The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-05-17

| ony OF Rhode Island, and of the early struggles
tor religious liberty in England.
SOCIETY FOR THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE CON-
| DrTION OF THE JEWS
The annual sermon before the Society for the
Amelioration of the Condition of the Jews, was
delivered Monday evening, by Rev. Mr. McGreg-
or, Secretary of the Society, at the new Reform
| ed Dutch Church, corner of Fifth avenue and
Twenty ninth street. There was very large
| attendance The basis of the discourse was LIST
Corinthians vi, &c, u, %, 20.
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY.
The annual sermon before this Society was
preached on Monday, by the Rev. Dr. Magoon.
in the First Baptist Church, Brooklyn, from
| Ephesians ii, Z. There was a very large at
tendance, and Rev. DIR. Welch, President of the
| Society, Rev. DIR. Belcher of Philadelphia. and
Rev. Mr.. Briggs, were present At the close of
the sermon, a liberal collection was taken up for
the benefit of the cause.
NEW YORK STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
| The Twenty-third Anniversary of this Society
was celebrated Thursday evening, at the Reform
ed Dutch Church in Lafayette Place. The Pres
ident of the Society, Arson G. Phelps, ESQ.,,
occupied the chair.
The Rev. Joseph Holdich, D. D., opened the
| exercises with prayer. The report of the Board
| of Managers, which was very long. had been
w vi.
| From the Treasures report it will be seen
| that the receipts during the past year were
SIT 1912, and expenditures, Sl6,938.44.
Amid the very general falling off in the re-
ceipts of most benevolent and religious associa-
| tions the New FORK State Colonization Society 8
| receipts are about the same as they were last
year.
| The friends of African colonization have for
a long time believed that the settlement of Lii
IBERIA should have college established within
| her limits.
| One or two persons must be found willing
and competent to constitute the first faculty of
| the Liberia College, and to arrange the plans
| for the instruction of students.
| Owing to the pecuniary difficulties of the
| country, but little progress has been made in
| the formation of the United States and Liberia
| Steamship Company. The association has been
| perfectly organized, however, and some 10000
| of its stock taken up.
Great Britain has secured to herself an i'm
| mense traffic with Africa, by the establishment
OF regular steam communication.
The United States have always acted upon
| the principle of acknowledging every de facto
Government, whether it were despotic, a mon
| archy, republican, or anything else, provided
| only it was de factO Government From this
national view alone, should the young Republic
| be recognised.
Since May, 1854, five expeditions have sailed
for Liberia, with five hundred and ffty.three
| emigrants.
| The Liberian Republic continues to advance
in all that constitutes her real prosperity. Peace
| prevails with the natives. President Roberts
| has returned from visit to Europe, on public
business, and endeavoring to obtain the trans
| fer of Sierra Leone to the Republic of Liberia
In this highly eventfu mission it is said that he
received information Of successful result
The managers, in conclusion, remark: "Af-
| rican colonization may be opposed again and
| again still, it is destined to triumph, and is
| at this moment the best plan to elevate and
civilize the colored man in Africa, and to secure
from social and political death the colored race
| Of America"
The Rev. R. r. Gurley, of Washington city,
| long devoted to the cause of Colonization, ad-
dressed the meeting.
Rev. Mr.. Pinney delivered an interesting mar
ratiye of his visits to Liberia, and was followed
| by two colored men, whose names are not given
| in the report before us.
The following officers and managers were
| then elected: President, Arson g. Phelps ;
| Vice Presidents, Rev. Gardiner Spring. D. D.,
| and others; Corresponding Secretary, Rev. job n
| B. Pinney; Recording Secretary j. B. Collins /;
| Treasurer, Nathaniel Hayden.
AMERICAN HEBREW CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
A large meeting was held at the Methodist
Church in Norfolk street, on Thursday evening,
for the purpose of organizing on American
| Hebrew Christian Association. The Rev. Mr.
| Gouldin presided, and Mr.. Morris Franklin
acted as Secretary. The Secretary read pre-
amble and resolution adopted at preliminary
meeting, commencing the pourpose in view,
and fixing upon this day and place for effect
| mo IN nrfra
Addresses were delivered in English by the
Rev. John Meander, Mr.. Morris Franklin. and
the Rev. Mr.. Harris, and in German, by Mr.. j..
! Il. Lederer.
| The following gentlemen were then elected
officers for the ensuing year: Rev. John
Meander, President; Rev. Mr.. Weissell, Vice
President; Morris Franklin and j. K Lederer,
Secretaries j. X. Lederer, Treasurer.
The meeting then adjournd.
AMERICAN TEMPERANCE UNION
The Nineteenth Anniversary of this Society
was held in the Broadway Tabernacle, on
Thursday evening. Rev. DR.. Tying presided, and
the Rev. Mr.. Squires opened the exercises with
prayer. The Rev. DIR. Marsh read the abstract
of the Annual Report:
1t traces the progress of Temperance laws
through the Legislatures of different States ;
states that thirteen States have adopted them,
and two others are about to do So
Four years have not elapsed since the State
of Maine commenced a revolution which should
Danish drunkenness, idleness waste, domestic
contention, want, crime, and make all things
new. 1t was reform equally demanded in
every State; the movement reached the public
| heart, and now twelve States-Massachuset
Rhode Island, Vermont, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, and Concentrating mil
lions of freemen, have followed in her wake,
bursting the chains in which they were bound,
! in day.
The report details the intructive and marvel
lous process in each State; the operations and
results of the prohibitory law; the Instructions
| thrown in its path the increased attachment
to it of the people; its complete remedy, so far
as it prevails, for intemperance and numerous
kindred evils; its rescue of the Sabbath, under
an efficient magistracy; the at first appalling,
but finally futile, objections; the interest with
which it is viewed by distant nations, and the
| effort now required for the eradication of intern
perance, that it may become the law of the
civilized world. The publications, periodicals,
tracts, and agencies of the Society," have been
much as in former years. The Journal of the
Union is now in its nineteenth year. From its
commencement in 1887, it has been conducted
by DR.. Marsh, the Corresponding Secretary.
I Rev. Mr.. Coombs Of Philadelphia, Mr.. Bur-
leigh, Hon. G. w. Sterling, and Rev. DR.. Tying,
offered and made speeches in support of reso-
lulons declaratory of the purposes of the
Union.
AMERICAN SWEDENBORGIAN SOCIETY.
The Second Anniversary of the Sweden
borgian Printing and Publishing Society was