Brought forward, A well wisher of the A. C. Society, in North Carolina, Green Castle Pa. Aux. Soc. per Rev. Mr. Fullerton, Donation by a friend in Allentown, Lehigh co. Pa. who ardently desires every freeman in the U. S. to make a similar donation, ..... Charles Davis, of same place, subscription for Repository to March 1, 1830, ..... Abner Wesson, of Laurenceville, Va. for two years' sub- Do. to pay for Repository for Rev. L. L. Hamline, .... .... $37 Donation from a Society of little girls, Fredericktown, Md. Proceeds of two pairs of socks knit by two Ladies, $1924 43 5 30 1 4 4 10 100 2 39 3 1 50 16 50 Mrs. S. A. Duborg, Providence, for Repository, for 1830, 5 John Bruce, do. 5 Contribution by the young Ladies at the Female Academy, at Salem, North Carolina, (the amount usually expended by them in celebrating the 4th of July,) by Rev. Benjamin Reichel, deduct sundry expenses paid by him, 56 27- $2,733 18 Liberal Donation. Charles Tappan, Esq. of Boston, has just sent fifty reams of fine paper to Liberia for the use of the Colonial Press; which Press was several years ago presented to the Society by the same Philanthropic individual. At the Anniversary of the N. York State Colonization Society. In our last number we gave a concise account of the proceedings at this anniversary, and mentioned that it was our purpose to publish in whole, or in part, the several impressive speeches by which the resolutions, adopted on that occasion, were sustained. In concluding a statement in regard to the operations of the Board of Managers during the year, and the progress of the cause to which they are devoted, B. F. Butler, Esq. made the following remarks: The "The institutions of freedom, civilization and Christianity, had thus been planted by the hand of benevolence, on the coast of Africa. influence of the colony on the surrounding country, was constantly extending itself; the advantages it conferred might be judged of by the fact before stated, that nearly one hundred children had been sent by the barbarous inhabitants of the interior to be instructed in Liberia. It continued also to exert a most active agency in the suppression of the slave tradean enormity still practised by Christian nations, in defiance of treaties and in contempt of religion and humanity, and which all experience had shown was only to be suppressed by planting on the coast barriers against it. "In view of what had already been accomplished for Africa by the American Colonization Society, and of the blessings it promised to confer, not only on that continent, but on our own country, Mr. B. felt himself justified in saying, that of all the benevolent enterprises which reflect glory on this age, there was no one more justly entitled to the patronage of the philanthropist or the patriot, than this Society. Its influence of domestic slavery in the United States, was most salutary. Interfering in no way with the rights or the policy of the states-making no appeals to sectional feeling—and using no language but that of reason and humanity-the Society has secured the confidence of enlightened men in every quarter of the union; and without soliciting or even recommending manumission, it has already done more to promote in the southern states the emancipation of slaves, than had been accomplished by all the efforts made with direct reference to such a result, since the revolution. In proof of this, Mr. B. mentioned, that the report of every auxiliary Society in the south, testified to the willingness of many planters to emancipate their slaves as soon as facilities could be afforded for their departure; and that of the emigrants by the Harriet, which sailed in February, 1829, between 40 and 50 were slaves, liberated by less than half a dozen individuals-18 by one person, and 15 by another. Of the 58 persons sent from Philadelphia in January last, 49 were liberated slaves, and a few days after her departure, 30, who had been emancipated by one individual, Joel Early, Esq. of Georgia, arrived at Norfolk, from which place they will be sent in the next vessel to be dispatched. "Mr. B. said he could not avoid adding, that great interest was felt throughout the civilized world for the success of this enterprise. Of this, a most interesting and impressive proof had recently been given, in the arrival of Mr. Sessing, and three other missionaries from Basle in Switzerland, who had voluntarily devoted themselves to the service of the colony and of the tribes in its vicinity, and two of whom had already sailed for Africa. If such was the ardor of those who had no other interest in this cause, than that excited by Christian duty and a generous philanthropy, what should be the measure of our exertions in its behalf, identified as it is with the strength, the prosperity, and the honour of our Republic"" In support of a resolution requesting the Board of Managers to cause information to be diffused, and measures to be adopted, to secure the establishment of Auxiliary Societies in the different counties of the state, John A. Dix, Esq. of Cooperstown, delivered the following able and interesting speech:· "In advocating the adoption of this resolution, Mr. Dix said, it was not his intention to enter into a regular discussion of the great subject of African Colonization, but merely to touch upon particular questions relating to it. The able and eloquent examination, which the whole subject received at the organization of this Society, had left scarcely a leading topic to be illustrated or an argument to be supplied. In enlarging, however, upon some of the considerations presented at that time, the occasion had seemed to him a suitable one for entering also into a brief review of the efforts and progress of the American Colonization Society; and in doing so, said Mr. D. I cannot forbear to congratulate this assembly, that a prelimi nary question-the practicability of settlement upon the African coast by emigration from the