ship, ere she heaves in sight sometimes heralds her approach by hanging from the sky in magic form of hull and masts, and shrouds, above the coast she longs for; "so do the spirits of great events often stride on before the events," and herald their coming in the atmosphere of human observation.

It becomes the Christian philanthropist, therefore, as he contemplates these movements, fraught with so much hope to the future, and begins to comprehend the unfolding plans of God's mysterious Providence, by which he is giving truth and freedom to the world :-it becomes him to bear with patience present evils, and to labor patiently to remove them. Let him not think to urge the mechan ism of Divine Providence with high pressure velocity, over rough and smooth; but rather let him follow its leadings, and walk in its path.

One topic more suggests itself, as worthy of some consideration.

If Western and Central Africa full the destiny which God and Nature seem to design for her, she must become almost exclusively the coloured man's home. Her climate, although in some places healthy to any constitution, is generally the white man's grave; and the riches of her soil can never be gathered by his hand. But it is the very climate which the constitution of the Negro loves. And it seems to have been so ordered that if the Europeans, after having trampled upon all human and divine rights, in order to feed his avarice upon the wrongs of Africa, shall be tempted still further by her gold and wealth to take possession of her soil, then the laws of nature shall be commissioned to execute upon him the penalty of a capital offence; and the air he breathes, and the beneficent heavens, shall arm themselves with death to sweep him away, and reserve the land which has been bereft of her sons for their return. The God of nature has established an instinctive re. pugnance to the social union between that race and nearly all others. And gravi. tation does not more surely call back to the earth the heavy bodies, which violence has for a moment exiled, than Africa will gather back her exiled bands from all places of their banishment.

It requires but little foresight to determine what the result will be in our own country.

The products of our Southern States can never compete with the productions of Africa, when her cotton and coliee, and rice, and sugar cane shall be cultivated by free, intelligent labor, and the timber of her forests shall be floated down her broad rivers and given to commerce. Slavery then, if not before, must go down; and southern enterprise will receive a better reward from free labor. Could the present plans of Colonization be carried into effect, it would be soon more difficult to prevent than it now is to promote the emigration of Africans.

It is perhaps a feature of these latter times, that a Divine agency is walking among the nations of the earth, battering down the strongholds of Satan, and guiding the "sacramental host" to the right points of attack upon the empire of darkness. In relation to no country is this more strikingly displayed than to Atrica. And unless nature's resources must be squandered in vain, and Christian philanthropy be baffled, and the great movements of the moral and political world come to nought, the period must ere long arrive, when she shall be free, enlightened and powerful, and shall iavish her blessings among the kingdoms of the earth, as freely as they have lavished upon her, chains and ignominy.

CURIOUS CALCULATION.-The Anti-Slavery Society's Annual Report speaks of its 70 agents, sixty-four of whom have performed labor during the last year, equal to thirty-two years. Query: If it requires the expenditure of thirty-six thousand dollars, and thirty-two years of labor, on the plan of that Society, to emancipate nobody, how much money, and how long time will it require to emancipate the whole? What a pity that so much labor has been spent in vain; that so much money has been lavished on sturdy beggars, who ought to be better employed; that so much printing has been executed in visionary projects; so much good white paper wasted! Now, if the people who have been humbugged out of these thirty-six thousand dollars, had given it to the Colonization Society, we could have emancipated twelve hundred slaves, and settled them in Africa, as freemen, on plantations of their own!-Com. Adv.

THE SLAVE TRADE.

A West India paper gives the particulars of the capture of a Por tuguese slaver from the Coast of Africa, by the British schooner Grif fin, with 430 slaves on board. The editor says:

"The arrival of the slaver in this port, for the first time such an event occurred since the abolition of the slave trade, occasioned a general excitement; we ourselves were anxious to see the only vessel of that stamp we had ever visited, and accordingly went on board previous to the landing of the Africans; but it is almost impossible to describe in mere words, the scene that presented itself to our view on reaching the deck; above 400 human beings were sitting together, packed as closely as possible with their feet and legs folded up close under their thighs, totally destitute of covering, without distinction of age or sex. With much difficulty, we succeeded in moving along a narrow passage, without treading on the poor creatures, to the hold of the vessel, for the purpose of inspecting their dormitory. This consisted of smooth planks running all the length of the vessel, but only three feet below the deck; how so many persons could be stowed away in such a confined space it is almost impossible to conceivestanding was out of the question, there was certainly no room to lie down at full length, and their position below must have been the same cramped posture in which we saw them sitting on deck, and which long practice must have rendered habitual. We are bound in justice not to conceal that, notwithstanding what we have already stated, some of the horrors that we have read of in the slave ships were here found wanting the dormitory, though so low, was perfectly clean-there appeared no iron shackles or handcuffs, although these might have been removed and thrown overboard during the chase. A better proof of superior treatment was afforded in the personal appearance of the negroes-they all looked healthy, well fed, and apparently perfectly cheerful and happy; chatting, laughing and playing with each other, and totally disregarding their condition. Three only died during the long passage from the Gold coast, and there was but one sick at the period of the capture. It would be doing injustice to the free inhabitants of this town to omit stating the eagerness with which they pressed forward to the relief of those unfortunate sufferers-immediately on landing, gowns, frocks, &c. were thrown to the females, and the males also received a sufficient supply of temporary covering-in a short half hour they underwent a complete metamorphosis and exhibited some approach to civilized beings who were not without feelings of gratitude toward their benefactors.

