Y REPORTER.

[OCTOBER 1, 1859.

forth the origin and the objects of the *African Civilization Society*. The limited space at our disposal this month prevents us from recurring to the subject at any great length; but as we take a deep interest in the success of this movement, we feel it to be our duty to call attention to the presence, in this country, of the Rev. T. Bourne, the Corresponding Secretary of the Society, for the purpose of obtaining assistance in carrying out its objects. Our friends will be glad to learn that this Society has been originated by the free coloured people of New York, under the Presidency of the Rev. H. H. Garnett, and is, we believe, the first effort at self-help which they have made. Their position, however, is surrounded by so many difficulties, that although a considerable sum has been raised in their own country for the prosecution of their laudable enterprise, they are compelled to appeal to the friends of Africa in England to aid them. No public meeting has yet been held in London, to submit the objects of the *African Civilization Society* to the people of this country; but, on the 18th August ult., a number of gentlemen interested in the welfare of Africa assembled at the residence of Dr. Hodgkin, 35 Bedford Square, James Bell, Esq. (late M.P. for Guildford) in the chair, to hear a statement from the Rev. T. Bourne concerning the plans and objects of the Association of which he is the Secretary. These were set forth by him with great lucidity and force, and the following resolution was unanimously adopted:

> "Resolved—that this meeting has heard with much interest and satisfaction the statements made by the Rev. T. Bourne concerning the origin, objects, and progress of the *African Civilization Society*, recently established in New York, by the free people of colour, in connection with their anti-slavery and Christian friends. It desires to express its warm interest in the success of his mission to this country, and cordially commend him and the cause to the numerous friends of the enslaved and oppressed, who concur in promoting the extinction of Slavery, and the production of the numerous tropical articles of commerce by free labour, unstained by Slavery, and aiding the Christian civilization of Africa. Also, that a subscription be opened to aid in sending some of the proposed settlers to Yoruba."

With regard to the subscription, it will be remembered, that two pioneering agents, namely, Dr. M. R. Delany, and Robert Campbell, have already gone out to Africa, towards whose expenses a sum of money was subscribed, which may be regarded as the commencement of the subscription-list to be *hereafter* devoted to carrying out the Society's objects. We hope it will be considerably extended, and shall be glad to answer any communications, or receive any additional sums. Letters may be addressed to

AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY.
IN the June Number of the *Anti-Slavery Reporter* we published an article setting

OCTOBER 1, 1859.]

ANTI-SLAVERY

the Rev. T. Bourne, 27 New Broad Street,
E.C. or to the Secretary of the Anti-Slavery
Society, at the same address.

SUBSCRIPTIONS ALREADY RECEIVED.

<table><thead><tr><th></th><th>£</th><th>s.</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>Samuel Gurney, Esq., M.P., London,</td><td>25</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>H. E. Gurney, Esq., ditto</td><td>25</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>J. Gurney Barclay, Esq., ditto</td><td>25</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>H. Christy, Esq., ditto</td><td>25</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>George Thomas, Esq., Bristol</td><td>5</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Edward Ashworth, Esq.</td><td>5</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Henry Ashworth, Esq.</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Henry Crosfield, Esq.</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td>Samuel Bowley, Esq., Glo'ster</td><td>1</td><td>0</td></tr><tr><td colspan="3">For African Civilization, &c.:</td></tr><tr><td>R. Charleton, Bristol</td><td>3</td><td>3</td></tr><tr><td>Mrs. E. Charleton, ditto</td><td>5</td><td>0</td></tr></tbody></table>

The above was in type for the September Number of the Reporter, but was excluded by the extreme length of the report of the proceedings at the 1st of August Meeting. The excess of our matter from last month obliges us to defer until our next issue, inserting an account of the influential meeting since held at Manchester, for the promotion of the objects of the African Civilization Society.

TRIBUTE TO THE LATE JOSEPH

Y REPORTER.

[OCTOBER 1, 1859.

which it asserted to be untrue when promulgated by the *Anti-Slavery Society*? Governor Hincks has asserted no new "principles." He has merely stated a plain fact, and affirmed that his assertions are the results of his own experience. The simple truth is, the *Times* has altered its opinions, but will not acknowledge that the anti-slavery party was right in asserting precisely similar ones, which it persistently opposed.

"But," observes this uncandid journal, "the reader need not anticipate that the gentleman whose views we are now considering has adopted the political economy of the *Anti-Slavery Society*, or that he would simply urge the planters to raise their wages until the independent negro, carefully protected against all competition, should see fit to accept them." We might cavil at the extremely loose phraseology in which this attack upon the *Anti-Slavery Society* is couched. It is not clear, from the grammatical construction of the sentence, whose "wages" are to be raised. We must, however, assume that the negroes are the persons alluded to, as it is quite clear that the anti-slavery party are accused of a desire to protect them against competition in the labour-market. Now, the *Anti-Slavery Society's* "political economy" consists in the simple enunciation of

We are very willing once more to draw attention
to the subject of complaint in the following letter
from a well-known firm:—

ADULTERATED COTTON.

To the Editor of the Manchester Guardian.

Sir,—The subject of "sandy cotton" has now become of
such vast importance that we consider it the duty of all
parties connected with spinning to make known the result
of their experience. We, therefore, make no apology for
requesting you to publish this note in the *Guardian*, in the
hope that others may follow the example.

The three following bales were taken promiscuously
from a lot of New Orleans cotton :—

No. 1 ... 395lb net, yielded in the lap 337lb; loss, 58lb.
No. 2 ... 700lb " " 343lb; " " 357lb.
No. 3 ... 687lb " " 319lb; " " 368lb.

These facts require no comment from us. We may add
that no inducement in price will again tempt us to touch
"sandy cotton," and if others will act upon the same
determination, the American planters will not long con-
tinue a practice as disreputable as it must in the end be
injurious to their character and interests.—Yours, &c.

WILLM. HOLME AND BROTHER.

Manchester, 27th September, 1859.

COTTON CULTURE IN AFRICA. — THE AFRICAN CIVILISATION SOCIETY.—This Society, whose objects are the Christian civilisation of Africa, the suppression of the slave trade, and the promotion of cotton culture, &c. was organised last year in the city of New York, by a number of the intelligent educated people of colour, conjointly with their anti-slavery friends. They design to promote the welfare of the African race on both sides of the Atlantic, by assisting them to develope the immense commercial resources of Africa. From the discoveries of Barth and Bowen in Central Africa, the fact has been made known that cotton is indigenous to that country, and that it can be cultivated there to any extent. The staple is equal to New Orleans, and may become superior when its culture is properly developed. From the known desire of English manufacturers to find new sources of supply, so as to be partially at least independent of any one nation as the monopolist of cotton culture, the coloured people look to Great Britian for encouragement and sympathy. They feel that while they are aided by British friends to carry out their wishes, they will extend the area of cotton cultivation, and be the means of averting calamities which might involve millions of Englishmen, should a short crop or an insurrection in the United States occur. When it is remembered that in exchange for their cotton, the Africans would require the numberless articles of British manufacture, the immense demand can be computed when it is recollected that there are 80 millions of persons thus to be supplied eventually. To the patriot, as well as the philanthropist and the Christian, the objects of this Society commend themselves as worthy of sympathy and aid. A hitherto depressed people determining to aid themselves, and free their fatherland from slavery and idolatry, would at once command our cordial good-will, but when, as in this case, it must directly benefit us as well as them, we cannot withhold our warmest interest and sympathy.—The Secretary of the Society, Rev. T. Bourne, is now here, and may be addressed to the care of Thomas Clegg, Esq. Corporation-street, Manchester. He would be glad to give any information which may be sought for, relating to the various subjects connected with the movement.—The list of officers comprises some of the leading names of both races in the United States.

CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION IN AFRICA.—
CULTIVATION OF COTTON.

We are always glad to hear of any efforts to spread
the Gospel in Africa, and extend the influence of
Christian institutions there. The African Civilisation
Society of New York proposes to introduce the Gospel
and its civilising influences into Central Africa,
and at the same time promote the cultivation of
cotton, &c., and the development of lawful trade
and commerce as a remedy for the slave trade.
By thus bringing commerce itself into subjection to the
Gospel, they hope to aid in advancing that glorious epoch
when the kingdoms of this world, and all worldly affairs,
shall be made subject to the law of Christ. The objects
of the society are “The Evangelization and civilization
of Africa, and of the descendants of African ancestors in
any portion of the earth, wherever dispersed. Also the
destruction of the African slave trade by the introduc-
tion of lawful commerce and trade into Africa; the
promotion of the growth of cotton and other products
there, whereby the natives may become industrious
producers as well as consumers of articles
of commerce; and, generally, the elevation of
the condition of the coloured population of our own
country, and of other lands.” The Rev. T. Bourne,
the corresponding secretary and foreign agent of the
society, is now in London, and ready to respond to
any invitation to lecture on the Missionary or the anti-
slavery branches of this important movement. He may
be addressed at the Anti Slavery Office, 27, New Broad-
street, where also any donations to the cause may be
sent. It is certain that if cotton can be furnished to
England from Africa, slavery must receive its mortal
blow. If this society can aid in that work it deserves
the warmest support of all Englishmen especially, and
friends of liberty everywhere. It is composed of anti
slavery men of both races, who propose to make free
labour more profitable than slave labour in the cultiva-
tion of cotton. &c., and who desire to give to Africa the
boon of lawful trade, instead of the slave traffic, and
Christian institutions in place of heathen superstition.

Mar 18th, 1889

the Beauty and Cromarty Firths, pass through the site of the
Muir of Ord Markets, close to Strathpeffer Spa, will com-
municate with the extensive back country of Strathglass
and Strathconan, and will come into immediate contact with
the highways leading on the one hand to Easter Ross, Suther-
land, and Caithness, and on the other to Skye and the north-
west of Scotland. It will join the Inverness and Nairn
Railway at Inverness, and by means of this line all the dis-
tricts will be connected with the railway system of the king-
dom, with the Caledonian Canal, and with the harbour of
Inverness." The Master of Lovat is chairman of the pro-
posed company, and the provisional committee includes the
names of all the landed proprietors along the line, with that
of the county member, Sir J. Matheson, Bart., and those of the
members for the Inverness and Wick burghs. In Ross-shire
active measures for carrying on this important undertaking
have already commenced.

THE MINING MARKET.

MONDAY EVENING.

The market for British Mining Shares has been
moderately active to-day. Tamar Consols, Hington
Downs, South Carn Brea, Herodsfoot, and North
Downs firm at quoted prices. The closing quotations
are—East Carn Brea, 3 3¼; East Wheal Russell,
8 8¼; East Wheal Grenville, 6s. 6d. 7s. 6d.; Grambler
and St. Aubyn, 42 44; Herodsfoot, 14¼ ¾; Hington
Downs, 4¼ 5; North Downs, 6¾ 7; North Roskear,
16 17; Providence Mines, 38 39; South Carn Brea,
3¼ ¾; St. Ives Consols, 55 60; Tamar Consols,
27 ¾; Wheal Clifford, 250 255; Wheal Grenville,
3¾ 4; Wheal Margaret, 51 53; Wheal Trelawney,
27 ⅜ 28 ⅓.

On the Stock Exchange the market was very dull,
the only transaction being in Alfred Consols, at 3½.

In Foreign Mines a small amount of business was
done at the following prices :—Fortuna, ⅔; Mariquita,
⅔; United Mexican, 2⅝.

The brokers' quotations are—Wheal Harriett, 15s.
17s. 6d.; Wheal Kitty St. Agnes, 3¼ ¾; Gawton,
8s. 6d. 10s.; Wheal Edward, 35s. 40s.; Kelly Bray,
2¾ 3; St. Day United, 20s.

The following reports have been received :—

WHEAL EDWARD.—"South lode: The lode in the 81 east is about 3 feet wide, yielding good stones of ore. The lode in the 81 west is 4 feet wide, of much the same appearance as last reported. The lode in the winze sinking below the 61 east is worth 307. per fathom for 12 feet long. The lode in the 61 east is looking better; it is now from 3½ to 4 feet wide, worth 2 tons of good ore per fathom. North lode: The ground in the diagonal shaft sinking below the 82 is easier for progress; here we continue to sink by the side of the lode."

ST. DAY UNITED.—"Trussell's shaft sinking below the 144-fm. level the lode is 2 feet wide, producing stones of ore. In the 144 end east the lode is 2½ feet wide, producing from 3 to 4 tons of ore per fathom, and promising for further improvement. In the stope in the back of 144 fm.-level east of the shaft the lode is 3 feet wide, and producing 3 tons of ore per fathom. Billing's shaft sinking below the 144-fm. level the lode is 4 feet wide, worth 607. per fathom. In the 144 end east lode 2 feet wide, worth 71. per fathom. In the 134 end east the lode is 2 feet wide, worth 187. per fathom. In the winze sinking below the 134-fm. level lode 2 feet wide, worth 157. per fathom. Our sampling on Wednesday next will not fall much short of the last."

