The Address of Mr. Bestor is a concise and vigorous appeal in behalf of the cause of African Colonization. It cannot fail to be read with interest, and to awaken the public to a sense of the magnitude, practicableness and utility of the design which it was intended to advance. Some passages in this Address are

truly eloquent.

"This Colony is gaining favour with the people and its patronage is increasing. The legislatures of more than half of the states have expressed their approbation of its operations, and several of them have recommended it to the patronage of the general government. Virginia and Maryland have given the society their pecuniary aid.

"Many slave-holders are in this house. I would direct their attention particularly to the last mentioned fact, showing that these two states do not consider the society, as carrying on any operations, detrimental te their interest.

"Great things are accomplished slowly. Liberia has advanced more rapidly than did our infant Colonies. Raleigh first attempted a settlement on our eastern border. His mind, though filled with poetic images, contained none so bright as the history of our country. Had the Genius of Nuse river informed him, that far towards its source, at a town bearing his name, would meet the Legislature of a Republic, dispersing protection and liberty over a territory nearly as ample as England, and that this would be but one of twenty-four confederated states, stretching from Sí. Croix river to cape Florida, and reaching far, far into the west; sublime in peace; terrible in war; and looking defiance on all that is beyond the Atlantic, he would have pronounced insipid all he had before conceived. It is to say then, what has been, may be again, when we say, that this colony may stretch from Sahara to Congo, may follow the course of the Niger, may borrow our institutions, and that our Republic may see, as in a mirror, her own image beyond the Atlantic.

"When we shall have left all earthly scenes, then the inhabitants of Li. beria will trace the history of the American Colonization Society, down to their own greatness, as we trace the history of our own country from the settlers of Jamestown and the pilgrims of Plymouth, or as we follow the Tennessee from its cave in Virginia, strengthening as it moves, until deep, and clear, and strong, it passes before our own eyes, amidst the beauty and fertility of our own valley."

The following extract is beautiful and impressive. Mr. Bestor speaks of the number of the Free People of Colour, and of their degraded condition, and of the entire practicableness of transporting yearly to Liberia, a number equal to the annual increase. This increase is probably from 5 to 7 thousand, and

the expense of their removal would be about $100,000. He then mentions the rapid increase of the slave population and the alarming consequences to be expected from the unchecked progress of this class of our population. He then adds:

"If the Colonization Society had the means of transportation, it is proba ble that at no distant period it would have offers of a number of colonists from the free blacks, and from slave-holders, equal to half the increase of the coloured population among us. To carry this number to Africa would cost annually half a million of dollars. A sum less than one-fortieth of the revenue of these states; less than one-twentieth of the sinking fund, and only one-half of what is spent for the increase of the Navy. Were this sum spent in this cause it would not be felt by this nation, and would produce a good which could not be estimated. Other calculations could be made either larger or smaller. Any plan which carries away part of our coloured population, would give the increase of the whites a proportional advantage, and therefore would produce a permanent good, would decrease the probabilities of future collision, and would calm the apprehensions of all.

"But I will appeal to a better principle-your benevolence. Those coloured people for whom your society was formed, are declared to be free. Yet all those paths leading to the richer places of profit, are closed against them. They feel that it is as impossible to contend with the whites for distinction and respectability, as it is to contend with them for delica cy of skin and of features. The breath of opinion poisons all their efforts. What motive can prompt such to honourable actions? What inducement has the female to assume the dignity of her sex? Rigorous laws have been enacted in some states, to prevent their admission and in others to produce their expulsion. Behold what scenes are now passing in relation to coloured people north of the Ohio. These things induce us to say that they call more loudly for our sympathy, than their brethren in bondage. In Liberia their colour will no longer mark them as objects of contempt. They will meet all their fellow beings upon one arena. The pulpit, the bar, and the legislative hall will invite them to distinction and honour.-And Mr. President, were I occupying the place behind you, where I frequently stand, I could find an argument in relation to their moral and their final condition, which should influence every lover of our revealed religion.

"Of the whole continent of Africa, we know little more than its outline. On examining its coast we find a few spots of civilized life. Like the stars of night they cannot drive away the pervading darkness, they cannot enlighten the path of the traveller, into the interior amidst savage beasts and dangerous men. The Colonization Society holds up the practicable and interesting prospects of spreading civilization over the fertile regions of this part of our globe. Who that knows the history of his own country

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can regard it extravagant to believe that, her forests may be converted into fruitful fields, that her Senegal, her Gambia, and her Niger may be lined with a busy population, and adorned with whatever swims down our river or proudly stems its current.

"Christianity will beautify Africa, so far as civilization enlightens it.All the pious and the holy, as they look towards the Pagan world with anxiety, or as they devise means to extend the Gospel to the heathen, may look towards our Society as one worthy of their benediction and aid. Mahometanism rules in the north of this country and traverses her Deserts. Pagans and cannibals worship in her forests and in her groves.-Abyssinia near her eastern shore, is dimly lighted by the sun of Righteousness. Christianity will spread with the influence of our Society; throwing down idols, stopping the blood of human victims, driving the slave ship from the coast, and erecting the temple of instruction and peace.