"We have held a communication with a passenger in the Portuguese slaver, Mr. Giraud, who took out the brig to Africa and afterwards, as he states, sold her. He is an intelligent Frenchman, and the following particulars, related by him, are highly interesting as to the actual state of the part of Africa to which they have reference. "The Portuguese slave brig now called the Don Francisco, was built by Gabriel Giraud, at Bordeaux, and launched on the 1st of January, 1835then named the Voltigeur-after a voyage or

two to the Brazils, he sailed for Whidah on the slave coast with a cargo of various articles, but principally of tobacco and gin, where he arrived on the 6th of April, 1835. Whidah is in latitude 6, 12, N. and is the principal commercial town in the kingdom of Dahomey, of which "Apogi" is the present king. In the month of August last he sold his brig to Don Francisco Felix De Souza, who is the Portuguese governor at Whidah-De Souza is a man of great wealth and influence, and is supposed to have 50 or 60 vessels employed in the slave trade-they sailed from Whidah bound for Havana on the 6th of March with 436 slaves, of which 3 died on the passage-and on the 25th instant they were captured to the windward of this island by H. M. brigantine Griffin, commanded by Lieut. John Cooch D'Urban--having at the time on board 433 slaves. Of these one half are from Nogos, a small state under another and independent king, against whom Apogi is constantly making war-these latter were made prisoners about a fortnight before the sailing of the brig and were sent down by Apogi and sold to Don Francisco de Souza. Souza supplies Apogi with every thing he requires-arms, ammunition, money and merchandize. Apogi is very powerful-but cruel and tyrannical in the extreme-Mr. Giraud says he was at the King's fete last year, when about 5 or 600 of his subjects were sacrificed for his .recreation-some were decapitated and others precipitated from a lofty fortress and transfixed upon bayonets prepared to receive them. All this merely for amusement.

"The Don Francisco sails under Portuguese colors, all her papers are Portuguese-the crew consists of 32 men, mostly Portuguesethe captain's name is "Antonio Pereira Liaboa." There are five passengers-four Frenchmen and one Italian."

CAPTURE OF SLAVERS.

Who that reads the following can hereafter refuse to lend his aid, however feeble, to the Colonization Society, which, if properly enlarged, will in a few years put an entire stop to this hellish slave trade, and spread the lights of civilization and religion over Africa, and thus do more towards meliorating the sufferings, and bettering the condition of the black man, than the emancipation of all the slaves on our continent.

"The British brig of war Dolphin, recently captured, on her passage to the Cape of Good Hope, two Brazilian slave-traders, one a schooner with 254 slaves on board, and the other a corvette of 560 tons, with a cargo of 700 slaves! The scene on board the latter is described to have been truly heartrending. There were about 100 slaves lying almost lifeless on deck, with the remaining six hundred in the most abject misery, being in a state of nudity, and so closely packed together that they lay as one lifeless mass, in consequence of the heat they experienced in rounding the Cape. It was with great exertion that they were properly brought round, and after having been ultimately attended to, were placed in a situation to exercise themselves."-[Key Stone.

TRAFFIC IN SLAVES.-The Legislature of the State of Mississippi have passed a law prohibiting the introduction of slaves into that State, for sale or hire. The penalty is a fine of five hundred dollars, and imprisonment from one month to six months for each slave imported. All contracts for purchase or hire are declared void. The law passed on the 11th of May last, and took effect from its passage.

EMANCIPATION-EMIGRATION.

