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fitblishetl tcct hitf s 5 oo pi i- annum in talvancc, SJ 50 in r;.r zsiunHtx, 3 ttO at the .id or the year. Volumo J. lILOOJIfrTOTOX, IXDIAXA, FKS1PAV, ra&KNRFJt J, I HUG. IV umber &,

jivi-ltu must be llim an eighth of a , p ai tut society and to that of auxiliarv ' wVc. It is well wood.d, 1 1 1 e I and united associations, for the past

1). I!. Maxwell's dwelling.

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i R' d Ji I Bit .linrol nil l"ir?l ! it D I l( VI. I- I .1 .1 II r I f fil I 1 V 1 II il I tl i II J i ii rr rrvoH .1 1 .

VUlico on main Mrci:t. one door aoove ......... P...i il .i? i n- it, i, .... m.. . ; i: iw iviih Mill .,-..1.. ....... ti...

. I?' Utl ..i. - III'. 'Ill UVMM.I niw.,.iii.h,j,i,. KUMIt Ih'TTCl I t'

t!i;it Shenstono migtit hnvi; cuvieil.'' I import of tho Parent society inform Tlx." uardon walks of Biannerhasset t i us, that it lias, (or the last year, chiefnrc overgrown with weed and With 1 ducctcd Us resources, and exertions tanked wild grass, where the copper I to the discharge of its former debts, head an I the rattle-make glide utimo- ' and lo the improvement of the nctual lesled. And Al is! for the miiMC 'that i state of the colony. Besides meeting

.iGEXTS I'OR. THE POST. The fol'oivinjt gentlemen ore requested tin.l nutliotiicd tj net as njruij fur tliii paper: l i-c-fcivc Subscripiioni, .Joti Woik, AJvcctisincnU Sa-. anJ receipt for ilic s.imc. Warden T. Niiiilit, . , , . Doctor J. nnnts mrt.W, .,. Thorn .i C. Johnson, Sptncrr, 'olin Ice, P. M. SLyrgantctvn, . John Tntl-, Crmronl county , l,t. II. II. Tl.ronp, .Vii'rrci'C, Oii-en enmity, linmalnl Mi!Iip, r,ihji.r. It. J. S. tiivin, Piiei-iie, h'n. Samuel II, Simtli, 7.ai(iifii, l.i

I ini'jht have charm-- !

I II Ii1tl, v tuc ' mat j these s Iv in

Calypso and

' e resounded ' t.les! We In

nothing of it. uu'- ''Old l.niuli

! thauulcd forth bv - m- of our p ai ieis as we lay 'v ; '. hv the I-!

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ii, me mi i eiu.epeiises oi uie year, me :, 1 Society has liquidated nearly 321,OfiO n, 'of its fi'rmcr debt; its fiminccs arc How considered in n site state, and i from the wisdom uh'io'-J from the ex ., !. perience of the jat, it confidently hoped, that no . i i 1 . ! i iasment, eimi-

in iy rotne ynd : i;sit ui'scrit,,i'

Vo l cn: soe no o-! of iho n,,i -i . I tr to the p i;t, h lik. I I o occur in the of m.Hiner:iasetl. - ' pt a f.-w tn ; I'l'me aj atini-t r alions ul the Society, covi-red ft-uos and sUatti-rod bin k-. ! Tro':! Ilic same mithoiiiy, we learn, A wil d-ins waves ab ve tiieaihes th it tin' '.':-r il tun J.toia of the col..I I 1 l ' nun-It imfM'.w...! f ! i t I it Z

"I M . J tt'UK i.'lTllli'liltlW'lViVUJt!" Ji

w rapidly becoming, whal its fjundcra J to live an. I educate their children a'.('f.'.'r P. (- )).'. Mr. A. Ikooiloe. ;'d fiiends have cvtr de-ined it to j house s t v u (s an I lai ki y, we wou'ut :( .M-advi!!, (11.) mvs liotn fifteen v,r vi.: t!ie 1IO.MM, the ASVLUAJ, say, stm where you u-: here w.

