The Arkansas advocate., 1832-02-01
lA. Ta WEDNESDAY,, FEBRUARY IL, Iss2.

have been dflused, to soale extent. among thousands of the native inhabit- ants, and there Is reason 10 believe that the highest hopes of the philanthropist in this respect, will be eventually re- aiized.
 Many ofthose in our immediate vi, einity (says Dr. Meehlin,) have to considerable extent adopted our man- ners and habts-and mechanics toler- ably skilful who have acquircda a knowl- edge of their trade, during their resi- dence in tie Colony, may be found among them.
 It is impossible for one not on the spot, and witnessing the daily evidcn- ees oi the fact, to imagine the influence We have acquired ever the inhabitants of this country: they never undertake to settle an affair of consequence with out first asking our adylce; or attempt to retaliate on any neighboripg tribe, for any injury they may have sustained at their hands, without first enquiring if "Goyernor will mako palasar, 2 pro sided they do themselves summary justice.
 A few days since, was waited upon by a depatation froa King Da konka, offering nc the choice of lands 10 any extent, provided l would make set Itlement in his neixeborhood: he stated they could never feel thenselyes secure until they were in the immediate vicin- ity of our people, and as the whole of the country was in our power, we ought to protect them rem the inroads of hos l tile tribes; he expressed hinselfs ss will ing to surrendep all authority in our hands, and had not the slightest objec- ton that the laws of the Colony should snpefcede tbe customs and usA ges of the country hitherto in force among them. Similar requests are made al- most daily, and was f prudent, we could Tn . short time receive the submission Of nearly all the neighboring tribes on the safnx terms; hut sound policy for bids that We should in all cases accedc l to their requests, as it would in all Iprobability, involve us in troublesome l and destructive wars with some of the powerful tribes more in tine interior-- but wheneverit can be done with safe l ty, or where they are near enough for us to afford them efficient support, their request shall be attended to.
 We wisl, we had room. 10 present these letters in detail. Written, as they
 manif6stly are, without the least at tempt at display-communicating as they do both the favorable and unfayor- able circumstances of the Colony with an impartial hand, mo person can rise from the perusal without feeling that l the efforts of the society have been em- inently successful, and that it lays claims of no ordinary kind, upon the confidence and cooperation of the Amcrican people. This confidence and this cooperation it is beginning to re- celve, in manner altogether new and
 unprecedented. Various letters from
 the southern as we'll as the middle and northern States, are recorded in the
 number before us, expressing an inter- est in the subject, which, if more gen. orally diflused, would accomplish won- ders both for the society and the na- lion. A gentleman iu North Carolina
 writes that he has determined to place his slaves, l4 in number, at the dispo- sal oi the Colonization Society, and to defray tbeir expenses to the place ct i ee:..:.harkatlen- He also states that ID or l5 frsc negroes in tie vicinity have resolved. to accompany them. A gen. tleman in Georgia has left 49 servants ] free condition nf ftheir removal fn Liberia. For this purpose they will be delivered over to the Colonization So ciety about the 25th of Decembcr.- The board have authorized the char ter of vessel to receive them and others (nst exceeding l00D which will sail about the lst of January. We have already mentioned that the sehoon- CT Orion sailed from Baltimore on the 26th of October, with 50 or 40 emi- grants for Liberia, and that the ship James Perkins is about to sail from Nor
 folk for the same destination with a much larger number. An expedition isalso fitting out at New Orleans, for the conveyance Of 80 or 100 emigrants
 from the western States. \ letter from Southampton county, Va. the scene oi ff,o l.,{< t.Ia are d., ,.c tb = |
 not less than 245 in that county alone, have made appiicatiop for Il passsas-, and that the number Wlil probablY he