fully submit to a sacrifice of 20 per cent. of the value of his slave property, could those to whom he sustained the relation of master; and that class of population generally, be elevated to the placé of freemen without injury to the public welfare and with permanent bes nefit to them and their posterity. He was a decided Friend of the Colonization Society: he could not doubt that it would finally be a popular Institution throughout the South; but whether popular or not, he should not be restrained from expressing his firm convictions of its importance to the interests of the South, as well as to religion and humanity.

William L. Mitchell, Esq. then submitted sundry Resolutions, the last of which was expressive of the opinion that a Society which had enrolled on the list of its Officers and Patrons the names of Carroll, Washington, Monroe, Crawford, Marshall and Madison, was entitled to the full confidence of the people of the South; and though oppo sed by two individuals, who insisted that the plan of the Society in volved questions that ought not to be agitated and discussed in the midst of Southern Institutions, they were adopted by a large thajority It was gratifying to observe Gentlemen of different religious and po litical creeds, and among them the Hou. Wilson Lumpkin, late Gov ernor of this State, prepared to give the weight of their influence and the sanction of their names to the cause. It was thought best to postpone the organization of an Auxiliary Society, yet I believe the pub lic mind will soon be prepared for the establishment of a State Society. I am unable to report any large donations. A subscription has been commenced; but a large amount, from this community, is not, now, to be expected. But seed is sown, which will spring up, and finally produce rich and abundant fruit. I feel confident, that the day is not remote, when the Legislature of Georgia will, in obedience to the general sentiment and voice of the people, appropriate funds to advance the scheme of the Society, a scheme which by Resolution the Legislature long ago recognized as benevolent, and which has wor the affection and received the aid of some of her best and wisest citizens.

The annual commencement in Franklin College (the State Uni versity) brought together, during the last week, a large assemblage of people from every part of the State. The opportunities of inter< course with respectable individuals from a distance, I endeavoured to improve to the advantage of the cause, and sought on all proper oc casions to ascertain the opinions of enlightened men on the subject, and to remove any objections or doubts existing, concerning it, in their minds. I have ascertained that the great want in all this part of the Union is, of information; and that with the benevolent and reflecting, a statement of the facts disclosed in the history of the So ciety, and in the progress and condition of the Colony of Liberia, is sufficient to secure to it their friendly regards. Much has been gaine ed by the recent public meeting. It has proved that the principles and success of the Society may be publicly presented to the observa tion of the citizens in every State of the Union,--that there is no portion of the Southern States, in which a judicious advocate of the cause may not obtain a hearing, and find generous hearts ready to

respond to his arguments and appeals, and finally that we ought not to despair of a final and signal triumph to this cause through the united will and power of the people of the United States. The Society may suffer severe temporary embarrassment. Events, impossi ble to foresee, and causes which no human power can control, may retard the progress of the Liberian settlements. But the plan of African Colonization will suffer no defeat.

The deficiency in the finances of the Society and my inability since I left you to obtain any adequate contributions to supply it, occasion the most distressing regret. You, Gentlemen, know well, that a variety of causes have been, for more than two years past, combining to weaken the strength and diminish the resources of the Parent Institution. Funds which formerly came into its Treasury are now retained and expended by State Associations. The debt incurred in the prosecution of its enterprise under the best lights of experience, and with all due safeguards against extravagance and calamity, has been regarded as a reason for effecting an almost total revolution in the mode of conducting this enterprise. The Society of Maryland, formerly Auxiliary, is now separate and independent.The united Associations of the great States of New York and Pennsylvania, though as yet connected with the American Society, receive nearly all the donations from the Friends of the cause in those States, and expend by far the greater part for the benefit and extension of their settlement in Liberia. Mississippi and Louisiana are imitating the example of Pennsylvania and New York; and Virginia declares the purpose of adopting a similar policy whenever she may consider her resources sufficient for the experiment. In the extreme North, and indeed throughout New England, the Abolitionists have succeeded to some extent in diminishing confidence in the Society and turning away from it the streams of charity; and in the more Southern States, their principles and measures have produced a morbid distrust and apprehension of its tendency, and an aversion to efforts, however unexceptionable, for the good of any portion of the coloured race. And further, the sudden reduction in the value of the property of the country, the fearful derangement in the public currency, and the consequent overthrow of commercial credit, the bankruptcy of pecuniary Institutions, and wide-spread ruin of individual fortunes and desolation of the brightest hopes, will impair the energy, if not suspend for a time the operations of our benevolent Institutions. This effect, though not inevitable, is to be expected. We may not hope that the Colonization Society will escape the general calamity. But let us trust that it will share in the sympathy and aid of those who have the disposition and ability to preserve from extinction our charitable societies, and even to make them look forth through the darkness of the times with fairer and more benignant aspect on the world.