ieat, healthy village, tamtaming ,"UUJ

inliahilants, K2 elm relic? , and 1 sc!iool. Cape Patinas a sctiletnent form ed under the patroua(! of lh: Miryland Coloi7.1t ion Society. It containupward of 300 inhabitants, is highly favorable for health, and proiiiises to excel in a;ricullur.il pursuits. Its inhabit. ints ere said to he temperate, industrious and intelliif'tit, an J jud;; in; from an addres-, 1:1 ide by thi-m to the colored population of the Ui.ited States, we wou'd anticipate thai the day is not fir hence, when th,-y will occupy no inferior rank monj tincivili7.?d of the worl I. Addressing ;he colored iuh abitanls of this eua try, they s iy, "We- wi-'u lo he candid It is not every man that wo can lion est I v3 ad vise, or drVlie to come to 1 1 i countrv- To thoe wlntare conteuieii

or less extent, the ei.jomenl of Arner. t press the subject, al the, preset lean laws, institutions, literature, and time. The subject is Still, as it ever liberty on upwards of 10,00) Africans, has been, before the minds of the consisting of recaptured slaves, emi-i friends of the society, though It ii grant coloni-ls, and natives of tho ' probable from a variety of consideraeoiintrv. This abstract nl Iho hUforv ; tions. that lhn most likelv source of

c uu.Diioon.

y4at .

t xpoiienf e 11 !l i 'i'tic, vov-.'ie o;i tea Mifivu

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T'h iMlowiujr t.eautitul extract U frMn ,rr uul J -vei turtv or (V. 7. :n fl h.

White, written at iho ;i"o of

in lli' injr "la-r

a i

Uonry Kir

lo'ii tiv n. IV hind 11 in

ll'V.V svrc;t Oar infant I, in oar in ft a j iy rI'i I'nuil ia inl'iue oi each sortie.

Thi! v hi. ii" elim-i iivard lOl'll, Th' i.-d!.nd v.il!i re. 1,0 U oi ,! . uie.

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k hot as r. It hori , mil i'Iu-V'' the t tilt i n ,i v e ju ,01 te. Il !i'i-tiJ h ivnot "..-.eu behir-', t'i' V will not at'l'T it put on ; and that oa p onltii e i 'eini iliv s'lhi'Mont to ll i l 11 nirc,

ml

the

ilia;

pal settlements, viz: Alonrosia, New

St. ,vU at present to bo j Jeorgia, Cildweil, MtUsbur-i, Cape li- r-M.tr.' of all outran s. ( ) a the I I'-' ' 1 11 is, a ad l.i Cave Mich of

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.1 tho tlun tioUleu anil oppressed have no m i-ter t- i.m-'lov v. 01. T.

African. I the ind-dent, h- , -lit --. ) sluthf il.

I'i-oui the authentic reports of thf I e would s iy, turn h.ii.-i-i; in.. Society and fiom vaiio-is o'.her C jr- pots of I i ; pi : here wo go I our broad' roboratihi1; sources id inform ition, nvc by the sweat ofour brow . To diunk have the mast s i-isfictory evidence o f j ards ntid lioteis, we vv-oild siv, rumr the pn sent prosper-xi oo:iJUion, and ; not to us; you never can he- i tn n 1 of the future pr.p.-it-ol the colony. ! tural'.z -I in a land, wh-re there are 110 .,.1 . :. f : ! 1 . . .

1 here are now in ii a.'i 1 1, s: prinoi . orn-r mmo-, ami w'i r..' tMnpoi aiice

and order is the motto. To the timorous mid su-picious, NV Would S.IV,. '' wliere on hove piotntors; heli! xv. protect ourseiv. s. 11 it the indu?lii ou-5, entei pri'inn, and pa'iiolio, ol whatever occn p ition or enterpii. : . the ni.i hanic , ! h-! m-ic!iant, the lirIlii'l', (ind ;'oi Nlly tin: latlei) ivwould t "U .S. I. a lvio, and et.tie it, tc om-' ov-1 , aii 1 be oio- w 1 1 ; 1 u". and arsi' us ia l! i i;li i-u rut. 1 pi : . and oi j v v,-'i a-, tlitt lih-a'v, Ii in !;;- h y i-vi-r v. -m o an I 'o wlm h , i'o

