The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1841-04-17

ciety. Il was done, however, leaving Mr.. GurIey .
family dependent the kind attentions Of personal
friends while he is absent in the service the Society
But how must the public regard the doings of the
Board at the Annual Meeting when they approved of
this proceeding Of the Chairman Of the Committee,
and voted against allowing any money being paid to
Mrs Gurey account of her husbands services, al
though the righteousness of her claim was presented
and enforced by one of the Executive Committee and
advocated by two members of the Board. The pre-
tence for this proceeding was that Mr. Gurley had
disobeyed instructions in not returning to this
try within three months and half from the day he
sailed to England nor informed the Committee g how
far he had succeeded in accomplishing the objects Of
his mission" And here let me ask why the reasona-
BILE request for the publication of Mr.. Gurleys COM
munications signed by six highly respectable gentle
men Of this city, made through the medium of the
Madisonian of March l9th was not promptly COM
piled with2 a.l a..,... ..'
The London papers speak in the highest terms of
Mr. Gurley and his triumphant success in debate
with Mr.. Scoble before crowded audience in the
Egyptian Hall. And American correspondents in
London, bear ample testimony to the great good he
has done, in England in regard to the purely benevo
But just as he had surmounted the greatest difficult
ties, cheering his heart with the bright hope that he
should soon accomplish all the "objects of his mis-
son he receives the whitening intelligence that the
Board of Directors have discarded and dsgraced him
by refusing to continue to him the office of Cores
ponding Secretary cutting off his salary, and no
longer recognising him as holding any relation to
the American Colonization Society Because, forsooth,
he had disobeyed Instructions! What instructions
Will the Board state the nature of his dsobedience
the head and front of his offending2 But how will
the people of England regard such proceedings?-
They had just opened subscription to aid American
phianthropsts in carrying forward the benevolent
work of African Colonization; what confidence can
they now have in the Society,"
If be admitted that limits had been set to the time
for Mr.. Gurley to accomplish the objects of his mis-
sion" can the course pursued toward him. be justified
under the circumstances Would it not have been
wise for the Board to have passed series of
raging resolutions and transmitted to him. to sustain
and cheer him in his labors Will the long and tried
friends of Colonization permit the most able and de-
voted advocate the had to be sacrificed for
the qualification of one who in at the eleventh
hour Zone, too who received his first appointment
as General Agent through the interposition of Mr..
Gurley-who adroitly possessed himself of the
pondence of the Office of the Secretary, and then de-
clared that Mr.. Gurley never should exercise the
Office of Secretary again. lift in his power to pre-
vent him ..........:. ... ...... ..
appeal to the thousands who are the firm and
efficient friends of Colonization, and who regard the
name of the Rev. R. R. Gurley as identified with the
best interests of the cause to take this matter into
their hands beforeit be too late, and that
Mr.. Gurley be re-insated in the office and duties of
Corresponding Secretary of the American Colonial
ton Society. s JUSTICE.