National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-01-22
LIBERIA.
AMERICAN COLONIZATION SoclEI,

The flfty-BlNth annual meeting Of the Amer
lean Colonization society was held at the Fourth
Presbyterian church last night, and attracted a
highly intelligent though not large audience.
At 100 O'Clock the meeting was called to order
by Mr.. Latrobe, the president, and after an i'm.
pressiye prayer ny Rev. j. G. Smith, the president
made the following remarks;
REMARKS OF THE PRESIDENT.
Ladies' and gentlemen, members OF the COOni-
zatiDn society: We meet tonight to celebrate the
| nny-siNth anniversary Of the American COLOMBIA
| ton Society. Perhaps we have never met before
| under circumstances more worthy OF remark
| We are pcfinltted TO understand more clearly
now than ever what has been aud Il TO be our
share In the mighty work Of slow Development
| the fulnllment OF prOphCsy In the ChfistHnlSa
! ton Of Africa. Towards this unconscious and
unRppreCiatcd agencies have for years been
| surely aud steadily advancing. who would have
! imagined, for instance, that slavery Itself, nov
/ so happily at an cud, would ever come to he re.
| garded as having been from IT, very beginning
! among the most important OF them all. And yet,
may It not he truly said that TO slavery AtfcH
will In the future be indebted for whole nation
Of missionaries to aid IN the accompaniment Of
the grand result,
Climate rendering this hopeless a. the work Of
white men II must be for black men to perform IL,
and slavery, which has given to the latter Chris
tanity In our midst, has made that possible
been impossible without II. For the vanguard,
ts u were, OF this missionary host our society
has effected a landing In Africa In founding the
republic Of Liberia.
Whatever other influences. social or political
may be consequent upon our worn, we are, Al
least, now permitted to see, more clearly than
before, this one Of its agencies for the future
COtemporanc"us with the growth OF Liberia
there has grown up keeping pace with H. an IN.
terest ~ Africa that illuminated with me Herald
Throughout the civilized world the lberalHy Of
the principal and the energy Of the ageut have
made Africa prominent, for the time being, In all
mems minds.
The exploration OF Denham and Clapporton,
half q century ago, caused temporary feeling
TO which this society was largely Indebted fof
the contributions that enabled II 10 NJ out it,
| earlier expeditions.
Then came the voyages of the LanicrH down
the Niger to stimulate u tagging interest. Then,
after many years, came Barth, whose pOnderous
volume had an influence IN the same direction;
nor were Du Chaillu and his norillo story without
| their effect In keeping AfriCa before the public
eye. Then came LivingstOnes march from sea to
sea within the tropics; then Grant and Spoke;
and then Baker, the companiOnshlp Of whose wife
made his narrative as attractive as romance,
Then came the interest caused by the silence OF
Livingstone, and, finally his discovery, through
the efforts OF an individual OF another people,
when the nation OF the lost traveller held care
fully or cautiously AlOOf. Call the Hcrdifs efforts
by what sighting name men may, they have iden-
titled their author with the story Of \ continent.
And, now, we have all England reused, and
scarcely a newspaper appears that has not some.
thing In 1t about Africa. Sir Barle frcre Is sent
out by the British Government on q mission
touching the slave trade on the Eastern coast,
and we have scarcely read the announcement OF
the fact before we lind that the sultan Of ZanZi.
bar has Just promised the commander Of an
American frigate to refrain from and discourage
the inhuman franc. Then come to us accounts
Of the thousands whom the diamond telds OF
, southern Africa have attracted from England,
and now the communication, partially opened
between MOnTUyla and the gold region about
Musartlie, suggests the thought Of an emigration
to Liberia at no distant day not unlike that which
has peOplcd California; aud still later, perhaps,
like that which brings Ireland and Germany to
: America.
And, during all this time what has been doing
Nagifb Nha at hRU Ia 80
' founded "Sahara, or Great Desert, was the name
: given by geOgraphers to all the Interior space
! Look now at the map. The names Of might,
many peoples, have enaceh the word "Sahara."
Fifty years ago our only notion almost OF thu
native African was obtained from slave shlI
CarHOes. Now, we know Of partially civilized
= peoples, greedy Of knowledge and most apt Il
$ imbibe lt-pcOples, too, among whom Is march
Q ing Mohammedanlsm Us the precursor or tn,
u antagonist OF Christianity.
2 slavery! Liberal Africa How different I,
e their aspect now from what II was half Il cen
fury ago! Colonization, too, owing It's existence
/, to so many and such various motives. Thu
Il stakeholder, the nOi-savehOler, the Teligionlst
8 the statesman, the politician, even, at season.
