The objection is not supported by a solitary fact. Wherever negroes joyed, for any reasonable time, the privileges of the Gospel, in point of and order, they are in advance of those who have not enjoyed them. Is i that a truly pious servant gives less trouble, and is more profitable, than o Is there one planter in a thousand who does not desire such servants? Is the most pious servants exert the happiest influence in promoting honesty on plantations and in neighborhoods? That there are a number of nominal Christians amongst them, we do why is it so? Are they made hypocrites by faithful instruction? No. Th spurious religion, results from a deficiency of faithful instruction, and a to sion into the Church, after a profession of conversion? A reformation on gard to these two particulars, would produce a very happy effect upon the manency to their religious character. The fact that many are hypocrites, proves to no inconsiderable extent, advantages connected with a profession of religion; and where shall we l these advantages, if not to that higher estimation in which they are held b One or two irregularities in their meetings, or one or two defections, a prejudice the minds of many against the religious instruction of the neg they remain impenitent and pervert the Gospel, therefore are they unworth then would be worthy, if God should deal with us according to this rule? Suppose we admit the objection to be true in its fullest extent, and wha it annul our duty? Far from it. Let them harden themselves and grow v means of grace; whether they will hear or forbear, we are to throw the r their salvation upon their own shoulders, and to clear our garments of the who are we-in what age, and in what country of the world do we live, question the excellency of the Gospel-the propriety of preaching it to the The objections, now briefly considered, we do not deem of sufficient we from the conclusion to which we have already come, that it is our duty to i pel to our colored population. We cannot close this report, extended beyond our expectations by the subject, without asking ourselves, nay, the Church of Christ, in the slavewhy is not this duty felt; and why has it not been performed? Why is there such general apathy to the perishing condition of two milli Why is it, that so much feeling may be awakened, touching their civil co ittle, touching their religious condition? The latter is infinitely to be e the former, and proportionably attended to. Are not ministers of the Gospel to be blamed? Why have they not l lestitute condition of this people, and, as they have had opportunity, la alvation, esteeming them as part of their charge? Why have they not ur ers, their duties to their servants? Are ministers not set to watch for s he Gospel in every way they can to the destitute? Are not Christian masters to be blamed? Why have they not seriously o something for their ignorant, degraded servants, who are every day to em with the comforts of life? The guilt lies upon both Ministers and people, and it has been accumula he introduction of negroes into this country. We who profess to know wi fthe soul, what is the love and preciousness of the Saviour, we are to take the ever will. What a multitude of souls have perished through our neglect! tude are now perishing, and will perish ere we reach them with the good on! What a multitude of masters have already met with the awful charg od, of having practically despised the eternal interests of the souls of th his charge lies upon masters on every hand; and we tremble lest they n epared. aroong under the of neglect of the solvation of the That spirit is one of love-of obedience. "If ye love me, keep my commandments.""Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." "Masters, render unto your servants that which is just and equal." "Preach the Gospel to every creature." We are weighed in the balances and found wanting. Do we not see our brother have. need, and do we not shut up the bowels of our compassion from him? What avail our numerous works of benevolence?Our Missionaries dwelling in foreign countries, and penetrating to the most destitute settlements of our own? Our Bibles and our Tracts, that all must receive and read? Our Sunday schools, and Seamens, Friend, and Prison Dicipline, and Temperance, and numerous other Societies? The very means which we use in contributing to these works, come of the labors of our perishing servants; and no provision is made for them! We are inconsistent. And our Saviour will say to us, "These ye ought to have done, and not have left the other undone." If servants have immortal souls, we must treat them accordingly.— To clothe them when they are naked—to feed them when they are hungry-to minister to them when they are sick, does not embrace all our duty. If we do no more, we treat them as the brutes that perish. We must rise higher, and be careful to minister to the necessities of their souls. On the principles of self-interest and love of country the duty should be discharged. He who neglects it, loses sight of his own best interests for time and eternity, and of the peace and prosperity of his country. But we take our stand in the discharge of this duty on Christian principles-on conscience enlightened by the Word of God, and quickened by the Holy Spirit. Here is the foundation-and if such a foundation exists in the Church of Christ in the slave-holding States, the duty will be felt, and a discharge of it attempted.