, and cast off a galling yoke; it has expended hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, during the past year, in honour of one who generously came

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circumstance of which celebration was, that those who were in bondage should become freemen; and this they were to do, remembering that their fathers were once bondsmen in Egypt.

to the aid of our patriot fathers; and the national legislature hath paid a debt of honour and justice in providing for the comfort of his declining years. On this day, also, how much is expended in ce lebrating the declaration of American "How forcibly then, on this first independence? And will it interrupt the American jubilee, should we feel the rejoicings of this day, to be reminded of claim of a society having such views and one sacred duty due to suffering hu- hopes as the one for which we plead. manity--to weep with those that weep, While it were vanity to hope, and worse as well as rejoice with those who re- than madness to attempt, by one act or joice? Is there not a danger that we effect to remove such an evil as that will renew the crime of those in ancient which presses upon our country; yet days, who chanted to the sound of the surely, in gratitude to Heaven for our viol, and drank wine out of bowls, but own unparalleled blessings, we should were not grieved for the affliction of || rejoice to patronise any measure, which Joseph--felt not for him who was in under the guidance of a prudent zeal bondage? In the midst of our laughter may restore lost rights to thousands, might it not be well that our hearts be meliorate the condition of those whose sometimes a little sorrowful to think how freedom is but a name, and thus be gramany of our fellow-creatures partake, dually diminishing a calamity which not of our joy--and if some happy otherwise must increase, until it burst scheme be devised and offered to us for with overwhelming ruin on some future diffusing a more general joy; should we and unhappy generation. not gladly adopt it, and thereby perhaps prevent our mirth from ending in heavi

ness?

"But there is one consideration peculiar to this day, which I must not omit to notice. What is the age of that joy which is again renewed through the land? What year of our independence is this on which we are entering? It is the fiftieth--the first jubilee of American independence. That word brings with it some sacred reflections, drawn from a holy volume, for which I trust all present feel such a becoming reverence, that it can never seem amiss to refer to it.

"It is there recorded that an ancient nation, which had been delivered from oppressive tyranny by the hand of God, and by that hand conducted to a promised land, was directed, on the fiftieth year after entering upon its inheritance, fo celebrate a jubilee,--one remarkable

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"We are not disposed, fellow-citizens, to darken the shades of one view of this subject with the dismal colouring of an affrighted imagination-neither to illumine the other with an artificial, unreal brightness. We know that we are living in a world of sin, which must therefore be a world of suffering. So has a righteous God decreed. We expect not that this world shall be converted into a blissful paradise. And yet, suffering as man is under the divine || displeasure, he is also an object of compassion to the Deity. A God of love is ever seeking to promote the happiness of his creatures, and looks with approbation upon every endeavour of one || portion of his creatures to improve the condition of the other. While, therefore, with sorrowing hearts we are forced to look upon large numbers of these, our fellow-beings, as doomed, for a long period to come, to remain under the

yoke of servitude, let us zealously at- | blessings poured out upon us. Thus tempt to lessen that number, and lighten || shall we stand acquitted to our children, that yoke as much as possible. Then of having entailed upon them, without may we with clear consciences, and an effort at removal, one of the most thankful hearts, rejoice before Heaven deadly evils that ever afflicted a naon each return of this day, for the many "tion."

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legal title to his freedom. The mistake on this subject has arisen from the fact, that the design of the Colonization Society is, by many, confounded with the scheme for Haytien Emigration. One instance, and one only, there has been in which a servant attempted to obtain passage

WE understand, that the idea has gone abroad, that servants have escaped from their masters, and become settlers in the Colony at LIBERIA No such thing has occurred. We assert, without the fear of contradiction, that every settler in our African Colony, was either born free, or possessed, in the Society's vessel, but before he left this country, without success.

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to the master than to the slave. al with him to fund the remaining

third, or to receive it in checks on a plantation store,-which checks shall have no currency off the limits of the estate. In this way, more work will be done than it is possible in the ordinary mode to procure, and the produce of the plantation, the workshop, or the mine, will be enhanced in a ratio corresponding to the whole annual amount paid in rewards. And thus the proprietor, while he enjoys the noble pleasure of promo

It also ensures the punctual performance of their daily tasks, as they do not begin to work for themselves until they have finished what their duty requires to their master. To perfect, then, this system of tasks and rewards, which, in some degree, is now in full operation on every well-conducted plantation in America; to render the former as little onerous to the slave as may be, and to make the latter a bare equivalent for the work perform-ting the happiness and emancipa

tion of his bondmen, has, at the same time, the additional satisfaction of knowing that he is pursuing the very best means for improving his own fortune.

We will suppose such a slave as we have been considering, to be worth, in the present depressed state of commerce, six hundred dollars. When his earnings, deposited in Bank, amount to one hundred dollars, he shall have the whole of Monday free from task, to work entirely for himself.

ed; and to fund the avails of this extra labour in such a manner, as to make it applicable to the purchase of the slave's freedom, is, as we think, the important desideratum in the emancipation of the blacks. We will illustrate our views by the following proposition Every profitable slave, under the strong excitement of a money reward, will complete his task one, two, three, or four hours before the usual time of quitting the field or the work-shop. Let him receive a proper compensa- He then has two days in the tion for this extra work. Buweek, including the Sabbath, at lest he should make an imprope: his own disposal ;--this will enause of the money, or spend it in ble him more rapidly to acquire, riotous or luxurious living, le by voluntary labour, the second every planter establish a Saving hundred dollars, with which he Institution, Plantation Bank, o purchases Tuesday. He has now Depository, for the express use hree days, two of which are workof his slaves, in which two-third g days, at his own command, of the avails of all extra labou nd with these two days he purshall be deposited by the slaves a hases Wednesday, and so on, in proper times; and let it be option a progressive ratio, until the whole

firmness to submit to this prepa-reader to extend to our hasty speratory discipline, cannot be qua- culations that indulgence which lified for, and is scarcely entitled we claim for them." to, the enjoyment of civil liberty.

PRINCE MORO.