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Consul at the Havanna -should be selected. Such a person, it is supposed, is greatly needed here, both for his administration of justice, economy, and direction of affairs. With him, some suitable practical person ought also to be sent, to superintend the clearing of the land, and to oversee the planters for a certain period, so as to ensure attention to a proper cultivation of the soil. The services of the late lamented Dr. RANDAL continue to draw forth from every settler the most grateful acknowledgments. It appears that his directive energies gave a new existence to the place, and no one could be more deplored.

The charitable societies of our country might do great good by educating some young men of color in the practice of physic and surgery for the different settlements on the coastthey are greatly needed. It is reported a number of vessels for Cuba, are now on this coast, near the Equator, employed in the odious traffic of the slave trade; a steamboat is highly necessary here, as a guarda costa, and to examine into this matter. Such a vessel would clear the rivers and the whole sea. But it is vain to expect this effect, in the employment of vessels with sails only. In these light wind latitudes, vessels are frequently becalmed for days; at other times they may go from one to two knots an hour, rarely more, and it is considered a good run to make forty miles a day. On the passage here, it took this fleet ship, under sky-sails, ten days to accomplish two hundred and forty miles. In a climate like this, the very incorrect charts, as well as the sailing directory of the coast, render its navigation somewhat harassing to all. We have, however, enjoyed excellent health, not a case of fever of any description occurring. Our opportunities thus far to make all our observations, have been particularly fortunate, not missing a single instance, even for the variation of the compass; and having laid out our track on the chart, from Gibralter down, if copied, it may serve as a useful guide to others.

On our way hither from Madeira, we passed through the Canaries, visiting the Islands of Palma and Teneriffe, and near the region of the Cape de Verds, and shali leave here to-day for the United States, touching on our way for water at Martinique. And in passing the neighborhood of the Cape de Verd Islands on the several tracks of vessels, whether for the coast of Africa or across the Equator, should any pirates be hovering about those quarters, I trust we shall give a good account of them. Very respectfully, Sir, &c., &c. P. F. VOORHEES.

Hon. LEVI WOODBURY,

Secretary of the Navy, Washington.

INTERESTING DOCUMENT.

Our readers will be gratified, we doubt not, by the opportunity now given to them, of ascertaining the names of the original subscribers who organized the American Colonization Society, in the year 1817. Subjoined, are the Constitution which they adopted, and a list of their names, copied from the original subscription list, on file in the office of the Society, and published by order of the Board of Managers.

Many of the individuals who commenced this great work of enlightened philanthropy, have since finished their mortal career. Others of them still survive, to see, every day, experience confuting the objections with which their noble experiment had been assailed, and adding new testimony in favour of their practical wisdom in attempting it. When we recollect the circumstances under which this experiment was made; the doubts and difficulties which rested on its infancy; its feeble beginnings and subsequent disasters; and then contemplate its actual results, and the present stage of its progress, it is not easy to limit the measure of gratitude due to the founders of the Society, or the hopes of its present friends and supporters. The original Constitution and subscribers are as follows:

ART. I. This Society shall be called "The American Society for colonizing the Free People of Colour of the United States."

ART. 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 place as Congress shall deen most expedient:And the Society shall act, to effect this object, in co-operation with the General Government, and such of the States as may adopt regulations upon the subject.

ART. III. Every citizen of the United States who shall subscribe to these articles, and

be an annual contributor of one dollar to the funds of the Society, shall be a member: or paying a sum of not less than thirty dollars, at one subscription, shall be a member for life.

ART. IV. The officers of this Society shall be, a President, thirteen Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Recorder, and a Board of Managers, composed of the abovenamed officers, and twelve other members of the Society. They shall be annually elected by the members of the Society, at their annual meeting, on New Year's day, (except when that happens to be the Sabbath, and then the next day,) and continue to discharge their respective duties till others are appointed.

ART. V. It shall be the duty of the President to preside at all meetings of the Society, and of the Board of Managers, and to call meetings of the Society, and of the Board, when he thinks necessary, or when required by any three members of the Board.

ART. VI. The Vice-Presidents, according to seniority, shall discharge these duties in the absence of the President.

ART. VII. The Secretary shall take minutes of the proceedings, prepare and publish notices, and discharge such other duties as the Board, or the President, or, in his absence, the Vice-President, according to seniority, (when the Board is not sitting,) shall direct. And the Recorder shall record the proceedings and the names of the members, and discharge such other duties as may be required of him.

ART. VIII. The Treasurer shall receive and take charge of the funds of the Society, under such security as may be prescribed by the Board of Managers; keep the ac'ts. and exhibit an account of receipts and expenditures at every annual meeting, and discharge such other duties as may be required of him.