The present is indeed a time of trial to the cause of Colonization, and especially so to the American Colonization Society. My opinions in regard to the organization best adapted to secure most certainly and economically the great common end of the Friends of African Čolonization until they can command far greater resources, are well known; but they have not received the sanction of the Society.

Various causes (in some cases, I fear, a spirit of distrust, if not of rivalry) have strengthened opinions in favor of separate State action; and the decisions of the last General Meeting of the National Society will tend, I apprehend, to weaken the bonds now uniting Auxiliary branches to each other and to that Institution. But let us hope for the best. Possibly while these decisions increase the energy and funds of Auxiliary State Associations, they may but modify the character and action of the Parent Society, neither breaking its unity nor impairing its utility. We may surely anticipate a time when each State of the South will engage with great zeal and liberal means in this work of Colonization, and when the National Colonization Society, relieved from all necessity of aiding emigration, may apply the amplest funds with which it may be entrusted to improve the condition and character of our African Colonies.

The fact should not be concealed, that the pecuniary embarrassments of the American Colonization Society were seldom more perplexing, its pecuniary necessities never more urgent, than at this moment. It cannot proceed, it cannot meet its engagements, without additional resources. The Managers know that these difficulties have not arisen from imprudence. They had reason to expect that the donations to an Institution that rose like the morning star upon the gloom of Africa, which was hallowed by the prayers of Finley, consecrated by the sacrifices and deaths of Mills and Bacon, of Andrews and Winn, of Sessions and Wright, and Skinner, and Anderson, and Cox, and Cary, and Randall, and Ashmun,-a Society which has founded Civilization and Christianity amid the barbarism of ages, and points to four thousand emigrants sent out under its auspices, reclaiming a moral desert, and rebuilding the hopes and fortunes of a ruined race, rising to respect before the world-proving that of man, whoever and wherever he may be, it is a crime to despair-throwing wide open the gates of a mighty but dark and dishonoured land to Science, Literature and the light of Salvation,-would annually and greatly increase. They were not disappointed. For years the Society gained strength by every effort; its infant communities sprung, amid dangers, into life, under the guardian power of Providence, and thousands turned to view with warm and anxious hearts, these buds and elements of goodly and surpassing promise to Africa. Funds were augmented and Friends multiplied. And what has since occurred to restrain exertions or quench zeal in this cause? The preceding remarks may afford some explanation. I add, the novelty of the enterprise is gone. Gone too is the great soul of Ashmun, which communicated the flame of his holy enthusiasm to ten thousand minds, and threw the charm of romance over the sufferings, the perils, and the conflicts of the earliest settlers in Liberia. But the reasons for prosecuting the enterprise exist in all their power. No one motive which stirred the minds of Finley, or Mills, or Ashmun, is wanting to urge every friend of the Society to the highest possible exertions to advance its interests. On the contrary, what was to them hope; is to us confidence; the plan they tried as an experiment, we may prosecute as of certain practicableness and demonstrated utility. In faith and hope and patience and charity they labored and died;

We

we see what they desired, but were not permitted to behold.
see rising upon a distant savage coast, the habitations of civilized
man-the schools, churches, social and political Institutions, of a free
and christian people. We see a Republic, in miniature it is true, but
modelled after our own, capable of rapid growth, informed with the
spirit of Liberty and aspiring to extend far over Africa the wisdom
and beneficence of its manners and laws. Under its protection the
missionaries of every communion and from every part of Christendom
assemble to devise and execute plans for the deliverance and regen-
eration of Africa. Superstition retreats before them, and her victims,
fearful, dejected, in irons bound, and shorn of all their honors, come
forth from clay built huts, from dens and mountain caves, to hear
from the ministers of Christ those divine words of truth and mercy,
which shall turn them from darkness to light and from the power of
satan unto God. And what is the moral influence of this Colonization
enterprise upon the opinion and heart of the South? It has excited
the most salutary thoughts and reflections, the most kind and gener-
ous sentiments towards the coloured race. A thousand liberated
slaves in the Colony of Liberia testify to a sincere desire already
existing in numerous minds to emancipate slaves, whenever this can
be done in consistency with their benefit and the public welfare. It
is impossible to estimate the extent of good thus secured to the gen-
eral cause of humanity; succeeding generations may justly appreciate
it. And can we hesitate to make our most earnest appeal in behalf of
the American Colonization Society to all the wise and benevolent of
the country to the Clergy and Churches of every name-to all patriots
-all christians-to the female sex, so quick in sympathy, so prompt
to do good-to every heart which the divine sense of right pervades,
or the sacred spirit of humanity inhabits?-If the American Colo-
nization Society be worthy longer to exist, its Friends should now gather
around it, every hand should now bring some gift to its Treasury.
The humble talents of the writer, and his best days have been devoted
to its interests. The shadows that fall upon it, the dangers that me-
nace it, but render it dearer to his heart. The spirits of its martyrs,
warning voices from the past urging us to seize the hours gliding
even now into an irrecoverable Eternity-the oracles of God, and
the cries of perishing millions unitedly break upon our ears with
trumpet sound and add their power and pathos to this appeal.

