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A Society, as our readers have been apprised, has
been formed in Hayti for the purpose of aiding the
free people of colour in the (Watt! States in removing
themselves to that islautl. The following Address to'
the liagtians contains a full 'account of that Society
and its objects.
ADDRESS TO THE HAYTIANs.
A yooft action always bears its own reward.
In 'almost all civilised countries, philanthropists
have espoused the cause of the unhappy African ; as-
'inflations of virtuous men are endeavouring, by all
the mean. in their power, to improve and elevate the
character of this interesting portion of the human
fa-
mily. And we, who lately drank deep of the bittee
cap of oppression—we, who now tame the swerte-of
liberty, and enjoy, in all their plenitude, the hopre-
scriptible rights of mae—shall we rest indifferent to
the lot of our brethren, whose lamentable doom it is
tube be held ya under the yoke of tyranny?—When,
by a disgusting calculation, we find an incredible
number of these unfortunate and persecuted men, vili-
fied, slandered and degraded, made the butt of all
cruelties which the most unfeeling avarice and the
most revolting prejudices ran suggest, finding no con-
solation but in tears and groans; shall we be insiot-
sible to the cry of their distress, and offer them no
consolation ?--No it shad not be in vain that a great
and noble example has lit•en given us; it shall not be
in vain that the voice of humanity has addressed our
hearts: we hare mourned, yet we mourn the loss of
our unhappy brethren, whom the injustice of their
fellow-men is depriving of the blessings of liberty;
and we will zealously exert out-mice., to the extent of
our power, to soothe the bitterness of their woes.
Our past sufferings—our unexampled efforts to regain
our primitive rights--ear solemn oath to live free and
independent—the happy situation attar island, which
may be justly called the Queen of the Antillas—the
astonishing fertility of its soil, which makes it the
garden of the Western Areltipehigo--the progress of
its inabitat.• its civilisation, and in some •ef the fine
arts ; our wise constitution which insures a free coun-
try to Africans and their descendants;—all lead us
to believe that the hand of Providence has destined
Hayti for a land of promise, a sacred asylum, where
our unfortunate brethren will, in the end, see their
wounds] healed! by the balut of equality, and their
tears wiped away by the protecting hand of liberty.
Nevertheless, we must cont.:ls% that the distant view
of such blessings will hut renew their sufferings.
If we open not the arms of hospitality, it will but
render their griefs more keen anti poignant, to be
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attain.

Fellow Citizens' we are not ignorant that the Ame-
ricans have used their endeavours to coslonhe in
.‘frica the descendants Of free Africans, horn in the
United States. To judge from the small success of
this enterprize, it would appecr almost certain, that
this unfortunate class of men are destine(' to spend
their lives in that part of America, and that, h ontv
down by barbarous prejudices is hieh stifle every noble
sentiment, these unhappy people will there fur ever
be the (kegs of society, and the disgrace of hu-
manity.
To-keep diem in that apathy in which man ceases
to be man, by lasi!' the dignity of his nature, to con-
fine them to the lowest degree in the scale of social
order, and compel them to revere the band that chas-
tises them, some have had the shamelessness and
infamy to askance that it was necessary to deprive them
of every gleam of instruction ; to reduce them to the
most degraded condition, by laying iipain them the
weight of an authority systetuatically arloPrary ; in a
word, that it was necessary to assimilate them to the
buttes. This atrocious conspiracy, meditated with all
the coolness of the most infernal machiavelianism, has
discovered itself in all parts of the. United States ; and
lately appeared with a new force in one of the south-
ern districts of timid country. Now, as it is utterly
impossible that these unfortunate victims of policy
should ever submit to a forced transmigration, degra-
dation and ignominy will then be eternally their por-
tion. And since the day of their deliverance will
never shine upon them in the United States, and as we
udge of things by comparison, there abasement will
be so much the more intolerable, because they will be
condemned to draw out their miserable existence in the
• Ist of a free people.
Penetrated with these truths, persuaded that these
unhappy people can never be strangers in Hayti, since
they cannot be strangers to our cause; and further,
considering that this country, by its physical conati.
tution and vast extent, would afford inexhaustible re-
sources to millions of intelligent and industrious
people, and would become truly i terrestrial paradise
far these who, in coming here to breathe the purr air
of liberty, would apply themselves to labour—l do,
with confidence, call the attention of my fellow-
citizens to the p:saject which forms the object of this
address.

