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inquiry, what can and ought to be done to relieve our country from the burden and the stigma which have been entailed upon it by the malpractices of an age, that has now happily passed

away.

From a Gentleman in Kentucky.

Almost all persons in Kentucky are nominally, at least, in favour of Colonization, and I hope that prudent and steady efforts will do much to remove the evil of our coloured population.

From a Gentleman in Connecticut.

Yesterday our national Anniversary was celebrated in this town, under the auspices of the Windham co. Temperance Society. The business of the Society occupied every minute of the time until dinner was announced, so that it was impossible to be heard in behalf of the Colonization Society, although several gentlemen present were anxious to urge its claims. At the table, however, a good opportunity offered. Not only ardent spirits, but wine was found be excluded from the repast.When, therefore, the moment for introducing toasts, &c. had arrived, one of the Committee of Arrangements addressed the President, and having alluded to the reason why the customary provision of wine had not been made, proposed to the company, as a far more delicious gratification than the best juice of the grape, that they should give the price of wine to the relief of that unfortunate class who could not sympathize in the rejoicings of the day. A hat was immediately passed around the table, and about twelve dollars were collected for the Colonization Society, which will be forthwith transmitted.

Another gentleman immediately arose and said, he wished something more might be done by us in the cause of the injured Africans. After some pertinent remarks, he proposed that immediately after the table should be dismissed, a meeting should be held of those who were disposed to form a County Colonization Society. A meeting was accordingly held -a Society was formed, and efficient measures adopted to diffuse through the County all necessary information, and awaken an interest in the cause of the blacks. I hope we shall realize all that our beginning promises.

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From a Gentleman in Kentucky.

I have to inform you that on the 4th instant, an Auxiliary Colonization Society was established in this place. It has been but a short time since any thing has been said upon the subject; but the zeal and alacrity already manifested, leave it unquestionable, that information only is wanting, to unite in the work of colonization, the efforts of Christians, Patriots and Philanthropists of all sects and parties, either religious or political.I think I hazard nothing in saying, that a large portion of us, who are even slave-holders ourselves, are looking forward with pleasing anticipations to that period when slavery shall no longer be a blot upon the escutcheon of our Republican Institutions.

From a Clergyman in the State of New York.

I received, a short time since, the first number of the African Repository for the current year, to which was prefixed your circular. I have for some years been acquainted with the objects and progress of the American Colonization Society, and have felt an interest in its prosperity. I have the feelings of a northern man on the subject of slavery. My views on the subject, if expressed, would probably meet with the approbation of very few in your part of the country. From what I learn on the subject, I conclude that there is some diversity in the views of those who are the active members of the Society, with respect to the objects which they wish to have accomplished by its operations. I would look upon it as a Christian philanthropist, who believes that the whole human race are dead in trespasses and sins, lying under the wrath of a holy God, and incapable of being saved except through the gospel of Jesus Christ. Whether the operations of the American Colonization Society will ever free our land from the curse of slavery, I know not. I think, however, that they will accomplish an immense good. The Colony established at Liberia will undoubtedly be sustained. A civilized and christianized community, will exist on the coast of Africa. Those who emigrate from this country, and settle in the Colony, will have their condition in every respect essentially improved. Liberia will be a radiating point, from which the blessings of civilization and christianity will be diffused to the African nations generally. The slave-trade will in time cease,

and the establishment and maintenance of the Colony at Liberia will have an immense influence in hastening its extinction. The operations of your Society, I think, will have a great influence in diminishing the evils of slavery in our own country. I hope that they may be instrumental in due time of blotting that stigma from our national character. Entertaining these views respecting the operations of the A. C. S. I am a devoted friend to it, and you may calculate on all the assistance which it is in my power to render. I have called on my congregation for a collection in aid of your funds annually for several years past, the avails of which your Treasurer, I conclude, has received. As there will be no meeting on the Fourth of July of my congregation, which will make a collection practicable, I have taken one on the last Sabbath, the amount of which, being $11, I now transmit to you. You may calculate on an annual collection from my congregation. As they are called upon frequently for collections for various other objects of religious charity, and moreover are in moderate circumstances, perhaps you cannot expect from them more than about the amount of the present collection. I have not the least doubt that your funds will be much increased by sending the Repository gratis to every Clergyman who will take up a collection in his congregation in aid of your funds. There is a great lack of information respecting the existence, objects, and prospects of your Society. If clergymen have information, their people will to a considerable degree have information. Clergymen generally are in embarrassed circumstances, and unable to take all the Periodicals they would wish to read. I think you have therefore adopted a wise plan to disseminate information and increase your funds.