= advocating II and contributing To Its treasury
Colonization, living from hand to mouth iron
day TO day, but living still, working still, sue
r ceedlng still, hoping still, believing still, ant
now, In the light Of events, seeing clearly betor
II one great object, Ut least, worthy most wor
thy OF living for, the building up Of a missnnsr
nation, becoming more patent day by dsy, y
tne IhflstlAnlty OF continent by the only agent
y competent to the task--the fulnllment Of pToPh
h esy, to which all that has been alluded to ma
been directly AMI inevitably tending.
II Hence II Is that have felt justified In sayin
y that, perhaps, no meeting Of our society hereto
u fore has been held under circumstances NOR
remarkable that those that this night SURROUND Us
n At the conclusion OF his remarks the seCrt
c tary, Mr.. Coppinger, read the annual report, 0
Is which the following Is an abstract:
u Abstract Of the Fifiy sixth Annual Repor,
OBITUARY.
During the last year an unusually large nun
her Of the early friends and patrons Of the sorict
have been removed by death. Among them weT
ave vice presidents, Wis Rev. X. Ii. Gurley, il
faithful and eloquent advocate for half centur,
o Rev. Thomas c; Upbam, D, D., Of Maine, an 81
llghtened benetactOr Of this and other like nh
lanthropc institutions; Hon. Ralph I. IngersOI
OF Connecticut, very intelligent and abidln
friend Of the cause; Hon. George z. Port, eS
i Governor OF New Jersey, to whom our prime
pies and objects ever commended thenlselye,
= and DR.. John Bell, Of Philadelphia one of m
founders of the Pennsy wanna Colonization St
q ciety, which was organized In 1920, and almOs
!, TIL his death active and valued member Of il
"a board OF managers.
" FINANCES.
The receipts during the yedr, were: donations
NO,6O3Ig; legacles sl6,92l.I5, and from OthG
y sources 35,sll.0s; making total OF So 3JI. 81
81 The disbursements were f1a,0T5.lS.
EMIGRATION.
Il Our regular fall expedition was dispatched /
W the barque Jasper, from New York Nnve,nbe
~, the emigrants having arrived In that city o
Is yador, from Savannah. They numbered on
hundred and nifty, mostly In families, and wer
a all from the state OF Georgia. Ninety-one chos
~ to locate at Philadelphia, a new settlement a
!" Cape Palmas, and nfty-nine at Arth II EtOn, an In
terror town on the st. Pauls river fifty-siN n
(, ported themselves as communicates In IN
~ Methodist aud Baptist churches, with one u
censed minister Of the gospel. Ninety.twO wer
y twelve years old and upwards; forty were be
u tween twelve and two years, aud eighteen wer
10 under two years OF age. OF the adult males
twenty-five were farmers, and one cooper an,
n one carpenter These one hundred and MI
Il emigr9pts make the whole number cOloniZed b
e the society since the war, 29SI, and total, from
the beginning, OF l4,s9h, exclusive Of b,I22 re
=, captured Africans, which we lnda3cd AMI en-
h abled the Government Of the United States 4
Il settle In discriminating grand total Of 2O5I
persons to whom the society has given homes II
Africa,
/ SATISFIED
$ The barque Z 9TH Rose, which was mentIone,
In the last report Ia have gone to sea from IIamp
T. ton roads, Va, November I, ISL, with two hun
9 dred and forty-nye emigrants, arrived at Mon
:. rOvia after a pleasant passage Of thrty-seveI
a days, Numerous letters have reached us from
= members Of this emigration Of which the I'll
lowing, from Mr.. Jefferson Bracewell, the leade
n OF party Of siNty-elght persons, Is presented
n my family are all well At this time. did no
> lose one OF them In the fever The members o
n my company are all well except one, who Ii no
) now In bed. As soon as could commence farm
ing ! went to work. To-day have about two
. acres In sugar-cane-the most Of II Is hlghe
!, than my head, three In corn, two In rice aud ST.
OF my own raising. have buiH me house, AM
I am building another. would have written 4
y you before this, but wanted to know something
about things here. This Is q good country"
APPLICATIONS.
There exists strong and growing desiT
, among the people OF color to remove to Liberia
i satisfied that they will do better and he NOR
d happy there than anywhere In the United States
, Scarcely week passed during the year that tn
society did not receive one or more application
4 for passage. In February they included ~ resi-
. dents of Georgia, 2li OF Florida, and $50 OF Ala
G hama; aud In March % Of the people Of Nortl
: Carolina, 400 OF South Carolina, and 300 Of GeOr
Z ga, making l,S2T persons In fve Of the Southern
4 States VINO solicited our aid during the tWl
, months named. And since the last COMPANY
: embarked-on the Tth of November, lsI2-wl
have received, In addition to Others q list Of 90
a names from Hawknsvllle, Georgia, earnestly re
Z questlng TO he sent the coming spring; and from
= party OF about 300 persons at House Greek
wilcox county, Georgia, who are making readl
To leave next fall for Liberia. These were al
voluntary and unsolicited, and were mainly
caused by letters which reached the applicant
liz LOT.