think I may safely say, we shall raise here from 4 to $500 this year. I have no doubt, but 10,000 members can be obtained throughout the State." Generous Offer. Mr. L. Munsell, the Corresponding Secretary of the Colonization Society of Kentucky, has made himself a life member by the payment of $10-and offers to pay $300 within three years, to be appropriated in promoting American Colonization, provided ninety-nine other persons in that State, will engage to pay a like amount within the same period. Address of the Kentucky Colonization Society. We have perused with great pleasure, the Address of this Society, and are happy to present to our readers the following extracts. In regard to the design of the American Colonization Society, it is said: "Whether we view this subject in its moral or political aspects, it is obvious that there is not one of the many benevolent institutions existing in Kentucky, which presents claims so strong, to the zealous and united support of the entire community: and we rejoice to announce the fact, that politicians of every party, and christians of every sect, now only contend with each other, who shall be foremost in the prosecution of the great enterprise. "The existence of a class of men in the bosom of the community, who occupy a middle rank between the citizen and the slave-who encountering every positive evil incident to each condition, share none of the benefits peculiar to either, has been long clearly seen and deeply deplored by eve ry man of observation. The master feels it in the unhappy influence which the free blacks have upon the slave population. The slave feels it in the restless discontented spirit which his association with the free black engenders. We would call your attention to the language of the colonists themselves, in their interesting address to the free people of colour of the United States, dated Monrovia, Sept. 4, 1827. They say, "The first consideration which caused our voluntary removal to this country, and the object which we still regard with the deepest concern, is liberty-liberty in the sober, simple, but complete sense of the word; not a licentious liberty, nor a liberty without government, or which should place us without the restraint of salutary laws, but that liberty of speech, action and conscience, which distinguishes the free enfranchised citizens of a free state. We did not enjoy that freedom in our native country, and from causes which, as it respects ourselves, we shall soon forever forget, we were certain it was not there attainable for ourselves or our children. This, then, being the first object of our pur suit in coming to Africa, is probably the first subject upon which you will ask for information; and we most truly declare to you that our expectations and hopes in this respect have been realized. Our constitution secures to us, so far as our condition allows, "all the rights and privileges enjoyed by the citizens of the United States," and these rights and these privileges are ours. We are proprietors of the soil we live on, and possess the rights of freeholders. Our suffrages, and what is of more importance, our sentiments and our opinions, have their due weight in the government we live under. Our laws are altogether our own, they grew out of our circumstances, are framed for our exclusive benefit, and are either administered by officers of our own appointment, or such as possess our confidence. Forming a community of our own, in the land of our fathers; having the commerce and soil, and resources of the country at our disposal, we know nothing of that debasing inferiority with which our very colour stamped us in America; there is nothing here to create the feeling on our part-nothing to cherish the feeling of superiority, in the minds of foreigners who visit us. It is this moral emancipation, this liberation of the mind from worse than iron fetters, that repays us ten thousand times over for all that it has cost us, and makes us grateful to God and our American patrons, for the happy change which has taken place in our situation." "How striking the contrast between their political condition here, and when transplanted to Africa, and yet it is not greater than that which relates to their religion and morals. What they are here in these repects, we will not say, let your own eyes proclaim it. What they are when removed to Africa, let the last annual report of the board of managers of the parent society at Washington reveal: "No village, perhaps, (say the managers,) in our own land, exhibits less which is offensive, and more that is gratifying to the eye of the christian, than the village of Monrovia. Crimes are almost unknown, and the universal respect manifested for the Sabbath, and the various institutions and duties of christianity, has struck the natives with surprise, and excited the admiration of foreigners." "It remains for you, fellow-citizens, to decide whether you will or will not en masse, enlist in this glorious cause. Do you love your country? remove the free blacks. Do you desire the extension of the Redeemer's Kingdom? look to heathen Africa and pray for Liberia's prosperity. Form societies in every neighborhood, in every county, in every town. The work is great, the work is glorious. If it succeeds, as succeed it surely will, posterity will rejoice over your labours, and bless you for the blessings you hand down. In the success of the work is involved the best interests of the slave and the best interests