"For the purpose of enabling the American Colonization Society to pur chase a suitable vessel for the convenient transportation of Emigrants to the Colony of Liberia, we the subscribers do severally promise and agree to pay to A. B. (the undertaking subscriber) the sum of money annexed to our respective names, for the use of the Treasurer of the said Society, as soon as he shall publicly announce that a subscription of $20,000 shall have been completed for that purpose. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our names in the year 1829."

Sincerely hoping that the Editors of papers on the Eastern Shore are friends to the valuable objects of the Society, they are respectfully requested to insert this scheme in their respective journals for the consideration of their readers.

Talbot County, 31st March, 1829.

From the Easton Gazette.

MR. GRAHAM-It is always a gratification to me to hear or to see any proposition which may serve to advance the generous and important views of the American Colonization Society. It therefore gave me pleasure to read the address to its friends, which lately appeared in the Star; for I think the scheme it recommends highly promotive of the designs of the Board of Managers, and as practicable as its accomplishment will be useful. The advocates of the noble purpose, which the Society have projected and are successfully pursuing, are increasing daily, and extending themselves throughout the United States; so that a small contribution from each will easily raise the money required to purchase a suitable Vessel for the conveyance of emigrants to their destined Country.

It is hoped therefore, that you will cheerfully republish the address; and it may be here remarked, that any person proposing, or desirous to become an undertaking subscriber to the plan, may avoid any hazard from his own responsibility by obtaining subscriptions to his list to the sum of $50 before he shall forward to the Treasurer his own name as a subscriber to that extent. As a person so proposing, I would accordingly prepare a subscription paper, such as is suggested in the address, and offer it to my neighbours; and after having obtained their signatures to that amount, I would immediately transmit a note to the Treasurer, declaring myself a subscriber of $50 to the plan of raising $20,000 for the purchase of a vessel for the use of the Society: and after he shall have announced that the whole subscription is completed I would forthwith proceed to collect the money subscribed to me, and remit it to the Society. Such a proceeding may give some personal trouble; but a zealous friend will endure it with patience in consideration of the benefits he may be the means of rendering to the degraded and unfortunate creatures, whose welfare and advancement are mainly the objects of the Society. Easton, April 3, 1829.

LIBERIA

A generous friend to our cause in Baltimore, C. W. Wever, Esq. alluding to this plan, observes,

"You may add my name to that list, and when the subscription is full, be pleased to advise me that I may make payment. If it were in my power, I should with great pleasure be a subscriber on the plan of Gerrit Smith, which list I am happy to find is filling up. As there are many more in like circumstances with myself, what would you think of a plan to raise $25,000 in five years, from five hundred subscribers at $10 a year. If you think favourably of the proposition you may consider me one of the number. Some other five hundred persons may be inclined to raise $50,000 in five years, by yearly contributions of $20 each; and others to raise seventy-five thousand by payments of thirty dollars annually; and some others to raise one hundred thousand by payments of forty dollars annually, and so on; others might propose to raise a less sum by annually paying a less amount than ten dollars. The object of the Society is one of momentous concern, whether it be regarded in a religious or political point of view, and cannot too seriously and ardently occupy the attention of every citizen of this Union. It is one, in aid of which, may most confidently be expected the smiles of Heaven."

Formation of Auxiliary Societies.

STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY IN NEW YORK.—“At a meeting of citizens from different parts of the State of New York, held at the session room in Beaver street, in the city of Albany, on the 9th day of April, 1829, Col. ELISHA JENKINS, of the county of Columbia, was called to the chair, and JAMES O. MORSE, of Otsego, was appointed Secretary.

The objects of the meeting were briefly stated by Mr. B. P. Johnson, of Oneida, and a committee consisting of John T. Norton and Benjamin F. Butler, of Albany, Benjamin P. Johnson, of Oneida, Walter Hubbell, of Ontario, John E. Hyde, of New York, and Duncan McMartin, Jr. of Montgomery, were appointed to make the necessary arrangements for the organization of a State Colonization Society. Credentials of delegates from Utica, Lowville, Whitesborough, New York, Canaan, Columbia county, and Canandaigua, were presented.

Adjourned to meet at the capitol on Saturday the 11th of April, instant, at three o'clock in the afternoon.

Saturday, April 11, 1829.

The meeting again assembled in the Senate chamber.

On motion of the Rev. Dr. Nott, President of Union college, seconded by Gerrit Smith, Esq.

Resolved, That the objects of the American Colonization Society merit

the aid of all the friends of our country; of Africa; and of the human race; that its past success in the great experiments which it has been making, warrants the expectations, that these important objects will at no very distant period, be accomplished; and that therefore, this meeting proceed to organize a State Society, which will promote the views, and aid the efforts of this excellent institution.

Mr. B. P. Johnson, from the committee appointed at the last meeting, reported a draught of a constitution, and on his motion, seconded by Mr. J. B. Skinner, of Genesee, it was adopted.

A committee consisting of Charles R. Webster, of Albany, Walter Hubbell, of Ontario, William H. Maynard, of Oneida, Alonzo C. Paige, of Schenectady, and John T. Norton, of Albany, was appointed to make a nomination of the officers of the Society.