You may consider me as an agent to obtain subscribers for the Journal, receive pay, &c. I do not know whether I shall be able to procure any subscribers, I will do what I can. If I procure any, you shall have the whole avails. My time is devoted to the Lord:-that I can give to the cause;-money I have not. Command me in any thing in which I may be of service to the Society.

From a Clergyman in New Jersey.

Your proposal to take up collections (as stated in the Circular

accompanying the Repository) meets our cordial approbation; it indeed proposes what we have been doing for several years past. Our general practice has been, to take up a collection at the celebration on the Fourth of July, and also in the Church on the following Sabbath. Your offer to send the Repository seems too good for us, as we deserve no reward for doing our duty. The accounts in the Repository are interesting and encouraging. I wish all our people had the information it contains. I will give them the outlines of the benevolent and prosperous operations of the Society, and also circulate as widely as I can, your valuable Repository; and also use my best endeavours to increase the contributions. Praying for the blessing of God on your benevolent operations, I remain your sincere friend.

From a Gentleman in New York City.

The scheme of your Society is daily gaining friends here. It begins to be the subject of much more conversation than formerly. Nearly all those powerful engines the papers, are our friends. I coincide with you in opinion, as to merchants, could they be aroused to the subject, presenting a ship to the Society.

From a Clergyman in New Hampshire.

The present is the third year in which I have presented the claims of your Society to my congregation. In the success of your Institution I rejoice. Its prosperity, though attended with the loss of several valuable lives, I conceive to be unexampled. Through the door which is opened by this colony, the Saviour will, we may hope, enter into Africa, and his gospel be conveyed to its most unexplored recesses. Then shall the manacles fall from the limbs, and the darkness be dispelled from the minds of her sons-then shall a voice be heard through all her coasts, ascending her mountain tops, and filling her wide spread plains, Africa is free.

From a Clergyman in Massachusetts.

The amount of our collection is about sixteen dollars. The assembly was however smaller than usual; besides, information in regard to the object, proceedings, importance, and success of your Society, is not so generally diffused among the people, as

we hope it will be hereafter. Many who have not yet assisted, will contribute to the Society as soon as they shall better understand its design and operations. It is our intention in future, religiously to celebrate the 4th of July, and take up annually a collection for the Society. I do feel that Christians should look upon your enterprise with deeper interest than they seem yet to do. There are some things in it which raise it in grandeur, and invest it with blessings for men, above other benevolent institutions of the day. You not only wish to relieve our own country from an evil which threatens to destroy our peace and prosperity, but you are taking the readiest and most effectual way to accomplish the glorious objects of Bible and Missionary Societies, so far as it relates to the whole continent of Africa. To establish a Christian colony in that barbarous land, is striking deep the roots of the tree of life in its soil, and providing for its growth and increase, until its leaves shall heal the nations, and diffuse the blessings of civilization and christianity over those vast regions of moral desolation.

I do think, that aiding your Society, is doing good to our own country, and aiding the missionary cause in a manner as direct and effectual, if not more so, than any other. And I cannot regard your Society, and look forward to what seems to me will be the results, by the blessing of God, without rendering praise to Him who will give the heathen to his Son for an inheritance, that he put it into your hearts to enter upon this work, and has so wonderfully prospered your beginning. By the instrumentality of your Institution, he will open a way for his grace into the heart of Africa, and pour water upon the thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground, and converts to Christ shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses.

From a Clergyman in Virginia.

I believe I informed you last fall, that my feelings were enlisted in the cause of the American Colonization Society. Having formerly set free a number of coloured people who are now vagabonds; I have done them no benefit, but injured society.— For this there is no remedy, as I have no control over them.Those still in my possession, I cannot conscientiously emancipate, unless they shall be removed by the Society to Liberia.—

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