The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1853-01-19
American colonization Society.


the First Presbyterian Church, in Four-and -a-half
street The edifce was densely crowded with Ia.
dies and gentlemen, and, among the latter, we
no'iceo many members OF Congress, Judges of the
supreme Court, heads of Departments, and others
noidlng high official station The President OF
the United States occupied a seat upon the plat
sorhl. There were in attendance upwards OF forty
delegates from the various auxiliary societies
throughout the Union, larger number than has
been congregrated misunderstanding an in
| creasing interest in this cause.
| The Hon. CHARLES F. MsRosR Zone of the old
| est vice presidents who could be presently called
the meeting to order at seven O'Clock.
The Rev. R. r. GURLEY delivered prayer APP
propriate to the occasions and
| DR.. LuaENsEEL (the Secretary, MIR. McLEAN,
suffering from bodily indispositon) read the 70!
lowing abstract from the annual report, namely:
"Since our last Anniversary the Hon. Henry
Clay, president, and the Hon. Daniel Webster
one Of the Oldest vice presidents of this Society
have departed this life. II is not for US to add any
thing to the tribute OF respect which the country
and the world have paid to their memory
'tMatthew st. Clair Clarke, ESQ.,, for many year,
a member of the executive committee of the So
ciety, closed his earthly labors. the 9th of Nav
greatly beloved and deeply lamented by Us, and
by wide circle of friends.
| "A general review of our operations the pas
year ls calculated to produce the conviction that
the Society is growing in usefulness with every
| passing year,
"Six vessels with emigrants have been sent I,
Liberia, viz! two from New Orleans, with 1879; two
Fom Norfolk, with 297; one from New York. viii
81; and one from Wilmington, forth Carolina
with las. In vessel fre,n Baltimore sent by the
maryland Poirr:saiion Society, we sent too emf
grants making in all 666; of whom 403 were born
Tree; 20 were emancipated, and 80 purchased
themselves, or were purchased by their friends.
"The whole number sent by this Society to Ii
berla from its Organization to the present time il
| 7,457, and the Whole amount expended upon it by
this Society is Sl,065so7 a, which no one will
! venture to call eh ektravagant price to paw for
what has been actually accomplished
1 :, IA lew thousand people have been taken from
their deep depression here, waited across the
ocean, planted on the margin of an immense con
tlnent, organized into well-erderea and free re.
public, whose Independence has been acknow.
| LEGGED by several of the leading nations of the
earth They have farms and houses, commerce
aud agriculture, schools and churches, the arts OF
civilized life, and the institutions of religion all ia
| full existence.
sThus established, Liberals course has been
onward. Advancement has been made the past
year In III that is valuable in civil and social life
and all that tends to benefit the nations In proof
OF this is adduced the testimony of President Ro.
6erts and of other citizens of Liberia; of Captain
foote, United States navy, lately returned from
that coast; of Rev. Eli Ball, who was sent out to
explore by the board of the Southern Baptist Con-
vention. = -
"Renewed evidences of the increasing friend.
snip OF both England and France Have been shown
during the year in the nost Substantial manner,
while Liberia ID thus rising in importance and
receiving the favorable consideration of govern.
ments abroad, it is gratifying to find that she is
gaming friends in the land that gave her birth,
"Ihe great importance of colonization is tnrcipo
lsseii upon the State Legislatures. With peculiar
pleasure we record the fact that New Jersey,
pennsylyana, and Indiana, among the free states,
nave made appropriations to aid In colonizpr
their own free coiored people; that Maryland has
renewed ner appropriation of $4,000 a wear for
SIX years, that strong hopes are entertained tbat
.he Legislature of Virginia at the present session,
WIN remove the restrictions from her large appro-
prialon so as 10 make it available to meet the ex
Penses OF all who emigrate from that State; that
| the Legislature of Louisiana have adopted a Joint
resolution nstrncting their Senators in Congress,
ana requesting their Representatives, to urge the
| General Government to make an apDronriation of
money to aid the Society; that the Legisla ture of
ONO have before them similar resolution in f..
yor OF Stanly's bill, and the acknowled gmert of
the independence Of Liberias that the Legislature
OF Connecticut have adopted a Strong renort and
resolutions in favor of colonzationS that the Legis
iature OF New York are strongly urged to make a
liberal appropriation; that State Colonization So
elety mas been formed by leading men in Aaba ma:
that IN Georgia the wish is constantly exnressed
that the Legislature would make an annronriation.
mat IN tennessee very numerous petitions have
oeen praying the same thing of their Legislature
'one oil the most important measures which is
no" oeiore me country for the advancement of
coionlzanon IS the bill introduced by the Hon. Ed
ward Staniy, of North Carolina, iii the House of
Representatives, which provides for the payment
to the several States of the sfourth instalment of
'ne deposits OF public money directed to be made
WIN SAID states by the act approved June 49, 1885,
The passage OF this bill by Congress would place
at the disposal OF the States for purposes of colo
nlzlng their Tree colored people and providing
for their welfare, $46S, 800 rs annually.
r1u1lo
to everybody here 70 night, that the Executive
Department of Our Government entertain the very
highest sense OF the value of our enterprise, and
desire to extend to Liberia their countenance AZ
evidence OF this we may here quote with propriety
asentence from the last annual Mesa ge ofthe Presi
dent to Congress, where he says: sIncipient nea-
sures have been taken towards the reconnaissance
OF the continent OF Africa eastward of Liberia
ne nave long deslfe ed that this very work should
be undertaken 1t is matter of great importance
to the progress and enlargement Of Liberia. All
the interests OF commerce and civilization are
intimately associated with it. For centuries
the interior of Africa has been an unknown
region, shut out and secluded from the rest
CT the world. Commerce which has zone
everywhere with bold, adventurous Step,
has taltcrtd and fallen back here Enterprising
explorers, W no have dared SO much and penetrated
so far everywhere else have gone but s.an inch''
inside the very shell of Africa. The interior has
never been penetrated in any manner calculated
10 throw open It's treasures, or reveal is wonders
W
wish admiration upon this movement of our own
Government. Colonization has pIa nted a footstep
on the western coast, and op- ned a gateway
through which the vast recesses of the interior
may be reached and revealed; and our Govern
ment IL the very gency to do the work, and Com
mander Lynch, 10 whom the details have been en-.
trust d, and who is now doubtless in Liberia, is
the very man to carry it forward. And our warm.
est thanks are due to the present accomplished
Secretary OF the Navy, through whose immediate
agency these p eimnary arrangements have been
made.
"The various auxiliary societies have much
prospered the past year.
''Ihe agents employed in collecting funds have
been active and successful They have done honor
20 themselves and greatly promoted the cause.
s'Some special measures have been taken to en-
ighten the colored people We highly commend
II action of large number of citizens of Mason
county, Kentucky, who organized themselves into
a committee to lay before the free colored people
their true interest. If such measures were adopt
ed and faithfully carried out everywhere, it would
produce the most happy results. Surrounded as
they are in many places by counseliors hostile to
Liberia, and agitated by the rough and stormy
waves of adversely, they not the star of hope
that CLEANS out on the shores of Africa; they ap-
prec!ate not the destiny OF honor, the career of
broad and lasting usefulness which is there, in that
lar IN land, opened before them
mere, then, is a work. too long neglected, in
which s all the friends of humanity M bear hand
W must go TO them in the true spirit of benevo
nIy i've a. L.