GREAT WHEAL BUSY.—"100 east of Oxford's shaft, lode
9 feet wide, worth 207. to 307. per fathom for tin and copper;
90 winze, 6 fathoms east of 100 from Oxford's lode, 3 feet
wide, yielding good work for tin and copper; 90 east lode
6 feet wide, worth 127. to 157. per fathom."

KELLY BRAY.—"The lode in the rise in the 95 east is
gradually improving, some large and rich stones of ore having
been met with during the past week, and promising further
improvement. The lode in the winze in the 56 west is 4 feet
wide, and worth 507. per fathom for the length of the winze.
The lode in the stopes in the back of same level is worth
from 167. to 187. per fathom. The lode in the winze in the
bottom of the 45 east is worth 207. per fathom. The tribut

Star 18th May 1859

CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION OF AFRICA.—
COTTON CULTIVATION.

We refer our readers to an interesting account of a
meeting held last week in London, to further a scheme
contemplated by the African Civilisation Society of
New York. The points brought under notice are of
deep importance to Great Britain, and deserve the
thoughtful attention of every Christian patriot.
English philanthropy has long sighed over the
miseries of the enslaved, and still we are supporters
of the execrable system to the extent of 20,000,000,
sterling annually, by purchasing slave-grown cotton.
It has, of course, always been seen that here our
economic interests as a nation exactly accord with our
philanthropy, and that this question of cotton supply
lay at the very root of American slavery, and we have
accordingly sought free labour cotton from any and every
quarter, but with comparatively little success. India
has been tried, but does not yield an eighth of what
we need. Various reasons have prevented a large
supply from India, which may operate for years to
come in like manner. Dr. Livingstone has made the
Zambesi country known to u³, but it must be long
before any considerable supply could come from
thence, owing to its Portuguese ownership, and
the fact that the work to be done there *ab initio*.
Jamaica is also suggested as a cotton-field on very
good grounds; but it is still matter for much congratu-
lation that, at much less distance than either of these
places, a district has been opened for the production
of this essential article of commerce, which promises
an immediate return, if sufficient capital be employed
upon it. Central Africa is made known to us as an
immense cotton region. In every direction, as far
as Messrs. Barth, Bowen, and others have pen-
trated, cotton is found, both wild and cultivated.
The natives grow it, and spin it for their own use.
The position of Yoruba, as the key of Central Africa,
its fertility, the growing civilisation of its people, their
desire for the Gospel, and the adaptation of that
region for cotton, sugar, coffee, rice, &c. all seem to
point out a way for our deliverance from complicity
with American slavery, as well as to enable us to give
the Gospel to many populous tribes of Central Africa.
Cotton is now produced there for the English market,
through the praiseworthy exertions of Thomas Clegg,
Esq., of Manchester. MacGregor Laird, Esq., has for
years endeavoured to promote the navigation of the
Niger, and has now boats running up that river. It is
worthy of note that these late attempts have been
providentially free from the loss of life attending
former expeditions; by a proper use of quinine, the
crews and passengers pass the marshy region near the
mouth with safety. Thus the way seems to have been
preparing for some years for such a movement as the
free coloured people of the United States have set
their hearts upon to aid in evangelising and civilising
their fatherland. We are sure that the present scheme
will be received with hearty good-will by all classes of
Christians in England, and the very moderate
amount needed to enable the New York Society to
send out its first colonists will, no doubt, be speedily
raised. We had intended to enter more at large into
this question of cotton cultivation in connection with
Coolie immigration to the West Indies, but must
postpone further remarks on the subject for the
present.

as non-issued.

"The Minister of the Interior, in concert with his colleagues the Ministers for Foreign Affairs, Algiers, and the Colonies, has order the necessary measures to be taken to insure the immediate execution of the full and entire amnesty granted by the Emperor.

"Nine hundred and twenty-two soldiers, sentenced for various offences, have either been pardoned, or have had the term of their imprisonment commuted."

The Paris correspondent of the *Times* says :—

"No doubt seems to be entertained that yesterday's amnesty is complete and unlimited in all respects, that it passes the sponger over every past offence, and relieves all persons from the action of the law of public safety so long as they shall not have incurred fresh condemnation from the tribunals. The satisfaction it gives is great and general, not only here, but according to a telegraphic correspondence among the majority of the exiles in London and Brussels, who are particularly pleased with the absence of all conditions, and many of the principal of whom, it is said, propose immediately returning to France. The measure, it appears, extends not only to refugees, but to persons suffering banishment in the French penal settlements, and two steamers have started, are on the point of starting, for Algeria and Guiana, in order to bear the good news speedily to the unfortunate men who have at various times been transported thither on account of real or alleged political offences."

Ledru Rolin is not included in the amnesty, because he stands condemned as an accomplice in the attempted assassination of the Emperor by Tibaldi and others.

It is supposed that about 10,000 men transported at various times during the last ten years, will avail themselves of the Emperor's clemency.

The Brussels *Indépendance* reports that General Changarnier does not intend to avail himself of the amnesty.

Louis Blanc and Victor Hugo both refuse to avail themselves of the preferred amnesty, because, they say, that there is no true safety or liberty for them in France so long as the *Loi des suspects* remains unrepealed. All the English papers containing Louis Blanc's letter were seized and not permitted to circulate. Victor Hugo's refusal is couched in the following terms:—

"No one will expect that, so far as I am personally concerned, I should give a moment's attention to the thing called an 'amnesty.' While the state of France remains what it is, my duty will be to protest against it, absolutely, inflexibly, eternally. Faithful to the engagement I have made with my conscience, I shall share to the last the exile of liberty. When liberty returns, I will return.—VICTOR HUGO."

The French journals (with the exception of the Legitimist and Jesuit organs, which are silent on the subject) hail the amnesty most heartily.

The *Moniteur* of Friday contains a decree to the effect that foreign shares and securities may be negotiated at the Bourse after two-fifths of their value have been paid up. Previously it was necessary that seven-tenths should be paid up.

Commands have been distributed to the Marshals of France lately at the head of the army of Italy. Marshal McMahon is appointed to command at Lille, where a large body of troops is to be concentrated. Canrobert, Castellaine, and Baraguay de Hilliers return to their former commands at Nancy, Lyons, and Tours; Niel replaces Bosquet at Toulouse. Marshal Magnan retains his post as Commander-in-Chief of the army of Paris.

The French harvest, although not one of the most productive, will not be much inferior to last year's. The large reserves of old wheat will prevent any exaggerated rise in prices. There will be sufficient corn for home wants.

NAPLES.

Eli Thayer has written to Dr. Benj. Coates a
foreible letter in favor of the projected Coloniza-
tion of Yoruba, or some other inviting portion of
Western Africa, by Afric-Americans, which we
print elsewhere. We have but little to add on the
subject, and that little is as follows:

We believe the civilization and Christianization
of barbarous regions and tribes is mainly to be ef-
fected through Colonization. A missionary, or
even two or three missionary families, can rarely
exert much influence over a thoroughly pagan com-
munity. Traditions, habits, social influences, all
work against the new faith. It is a Christian life
rather than Christian dogmas that assert a superi-
ority over its heathen counterpart that only the
stubbornly blind can gainsay. Show an Indian
or an African tribe or village a rival com-
munity which produces twice or thrice its own
aggregate of the comforts of life, which are dis-
tributed more justly and enjoyed more thoroughly
than those of barbarians can be, and you are very
likely to carry conviction to the general mind that
the religion of this wiser, happier community is
better and diviner, than that whose fruits are thus
strongly and unfavorably contrasted. A truly and
thoroughly Christian city, village or community,
located on the banks of the Niger or Zambesi,
would preach more eloquently and convincingly
than a thousand separate missionaries.

If there are among our American Free Blacks
even One Hundred Thousand who are imbued with
the spirit of heroism, of self-sacrifice, of willing-
ness to labor and suffer for the enfranchisement
and elevation of their Race, then we hold that said
Hundred Thousand ought to draw together and
embark in some enterprise calculated to concen-
trate and fix attention on their devoted efforts.
They may act just as nobly, just as worthily, in
their several spheres of private, humble, isolated
endeavor, yet not effect one-tenth of the good they
might achieve by combined public efforts, contem-
plating some great and useful end. For the latter
not merely give direction to whatever of heroic or
generous impulse may exist in the breasts to which
it appeals; they create and diffuse that impulse,
making heroes of those who would otherwise have
aspired to nothing beyond an easy and comfortable
existence.

*ny Tribune Nov 15, 1858*

Steamboats and Railroads.

TO BOSTON TRAVELERS—COMFORT and SAFETY.—The public are informed that the Old Colony and Fall River Railroad Company have attached to the passenger-cars of their road CREAMER'S PATENT BRAKE OPE-RATOR. This invention (already in use on many of the best managed roads of this country) promotes a degree of security to life and property impossible without it. Railroad Managers who desire to avail themselves of every improvement for the safety of life, are requested to examine this. Every day's observation proves most conclusively that the application of the brakes by hand, while it is as good as can be for ordinary purposes, is of no value in the presence of danger. This Company will furnish these Machines for all the cars of any road, and warrant them to answer the purpose, or no sale.

U. S. R. R. CAR BRAKE CO.

W. C. CREAMER, Secretary,

No. 31 Pine-st., N. Y.

FOR BOSTON and PROVIDENCE via NEWPORT and FALL RIVER.—The splendid and superior steamer METROPOLIS, Capt. Brown, leaves New-York every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY at 5 o'clock p. m., and the EMPIRE STATE, Capt. Brayton, on MONDAY, WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 4 o'clock p. m., from Pier No. 3 N. R.

Hereafter no rooms will be regarded as secured to any applicant until the same shall have been paid for.

Freight to Boston is forwarded through with great dispatch by an Express Freight Train.

WM. BORDEN, Agent, Nos. 70 and 71 West-st.

THE REGULAR MAIL LINE via STONINGTON, for BOSTON and PROVIDENCE.—Inland Route—the shortest and most direct, carrying the Eastern Mail.

The steamers PLYMOUTH ROCK, Capt. Joel Stone, and C. VANDERBILT, Capt. W. H. Frazier, in connection with the STONINGTON and PROVIDENCE and BOSTON and PROVIDENCE RAILROADS, leaving New-York daily (Sundays excepted) from Pier No. 2 North River, first wharf above Battery-place, at 4 o'clock p. m., and Stonington at 8:30 p. m., or on the arrival of the Mail Train which leaves Boston 5:10 p. m.

The C. VANDERBILT from New-York, Monday, Wednesday and Friday; from Stonington, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

The PLYMOUTH ROCK, from New-York, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday; from Stonington, Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Passengers proceed from Stonington per railroad to Providence and Boston, in the Express Mail Train, reaching said places in advance of those by other routes, and in ample time for all the early morning lines, connecting North and East. Passengers that prefer it, remain on board the steamer, enjoy a night's rest undisturbed, breakfast if desired, and leave Stonington in the 7 a. m. train for Providence.

A baggage-master accompanies the steamer and train through each way.

For passage, berths, state-rooms or freight, apply on board the steamer, or at the Freight Office, Pier No. 2 North River, or at the office, No. 10 Battery-place. November 1, 1858.

PEOPLE'S LINE between NEW-YORK, CITY ISLAND, WHITESTONE, NEW-ROCHELLE, and MAMARONECK.—On and after MONDAY, October 25, the steamer ISLAND CITY, Capt. James Vradenburgh, will leave Fulton-Market slip at 3 p. m. Returning, leaves Mamaroneck at 7½ a. m.; New-Rochelle, 8 a. m.; City Island, 8½ a. m., and Whitestone at 8:40 a. m.

TO NEW-HAVEN.—Fare $1; Berths Free.—By ELM CITY, at 5 p. m. On and after Nov. 3, the CHAMPION will leave on TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY, at 11 p. m., from Peck-slip. To Hartford by the GRANITE STATE, every TUESDAY, THURSDAY and SATURDAY, at 4 p. m. RICH'D PECK, Agent.

CENTRAL RAILROAD of NEW-JERSEY—Connecting at New-Hampton with the Delaware, Lacka wanna and Western Railroad, and at Easton with the Lehigh Valley Railroad.

AFRICAN CIVILIZATION.

To the Editor of The N. Y. Tribune.

SIR: In your editorial remarks in to-day's TRIBUNE on the letter of the Hon. Eli Thayer addressed to myself, you give me the title of "Doctor," to which I have no claim—being a merchant.