-We believe that such a foundation exists, and we look and appeal with confidence to the Church, to awake to effort in all her members. The negroes are cast at the door of the Southern Church. They form her great field of Missions, and we cannot allow the claims of any heathen in the world upon us, to be paramount to theirs; and we make the declaration, that unless we occupy this field, we need not expect the blessing of God to any extent upon our Zion, for we shall be living in known neglect of duty, and neglect of such duty as must be exceedingly displeasing to Him. The time is short: What we do we must do quickly. We shall soon be in our graves, returning to the dust side by side with our servants. We shall soon be before the Bar of God, where the artificial distinctions of this world will not be recognized. God is no respecter of persons. Every man shall be judged according to his work. Let us, therefore, in the strength of our God and Saviour, renounce our ignorance, and our indisposition, and extend the privileges of the Gospel to this neglected, dying people, or we shall not incet them in peace at the last day. MR. RIVES AND COLONIZATION. WILLIAM C. RIVES, a distinguished citizen of Virginia, and recently minister of the United States to France, addressed to a friend on the 20th of August last, a letter of which the following extract appears in the Richmond Enquirer of September 9th. Extract of a letter to H. A. G. Esq.-Aug. 20th, 1934. "I am no Abolitionist, and never have been one. In common with every American patriot, I have deplored the existence of slavery in our country, and would rejoice to see any safe and feasible remedy adopted, if such could be devised, to mitigate or to remove the evil. But I would never give my sanction to any remedy which would disregard the rights of property to the slave owner; which I consider as held under the same guarantees of the law and the Constitution, that protect every other right of property. I did not approve of any of the schemes which were proposed in the Legislature, at the time the subject was under consideration in that body; but, on the contrary, saw insuperable objections to all of them. The policy I have favored, as both the most safe and practicable, is that of the COLONIZATION SCHEME, which by gradually draining the country of its free colored population, and of slaves who should be voluntarily manumitted by their masters, would at the same time, promote the interests of the slave owners themselves, by removing a great source of corruption and disaffection among the slaves, and by keeping down the aggregate number of slaves, would place the problem of an ultimate extinction of slavery, at some remote period of our future history, more within the power of auspicious contin gencies which the course of events might present." "These are the views I have always entertained, and repeatedly expressed. They are, as far as I can recollect, the views expressed by me in my correspondence with my friends while I was in France. Alive as I was, during my residence abroad, to every thing which affected the feelings and interests of my country, I could not but be deeply moved by the horrid catastrophe which occurred in Southampton, in the summer of 1831. I saw that public attention had been every where in our State, awakened to the great question which that event had forced on the reflection of even the most careless and unthinking. Under these circumstances, I have no doubt that, in my communications with my friends, I expressed in strong terms, my sense of the evil of slavery in our country, and an anxious desire, if any remedy for it could be devised, to see some safe and prudent measure adopted to lessen, if not remove it. I felt, at the same time, all the delicacy and difficulty of the subject, which I well recollect to have expressed, and to have declared my conscious inability, at the distance I was from the scene of deliberation, and deprived of an interchange of opinion with others, to judge what ought to be done. My general views, however, were those which I have stated above--they are the views I now entertain; and I feel satisfied, that there was nothing either in my letter to Mr. Ritchie, or to any other of my correspondents, inconsistent with the explanation here given of those views." INTELLIGENCE. Mr. JOHNSON CLEAVELAND, a high-tion Society has recommended itself to the ly respectable citizen and Magistrate world, by the benign influence it has exertof Loudon county, Va. died at his re- the disinterestedness and expanded benefied upon this class of our fellow-beings; by sidence on the 24th of August last, cence of its scheme; its enlightening and having made provision in his last will Christianizing action upon Africa; its fully and testament that it should be op- developed tendency to create a spirit of tional with his slaves whether to emi- the Negro character is deriving from its emancipation; and the dignity and elevation grate to Liberia, or to choose for them- sweet and healing influences— selves among his near kindred, a master, and that they should be allowed two years for deciding. AUXILIARY SOCIETIES. The subjoined letter brings the pleasing intelligence of the institution of an Auxiliary Colonization Society at Kinderhook Academy, N. York: KINDERHOOK ACADEMY, Aug. 26, 1834. DEAR SIR: It is with pleasure I can inform you of the recent organization of an Auxiliary Colonization Society in this Academy. It has commenced under very auspicious circumstances, embracing about twenty members; and the hope is cherished, that from a peaceful beginning, it will go on, conciliating the good will of persons who may entertain different views from those of the Society; and, by diffusing correct information on the subject of Colonization among the students, and giving a fixedness to their principles and a noble and salutary channel to the zeal and enthusiasm with which they enter the world; be the means of ultimately doing some good in the cause of human liberty and happiness. The Preamble to our Constitution reads thus:- WHEREAS the wretched condition of the People