Weekly national intelligencer., 1854-04-29

northward to the Great Desert Here the African race
in the climate of its origin may be expected In state Of
civilization to find its fullest and most perfect physical
and mental development"
Although the young colony is now competent to main
tain ITSELF its growth needs help The hundreds who offer
are offered for removal thher from shores require
the establishment of adequate and regular commun
cation between the two continents This regular commu
ncaton has yet been provided and it is to take
for this important object that the present
ing has been called and the public aid is invoked.
The Colonization cause numbers amongst its
friends the great body Of the wise and good Of this
try and Of every section of and with such favor aud
support cannot fail 10 advance with accelerated pace
to the most entire success.
The Rev. Dr. BALcH and said that il gave him sin
pleasure to gentlemen occupying high positions
the community present this occasion and ready to
give their sanction to the plans and efforts of the Coon
zation Society. There no time when such sanction
from gentlemen bearing the scales Of justice and mbued
with generous and extended philanthropy could be
more welcome more important. He had promised to
submit few remarks to the meeting here convened but
he could gentlemen that they should be few
possible; for the objects of all popular speaking
convince and persuade but in looking this re-
spectacle assembly he did not one whose mind in
reference to the general objects of the meeting needed
either TO be convinced or persuaded But the definite
object Immediately be acted required be stated
it had already been, justly and properly from the
Chair. The practical object in view suitably to
affect the and just sentiment Of the country,
to call out the benevoence and enterprise of people,
that the society be enabled to compass the special
purpose of facilitating the of intercourse between
these United States and the western coast of Africa
Dr. b. proceeded to remark that in his juvenile days
he recolected nothing in classic story which seized
upon and interested his imagination that famous expe
dtion Of the Greeks known the Argonauc The boat
Argo had left the shores of Greece voyage to Col
chs to bring back from thence the muchdesired golden
fleece Critics had been greatly divided in opinion
what had been meant by this golden fleece 1t sup
posed that it fleece stretched certain
aurferous brooks in Coch for the purpose of collecting
the golden pebbles borne down by the streams others
had given to the story aegorcal Interpretation, and
had contended that it the sight of and interest
ing objects the treasures Of knowledge and the advan
tages Of commerce. which constituted this memorable
fleece If the latter opinion correct he thought
that something like the benefits secured for their country
by these argonauts might be obtained in case
by the establishment of regular certain and rapid in
tercourse between far distant and highly interesting
country like Africa and land The people Of the
United States from small beginnings had now grown into
vast empire and they had it now in their power try
the expedient of the ancient Greeks by sending
boat not bring back but confer blessings and adyan
ages Of the highest order to the rude tribes of scat
tered over the bghted continent of Africa. We could
thus send to them la which had been well denominated
the voice Of virtue and Of order and whose conservative
and happy influence pervaded all the complex relations
of civic society. We could send them edQcaon that
plastic former of the human mind. We could to GER
tain extent send them literature that fertile source of
pleasure and instruction We could send them our arts
and christianity that divine gift whose power and resist
less force had revolutonized the whole Roman Empire
and planted its triumphs beside the throne of the Caesars
Gifts like these would prove in Africa they had through
out the habable world the best of assuaging hu
sorrow tanning the rudeness OF the savage man. and
sofening and embeshng the entire condition of human
society. 1t true that at present Liberia was not
fully prepared to relish the charm which mental cutiva
ton and its consequent refinement threw around e He
had to do only with its stern realities and all her pur-
suits controlled by the necessities of her condition
But let look back TO own comparatively humble
nd
these shores during the reign of James the First We
had endured long and aborous servitude while hewng
away the wilderness and establishing home in wild
and hostile cme but see how it had been succeeded by
ease abundance and every elegant art and SO would
bewith the infant republic planted the dark shore
of the African continent
For these reasons well others which might be as
signed DR.. b. ready to in every measure to
the interesting object which had convened them
this evening lie believed in his honest conscience that
it was our duty to make the attempt proposed. The
power Of steam felt the entire world in the
Baltic, in the Thames, in the Cydes on the lakes of
Switzerland Lake Leman every where 1t possessed
and manifested kind of omnipresent power and there
fore the plan contemplated its adoption in the mode of
intercourse to be between the continents
Let make the experiment. and whether the people
Of the United States would give their aid and eec
tual cooperation in design which promised much
good to the colony we had planted and fostered till il
had become State, well indeed the entire Afr-
can coast and continent. While we sent them benefits
such as those he had referred they could send us some
Fieei"us heeSe u return IL was grauIylng TO witness
the growing products of their fertile SOIL Then they
were copying diligently theories of government
and were already in the enjoyment of many of our free
institutions We had ourselves been but copysts of more
ancient nations. There had time existed in Greece
not less than thrtytwo distinct republics including the
Ionic the Asatic continent. We were ourselves now
the exempar for nations yet in their forming state They
had also adopted christianity and had conceived the
noble purpose Of spreading it the entire extent Of
that dark continent The rays Of its divine light were
already striking far into the interior
III. b. said he went heart and hand from the inmost
dephs OF his SOUL for the colonization cause and espe
ca ior the measure proposed by the resolutions In
deed In reviewing his past e he was astonshed to
renect how little labor he had bestowed on cause he so
enTey approved 1t was true he had acted sort of
missionary in its behalf he had trayersed the mountain
peaks Of Virginia from morning light to the shade
IN endeavorng to advance its interest but all the eyer
ons and all the advance which had vet been made seem
ed as nothing when he looked the kelv
70 result from the adoption OF the plan proposed 1t
could not but be followed by results the most benign
The Rev. Mr.. GURLEY said he had not risen TO make
Speech but because it had been the opinion of the com
mtee that one of the resolutions they had prepared
ought to be presented to the meeting separately from the
rest This resolution he submit TWAS known
to some that he had been many years somewhat
ed with the cause Of the American Colonization Society
and he had always believed to be competent to the
General Government to appropriate money the Trea-
sury in aid Of that cause could he believe that IL
would be long before something of that kind would be
done. But il would be unwise in the society to wait for
any such result its claims had been pressed before both
the General aud several of the State Governments and
he regretted to say thus far without success Meanwhile
there pressing need for regular and certain mode
OF communication with Liberia and the adjacent