My pamphlet on the "Cultivation of Cotton in Africa," in reference to the abolition of Slavery in the United States, through the organization of an "African Civilization Society," which induced Mr. Thayer's letter, I now send you.

I may here remark that the "Suggestions" made in that pamphlet have been so favorably received by a large portion of the most intelligent and enterprising of our colored population, that they have already organized an "AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY," as there proposed; and have elected the Rev. Henry Highland Garnett of New-York President, with a number of Vice-Presidents, both white and colored, of known Anti-Slavery sentiments and moral worth. This new movement, conducted chiefly by the colored people themselves, with the aid and encouragement of their white friends, has started with the most flattering prospects, and is received with general favor wherever it has been made known. The deep interest that is taken in the movement by the very worthy President of the Society, with the hearty and zealous co-operation of many others among the intelligent and influential colored men who are determined to do what they can for the elevation of their race, give assurance of a success that must result in great good to this scattered and long neglected people. This noble effort for self-elevation and enfranchisement on their part must commend itself to the entire approval of all the true friends of the race, and of all the advocates of universal liberty.

BENJAMIN COATES.

Philadelphia, Nov. 15, 1858.

NEW YORK STATE FAIR, VIRGINIA STATE FAIR, VIRGINIA STATE
FRANKLIN INSTITUTE FAIR, within 60 days, we have now
and to invite the public to examine our large stock of Scales of
variety, and also to test the principle of a SIX-TUN SCALE,
up on the floor of our store, as well as to examine
**CERTIFICATES OF THEIR SUPERIORITY**

in many of our leading houses.

JOHN & FRANK E. HOWN,
No. 438 Broome-st.,
First door from Broadway.

$200,000 worth of CARPETS!

SACRIFICING!

Crossley's Medallion Velvet CARPETS, $1 50 per yard.
Royal Velvets, $1 12 and $1 25.
Brussels, 75c., 80c. and 90c.; All-Wool Ingrains, 40c. and 50c.
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THE CIVILISATION OF AFRICA.

In another column, in the report of a meeting held in
the Temperance Hall on Tuesday evening, will be found
some interesting details of the nature and aims of a new
organization having for its object the civilisation of
Africa, and the general prosperity and well-being of the
negro race. The claims of the society were brought
under the notice of a Bolton audience by the Rev. T.
Bourne, the corresponding secretary; and he certainly
made out a good case, and proved the society deserving
of public confidence and support. Interesting as all
that relates to Africa must be to everyone who remembers
the grievous wrongs which have been endured, and are
still being endured, by her sable sons,—wrongs inflicted
by nations boasting of their civilisation and their chris-
tianity, the intimate connection which unfortunately

subsists between slavery and our cotton supply renders
the subject doubly interesting to the inhabitants of
manufacturing Lancashire. The society whose claims
we would urge on the favourable consideration of our
readers is one originating among the free people of colour
in New York—native Africans or their descendants; and
they appeal to the sympathies of the civilised and Chris-
tian world for aid to enable them to return to Africa, to
form there industrial settlements, promote the cultivation
of cotton and other products, introduce lawful commerce,
and spread abroad the knowledge and blessings of Chris-
tianity among the benighted tribes to which they belong
or from which they are descended. The scheme is a no-
ble one, and appears to be thoroughly practicable, and
the benefits it is designed and calculated to secure to
Africa and the world are beyond all computation. But
two prominent objects, likely to be attained, are the abo-
lition of the slave trade and slavery, and a cheap and
plentiful supply of the raw material on which our manu-
facturing industry depends. With respect to slavery,
Mr. Bourne proves that it has largely increased, and that
its power has been greatly strengthened, during the last
thirty years—during the very time the agitation against
it has been carried on with the greatest vigour. And
why? Because, during the same period, there has been
in unparalleled increase in the demand for cotton, to sup-
ply the mules and the looms of this busy Lancashire, and
cotton is a product which has not yet been cultivated by
free labour, except in inconsiderable quantities. Our ma-
nufacturing prosperity has really rivetted more firmly
than ever the chains of slavery in the Southern States of
America. And the greater our success the more op-
pressive will be the bondage to which the negroes in Amer-
ica will be reduced. Our prosperity we dare not and
cannot attempt to check; our anti-slavery exertions, side
by side with an increasing manufacturing prosperity,
have been proved nugatory; but the African Civilisation
Society proposes a scheme by which the progress of our
staple manufactures may be secured and increased, and
in proportion to that increase the slave trade and slavery,
at the encounter of which we recoil, be diminished and
finally abolished. Let our readers study for themselves
the statements of Mr. Bourne, and judge of the prac-
ticability of the project for the noble end in view. To us
the scheme appears eminently practical; adapted as well
as designed to secure an almost limitless supply of
cotton, from plains where it is indigenous, at as cheap or
cheaper rates than from New Orleans; and, while ele-
vating morally and spiritually, and advancing in every
element of material progress the tribes that people the
African continent, sapping the foundations of slavery in
America, and wherever else the monster has reared its
head and established its power.
Bolton Chemist
Oct. 1st, 1859

262

ANTI-SLAVERY REPORTER.

[NOVEMBER 1, 1859.]

## AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY OF
NEW YORK.

WE promised in our last Number to give
some account of an influential meeting held
in advocacy of the objects of this Society in
Manchester, in September. From the detailed
report, as given in the Manchester and other
papers, we give extracts, and would be glad
if the plans of this Society were known to all
the friends of the African race in the United
Kingdom.

“ MEETING IN MANCHESTER.

“A meeting, in advocacy of the claims of this Society, was held yesterday afternoon, in the Mayor’s Parlour, Manchester. Malcolm Ross, Esq., occupied the chair; and there were also amongst those present the Revs. Berkeley Addison, M.A.; W’M’Kerrow, D.D.; P. Thomson, M.A.; T. R. Bentley, M.A.; the Hon. C. H. Bartels, West Africa; Mr. Thomas Clegg, Dr. J. Watts, Mr. T. D. Crewdson, and others. After remarks from the Chairman, and a statement by Rev. T. Bourne of the plans and objects of the Society, Thomas Clegg, Esq., proposed the following resolution, which was seconded by Rev. W. M’Kerrow, M.D.:

“‘*Resolved*, that this meeting cordially approves of the objects of the *African Civilization Society*, and recommends it to the favour and support of the people of Great Britain; and that it hails with pleasure this evidence of the determination of the coloured race to engage in the great work of christianizing and civilizing Africa, and also to enter upon the arena of commerce and agriculture for themselves.’

“The Rev. Patrick Thomson, M.A., proposed the next resolution, which was seconded by Rev. Berkeley Addison, M.A., recommending a subscription in behalf of the *African Civilization Society*, and the appointment of a Committee to carry out the resolutions, with power to add to their number.”

The President of this Society is the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, a coloured minister, who is extensively and favourably known throughout Great Britain. Its Vice-Presidents and other officers are of both races, among whom are Rev. Albert Barnes, Robert Lindley Murray, Dillwyn Parrish, William Whipper, Chief Justice Hornblower, George W. Taylor, Rev. J. T. Holly, Rev. E. P. Rogers, Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, Rev. Henry Wilkes, Benjamin Coates, and other well-known philanthropists.

Mr. Garnet is an earnest and patriotic man, who sees clearly what is now needed to complete the effectiveness of anti-slavery efforts under the new issues presented, and unites with many of his race in entering with spirit upon the work of elevating the Africans and their descendants everywhere, so that they may supply the free-labour, which, with God’s blessing, may compete successfully with the slave-grown produce now in such extensive use. From a recent letter we make the following extract:

“New York, Sept. 20, 1859.

“ All we need now is the power to send out men: the men are ready when the money can be obtained. We will not be in haste, but a stone ought to be laid this year upon which to build in the future. Our English friends, above all other people on earth, would, I think, be interested in this great work. England has nobly emancipated and enfranchised my people in her Western Isles, and who knows but that the *same race* shall be instrumental in freeing *her* from her bondage to the slave-grown cotton of America, and, at the same time, carry freedom and the Gospel of our Lord to AFRICA, the dear land of my fathers! Let us keep the precious object ever before us, and pray, labour, and live for its advancement.

“I am, yours truly,

“HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET.”

COLUMBUS AND

NOVEMBER 1, 1859.]

ANTI-SLAVERY REPORTER.

magistrates in British Guiana, shews, upon un-
impeachable evidence, that the utmost a Coolie
labourer can save is twopence a day. Now, the
most industrious Coolie does not work more than
260 days in a year. And a careful analysis of
the amounts taken away by return Coolies cor-
roborates this statement. It is true, that many
take away more than 20l., after completing an
industrial residence of ten years; but the average
amount does not exceed half that sum to each
Coolie, and those who possess more have made
their money by trading.

"What the anti-slavery party assert is, that
in the West Indies the labour-market is not
open; consequently, the rate of wages is not
regulated by the law of supply and demand. It
is a striking fact, that, since emancipation,
wages have diminished in all our West-India
colonies, except, I think, in British Guiana; or,
I am positively

labourers who are superseded in the labour-
market by the immigrants. He does even more
than this, bad as it is, for he holds out promises
to Coolies to induce them to quit their country
for ten years, which promises he does not fulfil.
The evidence of Mr. Caird, the Colonial Immi-
gration Agent-General at Calcutta, is conclusive
on this point. Let Mr. Cave define what he
means by 'a fair command of labour,' and by 'a
well-regulated system of immigration,' and let
him give those who differ from him 'a fair' op-
portunity of learning the real points of difference
between himself and them, before he again dares
to stigmatize as enemies of emancipation persons
who disapprove of the present system of sup-
plying labourers to the West-India colonies. I
make bold to tell Mr. Cave that the day has gone
by when he and his adherents may hope to evade
an open and a thorough discussion of this im-
portant question. They have vilified the anti-
slavery party too much to permit them to rest
until they have completely vindicated their po-
ition and their assertions; and I venture to add,
that justice and reason will ultimately be found
in their side.

"With regard to the leader in the *Times*, to
which I have already referred, it is a specious
opology for Slavery, on economical grounds. We
are told that the slaveowners themselves abolished
the slave-trade because they did not care for the
introduction of any more Africans. Can any
assertion be more untruthful? Like causes pro-
duce like effects. Why, then, did not the Bra-
zilian slaveowners put an end to the traffic
sooner? and why do the Cubans continue it to
this hour? If the slaveowners did not care to
introduce more Africans, will the *Times* con-
descend to inform us why, that we may arrive at
the reasons which influence the Cubans to con-
tinue it? The service to the anti-slavery cause
would be incalculable.

"We are told next, 'that free-labour is not so
advantageous as Slavery to the owners of pro-
perty.' This is reiterating Mr. Cave's proposi-
tion in other words. I can conceive of no general
assertion more damaging to the cause of abo-
lition all over the world; the more especially as
it is false. It is equalled only by the hypocriti-
cal sentiment with which the article concludes.
Were the *Times* sincerely desirous of promoting
the abolition of Slavery, it would not strengthen
the hands of slaveholders by furnishing them
with false arguments and false statements in
favour of the system they uphold, while putting
up prayers for its extinction, which, under such
circumstances, sound like blasphemies. Happily
there is a public opinion in this country, and
happily, too, there are other channels of appealing
to it besides the columns of the *Times*.

"I am, Sir, yours obediently,

"L. A. CHAMEROVZOW.

"27, New Broad Street, Oct. 20."

No. 36, VOL. 2, DEC. 1ST, 1859.]

manger, will neither do it themselves, nor let
others if they can hinder. We honour the
minister of Spitalfields Chapel for acting out
his principles, and letting us see that his sym-
pathies are with *four millions* of human beings
who have only very few to do the work of the
good Samaritan for them, and that he at least
will fearlessly come forward on the side of
poor bleeding, fettered, crushed humanity.

I am ordering a few copies of the *Advocate*,
which I send to friends, and when I hear of
them taking it for themselves shall send mine
to others; and in this way hope to increase
the circulation of such a valuable paper.

Yours sincerely,

H. H.

MAXIMS OF DANIEL WEBSTER ILLUS-
TRATED.

From the Anti-Slavery Standard.

"My public speeches show my opinion to have been in
favour of a proper, efficient, and well-regulated law for the
enfranchisement of passive slaves."

to seek the
shelter of the shadow of Bunker Hill!—the man
who, in the full maturity of his powers, surrendered
the high moral principles which had been the honour
of his manhood, and his only claim to the confi-
dence of Massachusetts—with the deliberate aim
of securing, even at such a cost, the place and
chair of the head of the country, which he too
eagerly hoped would be given to him by the slave
power in reward for his recreancy to the cause of
freedom, and his denial of the rights of men.