ART. IX. The Board of Managers shall meet on the first Monday in January, the first Monday in April, the first Monday in July, and the first Monday in October, every year, and at such other times as the President may direct. They shall conduct the business of the Society, and take such measures for effecting its object as they shall think proper, or which shall be directed at the meetings of the Society, and make an annual report of their proceedings. They shall also fill up all vacancies occurring during the year, and make such by-laws for their government as they may deem necessary, provided the same are not repugnant to this constitution.

ART. X. Every Society which shall be formed in the United States, to aid in the object of this Association, and which shall co-operate with its funds for the purposes thereof, agreeably to the rules and regulations of this Society, shall be considered auxiliary thereto; and its officers shall be entitled to attend and vote at all meetings of the Society, and of the Board of Managers.

H. Clay,

E. B. Caldwell,

Tho. Dougherty,

Stephen B. Balch,

Jno. Chalmers, Jun.
Thos. Patterson,

John Randolph of Roanoke,

Robt. H'y. Goldsborough,
William Thornton,
George Clarke,

James Laurie,
J. I. Stull,

Dan'l. Webster,
J. C. Herbert,
Wm. Simmons,
E. Forman,
Ferd'no. Fairfax,
V. Maxcy,
Jno. Loockerman,
Jno. Woodside,
William Dudley Digges,

Thomas Carberry,

Samuel J. Mills,

Geo. A. Carroll,
W. G. D. Worthington,

John Lee,

Richard Bland Lee,
D. Murray,
Robert Finley,

B. Allison,

B. L. Lear,
W. Jones,
J. Mason,
Mord. Booth,
J. S. Shaaff,
Geo. Peter,
John Tayloe,
Overton Carr,
P. H. Wendover,
F. S. Key,
Charles Marsh,
David M. Forest,
John Wiley,

Nathan Lufborough,

William Meade,

William H. Wilmer,

George Travers,

Edm. I. Lee,

John P. Todd,

Bushrod Washington.

SOUTHERN LIBERALITY.

John M'Donough, one of the most wealthy and influential citizens of New Orleans, has presented a memorial to the legislature of Louisiana, praying for leave to educate his slaves. He states that he is the owner of from forty to fifty black children, male and female, of various ages, the offspring of old and faithful servants, who have mostly been born under his roof. These slaves are valuable, being mostly mechanics, and would sell for $150,000. The design of the owner, however, is, to give freedom to all, and colonize them in Liberia. For this purpose, and that they may be qualified for the proposed new sphere of action, he desires permission to educate them. It will make the hearts of our immediate abolitionists to sink to see such fruit growing from the labours of the Colonization Society. We however can rejoice, and do rejoice, to see the work going thus nobly on. Mr. M'Donough is beginning in the right way. First prepare the slaves for freedom, prepare an asylum where they can enjoy the blessing, and then bestow it.-N. Y. Commercial.

[From the Philadelphia Friend, February 22.]

COMMUNICATION.

"Go and do thou likewise."-Luke, chap. x. v. 37.

While I regret the opposition which the M'Donough proposal has met with, to the interruption of his designs in the first instance, for educating "the offspring of old and faithful servants," I can but regard that gentleman's noble intention as an incitement well calculated to influence public opinion greatly in favor of the coloured people; and I deem it to be a duty which we owe to the impending cause of negro emancipation, to give McDonough's example publicity. Let his principles circulate from west to east -from south to north, and they will obtain the attentive audience of thousands, to an approved theory of liberality and of justice, which, if brought to bear on general practice, like good seed sown upon fruitful soil, the increase may become abundant; and the M'Donough plan for breaking the chain of slavery, for exalting the character and improving the situation of the freedman, although obstructed for the moment, will ultimately survive the resistance of tyranny and oppression.

In the mean time, permit me through thy paper, to recommend another method of imparting the boon of instruction to the uninformed children of Africa, by furnishing the means of planting schools, not only in Liberia but through the precincts of that colony, to extend the blessing to neighbouring tribes of aborigines; multitudes of whose population are to this day slumbering in gross ignorance.

To those of my readers who have not yet bestowed on these subjects that serious consideration which they deserve, my proposition may appear to be out of reach, or impracticable; and for the encouragement of some who withhold their interest through diffidence of their own judgment, or want of confidence in the scheme, I am induced to relate the following facts, in order to represent that degree of success which has already crowned the feeble exertions of an individual of this city, who, about three years ago, ventured to solicit from a few of her friends a small subscription, to enable her to set up two free schools for the instruction of females in Liberia and to pay one year's salary to the respective teachers. These schools were thus carried into effect: the first was located at Caldwell-the second in Monrovia, where they have been ever since regularly conducted by pious coloured women of competent abilities, whose school lists have mostly exceeded one

ton creek; and they are now preparing to set up a fourth to b haps at Edina, a recent settlement of emigrants, upon the St. or if the contemplated Pennsylvan colony shall go into operation the chief town situate upon Bassa Cove, will probably requi aid of the "Ladies' Association."