of Colour in this country calls for immediate amelioration, and the kind sympathies and cordial support of every benevolent and Christian heart in any work that is calculated to effect so desirable an end; and WHEREAS the American Coloniza Therefore be it Resolved, That we form ourselves into a Society for aiding in the advancement of so grateful and laudable an object, and adopt the following articles for its furtherance. One article in our Constitution is nearly to this effect: That the Society shall aid the Parent Institution, not only by the contribuits influence in forming other Societies. tion of money, but also by the exertion of The necessity of the latter clause of that article, was foreseen by many: It would be necessary that something should be done to counteract, or rather to forestal, the inilu ence which the gratuitous publications, emitted from the Oneida Institute" and other places, might possibly create; and therefore the article was made, so that it might furnish ground for future exertion in the shape of circulars, etc. I am authorized to write for the "Repository," which, from the commencement of the present volume, you will please send, if you can, directed to "The Secretary of the Kinderhook Academy Colonization Society." The Money will be remitted, for the same, by the Hon. A. Vanderpool, M. C. together with as much more as is realized from the Society. With the greatest respect, To the Sec'y of Am. It is with peculiar pleasure that we transfer to the columns of the Repos That so little has been done, can be attribu itory, from the Fredericksburg Arena proportioned to the wealth, intelligence, and of the 22d of August, the well written public spirit, of the community around us.— and comprehensive though brief Re-ted only to a deplorable, but not unaccounport of the Managers of the Frede- table apathy pervading and benumbing the ricksburg and Falmouth Female Aux- public mind, towards the Colonization iliary Colonization Society. scheme: an apathy, traceable at once to igTheir norance of what the society has done, and eloquent appeal in behalf of the cause misapprehension of what it designs to do.— in which they are engaged will not, Some of its adversaries charge it, with aimit is hoped, be heard in vain, in a State ing secretly at Abolition; others, with a deadso much interested as Virginia is in ly and unpardonable hostility to Abolition .— Leaving these inconsistent objections to be the success of the Colonizing Scheme, refuted, as well by their mutual contradicand where female benevolence is so tion, as by their inherent and oft established deservedly influential. The deter- falsehood, the Board will simply declare, that mination of the ladies of Fredericks- settle, in Africa, such free persons of colour as the object of the Colonization Society is, burg and Falmouth to direct their ef- may freely consent to go thither; and that the forts to the encouragement of female chief end of this removal is,_ To improve the education at the Colony is calculated condition of the emigrants. Two secondary to produce the most important bene- advantages are indeed expected: relief to America; civilization, christianity and free fits to Liberia, and will, we trust, government, to Africa: but these objects, so find many imitators among our fair vast in the eye of the statesman and philancountry women throughout the union.thropist, are yet immeasurably subordinate to the first, in the wishes of the Colonization Report of the Board of Managers of the Fred- Society. ericksburg and Falmouth Female Colonization Society, presented July 4th, 1834. The receipts of the Society, from the 20th of July, 1833, to the 4th of July, 1834, were $129 28 Balance on hand 30th July, 1833, 65 57 But not even the unjust ascription of improper motives has so much averted public belief of its actual and probable success. In favour from this cause, as ignorance and unvain has the Colony lived down the croakings of those prophets, who averred its speedy and total failure to be inevitable: in vain has it advanced in population, wealth and the The receipts accrued from the subscrip-known to History: in vain have its advantauseful arts, beyond all former colonies tions of members, and the donations of friends. Among both of these classes, the ladies in the country have been conspicuous for zeal and liberality. The disbursements were $194 85 For outfit and passage to Norfolk of two $27 37 Colonists, Cash sent to the Parent Society at Washington, Balance on hand, 167 00 $194 37 $194 85 The two colonists above mentioned were Sally, a woman freed by Mr. William Berry, of Orange, and Melinda, a girl liberated by Mr. John Morton, late of Fredericksburg— with a direct view to their settlement in Africa. They sailed in November last, on board the ship Jupiter, from Norfolk, among 54 emigrants. That vessel, having safely deposited its freight in Liberia, returned, more than four months ago, to our own shores. The outfit of those two colonists, and the remittance of that small sum to the American Colonization Society, constitute all the fruits of our little association during the past year. With chagrin and regret we acknowledge a result so unworthy of our cause-so incommensurate with the results of other similar associations---and so incalculably dis ge, and its successful progress, been heraldof our coloured people, sent out to examine ed forth by its white friends, by deputies its real condition; and by the colonists themselves, in a touching and persuasive appeal to their brethren here. The public ear has been deaf, the public mind has been drugged so as to hear not, or understand not, the truth so repeatedly and impressively told: and at this moment, ninety-nine hundredths of the Virginia people know none of the material facts