Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-10-23

lature of Vermont in 1850, asking Congress
to establish q line of mail steamers between
this country and the Republic Of Liberia
and containing the form of petition to Con
gress for this purpose.
The commerce of Liberia is already large
and is increasing yearly. England, to secure
it, has established line Of steamers touch
ing monthly at Monrovia and Cape Palmas
There are now some 20, 900 Americo-Liberi-
ans, including their descendants, who have
carried our constitution and our republican
principles and planted them on the African
Continent /; and we owe it to these noble
pioneers, to give them the means of commu-
nication with their friends and factors here.
| This subject was referred to a committee
consisting of Gen. j. W. Phelps and Rev. j
X. Converse.
The officers elected for the ensuing year
are
President-Hon Daniel Baldwin, Mont
belier.
Vice Presidents-Hon. John G. Smith, St.
Adams Hon Samuel Kellogg, Pittsford.
Secretary-Rev. j. X. Converse, Burling-
ton.
Treasuer-Geo W. Scott, Montpelier
Auditor-Samuel Wells, Montpelier.
Managers-Hon. Paul Dillingham;, Free
man Reyes, Joshua A. Hardy, Rev. George
B. Stafford, Rev. VIM. II. Lord, d. D., James
T. Thurston, Hon. John B. Page, Gen. w
Phelps, Rev. VIM. s. Hazen, Rev. Seth W
Arnold
The public exercises were held Thursday
in the Hall of the House of Representatives,
which was filled with attentive audience.
The President, Hon. Daniel Baldwin, in the
chair. Rev. Leonard Tenney, D. D., read a
portion of scripture and led in prayer.
The report of the Board of Managers was
road hu Row II X This ba,n,r
the fiftieth year from the birth of the coloni-
zation enterprise, he commenced his report,
very happily, with brief review of the half
century. He showed that we have now
well-governed Republic of colored men on
the West Coast of Africa with territory
as large as New England with 10000
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS over five thousand re-
captives, educated and assimilated to Chris
tan habits and received into the bosom of
the State citizens "a republic embracing
800, 900 of the natives. cheerfully obedicnt to
the laws, and who are so far civilized that
they speak the English language, and are
very ambitious :. to become Americans.
The report gave brief notice of the
schools, the Liberia College. with it's faculty
of literally educated colored men, of the ag-
riculture, commerce, the mechanic arts, and
of the churches, with six to eight thousand
communicates, two thousand Of whom are
from the natives.
The Treasurer, George W. Scott, presented
his report, showing that the net donations
for the year, were S ,03l .56,-these mostly
the spontaneous offerings of the friends of
the cause.
The annual address was then delivered by
Gen. j. W. Phelps, Of Brattleboro, who an
ticipated the government, by few weeks, in
the purpose of giving freedom to the slaves,
who came into his camp the Mississippi.
The address was excellent, pertinent to the
occasion, original in plan, and suggestive
of the dangers and duties growing out of the
fact of having two races in our country, both
free, who vet can never become one people
by amalgamation.
The General address was two hours long
but he commanded the close attention of his
audience to a late hour