I understand that petitions are in circulation in
every part of the State for the peaceable removal of
the bronze statue. The reproach of its erection
can be wiped away only by the promptness of its
removal. If Webster has dishonoured Massachu-
setts, Massachusetts now dishonours herself in
honouring him.

This petition for removal, whether granted or
not, affords the most significant rebuke which the
people could give to the treachery and recreancy of
an ambitious statesman, who, for the sake of his
own advancement to power, betrayed the cause of
justice and freedom, and attempted to elevate him-
self by treading under his feet his fellow-man, who
were equally with himself the children of God!
Let every citizen who has a high and noble love of
freedom sign the petition; let the statue be taken
quietly down; and let the buried honour of the
Commonwealth arise from under it.

THE WEBSTER STATUE.

From the National Anti-Slavery Standard.

THEY set up a statue to Daniel Webster at Boston the other day. Some say it is ugly, other some, (though few,) that it is altogether lovely. Its aesthetic merits, however, are nothing to the purpose of this discourse. It matters not whether it be comely as his fair renown, when, in the fresh prime of his years, he thundered against the slave trade at Plymouth, on the 22nd of December, 1820, (the moment of his life on which all his eulogists on the day of Inauguration, endeavoured, in their various measures of oratoric art, to fix the thoughts of their hearers,) or whether it be as ugly as his plumed and tattered fame, when he erected slave-hunting into the first of a freeman's duties on the Seventh of March, 1850, at Washington. It is erected on the grounds of Massachusetts, and it must be received, for the present, as a sign that he is the man whom Massachusetts most delights to honour of all her sons, native, or by hospitable adoption. It was eagerly accepted by the Republican Governor of that State—who hopes to exchange that dignity for the highest in the nation, soon—and his acceptance confirmed, without objection or remonstrance, by a republican legislature. This is what gives significance to the event—this is what puts the breath of life into the bronze, and makes the Man of the Seventh of March, though dead, yet to speak with most miraculous organ. Elsewhere and otherwise it would have been of inconsiderable moment. Had the city* which sent Anthony Burns back to slavery, with tuck of drum and blare of trumpet, in swift obedience to the injunction of him whom she most loved to honour†—had Boston set up the statue on its municipal soil, there had been a fitness between the act and the place, which would have silenced criticism. But that Massachusetts, who, as a State has been cried up as the foremost in the

ering treasonable.

"We call on Massachusetts to discharge that DUTY [the
catching of fugitive slaves] as an affair of HIGH MORALS
AND HIGH PRINCIPLES. The question now is, whether she will
conquer her PREDICATES! Any man can perform an agreeable
duty; it is not every man who can perform a disagreeable
duty."—Webster's 7th of March Speech."

Some time ago—yes, so long ago as the cold
weather of Christmas—a poor slave-woman at-
tempted, by the aid of her husband, who was a free
man, to escape from bondage with her two little
children, and to cross the Chesapeake Bay in an
open boat. Shortly after they set sail, a violent
north-west wind forced them to go ashore at Anna-
polis. The little weather-beaten party having a
suspicious look, a project was immediately set on
foot to arrest and throw them into jail. The hus-
band's sagacious eye was keen enough to see the
trap before he fell into it. He hurried his wife and
children into the boat, and, notwithstanding the
weather, embarked. The storm and cold increased,
and their fear increased with it. They trembled at
the approach of landing a second time on an inhos-

* Boston.

† Daniel Webster.

From the Christian Advocate and Journal.

## AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY.

GMR. EDITOR:—In a recent letter from Rev. T. Bourne to the President of our Society, he says: "Lord Alfred Churchill is now developing a scheme for a joint-stock company, with a large capital, and told me to tell you, and through you your people, that they shall be assisted to carry out their designs. Let colored men arouse; England is ready to back them, as Sir Culling Eardly said, 'with a million pounds sterling, all in good time.'"

The following is an extract from Sir Culling's letter: "Your African Civilization Society seems to me like a bow in the cloud—a bow of peace to Europe and America, as well as to the poor Africans. I wish you would oblige me by saying this to the honored President of your Society. I rejoice to find that the scheme commends itself to experienced and early advocates of the negro. You will kindly communicate this to your President and Committee in the States, with my best wishes for their enterprise."

The valley of the Niger presents a most important and inviting field for the formation of Christian industrial settlements, and we are anxious to enter this open door, carrying the blessings of the Gospel and Christian civilization to millions now inviting us, and stretching out their hands to welcome us among them.

Over seventy enterprising, intelligent, virtuous, and pious persons are waiting, with deep anxiety, for our Society to send them to the Yoruba country; among them are school-teachers, preachers of the Gospel, physicians, mechanics of all kinds, farmers, and those who have a thorough knowledge of the cultivation of cotton and the sugar-cane.

Must we depend upon British philanthropy for the aid necessary to commence to carry on this benevolent enterprise? Will not Christians and philanthropists in America give us a helping hand in this great work, the Christian civilization of Africa? Twenty-five thousand dollars are needed, and can be most judiciously applied in aiding the numbers now ready to engage as pioneers in the work of founding an African Christian nationality on the banks of the Niger.

Kind reader, look in upon Africa. See a hundred and fifty million looking up to you, and reaching out their hands, imploring help. And what will you do? Will you send your gift in aid of this enterprise to our treasurer, Robert Lindly Murray, Esq., 65 Broad street, New-York? For the want of this those enterprising colored families, who have it in their hearts to do good in Africa, must be compelled to give up the cherished desire of their souls. Will you help them?

The secretary will be in the office between the hours of eleven A. M. and two P. M.

A. A. CONSTANTINE, Cor. Sec.

23 Bible House, New-York, April 27, 1860.

First Engineer, William Smith; Second Engineer, Andrew Ryers; Firemen, Horace Hawley, John H. Creeper; Seamen, M. Hays, Andrew Kent.

The weather was delightfully calm and pleasant for nearly three days after her departure, and then became stormy for four days. By the officers of the Quaker City, which came from Hawaii, we learn that the fine weather continued in the Gulf Stream for four days after the Grosvenor's departure. If she is prospered on her voyage, we hope before the close of July to hear of her safe arrival in Liberia. It required courage and self-reliance to undertake to convey so small a side-paddle-wheel steamer over the ocean, but we doubt not that all that courage, skill, and fidelity can do to accomplish the purpose will be done by her brave and experienced commander.

## THE SLAVE-TRADE.

Again we have this monster evil brought before us as a reality, and not a fancy.

In this city a suspected slaver is allowed, by the negligence or guilty connivance of the public authorities, to escape, and probably she is now well on her voyage, to return freighted with victims of violence and fraud. Scarcely has the first blush of indignation passed, that a crime so monstrous should be abetted by public functionaries, when we have brought into our ports the bark Wildfire, loaded with five hundred poor victims of African barbarism and American avarice. Why does not an indignant cry of horror resound throughout the land? Why does not the President recommend more stringent legislation? Why is there not a law enacted to enable British steamers to over-haul the lawless men who abuse our flag to screen piracy? Alas! the violence of party is so great, that all action is paralyzed.

As a nation and a government, we seem to have no strength to vindicate the honor of our flag, or the majesty of our laws.

If, however, such is the condition of our government, let the Christian and humane with increasing earnestness press forward the Colonization work, and by occupying new points of the coast, rear a bulwark against this onslaught of iniquity.

BISHOP PAYNE, of the Episcopal Church in Africa, after spending some time in visiting the churches, seeking aid, is obliged to return without it. The *Episcopal Recorder*, in announcing this fact, indignantly exclaims: "Five thousand white men are laboring for money on the African coast. Climate deters them not, nor an inhospitable grave. But the Church can find no

DEC. 13, 1860.]

BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY,
BIBLE HOUSE, ASTOR PLACE,
NEW YORK, Dec. 1, 1860.

We earnestly invite the attention of the friends of Home
Missions to the following statements respecting the
financial condition of this Society, and the wants of its
missionaries.

MILTON BADGER,
DAVID B. COE,
DANIEL P. NOYES,

Secretaries.

Financial Condition of the Society.

An appeal was made in *The Home Missionary* for November to the urgent wants of the missionaries of this Society. It is due to them, and to the patrons of the Society, that we should now state more fully its present financial condition.

It commenced its current fiscal year with an empty
Treasury and a large debt to its missionaries. Since that
time the Committee have practiced the most rigid econ-
omy in their expenditures. They have advanced with
great caution, and in some cases have declined to enter
into the new fields that have been opened before them.
To nearly all the churches previously aided, they have
granted smaller sums than they needed and sought.
 reduction we are sorry to say, has resulted.

[DEC. 13, 1860.]

noticeable:—that slavery among the Africans is less
barbarous and degrading than in this country; and
that the cotton raised by free labor in Africa, will
more than compete in the Liverpool market with the
cotton shipped from New Orleans. Mr. Campbell
exhibited specimens of the natural productions of
the country, and of native manufactures.

On motion of Dr. Thompson, the thanks of the So-ciety were rendered to Mr. Campbell for his instruc-tive and valuable address, and Mr. C. was then highly complimented by Rev. Dr. Hawks, President of the Society. Lord Brougham himself would have been gratified at the reception given by an American Scientific society to the companion of Dr. Delaney. Men of science in this country, whatever their politi-cal affinities, know how to respect intelligence and character, wherever found.

We bespeak for Mr. Campbell's little volume a wide
sale; first, because of its intrinsic value, and, also,
because its avails will enable Mr. C. to remove his
family to Central Africa, on a mission of civilization.

[SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1861.]

Scraps from Punch.

**SUPPORT IN SICKNESS.**—The attention of the pro-
vident is due to a notification, announcing a
'NEW FEATURE IN ASSURANCE.'—10s. per week allowed
in cases of sickness for every £100 assured in the Pru-
dential Assurance Association, London, or sickness
allowance granted without assurance.'

The Prudential Assurance Association is most ad-
vantageously situated. In the very heart of the
City, and within an easy walk of Guildhall and the
Mansion House, it lies quite in the way of the Cor-
poration. How very convenient for gentlemen who
have such good reason, and so much occasion, as the
Aldermen and Common Councilmen have, for in-
suring themselves against sickness! Considering how
freely thay indulge in the pleasures of the civic table,
they must see what a fine thing it is for them to be
able to step into an office, and for a trifle, secure an
allowance of 10s. a-week whenever they are sick.

**MISTAKEN IDENTITY.**—We are authorised to state
that the Cabinet of Curiosities which is just now
being advertised, has no connection with the Cabinet
over which Lord Palmerston has the honour to pre-
side. We may add, the curiosities in this, his Lord-
ship's Cabinet, are most of them exhibited in their
proper places, on what are in St. Stephen's known as
'Government nights.'

WHAT THE ORACLE OF THE TUILERIES HAS JUST

SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1861.

against slavery, would be that of free labour
in providing an almost-boundless supply of cotton
from regions hitherto neglected. The supineness of
England had arisen from an unwillingness to dis-
turb the commercial relations with the Southern
States of America. It was now seen that slavery
could afford no solid basis for capital and for self-
preservation. Other sources must be opened. Pro-
videntially, the way was prepared. The colonies
formed by the free negroes at Sierra Leone
and Liberia indicated, on a limited scale,
what might be accomplished. Mr. Bourne
here, from a map of Africa, showed its mar-
vellous capabilities, and argued on the ground
of humanity, justice, philanthropy, and religion, the
prosecution of this important work.

After some observations from Rev. G. Rose, Mr.
Sarrell, Mr. Ralston, and Dr. Waddington, in com-
mendation of Mr. Bourne, and expressive of
sympathy with him in the trials he had experienced
in England as the pioneer of the African Aid
Society, a vote of thanks was passed with acclama-
tion to the lecturer and the president of the evening.
Dr. Waddington intimated that at Mr. Layard's
lecture, next Wednesday evening, the door would
be opened at a quarter to seven to holders of tickets.

