New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1847-05-12
New-York Colonization society.

This Society held its anniversary at the Broad
way Tabernacle last evening ANsoS G. PHELPS Esq.
President Of the Society in the Chair The house By no
means crowded.
The exercises were opened with prayer by Rev DR..
BATES formerly OF Mddlebury College after which Dr.
REESE read some extracts from the Annual Report from
which we learn that the receipts from this State during
the past year have been S5o3 The famine In Ireland
and other calls for charity mentioned as the cause
OF the comparatively small receipts for the present year
The Relief ship, which took out supplies Tor the
slaves who were recaptured board the Pons arrived
In their time Of greatest need Some hundred OF those
csptyes fed and clothed from the cargo OF tnat
vessel snd the greser number Of them have attended
school, and Identified themselves with LIBERIA OF
which they are now very good citizens.
The cause of Colonization in the State OF New OK
says the Report 10 going on prospecting and 70 prosper
emlgrste IS teachers missionaries &c Mr.. Cornish
a Young cOlored man OF refinement and education WAS
sent from this City about year ago, and ne writes
In the most glowing terms OF the great Inducements held
out for the emigration OF bis race 10 that country Acoor
fr0rr OhiO by the % e. Roy rho went
out In the relief ship and took fifteen hundred dollars
worth Of goods with him realized a hundred per cent
profit his investment and has now returned and Pur
chased more goods He IL no longer Negro Ned as
be amiliArIy called, but Is a foreign merchant
WI sde is sought by the merchant princes OF New
Yol.
The Colony Of Liberia is represented az in very pros
rows and Al all the settlements the coast the me-
ehsnic carried quite extensively and the poo
PIE turning their attention more TO agriculture tnan
formerly Very stringent laws enforced In regard
the traffic in intoxicating drinks $500 being required
for license 10 sell which IL equivalent TO proniolnon
People are fast coming 70 the conclusion that these
settlements along the coast powerful Tor the
suppression Of the Slave Trade than the English and
French vessels which placed there Tor that pur
pose. There 10 now but one slave factory between
M0nruTiA and Cape Paimas belonging 10 SpaniArc'
ard b. has been closely watched that be has not been
able . ship slave for the ss years and has been
obliged 10 give up bis chaels 10 the neghooung cnieis
becsuse Of the expense Of keeping them
Rev. :. J. PRIME made few remarks purportng thai
Colonization Is the only hope for Aircs-ihe greatest
boon hat could be granted 10 this country. OF the
Abotonisis he spoke with severity bordering on BIT
ierness He said Aoolironisu was the Aaron Burr OF
the State and the Judas lscsriot Of the Church and
while. ike Burr, il might refrain from overt acts OF
Ike lscsrot you give II sufc!en, rope u VII
hang itself be agitation II the North In favor OF I'M
mediate abolition had had the eject In his opinion, 10
ryet i more tightly the CALLING letters Of the Southern
slave and be repeated that CoOniz son-and ColoniIa
ton onlycould raise up from their present degraded
condition the descendants Of Ham Benevolent masters
he said will not emsncpsie their Slaves 70 have then
degraded 20 the condition Of the free blacks OF the North
DR.. AAGrLL, cOored man from Liberia, next sd
dressed the meeting His manner diguined snd hi'
matter exceedingly Interesting he had been twenty
years In the Colony, having enigrsted from Bald
with his father when very young. In supporting
Colonization be would not attack Aboiuonists, who
aoorins 70 elevate his In this country be
thought however, that the Colony had been gres
blessing e tke colored man IN opening helc