In the month of July 1933, the Rev. JOHN STOCKDELL, of Madison county in Virginia, died, having emancipated his slaves, thirty-one in number, for colonization in Liberia, except as to such of them as were sixty years old. Only two of this age appear to be among them. To these the option of emigrating or not is given, and in the contingency of their preferring to remain in the United States, he makes provision for their maintenance. He directs that the expenses of transferring and locating the emigrants shall be defrayed out of his estate. All the slaves expressed a desire to remove to Liberia; but Mr. Stockdell's Executors were warned by some of his heirs of their determination to contest the will, and that the Executors would be held personally responsible should they send or permit the slaves to be sent to Liberia. The Executors, unwilling, of course, to incur this responsibility, advised that the slaves should bring suit for their freedom. This was accordingly done; and the suit has only recently been decided on appeal to the Court of Appeals of Virginia. The decision is against the slaves, but the grounds of it are understood' to be merely technical, and a bill in chancery has, by the advice of their eminent counsel, been filed, accompanied by a paper whereby the American Colonization Society agrees to receive the slaves and transfer them to Liberia. Little doubt of a favorable result is entertained. Indeed the Judges who tried the former suit expressed the opinion that the slaves were entitled to their freedom, though there was an error in the judgment of the Court below, which obliged them to reverse it.

Mr. WILLIAM JOHNSON, of Tyler county, Virginia, has determined to emancipate his slaves, twelve in number, for emigration to Liberia. He considers them to be as good a family of coloured people as perhaps any in the State. They are all accustomed to farming opera

tions; and among them are a shoemaker, a weaver, a basket and bloom maker, a coarse blacksmith and a cook. Their benevolent owner is disposed to do what he can in aid of their transfer and settlement, and has already prepared clothing for them, in expectation of their being sent by the Parent Society to the Colony next fall. It is hoped that the friends of the cause will come forward to the assistance of the Society in this interesting case, as it can hardly be expected that Mr. Johnson will find it convenient to advance the necessary means in addition to what he has already done. In one of his letters concerning these slaves, this gentleman says: "I have ever believed that it was God, when he first enlightened my understanding, that did in"cline my heart to give them the opportunity to go to Liberia. Sir, "I had been much discouraged until I received your letter. I feel "truly thankful to you for the papers you sent me. I am much pleased with them, and do hope and pray that God will bless the "American Colonization Society with every needful blessing."

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A gentleman in Washington County, Tennessee, wishes to emancipate four slaves for the purpose of settling them in Liberia, and has $250 ready to be applied in aid of that object. Their characters are represented to be uncommonly good; they can all, it is believed, read, and they are young and healthy.

A young gentleman living in Moorefield, Virginia, has determined to liberate his six slaves, and send them to Liberia. They are of good character, intelligent and young. Their owner does not expect to be able to defray the expenses of their transfer and settlement.

A very intelligent, active, and partially educated young coloured man in Augusta County, Virgiria, has lately been liberated, and desires to settle in Liberia. He is now employed in soliciting donations to enable him to purchase his wife, who is a slave.

A coloured man and his wife in Rockingham County, Virginia, have been liberated for their good moral character and behaviour, and wish to go to Liberia.

A gentleman, under date of Danville, (Ky.) May 30, 1837, writes that a likely and intelligent coloured man, residing in a neighboring county, was desirous to obtain a passage to Liberia for himself and another. These individuals have been conditionally emancipated by the will of their deceased owner, Mr. Blair.

A free coloured man of excellent character, residing in North Car olina, is desirous of emigrating to Liberia. His wife and six children would accompany him; and he has two married daughters, who, with their husbands, wish to go with him. He has but little property, and none of it could be spared to aid in paying his expenses.

In some of the cases above mentioned, it is thought that money may be raised in the respective neighborhoods of the applicants in aid of their object. But in other cases, and in numerous instances of prior applications on the Society's list, the hope of such assistance is not encouraged, and the applicants must therefore rely entirely on the Society. Should the appeals of its friends already made or in progress to the liberality of the public, meet with favorable responses, the wishes of many of the proposed emigrants may be gratified. The Managers trust that they will be enabled to send out an expedition next November; and in this event, due notice of its departure will be transmitted to all interested.

AUXILIARY SOCIETIES.

ANOTHER NEW AUXILIARY SOCIETY IN OHIO.

In no part of the Union are the principles of the Colonization Society more cherished than in Ohio, as the readers of the Repository have occasion to infer from our frequent notices of new Societies, auxiliary to the Parent Institution, springing up in that great and flourishing State. The fact of the formation of one at Utica communicated in the following letter from a gentleman of that town to the Secretary of the American Colonization Society :

UTICA, (OHIO) JULY 8, 1837. DEAR SIR: Under a resolution of the Society, I herewith transmit to you a brief account of the circumstance and auspices of the formation of an "Auxiliary. Colonization Society" in this place, auxiliary to the American Colonization Society.