Why should any friend of the African race shrink from th service in this work of benevolence, or turn aside from the alarmed at the magnitude of the undertaking?

It is true, an extensive field for cultivation lies open bef is unhappily in a condition comparable to that of fallow grou urgencies of the occasion, silently but forcibly plead the cause ren in calamity." Let us then of our abundance cast something stock, which if conscientiously devoted to the necessities of o ings, and skilfully applied with special direction to the prim view, we may safely commit the freewill offering to the one Power, who according to his good pleasure, will again conde the loaves and the fishes, for the relief of suffering humanity.

INTELLIGENCE.

Extracts from the proceedings of the Board of

Managers.

2. Resolved, That the A absence) the Vice-Agent, to aforesaid six counsellors, s

of January and July of ea such other times as the Ager pedient. The Agent, or, in Vice-Agent shall preside a

The following resolution was adopt-council, who shall meet on ed on the 20th of February, 1834: Resolved, That an effort be made to raise a loan of FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, in shares of not less than one hundred dollars each; for which a Scrip shall be issued, sign-ings. They shall have pov ed by the President, and countersigned by impose duties, make approp the Treasurer, bearing six per cent. interest; lic monies, fix the salaries the said stock to be paid off in twelve years; be paid out of the funds to and for the payment of the interest, and the Colony, and enact such la reimbursement of the principal thereof, a deem necessary for the gene sinking fund of six thousand dollars a year, ject, however, to the appro be, and the same is hereby appropriated and nial Agent and the Board pledged out of the funds which shall be re- Should any law be passed by ceived by the Board in each year. disapproved by the Agent, the council his reasons for should it then be passed una Board of Managers shall decision upon it.

On the 30th January, 1834, the following resolutions, making certain changes in the Plan for the civil government of Liberia, were adopted:

1. Resolved, That the fourth article of the Plan of civil government for the Colony of Liberia be so amended as to read for "two,"

council, it shall remain in

3. Resolved, That from a day of May next, any office Society or Colony, who s

to the amount the said towns and the district of country of the United within three miles thereof.

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"That in respect to the country beyond three miles from the towns:

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"Each emigrant, as aforesaid, shall receive, if he prefer it, in lieu of the above donation, fifty acres of land for himself and family,they residing thereon, with the right of chasing, within five years thereafter, at the rate of twenty-five cents per acre, ready money, fifty adjacent acres.

"That the said allotments and lands sold r immediately be laid out, as well in respect to town lots as welling-place, otherwise, under the direction of the Coloniround, before al Agent, in such way as not to interfere Out them, and with existing rights, and so as to make the cation, lots and farins as regular in form and compact as may be, reserving in the gratuitous allotments to emigrants, adjacent to each allotment, a quantity equal to that so allotted, when requisite to satisfy the rights of preemption.

Agent be inple, to have a in convenient cinity of each cres (more or Agent,) and tage, of native residence of a ortion of each

"That beyond three miles from the said towns, sales of land be made for ready money as follows:

"To any one Colonist, at the rate of twenthe most use-ty-five cents an acre, for any quantity of land he expense of not less than one hundred or more than two such cottages, hundred acres. And at the same rate for e ground, and any quantity of land, provided a settlement ise exceed fif- be made thereon by the permanent residence And if, after of one Colonist to every hundred acres: Prothe occupant vided, however, that in these cases the apmake it his probation of the Colonial Agent be requito entitle him site; and that in authorizing them he pay he shall erect special regard to restraining the settlement like manner, within safe and prudent limits, reserving for e vicinity, on the future benefit of the Colony, tracts con 1 by the Colo-taining mill seats, mines or other specially ation of some valuable properties, or selling them at a price any such emproportionate to their value. from his cot

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"That the proceeds of all sales of lands made, shall be for the benefit of the Colony; but shall be strictly accounted for, and applied by this Board.

"Resolved, That the Colonial Agent be instructed to discourage, by all means in his power, the supply through the factories or otherwise, of the natives with fire arms, powder and shot.

"Resolved, That the Colonial Agent be empowered to make a donation to any Colonist, or association of Colonists, not exceeding five hundred acres of land, on condition

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