o! Coloniz it i on , i n Liberia, the 13oard have tho'l proper to present to Ihe Society, beheiuig it v.ould he acceptable to theiii, anil nho, that it is in their judgment cailed for from the existing circuiiii-t luces of thfi time?. From the tenor of the above report, it is presumed, Ihat there is none who will infer that the infant colonies are not fuhj-cted to all the trials, privations, and Imzirds of a new setllemont. In Liberia, as in all communities, there are thoe who have sullered sivere bereavements, ia the loss of husbands, wives, parents and children. There ai e those w ho ha ve en lured sickness near UUto death, and const quont (itsappointment in the pro-peels of theii emigration. Thf?e doubtless have !i-eu made to sow in tears, who shall t re ap in joy. Again, there are ii

ibei 11, as r Ise w h-M e, th" indolent ami

1101 h mie, -Id t iVs i l m an, ol the substantial

Inn,, w'rn ' hps-lli'S Ot SOl l.MV, an I IS iJOKltl''

1 11.11 . 1 .

wa-.ot v so-o h-il ov uriknawn. 1 lorw.ir.i, 10 ui - ort-uer propecis

of!

id, to tliom-e'.vos, their pos-

inti nt to , t-nt , and to coaiing gnu rations. I a i".:ra ! -1 ,i" ' x ' ' Ml" d -'t th! ui.oitli of j I 1 oe .M i a I - 1 iv-'! , i i i t t lh but i

vit ions, who, finding the wa s -!'trai.s-gressoi s to be 1 very when; bar I, al

ready to bring up an evil rep-ut on t hi land. From source, chiilly of the latter kind, teport- uof vorale to the good name of Liberia have gone forth : liiey h ivo h,-(Mi takr n up, and to an

swer ecilain puipos.-s ol the f-lalorr,

have be-'ii ind ti-t 1 i.oirl y circulated throughout Ihe length and breadth o our I and. Happily, however, su'l . 1 . . . 1 .111 .1

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lled to the highest coi.h Ion-e, is jil-

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ii-to pre- i aaiu ;: into bond i--1 The spee:h

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a o : ( a in

aid to the society, will be that of lh

state government, from many of which the society has already received considerable assistance. From thU consideration, the Board would suggest lo the Society the propriety of considering whether any efforts should be made, and in what way, to direct the attention of ihe Legislature of this State lo the subject of Colonization. It is believed thnl Ihe State of Ohio through the medium of many of her inhabitants, has a deep interest in the subject; and, from Iho importance which she occupies, and is likely to occupy, among the sister States of the

rej ublic, thai a correct and enlightened policy,on her part in this subject, could not fail to be productive of hap.

py results.

1 he board conclude by relering td

the Treasurer's report, whence it ap.

pears thai S'130 were transmitted to the Parent Society ; Uich, in addition to S70 transmitted by the Female Soci ely ; vC.up wards of TO collected by the members of the S-cieties, in behalf of the suirercrs of the B tssa Cove settlement, make, in ail, a sum rising of vj JtiO collided for the objects of culo. mzition during the past year. This we are salirfied is a sum far ehort of ivhrtt cuht to be contributed by the patriotism and Christianity of our county. Still we are glad to report i h it so much h is been dbaCjand we re j.uce to learn thai t!ie Jpirit of liberaliU i? on the it. crease. Vc hope it

,. (rjiill continue and a. sound more and I nure. All of hicli is respectfully I 1 1 1 r c . 1 ? 1

'l opoiieii on io n hi 01 me oouru . 1 Tl!!'. SIX I II ANNUAL lll-TORT

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i;imnc ltas, !!' Jsiiwl.A corns pondentof the Boston A'.laS gU'cS the

Afiica, this boii' Vo..o'it and m Mitne sc'ic n-.' has never fdood f.lfar, hefore a disci rnir.g puhlic. or h '1-1 li -in-.-r 'ct in the judgement and -Options of the wise iind ptuder.t, loan al the present time. I )itU-:uitio9 natural to

heart is ! enterprise, ilifjiniUic wluo.li no

human ey e c.ouhl lorese-', or preveni, are. beini: rapidly overcome; th f"Ti of it timid friends been disap

pointed ; lb prophecies of its enemies

of perio- t neat.