Duly authorised by his Excellency the President of
Hayti, and encouraged by several respectable citizens
in this capital, I propose to form a Society, the object
of which shall be to open a subscription, and to em-
ploy to the best advantage the funds, thence asising,
to procure for our unfortunate brethren of the United
States the means of coming to taste upon our soil the
sweets of liberty.
Already the President of Hayti, with the goodness
which is natural to him, and which leads him to suc-
cour the distressed, and with that patriotic zeal which
characterizes him when he arts for the promotion of
the public prosperity, has conic forward atid sub-
sclilibed generously. The object of this subscription
is to create a fund. to send an agent to the United
States, whose hu,in-ss it shall be to co-operate with
the Colonization Society, whose infinence is well
known; and to have an understanding with them, in
order to direct the descendants of Africans to the aid

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of the fends which the Society possess, for the Repub-
lic of Hayti.
The design of the formation of the Ilaytian Society
shall be to watch over. by itself or its agents, the in-
terests of emigrants, on their arrival in the Republic.
It shall correspond directly with the American Colo*
nisation Society, with Religious Societies, with the
Bible Society, and with other Charitable Societies,
and pious men, in order to arrive more readily at this
grand result.

This agent, as the organ of the liberal sentifnents
and henevolent views of the Haytian Society, shall
enlighten our brethren of the United States as to their
true interests ; shall paint to them the prosperous state
of the Republic, the advantages which would attend
them there, .atut ,by a free and loyal conduct endea-
vour to gain their confidence, and to remove their
scruples.
Haytiass ! we are free and independent ; we know
nothing above us on earth, but our laws ; jealous of
our rights, happy in our country, what a noble ruthu-
siasm guides us in the career of our beneficence !
Without violating the fentlamental laws upon which
our rights and liberties repose, we can invite our un-
fortunate brethren to partake of our happiness, anti thr
benefits of our institutions. And never was a moment
more favourable fur putting into execution so laudable
a project.
The feeling minds in America, and the number is
great, in spite of existing prejudices, see with regret
the abject state to which the poor Africans are re-
duced. They are endeavmring, with a truly aposto-
lic zeal, to ameliorate their lot. They will readily
coverate with us in this sahtfary work. As one of
dig advocates of sit:tering humanity emphatically said,
there is no nation which has contracted towards the
Africans so great obligations, as the Americans—nei-
ther is there any to whom it would be easier to dis-
charge the sacred debt. The Africans have rnitivatrd
their soil ; they havr watered it with their tears. The'
riches, luxuries and enjoyments of the Americans are
drawn from the sweat of their brows, and the wounds
of their hearts.

As for WI, fellow-citizens, all the noble and gene-
rous semiments which give birth to generous actions,
cannot Ike strangers to our hearts, ono festered by
grief anal oppression. Sympathy has only uttered hi•s
persuasive voice among us :and already I behold every•
citizen of the capital, conducted by charity, run-
ning, like the widow in the tiospel, to offer his mite
to the unfortunate.

But, independently of philanthropic seutimeut•,
will not Ametica gain more in regard to her coin-
Inerciat interests, by the establishment of the descend-
ants of Africans in the Republic of Hayti, than by
directing their nnixrratioa to Africa Will not the
progre-sire increase of her commerce %%Rh Hayti he
more lucrative than her precarious relations with
Africa r Relations subject to a thousand incon-
venieneics, in case of hostility between her and
Great Britain ; and to entire ruin, at the conclusion
of such a war, if it were the pleasure of British ,Mi-
nisters. Surely the shuns of Hayti offer a greater
security than the coasts of Africa, which are conti-
nually exposed Io the excursions of Belligerent
Powers; at least while France does not renew her
old pretensions to Hayti. If this should (scene, we
could reply, that these pretensions hare become ob-
solete and void, by a defect in the title, which ren-
der, them from day to day more foreign and absurd ;
hat we will rather say. that if alone and in the morn-
ing of our emancipation we have wrestled with some
glory against a powerful enemy; now, aided by men
whose existence would be identified with our own,
and having the experience of sixteen years of in-
dependence, a complete organization, a :ike re-
sult to that Which we then obtained, could not be
doubted.