I hope, Gentlemen, the means will yet be furnished for sending out the very promising expedition from North Carolina. Will not the State Society of North Carolina earnestly invite its friends and the citizens of that State generally to contribute for this object?

I close this too extended letter with an extract from one just received from Col. Joseph H. Lumpkin, of Lexington in this State, a gentleman whose weight of character and great powers of eloquence are consecrated to the highest interests of his country and of mankind:

"I have written to a number of persons to-day in Athens, endeavoring to stimulate them to adopt some efficient measures previous to your departure, to relieve and sustain the American Colonization Society.

"When I parted, hurriedly, with you at my brothers, I proposed to make one of ten to raise the sum of two thousand dollars-each contributing two hundred.

Suspecting that a proposition of that kind would likely prove abortive-and remembering that every one must give an account of himself—I have determined not to predicate my mite on the action or co-operation of others. And I have concluded too, not to postpone the matter-recollecting the salutary counsel of the wise man, "whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might"-for the very weighty and sufficient reason that "there is no work nor device nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave whither thou goest."

"It is related of the late excellent Mrs. Graham, that she was in the habit of devoting a tenth part of her possessions to charitable uses, under every reverse of fortune. On one occasion after the sale of some property, £1000 was brought to her. So large a sum was new to her, and fearing the selfishness which is said to accompany riches, she exclaimed "quick, quick-let me appropriate my tenth before my heart grows hard." Now, Sir, I have not the same good fortune to boast of which fell to this devoted mother in Israel, yet it so happens that my heart is rather warm just now from contemplating the subject of African Colonization, and it may grow cold again before the time arrives when I had designed acting, for I know it to be deceitful above all things, from past painful experience.

"I have forwarded to Mr. Wm. L. Mitchell, a draft on the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, for $157, with instructions to collect the proceeds and hand the amount to you. The remaining $43, I will send you by the Rev. Mr. Hoyt, who will visit us at the end of the present week."

I am, Gentlemen, with the greatest respect and regard,
Your friend and obedient Servant,

R. R. GURLEY.

THE SLAVE TRADE.-At a session of the British House of Commons, shortly after the succession of QUEEN VICTORIA to the throne, on the question that a sum of 14,700l. be granted to her Majesty, to pay the salaries, &c., of commissioners appointed under treaties with foreign powers for preventing the illegal traffic in slaves, Mr. HUME stated his conviction that this traffic was carried on to much greater extent than ever was known before; and suggested the employment of steam gun-boats.-The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped much good might be done by the civilization of a part of Africa, and the increase of commerce with her natives.-Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON said, the only way to put a stop to slave trading would be at once to make it Piracy.

MUNGO PARK'S SON.-It was at Accra that Mr. Thomas Park, son of the celebrated traveller, was landed as a midshipman from the Sybille, with three years leave of absence, to travel into the interior and search for his father. He was a fine tall Scotch lad, only nineteen years of age, and without any knowledge of the world. His death has been commonly ascribed to poison, administered to him in vengeance for having imprudently ascended a fetiche, or sacred tree; but the real cause was his obstinacy in rejecting the advice of the resident merchants of Accra. He lived three months in the town, and though he had frequent invitations to take up his quarters with the Europeans, he preferred remaining in a hut with designing natives, who plundered him. There he indulged in drinking spirits; married an Accra wife by way of learning the language-though the dialect in Accra is totally different from those in the interior; and took long walks in the heat of the day, with a view of hardening himself. The consequences of these imprudences were, that when he set out to cross the Volta, his constitution was already completely broken; he was thin and weak; he caught a fever after a few marches, and fell another victim to African discovery.-[Pittsburgh Christian Herald, July 27, 1837.