of the master: the best interests of the free black and the best interests of the free white man; the best interests of the present generation and of generations yet unborn; the best interests of two continents, of America and of Africa; the best interests of man, in time and in eternity." Liberality of the Ladies. In our list of donations will be found a donation of $200 from the ladies of Fredericksburg and its vicinity. The Gentleman who made the remittance writes: "I have never addressed you with more pleasure than on the present occasion, conveying as my letter does, the first fruits of associated female enterprise and benevolence in our vicinity, employed in the best of causes. The above sum exceeds my anticipations, but is not all that will be raised, as the Society has hardly gotten under weigh. The Ladies intend spreading by means of agents, their ramifications through all the adjacent country; and I do not think I am too sanguine in anticipating the most beneficial results from their active zeal. They will, I hope, provoke the Gentlemen's Society here, to good works, and I think we shall add fifty per cent. to our annual remittance the present year." An example so fair as that set by these Ladies, with those of Richmond and Georgetown, in this District, cannot fail to be more or less efficient; and we understand that our female friends in Baltimore, have already resolved to do something in the course of the season, worthy of their well known activity and benevolence. The Rev. George M. Erskine.—It was expected that this individual would embark for Liberia, in the ship Harriet, but information did not reach him in time, (he being, at the time of her outfit, in the State of Tennessee,) for his seasonable arrival at Norfolk. Soon after the departure of this ship, he came to Lynchburg, Va. with his mother, wife and seven children, and will probably remain in Virginia, until the departure of another expedition. Mr. Erskine is a highly intelligent and respected Coloured Minister of the Presbyterian Church, who, a few years ago, was, with his entire family, in slavery. His correct and exemplary character, recommended him to the benevolent notice of the Rev. Dr. Anderson, of Maryville; who, assisted by several other individuals, obtained his ransom, and for three years supported him and gave him instruction in the doctrines and duties of our holy religion. "In 1818, he was licensed to preach the Gospel, by Union Presbytery in Tennessee." From the charitable and pious, he has since been enabled to redeem his family at an expense of $2,400, and has resolved to emigrate to Liberia, in the hope that he may there do something to rescue his unenlightened brethren from their superstitions, crimes, and miseries, and to conduct them to the knowledge of the true God. Mr. Erskine is well known throughout several of the southern and western states, has exhibited in all his conduct, the spirit of a sincere disciple of Christ, and is a very earnest and sensible preacher. His failure to embark in the Harriet, was a grievous disappointment, but we trust that he will not find himself friendless, in the section of country where his lot is for the present, unexpectedly cast, Appeal to New England for Missions to Africa. [FOR THE AFRICAN REPOSITORY.] When injured Africk's captive claim, Her toil, and chain, and scalding tear If slumbering in the thoughtful breast, Oh, lift the hand, and Peace shall bear The fragrance of Salvation's rose. But if with Pilate's stoic eye, We calmly wash when blood is spilt, Or deem a cold, unpitying sigh Or if, like Jacob's recreant train, Who traffick'd in a brother's woe, Will not the judgments of the skies, Which threw a shield round Joseph sold, Be roused by fettered Afric's cries, And change to dross the oppressor's gold? Hartford, Conn. L. H. S. Mr. Smith's Plan. We have the pleasure to announce another subscriber to this very liberal and important project; ROBERT GIBSON, Esq. of Baltimore. We are happy to say also, that J. C. CRANE, Esq. of Richmond, subscribes in aid of the scheme of Mr. Thomson, to obtain $20,000 to purchase a ship for the Society. A list of subscribers on both these plans, shall be given hereafter, on the inner page of the cover to our work, that the progress which is made in them, may be known to all our friends. Much should be done for the cause of Africa the present year. Let us then earnestly request every clergyman to take up a collection for it, on or near the 4th of July. We hope too, that the editors of public Journals will lend their support, and that all who wish success to our enterprise, will deeply feel the importance of activity and energy in its behalf.—The, 9th of April has been fixed upon as the day for establishing a State Col. Society in New York, and may heaven prosper the efforts in that great and pros perous community. Contributions To the Am. Col. Society, from the 5th to 31st March-inclusive. Collections by J. Ralston, Esq. viz: ........ $ 138 15 200 In Williamsport, Lycoming co. Pa. 4th July, $9 do. In Great Valley Church, Pa. do. 6 39 11 14 5 80 From a Friend, From Robert Ralston, Esq. his first payment Rev. Samuel Ellis, collected in Va. Collections by W. McClure, in Chester co. S. C. viz: Robert Munford, for Repository, 10 100 202 $1. 23 25 W. Napier, Esq. of Charleston, per Rev. J. Roberts, ..... Collected in Bluntsville, Tennessee, 2324 5 2 17 50 40 4 1 Rev. Robert R. Roberts, as amount received by him for a piece 29 79 $ 697 97 |