And these generous men, these philanthropists. who,
from principle, favours the colonizat' of the de-
scendants of Africans upon the roasts of (Miura,
would they not be the first to perceive the innumerable
advantages, and facilities of every kind, which the
establishment of these people in our Republic presents:
Already inhabited by an industrious poi/10264in, hav-
ing commercial relation with Europe and America,
situated under a climate as fertile and as salubrious as
the most favoured part of the Torrid Zone, it ought
surely to be preferred to the burning inn and swasupy
lands of Sierra Leone.

The great difficulties, the almost insurmountable
obstacles which present themselves to the first colo-
nists of a new land, will not he met with here. The
emigrants will be received with joy by our proprie-
taries, and met with open arms by all ; their industry
in the interior will create a vast field of speculation
fsr our maritime places; and new channels of abun-
dance and pr.operity will open on all sides.
Then may the good and intelligent Illaytians, who
shall have contributed to their happiness, exclaim with
the virtuous (tregory—" You have at length a land of
refuge; a land which is now no longer a place of
exile, where the eye meets on one hand nothing but
tyrants, and on the other nothing but companions in
misfortune; the one bestowing, and the other receiv-
ing, contempt, and outrage. Yes, you havi an asy-
lum ; and happiness at length beams upon you in the
land of your adoption ; you shall enjoy in peace the
fruits of the fields you cultivate without constraint:
Live then for the enjoyment, and, if it be necessary,
die for the defence of the impreseriptible rights
which nature has conferred upon you.

At the Lancaster Assizes, Mr. Wroe, the former Pro-
prietor of the Manchester Observer, was again brought
up to receive judgment on the indictments to which ha
pleaded guilty at the last Assizes. No further punish.
wont was however indicted, it being understool that he
should not interfere any Inure in political matters.

SINIONISE.

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The following extracts from American papers re•
entity received, afford some curious views of the coo-
dition of society in certain parts of the United States,
as well as, of individual character and manners.
A villain escaped.-200 Dollars Reward —During
the month of March, 1819, James M. Lewis left my
house, about two miles from Huntsville, in the Ala-
bama state, with seven negroes, 102 -barrels of flour,
and 1.111 gallons of whiskey, for Natches, with a view
of selling the same, and making a relent of psoceeds
within six or eight weeks (the property being my
owe.) Since that period, the said Lewis has written
to me frequently, that he hint wide sale, and was
speculating on the money, but would very shortly re-
torts and satisfy me.
Not hearing from him for some month•, I thought
it prudent to go in pursuit of him ; and after haring
travelled various circuitous routes by land and water, I
at length arrived at New York, from the Havanna!), in
the steam ship, Robert Fulton, where I had the good
fortune to see an advertisement signed by said Leal-,
offering a reward for a negro boy who bad errapr.l
from him after his arrival at New York, and directing
I • to he delivered at Richmond county court-house.
northern neck of Virginia. Upon receiving this in-
formation, I pursued him to that place, and after four
months travelling, nearly eight thousand miles, through
the assistance of strangers, succeeded in securing him
in jail. Previous to my arrival, he had expressed
a wish to purchase 20 or 25 likely slaves, fur which
he would give a fair price in American gold, or U. S.
paper. When questioned by some of the inhabitsats
of the place respecting his conduct towa r toe, he as
knowledge(' the above statement, and t ITertttl me his
black wife, a four hundred dollar gig, and two hun-
dred dollar horse, wills the addition of twelve hundred
dollars cash, it I would relieve him ; to this I could
not assent, as 1 am still bound for his appearance tt
court in the Alabama. On the night of the 29th of
June, 1920, he escaped from jail. Ile is about six
feet one or two inches high, black hair, thin whiskers,
small mouth, uneven fore teeth, one of them out—
stoops a little in the shoulders, and i- partioula(l) fond
when in rolls rrsation, of pulling at the lower part ot
his waistcoat. ills visage is thin—disposed to leek
down, when he is telling lies, of which he is extremely
fund ;al t3oor 35 years of age. I have his bla:•k
wife in possession, which may induce him to remain
some time in Virginia. And frosts the cotidn,:t of his
sister, Fanny Stanley, still half brother, licnrd°,•t
Walker, residing near Richmond court-house, in s--
cretin;,• his money, h,rse and pig, after his confine-
ment, I aminducedito caution the pnblicid aeon also.

