Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1833-06-27
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VARIOUS.

III 10 many VI OuT TtdueTs 10 learn Indt
apple for passage to the African
Colony continue to flow into the Board of
Managers, both from free persons of CO
lor, and on behalf of slaves, quite as fast
as the board can find means to comply
with them Notwithstanding the large
number of cmigrants sent out hy The Ma
Dagers during the last season, the follow
log additional applications for passage to
the colony are now before the Board;
large portion Of them slaves, whom their
owners propose 10 hberate, if the Society
will incur the expense of conveying them
to Liberia, viz
From Georgia Liberty county IS
Savannah 80
From Virginia Parkersburg 8
Springfield, 7
Stanton, 10
NIoorfield, 7
Wste minister, 5
Lynchburg. s
From Tennessee Blountsville, 10
From ConnectIcut-L tchfield, 8
From Massachusetts-Springfeld, 8
Belchertown, /
From Ohio Elkton, /
Philadelphia, /
Washington City, 8
We wish the Board had the ability to
furnish immediate passage to all OF these
applicants because the influence OF exam
pile is great and every emigrant that goes
induces others to follow But we are sor-
ry TO learn that the ability Of the Society
does not keep pace with the numher of APP
phcants. or its own anxious desire to meet
them. The heavy expenditures conse-
quent. on the large expeditions OF the last
season have not only exhausted the funds
OF The Society, but involved it in debt of
very serious magnitude, which it is now
struggling TO discharge. AS soon as this
object is effected, and its treasury replen-
lshed, its operations will be resumed with
renewed vigor These facts appeal for
chilly TO the friends of the cause, through
out the country, and should induce gen
eral effort to supply the means Of carrying
on the good work.-.Nat. htetligsncer.
Colonization Debate.-A Public debate
took place at Boston, on the successive e.
yenings of Thursday and Friday last, up
on the prominent topics OF difference be.
tween the Colonization and Immediate A.
pollution Societies 1t was carried on by
X 5. Finley, ESQ. and Professor Wright
OF the Western Reserve College, OHIO
the former advocating the Colonization Of
the blacks in Africa, and the latter the i'm
mediate abolition Of slavery at home
We are indebted TO our Boston friend and
correspondent for the following account Of
the result.
BosToN, June /, 1888.
lsuppose you feel some interest in the
result Of the Colonization and Abolition
debate between Messrs Finley and Wright
can tell you in one word, that it went off
grandly for the cause, and will unquestlon
ably he the instrument OF much benefit to
us. and credit to Mr.. Finley With the
exception OF here and there hasty ex
preston by either DICTATOR, evidently
struck out IN the heat of contest, the whole
affair was conducted in the most gentle
manly style. The Church was crowded
on both OCCASIONS Thursday and Friday
--and the audience was highly respecta
bic and attentive.
say it has done good, not judging from
my own feelings merely, but from what |
see and hear The impression was plain
as the day light. One of our most res
pectable city officers who heard the first
debate said TO mel went an impartial
hearer. knew nor cared nothing about
the subject before; but came away a
different man. shall Join the Society
forthwith" Several distinguished gentle-
men have come forward to make them
selves life members.-N. y. Com .dde.
The Girard Estates, which were award
ed to his Heirs at Law, having been pur
chased after his will was made, were sold
at public sale on the s0th ult. and struck
of to Messrs Bunker & Starr, for the
large sum of s99,5loi-VI. Rec.