our country had remained indifferent and inactive, while all others were alive to the importance of doing something to enlighten and improve the religious condition of the present inhabitants, both native and colonial, of Western Africa, should cease to exist. This announcement was hailed with pleasure by those who derive from every new foreign missionary enterprise engaged in by the church, evidence of the deeper interest of her members in the holy cause which they have espoused-the cause of Christ the Redeemer and of his church, and of her advancing prosperity; but it was viewed with special interest by those who regard the claims which that country has upon us as of no ordinary magnitude. A Southern Christian cannnot view Africa with indifference. If it has at all benefited him by the labor which it has furnished, he will be anxious to make some return for the benefit; if he take a different view of the matter, the African mission will still be regarded with favor, as connected with a noble scheme for the removal of the evils he deplores-as co-working to form a happy and well-ordered asylum for those whom humanity or policy may send to the colonies established on the western coast of Africa. These colonies have attained to considerable strength and importance, and are daily improving in these respects. They are inhabited by emigrants from the Southern States, and their population is constantly on the increase by other emigrants from the same region. Does no obligation rest upon those who have sent them thither-or upon those who design to send their slaves to Africa-or upon those who advocate and sustain Colonization Societies-to give them that knowledge withuot which liberty degenerates into the worst form of slavery, and to give them that religious light and instruction which are essential to man's happiness and proper elevation of character? Apart from these special considerations, have they no claim upon us as members of the human family and shall the inhabitants of that dark and bleeding land alone be shut out from our sympathies, our prayers, and our alms?

As members of the Episcopal Church, we have taken high ground—and are not slow to declare that we are in possession of superior advantages and greater privileges than others. Greater then is our obligation to communicate that which so much enriches us. If we can bless them so much more than othersif we have freely received, and are commanded to give as freely--why should we compel the needy to depend upon what they can obtain in scanty portions from others?

We have been led to these remarks by the impression that the members of the church have not engaged as generally and cordially in promoting the African mission as we think they should, and because we regard it with a very strong and peculiar interest.

The Colonization Society has made a grant of land at Cape Palmas, for the use of this mission. The site is said to be a beautiful one, and most desirable. A missionary school is already established there, under the charge of Mr. James Thompson, a colored man, and his wife. The Rev. Thomas Savage, M. D. has already embarked for Africa, to make the incipient arrangements for the mission. The interesting and judicious instructions which were received by Dr. Savage we have already published. His colleagues, the Rev. Lancelot B. Minor and the Rev. John Payne, will in the course of a few months join him. They are now engaged in endeavoring to procure funds for the purpose of erecting the necessary missionary buildings. Mr. Minor has been engaged for some weeks in visiting some of the parishes of this State, and has received contributions to the amount of about $1,500, which will be duly acknowledged. On the last Sunday he preached in Christ Church, in this city, and received about $140, which, added to what was a few months since given to the same cause, raised the amount contributed by that congregation to the African mission to near $300. On next Sunday the Rev. Mr. Minor will preach in the Monumental Church in this city, and advocate the claims of the African mission. May we not expect that a congregation so well disposed to the cause of Colonization, so capable of appreciating the objects which will be advocated, and so able to give liberally to the cause, will set a noble example in the present in

stance.

LIBERAL DONATION.

The following letter is from the pen of a gentleman whose defence of the American Colonization Society against objections to it made by one of its most distinguished former benefactors, was noticed in this Journal for May, 1836: (See African Repository, vol. 12, p. 137.) TRUMANSBURG, January 18, 1837.

Reverend and DEAR SIR: I was glad to receive your kind letter of the 10th instant, and to learn that the Colonization enterprise still enjoys the smiles of a benignant Providence. It is still near and dear to my heart; and I hope God will give me a heart that shall never cease to pray fervently for its continued prosperity, and complete and triumphant success. And I pray that my Heavenly Father may, by his holy spirit, influence me to contribute cheerfully and liberally of His property, of which he has made me a steward for a short season. am pleased to learn that another expedition is soon to be despatched to Bassa Cove, and that I have an opportunity to contribute my mite towards fitting it out. It is my intention to continue to aid in every new expedition which your society may send out to their colony.

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At the head of this sheet I send you a draft of two hundred dollars towards my subscription of a thousand; and you will please feel at perfect liberty to call on me for farther instalments from time to time, as your society may want, and until the whole shall have been paid.

Your sincere friend,

HERMAN CAMP.

Rev. ALEX. PROUDFIT, Cor. Sec'y. N. Y. Colonization Society.

A REBUKE.-An Abolition Society has been formed in Upper Canada. The Quebec Gazette expresses its regret at the movement, as uncalled for, and likely to do mischief.

Slavery does not exist there, (say the editors,) nor in any part of the British dominions. Where then is the use of such a society? Is it intended to operate in the United States? We cannot conceive a greater offence towards any people, than for their neighbors to interfere in their domestic affairs. It is neither consistent with prudence nor good neighborhood. If the right exist in one community, it exists in all. What would be the consequence if it were generally acted upon? Why, precisely what we see every day in common life: people neglecting their own affairs, to intermeddle with those of others; misunderstandings, quarrels, and violence, and a general decline of the happiness and prosperity of those engaged in it.

THE LIBERIA HERALD.