Rev. Isaac Orr, the agent of the American Colonization Society, then addressed the meeting, and related a variety of interesting facts in relation to the colony at Liberia, on the coast of Africa.

Mr. Webster, from the nominating committee, reported the following names, which report was accepted, and the gentlemen elected officers of the Society.

RICHARD VARICK DEWITT, Secretary.

On motion of S. M. Hopkins, Resolved, That the Colonization Society should be kept separate from all local and party considerations-that it should endeavour by every proper method, and especially by circulating suitable publications, to unite in its favour all classes of people throughout our country; and that for the attainment of objects so important, it should be ready to give up every thing but the principles and objects of its existence, and the lawful and honourable means of its prosperity.

On motion of Jabez D. Hammond, Esq. seconded by the Rev. Mr. Campbell, an agent of the American Society,

Resolved, That the distracted and miserable state of Africa calls loudly for our commiseration and charitable efforts; and that the Colonization Society is pursuing by far the most probable, if not the only means, of enlightening the benighted and savage tribes of that continent, and of raising them to the rank and the blessings of Christian nations.

Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the several papers of this city.

Thereupon the meeting adjourned.

JAMES O. MORSE, Secretary.

ELISHA JENKINS, Chairman.

The meeting was, at different periods of its deliberations, addressed by the Rev. Dr. Nott, Mr. Gerrit Smith, Rev. H. G. Ludlow, Mr. James Vanderpool, Mr. W. H. Maynard, Mr. T. L. Smith, Mr. A. C. Paige, Mr. S. M. Hopkins, Mr. J. D. Hammond, Rev. Isaac Orr, Rev. Mr. Campbell, and lastly, by the celebrated Joseph Lancaster.

The addresses of Dr. Nott and Mr. G. Smith, were elaborate and eloquent expositions of the objects and benefits of colonization, and will probably be published."-[Albany Argus.

We learn with great pleasure, that several County Societies have also been established in New York, and many others in Kentucky. A Female Association, and a Juvenile Society have also been formed in Middletown, Connecticut. It is not now in our power to publish the lists of officers. In regard to juvenile societies, a highly respected friend in Connecticut writes

"If they can be extensively organized, they will do much directly. Suppose that the children in every town of 1500 inhabitants were to raise $10 a year, you would be able to send off annually, a large number of emigrants: But their importance does not depend on the money they might raise; 20 years hence, the children are to govern the nation, and it therefore becomes of vast importance that they should grow up free from prejudice, and well acquainted with those facts which are necessary to enable them to form right opinions in regard to the slave-trade, our coloured population, and to Africa."

Legislature of Pennsylvania.

The following Preamble and Resolution have passed the SENATE of Pennsylvania with great unanimity. We hope they will receive the early and decided approbation of the House of Representatives.

Whereas, resolutions approving of the object of the American Colonization Society have been adopted by the Legislatures of several states of this Union. And whereas, Pennsylvania is honourably distinguished in having led the way in benevolent efforts to improve the condition of the African race in this country, and in having seized the first moments of her independence from foreign dominion to abolish slavery, as inconsistent with her be

nevolent institutions, and in the eloquent language of the legislature of that day, "in grateful commemoration of our happy deliverance from that state of unconditional submission to which we were doomed by the tyranny of Britain:" It seems therefore proper, that an association of enlightened and philanthropic men, who have united to form for free persons of colour, an asylum in the land of their fathers, should receive the countenance and support of the General Assembly of Pennsylvania; and from the success which has already attended the colony at Liberia, there is reason to hope that it may be extended and enlarged, so as to offer a home and a country to all of these people who may choose to emigrate there, and their removal from among us, would not only be beneficial to them, but highly auspicious to the best interests of our country. It also holds out to the Christian and philanthropist, the hope, that by the means of this colony, the lights of christianity and civilization may be made to shine in a land shrouded in the darkness of barbarism, and thus atonement in some measure be made for the wrongs which slavery has inflicted on Africa. As the evil which this Society seeks to remove, pervades the whole country, it would seem to deserve the attention of those whose duty it is, and who are provided with the means "to provide for the general welfare." Therefore,

Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in General Assembly met, That in the opinion of this General Assembly, the American Colonization Society eminently deserves the support of the National Government, and that our Senators be directed, and the Representatives in Congress be requested to aid the same by all proper and constitutional means.

Intelligence.

REPORT FROM HAYTI.-We have perused with much interest, the Report of Thomas Kennedy, a citizen of Wayne County, N. C., who has recently visited all the coloured emigrants sent out to Hayti by the Society of Friends in that State. He found them "generally, unpleasantly situated, and very much dissatisfied. They complained to me (he observes) that the proprietors of the lands for whom they had laboured, for two years and a half, had entirely disappointed them; that they had received but from six to ten dollars each, as a compensation for their labour during the above time; and said they had rather be slaves in North Carolina, than to remain there under the treatment they had received since their arrival.

Mr. Kennedy bore testimonials and instructions from the yearly meeting of Friends in North Carolina, and was treated with civility by the Presi dent; but all his efforts to improve the circumstances of the emigrants from the United States, proved ineffectual, and in attempting to take under his protection for removal, a family which he had formerly emancipated, he was treated with great indignity. The following are the observations with which he concludes his statement.