New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1842-12-17
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gaze was vested in trustee or agent here. 1t IS
also connected in some way with the same concern
which publishes the New-York Union, bafore re-
ferred to- An addenda to it, in the shape OF q
serai-weekly paper called the :" National Champ
on made up OF the matter published in the Times
has also been started for the purpose of being fed
with the remnant of government patronage which
the Times cannot take: and, although its clrcu-
aton will never reach 200 copies, it is made
the medium of the mos. important government adj
vertlsements.
Now we ask ,donot such charges as these demand
an investigation from Congress If they are false,
it will be easy enough to make them appear so;
if they are true, then indeed has corruption in hlgh
places reached crisis which demands the active
exercise of every restraining power. We have no
interest in the mater beyond that which every CT
tzen ought to feel for the public good. We do not
want the patronage Of the government at any rate,
for we are getting on quite well enough without 1t;
and we certainly would not take it, if encountered
by even an implied surrender of our personal and
political independence. Boston Daily Mail.
MoRE TIA. OSE HUNDRED AND FIFTY LIE
GRATED SLAVES READY TO EMBARK FOR LIbE-
R1A-The Society is urged to despatch another
expedition to Liberia. a young man of Virginia
received by Inheritance nineteen slaves, and on
coming of age offered to confer liberty upon them
in one of eur northwestern States; but after Wis
ting those States and observing the unhappy con-
diton af their free colored population, persuaded
them TO select Liberia as their future home, to
which they are to sail, in expedition OF the Ma
ryland Colonization Society, now preparing to de-
part on the 9th instant. This generous individual
is ready to contribute $500 toward deiraying their
expenses. Eighteen colored persons in Kentucky
are waiting to embark, and in danger of revert'ng
10 slavery if not enabled shortly 10 do So One
hundred and thirty in another State arc looking
to the Society for opportunity to emigrate; aud al
though property is left to effect their removal, the
avas of it cannot, without great sacrifice, be I'M
mcdiately realized; and on this account, as we'll
as TO meet the expenses of the last expedition, the
Society is compelled to solicit every friend TO the
cause every minister of the Gospel, every patriot
and every Christian to come forward to It's aid.
Must the Society cease 10 act IN this great enter
prise? We call upon the press TO make known
it's wants. We call upon ministers Of every COM
munion TO submit its present necessities. and the
weighty reasons which should secure to it univer-
sal and efficient support, 10 their congregations.
We know and feel the pccuniary embarrassnents
of the country but let societies in aid of the cause
be every where organized, and even the weekly
contribution of a single cent from each OF the mass
of our population would replenish the treasury OF
the Society, and send new JOY and hope to our AT
rican settlements and through them TO millions as
yet unvisited by the revving voice and Influences
of Christianity. Reader think, if you please, on
the subject, and what g0u can do for the further
ance of the cause African Depos. for Dec.