The establishment and success of a newspaper in a settlement of colored people is a remarkable and confimatory comment on the opinion, almost universal among the advocates of African Colonization, of its tendency to devolope the intellectual faculities of a race whose position in this country is so unfavorable to the exertion of those faculties as to induce many to question their existence. Extracts occasionally appearing in this journal from the Liberia Herald have often gratified our readers by a display of ability in composition for which they were not prepared; and the paper itself is deservedly regarded by all who see it as a literary curiosity. Numerous subscribers in the United States could be obtained,

were the paper to be transmitted with regularity. This, we regret to say, has not hitherto been the case; but a conversation which we had with the editor, Mr. TEAGE, when he was last in the United States, leads us to hope that the evil may be remedied. The paper is published monthly, at two dollars a year. Persons desiring to obtain it are invited to send their names to the office of the American Colonization Society at Washington. Those who have already subscribed at that office are

Alexander W. Foster, jr., Pittsburg, Penn.; Miss Eleanor Potts, Frederick, Maryland; Ragland and Levy, Fayetteville, N. C.; Jefferson Beaumont, Natchez, Miss.; Rev. John Allemong, Newtown, Frederick county, Virginia; John A. Wharton, Liberty, Bedford county, Virginia; Nicholas Mills, Richmond, Virginia.

The last number of the Liberia Herald received at the Colonization office is for August, 1836.

CONTRIBUTIONS

To the American Col. Society, from Jan. 1, to Jan. 25, 1837.

Gerrit Smith's first plan of subscription.

Nicholas Brown, Esq. Providence R. I., 9th instalment,

Collections in Churches, &c.

Loudoun county, Va., Arnold Grove Church, Rev. Wm. Monroe,
Union and Hopewell, S. C., Associate Reformed Churches, Rev.
Wm. Flenniker,
Verona, N. V., 1st Congregational Church, by Samuel Stocking,
agent,

Mercer county, Pa. Auxiliary Society, Joseph Smith, Treasurer,

Putnam, do. Ohio,

Virginia,

For passage, &c. of Emigrants.

$100

30

28

5

2

50

3

25

12

120

110

Two colored persons from Stokes county, N. C.,

A colored person from Richmond, Va.,

Legacy.

From the heir of the late Nathaniel Green, of Casville, Oneida county, N. Y., being the first of four annual instalments, with interest,

African Repository.

Rev. E. D. Andrews, Pittsfield, N. Y., by Elliot Cresson, Esq.,
Wm. Wilson, Chester C. H., South Carolina,

120

60

29 54

$620 29

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REPORT ON AUXILIARY RELATIONS.

SUBJOINED is the Report of the Committee on Auxiliary Relations, which is referred to in the Resolution of the Parent Society adopted at the last Annual Meeting, and published in page 36 of this volume. In conformity with that Resolution, copies of the Report have been forwarded to the New York City Colonization Society, the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania, and the Maryland State Colonization Society, for their consideration and approval. The important changes which this paper proposes in the system on which the Parent Institution has heretofore administered its affairs, will attract the notice, as they deserve the serious and dispassionate reflection, of every friend of African Colonization. The high source from which the new plan has emanated, encourages the hope that its practical operation may be auspicious to the great cause which all Colonizationists have equally at heart, whatever differences of opinion may exist among them as to the expediency of particular measures.

WASHINGTON, MARCH 4, 1837. The Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society. GENTLEMEN:

The Select Committee appointed pursuant to the resolution of the General Meeting of the 15th day of December last, in their effort to adjust on an equitable and durable basis, the relations which should subsist between the Parent Society, its several Auxiliaries, and those State Societies which are more or less independent of both, found it necessary to look to the relative condition of the Colonies already planted in Africa.

The security, freedom, and happiness of the colonists obviously rest on union among themselves; and while they depend for their nutriment and growth on the exertions and resources of the American Societies to whom they owe their origin, their union in Africa presupposes the harmonious co-operation of their friends and patrons in America.

Accordingly, the Committee have framed a Constitution of

General Government for the various settlements of Liberia, with a view to a reunion of the American Societies engaged in the colonization of Africa.

In framing this Constitution they looked to the history of the first European settlements on this continent; and indulging the hope that the infant colonies of Africa may hereafter attain the strength and prosperity of the former, they have blended the features of some of the provincial governments, with those of the Articles of Confederation and of the present Constitution of the United States.

To assimilate the political institutions of a few settlements of slender resources, dispersed along the shore of a continent sunk in barbarism, to the present governments of the United States, must be the work of time.

It will be both hastened and facilitated, however, by keeping perpetually in view, the model to be copied, and conforming the copy to the original, in each stage of the future progress of African civilization.

Keeping this purpose ever before the friends of that continent, in America, the efforts of the various Colonization Societies of the United States, to advance the improvement of the separate colonies which they have respectively planted, may be indulged, consistently with a due regard to the welfare of all. A laudable emulation at home, may, indeed, stimulate and guide to mutual advantage the same spirit abroad.

The Constitutions, therefore, and municipal laws of the separate Colonies, are left, by the Report, to the discretion of the colonists themselves, and of the American Societies, to whom they look for counsel and support; except so far as is necessary to their internal peace, their common defence, and their intercourse among themselves and with other nations.

The permanent union of the colonists as one people, and of their friends in America in consistent efforts for their prosperity, it has been the chief and anxious care of the Committee to establish and maintain.

Regarding the Constitution and Resolutions which they now transmit to the Board of Managers, as subjects of future amendment, they look to that source of improvement, as an adequate remedy for such defects of their Plan of Government as may be now apparent: and which time will assuredly multiply in political institutions, designed to be remodeled as experience may suggest, so as to accord with the gradual development of the moral and physical resources of a new empire.

In behalf of the Committee, I have the honour to subscribe myself, Gentlemen, with great respect, your ob't. Serv't.

REPORT.

C. F. MERCER, Chairman.

Resolved, by the American Colonization Society, That the following Constitution of General Government, for the American Settlements on the Western coast of Africa, be recommended to the adoption of the associated Auxiliary Colonization Societies of New York and Pennsylvania, and to the State