relative to the colony. That it posses ses 5 or 6000 square miles of land so fertile, in a climate so congenial to the black man's constitution, as to be capable of sustaining a million of inhabitants, with power to extend its dominion peaceably, almost at pleasure, over the surrounding wilds-that it has three towns, one of which contains 220 dwelling houses, several Churches for Christian worship, several schools, a newspaper press, prosperous warehouses of merchandize, and wharves and a port enlivened by an active commerce-that it numbers already three thousand inhabitants-that it enjoys a government on the American model, with jury trial and a well disciplined militia, those best bulwalks of Liberty-that it has done much, and bids fair to do much more, towards extirpating the African slave tradethat the surrounding, native tribes are peaceably and amicably disposed-that two well educated females in every community. They think these are apparent to every mind. Much has been done in promoting female education in the colony, by societies in Richmond, Philadelphia, New York and else where--With these we might co-operate.The most enlightened friends of Colonization highly approve of this diversion of funds from the general coffers of the society, to the specific object of education in Liberia, and it would seem to us that it is peculiarly befitting our sex to be thus engaged. of them have placed themselves under the protection of the colony, soliciting a share in its polity, and are sending their children to its schools-and that this triumphant progress is the work, not of some powerful government, but of private bounty and private enterprise alone-are facts, utterly unknown to the great mass of our people, yet as unquestionable as the existence of London, or as the events of the American Revolution. With these facts in view, no reflecting mind can doubt, that the colony must succeed. It will present, every year, ample accommodations and more resistless attractions to our free coloured people. The daily decrease in the cost of transportation, will soon enable thousands, annually, to emigrate. They will prefer a land where wealthness, persuasion, self-denial, industry, and and social dignity, and all the natural rewards of merit, await them, to one where, whatever their talents and virtues, their inevitable lot is hopeless and perpetual degradation. They will flock to Africa: they will fill, they will regenerate it. One of the most important duties of the Society obviously is, to diffuse widely a knowledge of the facts, which commend the colony to public favour. The whites should be enlightened on the subject, that they may speed on the work: the free people of colour, that they may willingly and joyfully embrace that bettered condition, which is offered them in the clime of their ancestors. How strenuously diligent should each member of our little association be, in shedding this benign light upon the darkened minds of her country!-in amassing information, in explaining the merits of the cause; in circulating pamphlets and documents that may exhioit those merits justly; and in stimulating her friends to study them! To assist in the regeneration of one conti. nent and the amelioration of another, are the noble ends before us. Yet noble as they are, the means of attaining them, happily, do not wholly disdain female co-operation. Gentle perseverance, are chief implements of the In pursuance of the suggestions of the Board of Managers, the Society, at its meeting on the 4th July, 1834, determined to asPerhaps the greatest present want of the sume the character of a Female African Edcolony, is the want of usefully instructed citi-ucation Society-the objects of which should zens. Education, vital to every free com- be the promotion of female Education in the munity, is peculiarly so to Liberia, from the Colony of Liberia. the very natural deficiences under which its people have heretofore labored. The laws of Virginia forbid the teaching of free coloured persons to read and write: but means might be adopted to promote their instruction after landing in Liberia: and owners, who design to manumit for deportation, should be made sensible how important it is to fit the mind for freedom, before that other-stated; and on motion, wise dangerous boon is conferred. With these views of the importance of Education, the Board of Managers would beg leave respectfully to recommend a change in the character and objects of the Society-Devolving upon the National and State societies the duty of removing emigrants to Africa, they would suggest the propriety of confining the exertions of this association to the specific object of encouraging Female Education in the Colony of Liberia. The Managers do not think it necessary to dilate here upon the importance, in every point of view, of the blessings of education in the early stages of a colony such as Liberia, nor of the benign influences likely to be dispensed by [From the Geneva (N. Y.) Gazelle, July 9th.] At a meeting of the Young Men of Geneva, held for the purpose of forming a Colonization Society, J. W. STANSBURY was called to the chair, and J. W. TILLMAN appointed secretary. The objects of the Society were briefly Resolved, That we do form ourselves into a Colonization Society, auxiliary to the New York State Colonization Society. Messrs. S. M. Hopkins, Webster, Butler, Dixon, Dox, Sill, Bronson and Greves were appointed a committee to prepare a constitution for the Society, and report at the next meeting. Messrs. S. Hopkins, Hamlin, Handy, Dox, and Dixon, were appointed a committee to prepare and report resolutions expressive of the sense of this meeting. Adjourned to meet on Monday evening, 30th June. The Society met pursuant to adjournmen', J. W. Stansbury in the chair. |