"The same Ocean that bore the slave to America, will bear his descendants to his native soil. The wind from this land of liberty will swell the sails. The spirit of Africa, who has sat, in solitary grandeur, amidst her own forests and deserts, will feel her own wounds heal, and her bosom swell with forgiveness towards the oppressors of her children;-will feel her heart glow with gratitude at the gift of that volume, which points to freedom beyond this stage of existence. She will feel a return of more than Egyptian greatness, or Carthagenian glory.

"Gentlemen: I am fully persuaded that you will not yield to prejudice, that you can oppose error, and that you are capable of forming opinions in accordance with the truths presented, and of acting accordingly."

We have just received two numbers of the Political Clarion, a paper published in Connersville, Indiana, and we are glad to perceive that the Editor enters with glowing zeal and charity, into the cause of our Institution. In a very interesting notice of the Liberia Herald, he expresses his attachment to the enterprise of this Society, in language which does honour to his feelings, his talents, and his judgment. We give the following short quotation.

"It would be interesting to dwell minutely upon the brief, though eventful history of this young and flourishing Colony, which has sprung up as it were by enchantment in a distant and barbarous land. For if ever the guardian care of a kind and protecting Providence was manifested in the planting of a Colony-we have here an instance; though they had struggles, though some valuable lives have purchased what they now enjoy—yet their miraculous success, and early prosperity, is without a parallel in the annals of colonization. Let the germ from whence we ourselves sprung-the first and desperate attempts of our fathers to make a stand in the New World, be remembered. Colonies were planted and massa. creed by the savages. Colonies were planted and fell the victims of famine.

Colonies were planted, and perished in the depth of winter. Colonies were planted and swept away by the diseases of summer. Colonies were planted and never heard of more. But they persevered; and at length the scions of civilization found their congenial soil, and the "wilderness blossomed like the rose." They reared the temple of Liberty, and we will hope that its base is steadfast as earth's foundations-that its pinnacle is linked with eternity.

"We know of no cause, in which the lovers of mankind, the patriot, and the christian can embark, with surer and more brilliant prospects of success, than in the cause of the Colonization of the Free Blacks of our country, on the coast of Africa. The philanthropist and the christian may find in that section of Africa, in which this infant Colony is locatedfifty millions of immortal beings as wild as the forests they inhabit-where the slave trade sweeps annually into captivity its unnumbered thousands— where all the horrors of savage warfare are perpetual. In this benighted land a beacon fire is now blazing, which must eventually dispel the gloom of paganism, and make her deserts glad with the sentiments of a better Dature."

The Boston Courier in a brief notice of the Thirteenth Annual Report of our Society, expresses its belief that some other motive than "pure philanthropy must be brought into operation, before the people of this country can be brought to act unitedly in the work, and is decidedly of opinion that the magnitude of the work will forever set at defiance all partial attempts to effect the consummation desired." We agree with the Courier, that every motive which can be presented, should be urged upon the public to secure united and even national effort in this great cause. We do not believe, however, that all men always act from selfish motives. We would rejoice with the Courier, to show to leading individuals in the country and to the nation itself, that private and public interests are to be promoted by this scheme: but we would, at the same time, appeal to the moral sentiments of the American people with confidence. Has not the moral sense of the United States, of England, and of the Christian world been made alive to the enormities and cruelties of the slave trade; and does not the suppression of this traffic do honour to the principle of morality and duty in the mind of christendom? Does the Courier think that those who have done most for African Colonization have been governed principally by motives of interest? For our own part, we look to the principles of justice, of charity, of religion in the hearts of our countrymen as the

surest auxiliaries and firmest supports of the design of our Society. We think, however, that the subject mentioned in the following extract from the Courier has been too much neglected.

"We submit this remark in reference to the operations of the Colonization Society, because we apprehend that the importance of establishing a Colony of Coloured People on the Coast of Africa, as an Auxiliary to our commerce, might be dwelt upon and enforced with much more ability and with greater hopes of success than it has hitherto been. We are not, ourself, prepared to urge this point, for we are not in possession of facts and documents to enable us to do more than others have done, even if we had the power to present them in a stronger light. We only wish to suggest for the consideration of those whose time, information and ability qualify them for the task, whether the commercial advantages to be derived from the Colony might not be considered as an equivalent, for any expenditure of money which might be required for the removal of such numbers of our black population as would sensibly diminish that population here and increase the number of Colonists to a degree that should afford a tolerable prospect of its strength and respectability."

The RELIGIOUS HERALD of Richmond, Va. which at all times evinced a very deep and friendly interest in the affairs of our Society, under date of the 25th of June, contains a very sensible and judicious article, a part of which we are happy to transfer to our pages. We wish that its example may be imitated by all the Editors in the land. How easily might this nation be brought, universally, to look with favour upon the plans of the Colonization Society, and to give to them the most effectual aid, did the press bring their importance and benevolence, as it should do, clearly and repeatedly before the minds of the community! We call upon Editors then no longer to be silent on this subject, but to apply themselves to it as to a matter of far higher concern to our national character and national interest, than the thousand topics of party warfare which are constantly thrown out, alike detrimental to the moral welfare of the people and to our honour in the opinion of mankind. We here give a valuable extract from the article which we have just mentioned.

"Jealousies and fears have been entertained by many respectable individuals in the Southern States, in regard to the course and objects of the Colonization Society. It is a gratifying circumstance, that owing to the wise and prudent course pursued by the American Colonization Society,