will give a reward of two hundred dollars its any
person who will secure the said Lewis in any jail in
the United States, and advise use of- the same, at
Huntsville, Alabama, so that I may obtain justice Gr
him. HENRY .11X131T.

'•• The EJitor of the Baltimore Patriot and
folk Bracson, will please to insert the above once a
week for Nur weeks, and forward their accounts as
above, and they shall he promptly paid.

PLATTSIOURUM, JILT 32.---13a%AltE or Istrosroes.
--(In the 19th inst. a man who calhd himself John
Carlin, an Italian, was arrested in this village, ar•.l
committed to prison, under what is usually tensed the
Vagrant Act.
Ile had been for some time past soliciting Aonations
in this and the adjoining towns, and in the state of
Vermont, and elsen here, and he means of a false
:tient of farts, imposed upon the c•nuutisseration a•••I
humauity of the citizens. Ile represental that Ills
brother. together nith others, eighteen famiiies Is al!,
and all citizens of Genoa, were in the month of Jaen-
ary last, cast sway in a vessel at Tunis and made psi-
-oners. and held in captivity, and that it was necessary
he should raise the sum uf.:lti,t;tin dullan to procure
their liberation.

lle produced, in order to Rsllroa mime his elJirn, a
petition signed by himenwlf, and addl.,. Neil to the Uo-
vertior of Pennsylvania, in which he vet forth the I)7c-
tended misfortunes of his friends, and asked per
%ion of the Dovernor to go anti heg, in order to e
211,Utitt dollars to redeem them; attached to the Pct.:-
ties is a certificate from Charles I.e Brun (who ca:!‘
himself an interpreter of foreign languages), dat the
Petition is a true rote• of a French original, and there
is also a certificate in the common printed form, Under
the seal of the state of Pennsylvania, and there is no
reason to suppose it ever was ; at any .rate the Dover-
nor makes no answer to it whatever, anis the certiti-.
tate under the hand of the Bovertior, to the official
-character of Le Brun the interpreter, wills the seat of
t►e state annexed, is'one which any person might pro-
cure front the office of the Secretary of State, and is
granted as a matter of course to any person reitteq-.
ink it. Capello, in fact, has no paper or evidenie
whatever, to spew that he is the person he pret.•w's to
he, or that his story or any part of it is trne, and en
Iris examination it clearly appeared from his contradic-
tory statements, from the papers fonnd by searching
him, and from other circumstances, that Isis whote
story was a forgery, and that he was an impostor, en-
deavouring to deceive and prey spoil the conmoir;',:y.
From papers in his possession there is no doubt he
has formerly passed by the name of Jacob Mereti, and
some reason to believe that he also once assumed the
name of Joseph Dorelli.
'l•he Community ought to be upon their guard against
insporitions of this description. There has bo.rsfir
several yeari past a regular system of this kind p it
in practice in various parts of the country. Not ho•ie
since, iu one of the western states, a person was arrest-
having similar papers, and telling a story of the
same description. He at length contested the in.-
position, and stated that there were person in Pliila-
delphia who made a business of manufacturing and
preparing papers of this sort, and selling them tor
what they could get, to such foreigner. as they thong ht
cunning enough to carry the fraud into effect.

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