coiiHoi't, iv. 11. tt ov -

vails, all -ids a I v, Iy eoin iicn'.ary, on j 0f William IV-.n, u ;f ari-intr fi cm lor

in ' a-ivanr a ni' ii' . w 1 u a iiii-ia laier

estiai: people li -vo m t !e, lion and clui-li an o; del

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1:1 civiliz i-1 ih.it -,,0,1,. m ,t ;,. ,,.,,,, il... toirit ol

the t 1 u

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w itii tie.: i.'tht 01 ' ' I 1 1 i M . Ail this ! I ! C , in! I v 1 1. '

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P uronag ; 01 uie 1. moo . uiou 00,.. , ive,y (.om(, logdher and under

laiagiae to y oursell", some two nr '.hrcc

hundred hauses with street-, inlerscc-

(ing each Oil.cr, at

regular iiis?-.nces.

as, the b-'-i swept

following dtsciipti Jti of this Island, j nin falsified ; and the hopes oi its San

which is situated on thcOiiio river

"Just below the town of I'arkersburgh, lies Blatineihassctl's Island, which Wirt's highly wrought description has made celebrated. We approached this spot about twilight, nnd lay moored iw.ar to it all night. With

out any romance, the island did np-

guino friend are even more than realized. Success, grr.nl success, has crowned the efforts of the friends of colonization. Hitherto, the God of Heaven, who hears the cry of the needy and oppressed, has helped them, in their Jobor of love. Him

the friends of African colonization,

pear to much advant-tge. We fust 1 would thank, and lake courage,

eaw it at its northern extremity, which

as the river sweeps by on both Bide?, froms a shore in the form cf a crescent, fringed with tree?. The new moon was in the cast, and her reflection was on the waler, while the crimson and

purple tints on the western clouds were aUo thrown upon the unbroken Eurface of the Ohio, just in advance of the black shadows cf the trees. This island is, I believe, nearly a mile nnd a half in length, while its average

I is the motto, Univard is the

cr? of the colonizalionislj from every

quarter of the public, till this mighty scheme of African colonization shall have been ifnfolded, by the arms of the United States, till it shall have embraced within its influence, the destinies of two races, and shall have shed down on two continent?, the choicest blessings of Heaven, for sin

ful man, for a guilty world

nreservea clean

1

sidewalk ia I'liiladelplv nn, lined

with well planted, '.lodges of Cassava

and ol I'lUin a school house full cf orderly children, neatly dressed, and

studiously engaged, and Jhcn say, whether I was guilty of extravig ancc, in exclaiming as I did after surveying this most lovely scene, that had the Colonization Society accomplished no more than has been done in the rescue from slavery and savage habits of

these happy people, 1 should have been well satisfied." Caldwell is situated on the St. PouTs river, 8 miles from the ocean,

and has, as evidence ofit3 advance in improvements, 3 churches, 3 day

schools, nnd 3 Sabbath schools. To one of these day schools, a native king has applied to place 12 children, which, at the time, could hot be granted, the school being already full.

Millsburgh is situated on the same

j river, 20 miles from the ocean, and at

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direction of that warm heaite-l, ami tintiriug benefactor of (he Afiican race. L. Cresson, and in I- ss tha-i six months, ,5' 10000 are collected, a vessel is chartered, and the negroes are embalked for Liberia. liassaCove now numbering upwards of three hundred inhabitants, on the very Kpot where a few months prior to their settlement, was the seat of a slave' factory, is now the happy, the proud result of this Younc men's society of Pa. IJassa

Cove thus commenced, now bids fair

lo be a burning and shining lignt on

that land of darknes?, on whose shores

the sun of Righteousness has begun to

rise, with healing in his wings. W hat

a worthy example to the young men

of other States; and how encouraging

to the enterprise of the tiuly bencvo

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; w- r -i! ! tornado, or o

'p .k". i'!i tie: s(ii! siiiaM v -!v.I t! uVh a 1! h l o. I'loo-iiz ilioi'. Ul;.