United States-can no longer be drawn into controversy. In the settlement of this question, the most formidable obstacle to the accomplishment of the objects of the Society has been removed: It has united to us many, who under different circumstances, would now be contending against us; and it has doubly augmented our strength by breaking the force of prejudice, and by narrowing the field of argument, which it is our business and our duty to maintain "It may be said, without exaggeration, that the plan of Colonization thus far, has not only been successful, but that its success has been triumphant. Only seven years have elapsed since the first band of emigrants about 80 in number) landed on the African coast. They were without shelter or protection, and almost without the supplies of subsistence necessary to sustain them until they could draw their nourishment from the earth by their own hands. Disease, the constant enemy of that enterprise which ventures upon new and untried climates; the hostility of the native possessors of the soil, who, as it almost always happens, looked upon them with distrust and suspicion; the scarcity of the means of subsistence; and the innumerable difficulties in reducing to culture a soil, which human industry had never attempted, have all been encountered and overcome. A population of 1500 souls is now sustained by its own industry; and in the year 1828, a surplus production, equal in value to $90,000, was exported for foreign consumption. A system of laws, administered, with the assistance of three or four whites, by the colonists themselves, secures to them the same rights of person and property, and the same impartial distribution of justice, which we ourselves enjoy. Schools have been established at various points throughout the colony, and the children of the surrounding tribes of natives, who have been buried for centuries in unmitigated darkness, are seen mingling with the colonists for the acquisition of moral and intellectual lights. "Compared with the British Colony at Sierra Leone, the progress of Liberia is still more strongly marked. It has, after seven years, a popu lation, which the former did not possess after twenty years from the date of its establishment, and in all its moral and intellectual acquisitions it is far superior to that Colony, at the period to which I refer. In the capacity for extension by force of its own possessions, Liberia may be said to be almost without limit. The Society has obtained from the actual occu. pants of the soil, the cession of a territory unbounded in extent. "From the condition of the Colony at Liberia, the transition is not an ungrateful one to the state of the Society at home. More than half the states in the Union haye formed Societies auxiliary to the parent Institu tion; and the subordinate associations are exceedingly numerous. The current of opinion is with the Institution; and it will be borne on to the fulfilment of its objects-gradually it may be, but they are destined nevertheless to be fulfilled. If any one shall venture to draw into controversy the practicability of the scheme, it is sufficient for our purpose to insist on what we have actually accomplished. If any one shall suggest that our free blacks will not be disposed to emigrate to Liberia, it is a sufficient reply, that from the first establishment of the Colony, the applications for passages have constantly exceeded the means of the Society; that there are, at this moment, more than a thousand applications by free blacks for passages, which the Society is unable to supply; that there are more than two thousand slaves ready to be liberated by their masters whenever the means of their removal shall be provided; that there are, doubtless, thousands, who are restrained from applying by the known inability of the Society to accomplish its purposes. "In promoting the emigration of the African race, whether bond or free, every state in this Union has a separate interest, as well as an interest in common with all the others; for there is no section of the country which does not participate in some degree in the burden of its presence. In the Northern and Middle states, indeed, the pressure of the evil is at this moment more severe than in the South. We have no restraint upon free blacks, excepting that, which is contained in the general denunciation of the law against offenders. But in the South, the system of domestic servitude is a system of incessant care and vigilance, which is maintained by a co-operation of private interest with municipal regulations: it is a system, not merely of retributive, but also of preventive justice, which it is difficult either to overpower by force or to elude by artifice. The mass of crime committed by Africans is greater, in proportion to numbers, in the non-slave-holding than in the slave-holding states; and as a general rule, the degree of comfort enjoyed by them is inferior. This is not an argument in favor of slavery; but it is an unanswerable argument in favour of rendering emancipation and colonization co-extensive with each other. It presents to every state in the Union a powerful motive to promote the objects of the Institution, of which we are an auxiliary. The South has as deep an interest in the removal of our free blacks as we have in the manumission and removal of their slaves. The different members of this confederacy are bound to each other by ties, of which we ourselves are incapable of properly estimating the force. Whatever augments or diminishes the strength of one is so much added to or drawn from the strength of all the others. In modern times the numbers of a nation do not constitute its greatest strength, but the moral force, which it is capable of putting forth for the multiplication of its resources in peace, and for their protection in seasons of public danger. Sir, it is impossible to estimate the moral power, which we should acquir e, if the place of the |