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Vermont Colonization soeistv.

We have given heret fore a brief u0t'-, rf tae
Colonization Society meeting For the following
fuller report We are iu1e tea % e Secretary Cd tie
Society
TIE 5lst anniversary Of ;his so1ie-7 was held
in the capitol, in Montpelier on Thursday e-sn-
ing, October 10Th, Hon. Daniel Baldwin. Pres-
dent 10 the absence Of the Chaplain. the Sc
cretsry, by request, read a portion Of Scripture
and offered prayer
The Treasurer, Gee. W Scott. Es4, beng sb-
sent from the State, the Secretary, Rev J. X.
Converse. inside statement Of the finances Of
the Society, showing that =, 17s.ss had been
collected in the State ani paid over 70 the parent
society, $500 Of this sum being legacy from
lhe estate Of Mrs Ann C. Burueu of Woodstock.
Extracts were then read from the Report Of the
Board Of Managers showing encouraging success
in the labors Of the year, that the cause still las
the sympsthes Of its Old friends, and is constant
ly acquiring new friends from the ranks Of those
who formerly opposed it OF stood aloof from II.
The annual address was delivered by the Hon.
J. Il. B Lltrobe Of Baltimore, President of the
American Colonization Society The address
Was rich in facts, arguments. snd 10 Illustrations
Of his subject
The speaker said lis sympathies had been
identified with colonization for fifty years or
more, that mis- recollection went back to the orr
gin of the society in 1916, that at about that
date he was riding home from Washington %
Georgetown on horseback one evening when he
saw lights in Georgetown church with boyish
curiosity he tied his horse to post and wen. In,
saw quite an assembly, lighted up By dim taliow
candles in tin sconces. and found Francis s.
Key was talking about Africs and some plan Of
sending negroes there What that plan was he
WAS too young to comprehend.
From the date Of that meeting the speaker
briefly sketched the great events and results m
the nifty yesrs Of colonizng Liberis, till now,
when we see Christian nationality Of col0red
men and women in Africa nationality which
has become a center of attraction TO all the scat
tered children Of the race, and object Of scien-
tiic and commercial interest to all the polished
nations Of the world The scheme Of colonization
had been wonderful in execution. With humble
means, without the patronage Of the government,
it has built up republic holding An honorable
rank in the family Of nations, with churches snd
schools. with free institutions modelled upon our
own whose agencies are at work, not for the
welfare of one people only, out for two quarters
Of the globe benefting Americs, blessing Afr
c., obviating in the one an otherwise lnevlia-
bic strife and securing in the other the fulhlment
Of prophecy
The speaker alluded TO the prejuices former
ly indulge by many people against colonization,
and showed clearly how tines prejudices arose
from msconception, but they had fallen with the
fall Of slavery lie showed that the real aim Of
the founders was TO encourage emancipation
D q ia, g.
BE spoke of the active interest the State of
Maryland had taken in this work that her
Legislature had appropriated from her treasury
$3.50, 900 within the last twenty or thirty years,
towards planting the Msrylsnd colony. which is
now part of the Republic He sad the work
Of colonization has been going on faster since
the war thsn ever before that 2,345 have emf
grated during the last four years. He predicted
a triumphant future for this enterprise, ami
showed that causes are now operating which
point to such future.
He asked, what are the causes hist lead 20
emigrationl
Colonization depends on the attractions or 4
ueir home and the repuisiOns Of the old. Both
these causes are now acting upon the freedmen
What led to the peopleing Of California Gold
was found there. Who emigrated 20 California
The courageous, the enterprising.
.tNt leu 10 inc peopieins VI -huSN' go"
was iound there. Now, gold has been lately
found in Liberia
what brings 100000 Of the Irish yearly to
A@ericA! 1t is the repulsiOns Of the old home
anu the attractions of the new. These causes,
WIN proved education, will ere long carry the
freedmen to Liberia, IS the Irish and Germans
are no" brought to this country.
This outline Of Mr. L.trobe's address does
not do it justice, it merely indicate. some of the
topics which were very happily and forcibly
I presented.
The officers OF the society for the ensuing year
are follows
| President-Hon. Daniel Baldwin.
e-Presdents-Hon. Jno. Gregory Smith.
Hon. Samuel H. Kellogg.
Secretary-Rev. J. X. Converse
Tressurer-Geo. W. Scott, ESQ
Auditor-Samuel Wells, Esq.
Mansgers-Freeman Reyes, Esq John n.
Pomeroy, Esq, Rev. William H. Lord, D. D.,
Hon. Paul Dillingham;, johnson Hardy, ESQ,
Hon. John B. Page, A. 7. Thurston, Esq, Hon.
E.P. Walton. Gen. J. I. Phelps. Rev. Austin
Haren, Rev. Franklin Butler
Mr.. Allen Vaughan Of Bridgewater, raised on