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and ifi'-iiu--:lli. Ike Ihe v,, h-.r ol old, it is Ihe door ol

hop-? 11 at on'v to the slave, but also lo the mister Uy it both have been m ido to suit-:, by it thous ind--, yea lens and hundreds of thousands, will 1 1 .

yel sing, as ivnen isiaci came up oir

of I. LA p'-

Surely (h--n, none ivr-o truly feel for io oppressed Africans, none wiiocor

redly seek the good of the band in

which we dwell, none who believe in the prophecy, and consist' nlly I ibei for its accomplishment, 'that Kthiop'ta shall soon stretch out her hands u;;lo

10J,' can reasonably refuse to come

up to this nahle work of colonizing Af

riea, with free, chistian colored men.

A reference to the reports of the the foot cf the highlands. It is a

vain

In. a word, with respect to the gen

eral stale and actual results of African

Colonization, it may be stated, that the society during the 20 years of ils

existence, has been the means of banishing the slave trade from two or three hundred miles of the coast of

Africa, and of bestowing to a grcate

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J io- Una id moid report, that its pi 1 I'i 'os. dining the past year have ml he -n i x'i lisive, they have chiefly consisted ia the c -ihctioti nnd trimsrissiori - I funds, ai d in circulatirg neb inlot malton as wr.s in li. c i r power , r-sp-c ting ihe progress ol color-i-m Liberia. The great distance it i-hie1' 'v e are placed-, frcm the 1 ... 1 - - a-live roots of action, leaves atiie - !fi- that v e can piifoim. From the colli 1 tiens mado at ihe last anni-ivi-ory. yi.d Some that have since ...I it, ia-!!- cted, tlu bosrd frnr.smillcd" o ihe I'e.iiCi.l Sciicly 70ilUrs. Hit ivIi'.Ait l.as not been in-or pen - 1 to Jl !i tli.it we cculd desire.

it is ;i matter ol l.carl loll pleasure, that the good wi-ik, to which we proi ss t-i "lie cur aid, has been success

ful! proser uied, during the past year. 'ia tn ihii e to Lu:r l.uiutrcd emigrants, mostly slavis in the country have had a sah- aiiiva' in L'-beria. The slate of ti e cidei.y er.;.t::;ucs fo improve, and a cre . real ze the hopcanfthc etniera'.-ts, and ol the friends ol the oppressed African. This state of lha eo'ony is f o; firmed by the most satis, factory testimony of the colonists themselves, of those who have visited it,, for the purpose of ascertaining its truecharacter, and of the seamen and mer chants from all quarters of the world, that have visited the Colony for commercial purposes. The friends of humanity are every where impressed

Willi the conviction, that the colony 13 intimately connected with Ihe.best interest of ihe whole African race The religious slaveholder, whose unfortunate lot it is to have the control of a portion of the oppressed African.

considers colonization as his only door ',

ol hope

The statesman who lias long labof

ed in vain, to suppress bylaw the

It is verily a work of Godi and there accursed slave trade, regards the plan- .

t.mon ol civilized and christian colonies on the cost of Africa, as the most elFictual way of attaining this desira. ble end. The enlightened TreCntgro 1 regards a home in the colony, ai the nlarp tbt pninv Ihnan rinlilo tn tvhi.h 1,.

ever has been, and to which be lilikely tVer to be a stranger, while ra-1

main'mg in this country. Thechrislian, who looks fcrward in faith to the enjoyment of those things spoken con- i

cerntng z,ion, regnrds the' location 6f colonies oh the coast of Africa as an impoihut jink in the chain f events lo hasten tiie time when Princei shall come out of Egypt, and Ethiopia ibatt streich out her hands unto God.' But

wnai is peculiarly interesting ijt th

fore, Wondrous in ou r e y?s . Will nol

the patriots of this highly favored

land, will not the christian of every name, come up to the support of Ihe

Society in a manner, worthy of the

vast resources of our country, and

worthy of the countless blessing of

Heaven, with which, as individuals, we are daily loaded. The Board would further report, that with regard to the expediency of applying lo the general Government, for wtvd in behalf of the cause of colonization, a subject which has been repeatedly before this Society and its Board that the Parent society had this

subject before them at their last meet ing. From the excited stale of the public mind on a variety of topics, it was thought proper on the whole not

female influence is begin5- . on the subject in a - . "1g W. t - -M manner, and wit!;1

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