THE CIVILISATION OF AFRICA.

subsists between slavery and our cotton supply renders the subject doubly interesting to the inhabitants of manufacturing Lancashire. The society whose claims we would urge on the favourable consideration of our readers is one originating among the free people of colour in New York—native Africans or their descendants; and they appeal to the sympathies of the civilised and Christian world for aid to enable them to return to Africa, to form there industrial settlements, promote the cultivation of cotton and other products, introduce lawful commerce, and spread abroad the knowledge and blessings of Christianity among the benighted tribes to which they belong or from which they are descended. The scheme is a notable one, and appears to be thoroughly practicable, and the benefits it is designed and calculated to secure to Africa and the world are beyond all computation. But two prominent objects, likely to be attained, are the abolition of the slave trade and slavery, and a cheap and plentiful supply of the raw material on which our manufacturing industry depends. With respect to slavery, Mr. Bourne proves that it has largely increased, and that its power has been greatly strengthened, during the last thirty years—during the very time the agitation against it has been carried on with the greatest vigour. And why? Because, during the same period, there has been in unparalleled increase in the demand for cotton, to supply the mules and the looms of this busy Lancashire, and cotton is a product which has not yet been cultivated by free labour, except in inconsiderable quantities. Our manufacturing prosperity has really rivetted more firmly than ever the chains of slavery in the Southern States of America. And the greater our success the more impressive will be the bondage to which the negroes in America will be reduced. Our prosperity we dare not and cannot attempt to check; our anti-slavery exertions, side by side with an increasing manufacturing prosperity, have been proved nugatory; but the African Civilisation Society proposes a scheme by which the progress of our staple manufactures may be secured and increased, and in proportion to that increase the slave trade and slavery, at the encounter of which we recoil, be diminished and finally abolished. Let our readers study for themselves the statements of Mr. Bourne, and judge of the practicality of the project for the noble end in view. To us the scheme appears eminently practical; adapted as well as designed to secure an almost limitless supply of cotton, from plains where it is indigenous, at as cheap or cheaper rates than from New Orleans; and, while elevating morally and spiritually, and advancing in every element of material progress the tribes that people the African continent, sapping the foundations of slavery in America, and wherever else the monster has reared its head and established its power.

The Bolton Chronicle

Oct 1-1597

MARKETS FOR MANUFACTURES

MANCHESTER, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13.

Yesterday, several houses in this city received telegraphic intimations of the state of the Calcutta import market up to the 8th and 9th of August. A further decline in prices had taken place; say, in yarns nearly ½d. per lb; in madapollams, 1½d; jacconets, 1½d, to 3d; and shirtings, 3d, to 4½d. per piece. All our staples were lower. In one telegraph which we have seen the expressions made use of imply an unfavourable opinion as to the prospects of business.

The effect of these advices, and of the disaster we have suffered in China, is to increase the caution, and check the intended operations of merchants, whether connected with the quarters referred to or with other parts of the East.

But, at the same time, we have accounts of a further improvement in the Bombay market as regards all our products, and of an increase of business, with better prices, in raw cotton.

The latter reports modify in some degree the effects of the former; so that producers for the East are not inclined to accept the offers of ¼d. per lb less for yarns, and 1½d. to 3d. per piece less for cloths, which are offered by merchants connected with Bombay and with the minor markets of India.

Nearly all other classes of buyers are, for the moment, influenced in their action by the above causes, so as to show more of caution than before.

The balance of result is a day's business of very small amount, with some abatement of the previous stiffness or hardening tendency of prices, more especially as regards yarns, without, however, any want of confidence in the substantial steadiness of the market.

Articles which are hardly at all subjected to the influences referred to show undiminished strength to-day; viz. Bolton 60's to 80's single yarns, and the finer counts of single and double. Even the spinnings for Blackburn are exceedingly firm.

The free people of colour in New York, aided by many distinguished American citizens, have established an association called the "African Civilisation Society," with the view of civilising and Christianising the various tribes from which they have sprung. We notice this undertaking here more especially because it is likely to become a means of promoting and improving the cultivation of raw materials for the manufactures of the Western world, and particularly that of cotton-wool. The list of honorary officers—President, Vice-Presidents, Treasurer, and Directors—is composed of most influential names among the upper classes

In another column, we give a report of a meeting of colored persons, held recently, to discuss the subject of EMIGRATION, and the formation of a nationality of their own. We cannot blame these people for meeting to discuss the practicability of a general movement towards a separate nationality of their own. Among the speeches, it will be noticed that Central America, South America, and Hayti, were indicated as points of emigration. As an evidence of the growing independence manifested of late among some of the colored citizens of the United States, it is worthy of notice that, when it was discovered that T. M. Chester, a young Liberian lawyer, was present at the meeting, he was invited to speak, and thus the Republic of Liberia was also presented as a suitable location for the enterprising men of color of the United States. We call attention to the newly discovered country of Yoruba, which has been brought prominently before the public through the efforts of the zealous missionary, Bowen, in his work on Central Africa. We commend that interesting region to the attention of those who are discussing this question. In our opinion it presents many points of great interest both for the present and the future. There are several reasons why Yoruba would be a better locality than others, and specified among them are the capacities for cotton cultivation; room for indefinite expansion; place for the establishment of a Christian nationality, besides the development of commerce and agriculture to an unlimited extent. Emigration to Yoruba would soon pay a handsome return on the outfit. We are glad to notice that such men as Messrs. Garnet, Wilson, Holley and Thompson are engaged in these discussions, as the fact assures us, that thoughtful minds among the colored people may yet work out a harmonious solution of their destiny. We see no reason to hinder the establishment of an African-American nationality, which in time may take rank among the nations of the earth.

With such an object in view, a general stimulus might be given to the whole body of our colored citizens at the North. Here would be a prize worth working for. Instead of resigning themselves slugsghly to their fate, young colored men and women would be toiling to secure mental lore to fit them for high positions in such a nation. Law, medicine, theology, arts and sciences, would all be studied and acquired, to fit men and women for their ennobling positions. We wish success to all efforts to elevate the colored race, either as individuals or as a people.

From the Society's Bible Readers making known the results of such labor for the month; reporting 3,948 visits to families, and distributing 382 copies of Scriptures; inducing 370 persons to attend church; carrying 118 children to Sunday School; visiting 300 vessels; 59 conversions and 33 baptisms. From the Annual Report for 1858, it appears that nearly 2,000,000 Bibles have been put into circulation by the Society since its organization in 1833.

### INSTALLATIONS.
—A Committee of Newark Presbyterian, appointed for that purpose, repaired to the city of Paterson, N. J., on the 4th of May, to install the Rev. E. C. Chisholm over the Second Presbyterian church, and the Rev. Geo. C. Goehring over the German Presbyterian church. The exercises were attended in the Second Presbyterian church, and both pastors were installed at the same time. Dr. Wilson preached the sermon; Dr. Rowland presided, and put the constitutional questions; Rev William Mitchell offered the prayer; Dr. Few Smith gave the charge to the pastors; and Rev. Mr. Seymour, of Bloomfield, gave the charge to the people. These services were all of a high order; and the prospects of both congregations are uncom monly promising. God has been smiling upon these churches for past months.

### A CASE OF CONSCIENCE.
—A well known merchant of this city, Mr. —, a few days since, in the Fulton street noonday prayer meeting, exhorted all present to carry their religion into their stores, counting rooms and workshops, and to transact all their business upon Christian principles. During the afternoon of that day he was called upon by a manufacturer from the country, who said that he had attended that meeting, that he was a profess of religion, and had been supplying Mr. — with his manufactures for several years, that he had been in the habit of charging Mr. — more than he did some other houses, but he was sorry for it and had come to make restitution!

—The annual meeting of the city of London, in connection with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, has been held, the Lord Mayor presiding on the occasion. The Bishop of Pennsylvania (Dr. Potter) was present, besides the Bishops of London, Chichester, Oxford, and Lincoln, a large body of the metropolitan clergy, Sir James Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, Mr. J. G. Hubbard, and many other influential members of the community. The report stated that the funds amounted to about £80,000 per annum, and the special funds to £13,200, giving an aggregate of £93,200. The increase under the head of subscriptions and collections was £5,000 above the corresponding items in the preceding year. The funds for the extension of Indian Missions (part of which is included in the receipts of 1857) now amounts to £17,000.

### DEDICATION IN CHICAGO.
—The "Railroad Chapel," so called, a neat structure, erected by the Young Men's Mission Association of the First Presbyterian church, on the depot grounds of the Chicago and Rock Island and Michigan Southern Railroads, and fronting on Griswold street, was dedicated July 1st. Dr. Curtis preached on the occasion.

### PERPETUATION OF A MISSIONARY.
—We have reason to believe that the report of the insulting and

THAYER ON AFRICAN COLONIZATION.

WORCESTER, Oct. 26, 1858.

DEAR SIR: I have read with very great interest the paragraph on "African Colonization," which you were so kind as to send me. You have taken hold of a practical plan, which, if persistently and discreetly directed, will work out the results which you anticipate. It will do more to make "Ethiopia stretch forth her hands" in Christian freedom than all other agencies which have been applied or thought of. It is not for the human mind to measure or fully apprehend the blessings which this plan has in store for the human race, by speedily effecting the political, social and Christian regeneration of a continent.

I hope that we are now in a fair way to make progress, by quitting the easy chairs of sentimentalism and going forth into the field of action—"noble, sub-line, god-like action."

We are now to make use of the mighty physical power of Christianity to subdue the world, and to make the kingdom thereof "the kingdoms of our Lord." We are to teach that "godliness is profitable for all things, and that the promise of the life that now is, as well as of that which is to come." Christian colonization is the agency, under the divine guidance, for accomplishing the world's speedy regeneration. We will no longer rely on the feeble voice of the solitary preacher, bereft of all power, to illustrate, by example, the wonderful value of Christian institutions. We will now send forth Christianity in her majesty and might, progressing in her own strength, triumphing in her own inherent power, and depending for support on her own earmarks. I rejoice in the prospect of her entranceisement. She will now go forth, with all her numerous offspring—the awakened intelligence which she has produced, the arts and sciences which she has created, the benign institutions of which she is the mother, the moral power of advanced civilization, which, for centuries, she has been accumulating—with all these, her faithful and obedient allies and coadjutors, she will conquer and progress over the earth. In this way, there will be a speedy transition from the wilderness to the garden, from barbarism to civilization and Christianity. In this way, by the arts of peace, will be gathered prouder laurels than conquering warrior ever put upon his brow.

You must pardon me for being enthusiastic on this theme. It is here that we can afford to be enthusiastic. The cause contemplates the welfare of man, here and hereafter—which is the cause of God.

Most ardently, therefore, do I desire your services, and cheerfully pledge to you whatever ad I may be able to render. I hope you will allow no delay in perfecting your organization, and in getting all its machinery in successful operation.

The work will not be difficult of accomplishment, if undertaken in the right spirit, and persisted in with heroic will.

It seems to me that Philadelphia is the best place for the headquarters of the organization. You will need but one society, or company. It is not necessary that there should be great capital invested, or that there should be much delay in perfecting the machinery of the company. It is a very simple thing. You should forthwith procure sufficient means to send out a colony, and at once open a correspondence with those who desire to join it. You will find enough to make a good colony before next Spring. Your company, by proper investments, can repay all contributions, agencies and expenses—in other words, can be self-sustaining. Therefore I urge that you should not labor for anything grand or impinging in the amount of capital invested in the enterprise or the authority of the names connected with it. When you launch this bark upon the river, remember that it is not its size which gives velocity, but the strength of the current. So our feeblest efforts, in accordance with the will of God, will speedily attain to grand results.

Very truly your friend,

ELI THAYBR.

BENJAMIN COATES, esq., Philadelphia, Penn.

before removed, but the Auditor advises him to hold
on to his office and not recognise a successor until he
is properly appointed by the Board.

## Non-Arrival of the Vanderbilt.

The steamship Vanderbilt, with advices from Europe to the 4th inst., had not arrived when our first edition went to press. The Sandy Hook telegraph was to be kept open all night. Our latest dispatch is as follows:

> Half-past nine o'clock p. m.—The weather is moderate, the wind westerly. No steamer is in sight.

## News from Mexico.

NEW-ORLEANS, Friday, Nov. 12, 1858.

The steamship Tennessee has arrived here with Vera Cruz dates of the 9th inst.

Guadalajara was recaptured by the Liberals on the 28th instead of the 18th ult. It was most desperately defended, and the Liberals had to be reënforced by 1,000 men. The people were rejoicing at their success.

Zeloaga was anxious to retire from the field, but the clergy had offered him another million not to do so.

Mazatlan was in possession of the Liberals.
San Blas was the only town on the Pacific coast by
Zuloaga.

The steamer Guerrero had been recaptured in the Tobacco River by the Liberals, and the Spanishteamer Colon, at Safucios, had been taken by A. Varez.

## The Tehuantepec Route.

The steamship Quaker City sailed from this port this morning with the California mails. 25 cabin and 27 steerage passengers—all to go via Tehuantepec.

## The Railroad Convention.

CLEVELAND, Friday, Nov. 12, 1858.

The Convention was occupied to-day in discussing the Niagara Convention's plans. A resolution was adopted to submit the action of this Convention to the Boards of Directors of the roads represented, the action of this Convention not to be final unless approved by two-thirds of the number of miles embraced in the territory represented. When it is approved, a General Convention is to be called for the appointment of Commissioners.

CLEVELAND, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1858.

In the Convention to-day the Niagara plan of organization was slightly modified, and then adopted. The most important alteration made precludes express and freight companies from enjoying any facilities in the use of cars or in the dispatch of freight not allowed to other shippers. The plan is to be submitted to the stockholders of the roads for their approval, and to the Ratifying Convention at Cleveland when the plan is accepted by the road.

W. Dennison, Jr., Jno. Van Nortwick, and Jno. Ingle, jr., were appointed to serve as Commissioners until a regular Board is elected. The Convention the finally adjourned.

## From Boston.

BOSTON, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1858.

The Tremont House was sold at auction to-day subject to a four years' lease, for $192,000. The name of the purchaser was not mentioned.

The weather is cloudy, with indications of snow. A dispatch from White River Junction, Vt., says it is snowing hard there.

City Marshal Warren of Worcester, who was accidentally shot on Wednesday, died this morning.

## Worcester.

WORCESTER, Mass., Nov. 13, 1858.

The funeral of the late City Marshal Warren, who was accidentally shot a few days since, will take place on Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock.

## The Pacific Outward Bound.

ST. JOHN'S, N. F., Saturday, Nov. 13, 1858.

The steamship Pacific, from New-York, was signalled at 9 o'clock this morning.

cise it judiciously for the extinction of slavery and for the elevation of their race; but this, he continues, can only be accomplished by organization, and to some extent a united action. He proposes therefore the formation of emigrant aid societies in each state, after the plan of the emigrant aid societies that settled Kansas, to form settlements in Yoruba, Soudan, and other portions of the high table-land of Central Africa, which is described by recent explorers as both healthy and fertile, and free from the vicinity of the mangrove swamps and fevers.

The vast importance of the commerce of Africa to the manufacturing nations of Europe will soon cause a rush for the possession and cultivation of Central Africa, and now let the colored men of America march in. Within a few years, by well directed industry, they could be King, by means of cotton. The entire annual consumption of cotton by England alone is upwards of eight hundred million pounds, 79 per cent. of which, or more than three-fourths, is raised in the United States. It may be raised in Africa, and the important results that must follow the success of this scheme are manifest. "The downfall of American slavery," Mr. Coates remarks, "is inevitable, and with it the whole system of servitude throughout the world; for with the great advantage thus shown, that Africa possesses for the cultivation of cotton, over the more expensive lands and laborers in America, is it to be doubted for a moment that it can be profitably raised at much less than one-half the price it has commanded in the United States for many years past?"

Mr. Coates's pamphlet is accompanied by a mass of testimony and letters, in the appendix, claiming the attention of benevolent and sagacious men. The beginning of his proposed enterprise is already in operation in this city in the formation of an African Civilization Society on Christian principles, and we believe that by the blessing of God great things may grow out of it. One emigrant out of every hundred free colored persons annually is all that Mr. Coates's plan proposes, but the number thus directed, if of the right stamp, would be quite sufficient to work out great results for the world. It would make about five thousand persons among the most enterprising and energetic, going as farmers, merchants, and mechanics, of the various trades, with their churches and schools, forming settlements among the intelligent natives of Yoruba, of Soudan, of Dahomey, and Ashantee. It would mightily aid in the work of Christianizing that whole district of country.

C.

ork in Wisconsin and Texas, and has spent
two summers in Kansas, where he has been
cessful in planting Sunday schools. Mr.
not a Collecting Agent. He is authorized,
assist pastors, in presenting the claims of
tion, as occasion may offer, so far as may be
with his principal duties, and all funds paid
will be faithfully expended, according to the
donors, whether in the East or in the

Runnells cannot enter at once upon his work
districts, and cannot send out his corps of
al student missionaries until the opening
will spend the ensuing season of cold and
visiting churches and Sunday schools in more
sections, with a view of furnishing valuable
n, gathered from his experience and observ-
a Sunday-school missionary, stimulating the
and friends of Sunday schools generally to
mission schools among the neglected in their
vicinity, and will labor to make himself
very possible way in the great work of Sun-
 improvement and extension. He desires
dered a working Sunday-school missionary,
performing legitimate missionary duties,
with a missionary's salary.

the friends of Christ and his cause in New
give to this "brother beloved" a hearty wel-
continue to aid by their contributions the
Sunday-School Union in its glorious work
art of the land?

desiring to confer with Mr. Runnells may
at No. 9 Cornhill, Boston, care of Mr.
R. B. WESTBROOK,

Sec. of Missions, Am. S. S. Union.
phia, Oct. 13, 1858.

TO THE LEHIGH COAL RE-
GIONS.

and early on Monday morning our party,
of twelve persons, of various sizes, temper-
and anticipations, might have been seen step-
the cars of the New Jersey Central Rail-
m the depot at Elizabethtown. We were
with the company of John O. Stearns, Esq.,
lar and efficient Superintendent of the Road,
fully gave us all necessary information con-
the route and the objects of interest that
pass on our way to Mauch Chunk. Leav-
and the pleasant villages of Craneville, West-
Market, etc., we soon found ourselves
over a country not only rich in agricultural
, but abounding in every variety of scenery.
using Easton the views increased in beauty
deur, and there was scarcely a mile that did
some new picture to the eye. Near Easton
d along through the third story of travel.

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EDITORIAL, NOTES.

Nov 13. 95

Our official and other pressing en-
gagements, have so absorbed our
time lately, that we have given very
little attention to the paper, aside
from the leading editorials.

In our last issue, we should have called attention to the fact, that the great paper by the Hon. Erastus Brooks. headed "The Bible in the Schools," was published by request of Theodore Bourne, Esq., Cor. Secretary of the American School League," a distinguished gentleman, with whom we have had literary and other relations both in America and in Europe, and who rendered us valuable service in London where we met him on our arrival to report before the Royal Geographical Society, and other great institutions and gatherings, both scientific and commercial, the result of our African Explorations in 1859-60.

We say this much of the article,
because it is due to Mr. Bourne, son
of the late Rev. Mr. Bourne, the
learned author who resided in Rich-
mond, Virginia, where he wrote long
years ago, and brother of William
Olan Bourne, an editor and poet
of repute and merit, now residing
in New York city, and prominently
connected with the "Public Board of
Education."

ter coming out of the Museum I put
on a waterproof suit and rubber shoes,
and with, a guide, entered a small
house by the bank of the river and de-
scended with winding steps nearly to
the edge of the river, a distance of
about ninety feet, then went out on
the cliff under Table Rock. It seemed
to be a dangerous and daring act, but
if persons are careful where they
place their feet, and keep their heads
level, they need not fear danger.
This, like most of the views about the
Falls, human language is inadequate
to describe. Just think that if you
were on a scaffold by the side of a
house, and that scaffold was only one
foot wide, and the distance from it
to the ground was seventy feet, with
what care you would move to get of
of that place. The distance from
where I stood down to the heaving
and apparently boiling flood is seventy
feet, and the cliff of rock on which
walked out less than two feet wide
There I stood, turned my face to the
rock, and, with the guide's arm be-
hind my back to steady me, gazed up
ward at the cliff which hung over me
ninety feet high, and over it came a
thick curtain sheet of water, so near
that it appeared to me that I could al
most touch it, while the hissing spray
fell gently upon me.

It is now about 6 o'clock. I have
returned to the American side over
the great Suspension Bridge, which is
twelve hundred and sixty-eight feet
long, and hangs suspended in the air

Plans contemplated for Action in Great Britain.

1.—To form a Society, with auxiliary branches, in this country, to aid the AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY OF NEW YORK, conjointly with us, to carry out the objects of promoting the Christian civilization of Africa, by means of Christian coloured settlers from America; and to instruct the natives in improved modes of art, manufactures, and the cultivation of the soil.

2.—To form in Great Britain a commercial company to employ the services of coloured agents of the above description in Yoruba and other districts of Central Africa, especially on or near the Niger; to purchase, collect, and forward articles of African commerce, especially cotton, sugar, rice, palm oil, &c.; and in return to sell to the natives of Africa the various articles of British manufacture.

It is understood that these plans, though separate, have a beneficial influence upon each other. The Secretary is authorized to state, that a gentleman who has contributed liberally towards the AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY will, if others unite with him, take stock to the amount of £2,000 sterling in a "Central African Commercial Company," so that the settlers may be sure of work at the outset when they arrive, and at once be able to carry out their plans. Such a company would do very much to hasten the result aimed at. Shall the company be soon formed?

From the "British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter," November 1st, 1859.

"We would be glad if the plans of this Society were known to all the friends of the African race in the United Kingdom. The President is the Rev. HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET, a coloured Minister, who is extensively and favourably known throughout Great Britain. Its Vice-Presidents and other officers are of both races; among whom are Rev. ALBERT BARNES, ROBERT LINDLEY MURRAY, Rev. HENRY WILKES, D.D., DILLWYN PARRISH, WILLIAM WHIPPER, Chief-Justice HORNBLOWER, GEORGE W. TAYLOR, Rev. J. T. HOLLY, Rev. E. P. ROGERS, Rev. THEODORE L. CUYLER, BENJAMIN COATES, and other well-known Philanthropists."

LONDON EMANCIPATION COMMITTEE.

At a Meeting of the London Emancipation Committee, held on Saturday, 22nd October, 1859, the following Resolution was unanimously adopted:—RESOLVED:—

"That this meeting desires to express its sympathy with the objects of the African Civilization Society, in so far as they are calculated to promote the growth and exportation of free labour produce from the African Continent, and the establishment of a line of free settlements along the West-Coast of Africa,—a policy which is the most likely to secure the ultimate extinction of the Slave trade."

See *Anti-Slavery Advocate*, December 1st, 1859.

F. W. CHESSON, Secretary.

CHRISTIAN

CIVILIZATION
OF AFRICA.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

To the Friends of the African Race:

Permit me to invite your attention to the advantages possessed by the Republic of Liberia for the benefit of the African race, in Africa not only, but for the colored people of the United States.

The two-fold motive of philanthropy and of Christianizing the heathen in Africa co operated in the establishment of the colony of Liberia seventy-five years ago (1822). It has since become a CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC; its constitution and laws modeled after those of the United States, from which its colonists emigrated.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

It stands as a beacon light on the shores of the great African continent, showing to the view of the native tribes the inestimable blessings bestowed by the gospel of Christ, and the benefits of Christian civilization; and to Afro-Americans it displays in effulgent radiance this motto,

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

‘Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gifts and of the results of your own labors, “Come to Liberia.”’

From various causes, perceptible to all who are not wilfully blind, the general condition of Africa's descendants in the United States is not one that is enviable, and large numbers desire to better it by responding to the invitation of Liberia to share in its privileges, and aid themselves, while promoting its progress. There are many of these, Christian men and women, single and with families, who anxiously desire to go but have not the means. On the scant wages they receive they barely subsist, and cannot save enough to pay the cost of transit, and sufficient to sustain them until their first crop matures and is sold.

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CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

They, therefore, ask for the contributions of their friends
and well-wishers of the Caucasian race to enable them to
proceed to the land of verdure and fertility and occupy the
acres which are offered them by the Government, and there
become free, prosperous and happy, in the land where com-
petence awaits their industry, and where they can say "I am
a free citizen of A CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC!"

Those who are longing to emigrate to Liberia are hard
working, industrious men and women, chiefly accustomed to
farm work and inured to toil, so that the labor necessary to
a first settlement will not discourage them. They know that
they will have to work in order to become prosperous, and
are prepared to meet with and overcome difficulties in order
to reach the position now occupied by former emigrants who
have attained competency and wealth in Liberia.

OFFER OF THE LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT.

To each family the Government offers twenty-five acres of
land and a town lot, and to single persons ten acres each and
a town lot. While their coffee plants are maturing, they can
grow valuable crops of ginger, peanuts and other cash crops,
besides all they need for their own use of all kinds of garden
products. Shelter will be provided for them until they fit
up or build their own cottages.

ADVERSE REPORTS

have emanated from unsuitable dissatisfied emigrants, who
have returned, which are exaggerated to suit opponents of
Liberian emigration. These are fully explained in statements
issued by authority.

In order to provide and care for those who propose emi-
grating to Liberia,

THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SOCIETY

has been organized at Birmingham, Alabama, to conduct the
business of emigration in a systematic manner. Its officers
are men well known, and have the confidence of the principal
leaders of the colored race at the South. Among others,

BISHOP H. M. TURNER, LL.D., D. C. L.,

of Atlanta, Ga., of the African Methodist Episcopal Church,
gives the objects of the Society and its officers his cordial
approval and entire confidence. So, also, does the Govern-
ment of Liberia.

The undersigned commends the statements concerning
Liberia and the objects of the Society to all who formerly
corroborated his efforts in the United States and in Great
Britain, to promote African Christian civilization, and to all
friends of the African race and of Africa. While European
powers are raiding the native tribes of Africa, and dividing
up its rich regions of gold and diamonds, and its fertile plains

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the South, where nearly 200 young ladies are educated annually, at a moderate charge for tuition and board. But this is not all, the village near-by (one mile distant) called Gaffney's, then composed of four or five stores, perhaps a dozen dwellings, a railroad station, and a Methodist chapel, with planks for seats, has become Gaffney City, with about 3,000 inhabitants, numerous churches, lighted streets, beautiful residences, spacious stores and horse cars to Limestone Springs, &c. All from the *start given* by Peter Cooper's $25,000 to Major T. H. Bomar and Capt. Charles Petty. These gentlemen were the owners of the property when shown to me in 1876 and who recommended the plant to me as suitable for an educational institute.

NO WONDER THAT SOUTH CAROLINA HONORS PETER COOPER.

Are there not many philanthropists and promoters of Christian missions who could plant just such settlements as Arthington in the healthy highlands of Liberia? There some hundreds, if not thousands, of the many millions of Afro-Americans could find happy homes and aid in Christianizing and civilizing the natives of Liberia! There are many, I believe, who would sustain such good works if they were informed of the earnest desire of thousands of the aborigines for missionaries, and for teachers and instructors in civilized arts, and also of the intense desire of hundreds of intelligent, industrious farmers and workers to emigrate to Liberia and elevate themselves and the native Africans.

I will be glad to supply such information and further details of the International Migration Society and its work to all who will enquire. Contributions can be sent to the undersigned or to

Henry L. Robinson, Esq.,
No. 80, 8th St., New York City,

who will at once receipt for the same.

I am, yours faithfully,

THEODORE BOURNE,
General Eastern Agent, 108 Fulton St., New York City.

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SOCIETY,
BIRMINGHAM, ALA., Dec. 1, 1897.

This will certify that Mr. Theodore Bourne has been appointed as General Eastern Agent of this Society, and is authorized to solicit subscriptions, contributions, or donations to aid Afro-Americans to settle in the Republic of Liberia through the agency of this Society.

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

CHRISTIAN
CIVILIZATION
OF AFRICA.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

"Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gifts and of the results of your own labors, 'Come to Liberia.'"

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CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

They, therefore, ask for the contributions of their friends and well-wishers of the Caucasian race to enable them to proceed to the land of verdure and fertility and occupy the acres which are offered them by the Government, and there become free, prosperous and happy, in the land where competence awaits their industry, and where they can say "I am a free citizen of a CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC!"

ADVERSE REPORTS

In order to provide and care for those who propose emigrating to Liberia,

of Atlanta, Ga., of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, gives the objects of the Society and its officers his cordial approval and entire confidence. So, also, does the Government of Liberia.

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and magnificent forests, to suit their greed of gain and con-
quest, the least that American philanthropists and Christians
can do is to foster, protect and promote Liberia and its pro-
gress in every feasible way, now that its citizens and Govern-
ment are inviting and welcoming their kindred in America to
come to their land of freedom.

DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS AND LEGACIES

are desired and will be appropriated to promote the objects
of the Society, as set forth in the published statements, or as
specified by the donor.

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

The undersigned may be pardoned for citing two incidents
showing what good results followed from timely donations
made by wealthy philanthropists to whom he presented the
objects named, for their aid.

ARTINGTON—LIBERIA.

On one of my visits to England on behalf of African Chris-
tian civilization and of the freedmen, I was privileged to
secure the co-operation of Robert Arthington, of Leeds.
He not only donated £200 sterling towards educating ten
Liberian youths, for three years, at Lincoln University, Ches-
ter, Pa., but also a sum of several thousand pounds sterling
to establish a settlement in the highland region on the St.
Paul's river. This settlement was named Arthington. It is
now flourishing, and has several churches within its limits.
*Arthington, Liberia*, may be termed an *object lesson* in philan-
thropy—and the progress of Christianity.

LIMESTONE COOPER INSTITUTE, S. C.

On one of my journeys through the South (1876) to pro-
mote its rehabilitation (with British and Northern capital and
settlers of means) a large estate of over 800 acres was shown
to me by the owners, at Limestone Springs, Spartanburg
county, S. C. Upon it were several buildings, a brick
church, and a massive four-story building 254x40, which had
been originally a fashionable hotel, and later a young ladies'
seminary. The war had destroyed the school, but the build-
ings remained in a restorable condition. Noticing the great
need of Southern white youths for education and manual
training, on my return to New York I brought the needs of
the South to the attention of an old friend, Peter Cooper,
and described the location where much good could be done
by its direction to the work of Southern education. After a
long and thorough investigation, Mr. Cooper, in 1877, ad-
vanced $25,000 to the owners and later donated the mort-
gage on the property to the Spartanburg Baptist Association,
in trust, to establish an institution for female education, now
called The Limestone Cooper Institute, Limestone Spring,
S. C., one of the most charming and salubrious locations in

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Henry L. Robinson, Esq.,

No. 80. North St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

THEODORE BOURNE,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

They, therefore, ask for the contributions of their friends and well-wishers of the Caucasian race to enable them to proceed to the land of verdure and fertility and occupy the acres which are offered them by the Government, and there become free, prosperous and happy, in the land where competence awaits their industry, and where they can say "*I am a free citizen of a CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC!*"

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and magnificent forests, to suit their greed of gain and con-quest, the least that American philanthropists and Christians can do is to foster, protect and promote Liberia and its progress in every feasible way, now that its citizens and Government are inviting and welcoming their kindred in America to come to their land of freedom.

### DONATIONS, CONTRIBUTIONS AND LEGACIES

### WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

### ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

On one of my visits to England on behalf of African Christian civilization and of the freedmen, I was privileged to secure the co-operation of Robert Arthington, of Leeds. He not only donated £200 sterling towards educating ten Liberian youths, for three years, at Lincoln University, Chester, Pa., but also a sum of several thousand pounds sterling to establish a settlement in the highland region on the St. Paul's river. This settlement was named Arthington. It is now flourishing, and has several churches within its limits. *Arthington, Liberia*, may be termed an *object lesson* in philanthropy—and the progress of Christianity.

### LIMESTONE COOPER INSTITUTE, S. C.

On one of my journeys through the South (1876) to promote its rehabilitation (with British and Northern capital and settlers of means) a large estate of over 800 acres was shown to me by the owners, at Limestone Springs, Spartanburg county, S. C. Upon it were several buildings, a brick church, and a massive four-story building 254x40, which had been originally a fashionable hotel, and later a young ladies' seminary. The war had destroyed the school, but the buildings remained in a restorable condition. Noticing the great need of Southern white youths for education and manual training, on my return to New York I brought the needs of the South to the attention of an old friend, Peter Cooper, and described the location where much good could be done by its direction to the work of Southern education. After a long and thorough investigation, Mr. Cooper, in 1877, advanced $25,000 to the owners and later donated the mortgage on the property to the Spartanburg Baptist Association, in trust, to establish an institution for female education, now called The Limestone Cooper Institute, Limestone Spring, S. C., one of the most charming and salubrious locations in

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the South, where nearly 200 young ladies are educated annually, at a moderate charge for tuition and board. But this is not all, the village near-by (one mile distant) called Gaffney's, then composed of four or five stores, perhaps a dozen dwellings, a railroad station, and a Methodist chapel, with planks for seats, has become Gaffney City, with about 3,000 inhabitants, numerous churches, lighted streets, beautiful residences, spacious stores and horse cars to Limestone Springs, &c. All from the start given by Peter Cooper's $25,000 to Major T. H. Bomar and Capt. Charles Petty. These gentlemen were the owners of the property when shown to me in 1876 and who recommended the plant to me as suitable for an educational institute.

Henry C. Robinson Esq.,

No. 80 Wust St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

On one of my visits to England on behalf of African Chris-
tian civilization and of the freedmen, I was privileged to
secure the co-operation of Robert Arthington, of Leeds.
He not only donated £200 sterling towards educating ten
Liberian youths, for three years, at Lincoln University, Ches-
ter, Pa, but also a sum of several thousand pounds sterling
to establish a settlement in the highland region on the St.
Paul's river. This settlement was named Arthington. It is
now flourishing, and has several churches within its limits.
*Arthington, Liberia*, may be termed an *object lesson* in philan-
thropy—and the progress of Christianity.

4

Henry C. Robinson, Esq.,
No. 80, Worth, St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

...Henry L. Robinson. Esq.,
No. 80, North St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

THEODORE BOURNE,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

“Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gifts and of the results of your own labors, ‘Come to Liberia.’”

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

They, therefore, ask for the contributions of their friends and well-wishers of the Caucasian race to enable them to proceed to the land of verdure and fertility and occupy the acres which are offered them by the Government, and there become free, prosperous and happy, in the land where competence awaits their industry, and where they can say "I am a free citizen of A CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC!"

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTINGTON—LIBERIA.

On one of my visits to England on behalf of African Chris-
tian civilization and of the freedmen, I was privileged to
secure the co-operation of Robert Arthington, of Leeds.
He not only donated £200 sterling towards educating ten
Liberian youths, for three years, at Lincoln University, Ches-
ter, Pa, but also a sum of several thousand pounds sterling
to establish a settlement in the highland region on the St.
Paul's river. This settlement was named Arthington. It is
now flourishing, and has several churches within its limits.
*Arthington, Liberia,* may be termed an *object lesson* in philan-
thropy—and the progress of Christianity.

4

Henry L. Robinson, Esq.,
No. 80, North St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

I will be glad to supply such information and further details of the International Migration Society and its work to all who will enquire. Contributions can be sent to the undesigned or to

Henry C. Robinson Esq.,

No. . . . E. O. Worth. . . St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

... Henry C. Robinson, Esq.,

No. ... 180 North St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

“Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gifts and of the results of your own labors, ‘Come to Liberia!’”

From various causes, perceptible to all who are not willfully blind, the general condition of Africa's descendants in the United States is not one that is enviable, and large numbers desire to better it by responding to the invitation of Liberia to share in its privileges, and aid themselves, while promoting its progress. There are many of these, Christian men and women, single and with families, who anxiously desire to go but have not the means. On the scant wages they receive they barely subsist, and cannot save enough to pay the cost of transit, and sufficient to sustain them until their first crop matures and is sold.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

... Henry C. Robinson, Esq.,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

'Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gifts and of the results of your own labors, 'Come to Liberia.' '

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

‘Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gifts and of the results of your own labors, “Come to Liberia.” ’

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

Henry C. Robinson Esq.,
No. 80 North St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

THEODORE BOURNE,

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SOCIETY,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

They, therefore, ask for the contributions of their friends and well-wishers of the Caucasian race to enable them to proceed to the land of verdure and fertility and occupy the acres which are offered them by the Government, and there become free, prosperous and happy, in the land where competence awaits their industry, and where they can say "*I am a free citizen of A CHRISTIAN REPUBLIC!*"

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

‘Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gitts and of the results of your own labors, “Come to Liberia.”’

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

Henry C. Robinson, Esq.,
No. 80 North St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

BISHOP H. M. TURNER, LL. D., D. C. L.,

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

On one of my visits to England on behalf of African Chris-
tian civilization and of the freedmen, I was privileged to
secure the co-operation of Robert Arthington, of Leeds.
He not only donated £200 sterling towards educating ten
Liberian youths, for three years, at Lincoln University, Ches-
ter, Pa, but also a sum of several thousand pounds sterling
to establish a settlement in the highland region on the St.
Paul's river. This settlement was named Arthington. It is
now flourishing, and has several churches within its limits.
Arthington, Liberia, may be termed an object lesson in philan-
thropy—and the progress of Christianity.

4

... Henry C. Robinson, ... Esq.,

No. 80, W. V. St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED,

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

On one of my visits to England on behalf of African Chris-
tian civilization and of the freedmen, I was privileged to
secure the co-operation of Robert Arthington, of Leeds.
He not only donated £200 sterling towards educating ten
Liberian youths, for three years, at Lincoln University, Ches-
ter, Pa., but also a sum of several thousand pounds sterling
to establish a settlement in the highland region on the St.
Paul's river. This settlement was named Arthington. It is
now flourishing, and has several churches within its limits.
*Arthington, Liberia,* may be termed an *object lesson* in philan-
thropy—and the progress of Christianity.

On one of my journeys through the South (1876) to pro-
mote its rehabilitation (with British and Northern capital and
settlers of means) a large estate of over 800 acres was shown
to me by the owners, at Limestone Springs, Spartanburg
county, S. C. Upon it were several buildings, a brick
church, and a massive four-story building 254x40, which had
been originally a fashionable hotel, and later a young ladies'
seminary. The war had destroyed the school, but the build-
ings remained in a restorable condition. Noticing the great
need of Southern white youths for education and manual
training, on my return to New York I brought the needs of
the South to the attention of an old friend, Peter Cooper,
and described the location where much good could be done
by its direction to the work of Southern education. After a
long and thorough investigation, Mr. Cooper, in 1877, ad-
vanced $25,000 to the owners and later donated the mortg-
gage on the property to the Spartanburg Baptist Association,
in trust, to establish an institution for female education, now
called The Limestone Cooper Institute, Limestone Spring,
S. C., one of the most charming and salubrious locations in

["4", "the South, where nearly 200 young ladies are educated annually, at a moderate charge for tuition and board. But this is not all, the village near-by (one mile distant) called Gaffney's, then composed of four or five stores, perhaps a dozen dwellings, a railroad station, and a Methodist chapel, with planks for seats, has become Gaffney City, with about 3,000 inhabitants, numerous churches, lighted streets, beautiful residences, spacious stores and horse cars to Limestone Springs, &c. All from the *start given* by Peter Cooper's $25,000 to Major T. H. Bomar and Capt. Charles Petty. These gentlemen were the owners of the property when shown to me in 1876 and who recommended the plant to me as suitable for an educational institute.", "NO WONDER THAT SOUTH CAROLINA HONORS PETER COOPER.", "Are there not many philanthropists and promoters of Christian missions who could plant just such settlements as Arthington in the healthy highlands of Liberia? There some hundreds, if not thousands, of the many millions of Afro-Americans could find happy homes and aid in Christianizing and civilizing the natives of Liberia! There are many, I believe, who would sustain such good works if they were informed of the earnest desire of thousands of the aborigines for missionaries, and for teachers and instructors in civilized arts, and also of the intense desire of hundreds of intelligent, industrious farmers and workers to emigrate to Liberia and elevate themselves and the native Africans.", "I will be glad to supply such information and further details of the International Migration Society and its work to all who will enquire. Contributions can be sent to the undersigned or to", "Esq.,", "No. . . . . . . . . . . . .

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

... Henry C. Robinson / Esq.,

No. 80 W. Worth St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

“Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gifts and of the results of your own labors, ‘Come to Liberia.’ ”

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

["4", "the South, where nearly 200 young ladies are educated annually, at a moderate charge for tuition and board. But this is not all, the village near-by (one mile distant) called Gaffney's, then composed of four or five stores, perhaps a dozen dwellings, a railroad station, and a Methodist chapel, with planks for seats, has become Gaffney City, with about 3,000 inhabitants, numerous churches, lighted streets, beautiful residences, spacious stores and horse cars to Limestone Springs, &c. All from the *start given* by Peter Cooper's $25,000 to Major T. H. Bomar and Capt. Charles Petty. These gentlemen were the owners of the property when shown to me in 1876 and who recommended the plant to me as suitable for an educational institute.", "NO WONDER THAT SOUTH CAROLINA HONORS PETER COOPER.", "Are there not many philanthropists and promoters of Christian missions who could plant just such settlements as Arthington in the healthy highlands of Liberia? There some hundreds, if not thousands, of the many millions of Afro-Americans could find happy homes and aid in Christianizing and civilizing the natives of Liberia! There are many, I believe, who would sustain such good works if they were informed of the earnest desire of thousands of the aborigines for missionaries, and for teachers and instructors in civilized arts, and also of the intense desire of hundreds of intelligent, industrious farmers and workers to emigrate to Liberia and elevate themselves and the native Africans.", "I will be glad to supply such information and further details of the International Migration Society and its work to all who will enquire. Contributions can be sent to the undesigned or to", "Esq.,", "No. . . . . . . . . . . .

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

No. 80 W. St. Esq.,
St., New York City,
who will at once receipt for the same.

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

CHRISTIAN

CIVILIZATION
OF AFRICA.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

It stands as a beacon light on the shores of the great
African continent, showing to the view of the native tribes
the inestimable blessings bestowed by the gospel of Christ,
and the benefits of Christian civilization; and to Afro-
Americans it displays in effulgent radiance this motto,

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

Henry L. Robinson Esq.,

No. 180. North St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

THEODORE BOURNE,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

‘‘Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gifts and of the results of your own labors, ‘Come to Liberia.’’

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

On one of my journeys through the South (1876) to pro-
mote its rehabilitation (with British and Northern capital and
settlers of means) a large estate of over 800 acres was shown
to me by the owners, at Limestone Springs, Spartanburg
county, S. C. Upon it were several buildings, a brick
church, and a massive four story building 254x40, which had
been originally a fashionable hotel, and later a young ladies'
seminary. The war had destroyed the school, but the build-
ings remained in a restorable condition. Noticing the great
need of Southern white youths for education and manual
training, on my return to New York I brought the needs of
the South to the attention of an old friend, Peter Cooper,
and described the location where much good could be done
by its direction to the work of Southern education. After a
long and thorough investigation, Mr. Cooper, in 1877, ad-
vanced $25,000 to the owners and later donated the mort-
gage on the property to the Spartanburg Baptist Association,
in trust, to establish an institution for female education, now
called The Limestone Cooper Institute, Limestone Spring,
S. C., one of the most charming and salubrious locations in

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St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

THEODORE BOURNE,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

CHRISTIAN

CIVILIZATION
OF AFRICA.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

...Henry L. Robinson Esq.,

No. ... 80. North ... St., New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

OF AFRICA.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

“Those of you who are longing for the enjoyment of these gitts and of the results of your own labors, ‘Come to Liberia.’”

### OFFER OF THE LIBERIAN GOVERNMENT.

### ADVERSE REPORTS

### THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION SOCIETY

#### BISHOP H. M. TURNER, LL.D., D. C. L.,

The undersigned commends the statements concerning Liberia and the objects of the Society to all who formerly corroborated his efforts in the United States and in Great Britain, to promote African Christian civilization, and to all friends of the African race and of Africa. While European powers are raiding the native tribes of Africa, and dividing its rich regions of gold and diamonds, and its fertile plains

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

The undersigned commends the statements concerning
Liberia and the objects of the Society to all who formerly
corroborated his efforts in the United States and in Great
Britain, to promote African Christian civilization, and to all
friends of the Africrn race and of Africa. While European
powers are raiding the native tribes of Africa, and dividing
up its rich regions of gold and diamonds, and its fertile plains

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

4

No. 80 W. 5th Street., New York City,
who will at once receipt for the same.

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

THE REPUBLIC OF LIBERIA.

A BEACON OF LIBERTY.

LIBERTY—EQUALITY—FRATERNITY.

2

CONTRIBUTIONS DESIRED.

ADVERSE REPORTS

3

WHAT TIMELY DONATIONS CAN DO.

ARTHINGTON—LIBERIA.

On one of my journeys through the South (1876) to pro-
mote its rehabilitation (with British and Northern capital and
settlers of means) a large estate of over 800 acres was shown
to me by the owners, at Limestone Springs, Spartanburg
county, S. C. Upon it were several buildings, a brick
church, and a massive four-story building 254x40, which had
been originally a fashionable hotel, and later a young ladies'
seminary. The war had destroyed the school, but the build-
ings remained in a restorable condition. Noticing the great
need of Southern white youths for education and manual
training, on my return to New York I brought the needs of
the South to the attention of an old friend, Peter Cooper,
and described the location where much good could be done
by its direction to the work of Southern education. After a
long and thorough investigation, Mr. Cooper, in 1877, ad-
vanced $25,000 to the owners and later donated the mort-
gage on the property to the Spartanburg Baptist Association,
in trust, to establish an institution for female education. now
called The Limestone Cooper Institute, Limestone Spring,
S. C., one of the most charming and salubrious locations in

4

... Henry L. Robinson, Esq.,

No. 80, West 32nd Street, New York City,

I am, yours faithfully,

D. J. FLUMMER, President.

E. B. COTTINGHAM, Secretary.

Office of the African Civilization Society,
Room 26, Bible House.

To the Christian Public, and Friends of Importunate Bleeding Africa.

The subscribers, officers of the Society take pleasure in announcing
that the opportunities of the Society for usefulness, and the prospects for
carrying on their plans, are greater and brighter than they ever have been.

It is well known that one of the original objects of this Society was to
plant a colony in Abeokuta, embracing a church, school, agriculture,
mechanical arts, and the various sciences, and thus make this negro effort
in the fatherland a germ of the highest types of Christian civilization. Our
readers are aware that the most bloody and destructive wars have raged in
the region of our contemplated settlement for the last two years. Thus
we have been providentially prevented from carrying forward our plans.
But these temporary obstacles neither satisfy the spiritual nor moral claims
which poor benighted and long-neglected Africa has on us, nor diminish
the fervor of our love to that land of promise. (Ps. 68, 31.)

So far as we are capable of expressing the real origin and purpose of
this Society, it is the medium, and the only medium of a national character
on this continent, through which the negro, as such, can labor for the
Christianization, civilization and general good of his people. The question
is often asked: Have the negroes ever done anything towards elevating
the people, are they now doing anything, or are they likely to do anything?
We answer, Yes. We perceive that there is a great significance in colored
men themselves managing whatever pertains to the welfare of their people.
Our deliberate judgment is, that the African Civilization Society ought to
be sustained at least for some years, if for no other reason as a real experi-
ment. We are ready to do all that is in our power to strengthen the RE-
PUBLIC OF LIBERIA until the interior is accessible to our efforts. We
endeavor to practise rigid economy; the expenses of our Secretary and in-
cidentals are just about half the amount of last year. We believe that the
friends of the negro, humanity and religion will respond properly to this
object. Therefore the Board of Directors have passed the following orders:

1. Resolved, That the Board of Directors of the African Civilization So-
ciety hereby authorize the Corresponding and Recording Secretary, in
their name, to confer with the corporate authorities and other officers of
the churches, in reference to an Annual Collection, which the Society re-
spectfully solicits from them.

2. Resolved, That so far as possible, this application be made, and col-
lections obtained from every Church in the land, without regard to color
or denomination.

We think proper to assure the public that great care and prudence will
be used in the disposition of the funds committed to our trust, and are
permitted to refer to the following gentlemen:

Rev. H. H. Garnet, 174 West 30th st; Isaac T. Smith, Esq., 1 3d
Avenue; Rev. Jos. P. Thompson, D.D., Pastor of the Tabernacle Church,
Broadway, N.-Y.; Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, D.D., Sr., N.-Y.; Rev. Asa
D. Smith, D.D., 142 E. 13th St., N.-Y.; Rev. Geo. Potts, D.D., 27 5th
Ave., N.-Y.; Rev. John M. Krebs, D.D., 141 Henry St., N.-Y.; Rev. S. D.
Alexander, 238 Fourth Ave., N.-Y. Christopher R. Roberts, Esq., 7 La-

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fayette Place, N.-Y.; Wm. A. Booth, Esq., 14 E. 14th St., N.-Y.; Horace Green, M.D., cor. Clinton Place and Mercer St.; Stephen Cutter, Esq., 127 E. 12th Street.

The more active members of the Society have for twenty-five years been among the most untiring, self-denying colored men in the land. The opinion is continually gaining strength that the colored people of America are to be the efficient instrumentality in God's hands for the civilization of long-neglected and idolatrous Africa; and we believe the promised time of Africa's redemption is at hand. It is reasonable and prudent that colored men should ask aid that they may meet the wants of their perishing brethren abroad.

We purpose to publish a Quarterly, which will contain the names of all the donors, subscribers and life members, and the sums given by them, with such other matter as may promote the interest of the great cause in which we are engaged.

We are glad to announce that this Society is laboring with considerable success among the contrabands or freed men of the South, and as many of them are anxious to go to Africa, donations of money or clothing designed for them may be sent to this office.

We design as far as possible, to make this Society to the interests of the colored people what the American Bible Society is to the world.

HENRY M. WILSON, Secretary.

# CONSTITUTION OF THE AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY.

## PREAMBLE.

It has pleased Almighty God to permit the interior of Africa to be made known to us during the last few years, by the efforts of missionaries and explorers, to an extent hitherto deemed almost impossible. The facts which have become public concerning its climate, soil, productions, minerals, and vast capabilities for improvements, are such, that we can no longer mistake the intention of the Divine Mind towards Africa.

It is evident that the prophecy, that "Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God," is on the point of fulfillment, and that the work, when commenced, shall be "soon" accomplished, when compared with the apparently slow progress of the Gospel in the other grand divisions of the globe. In order, therefore, to aid in this great work, and promote the civilization and christianization of Africa, as well as the welfare of her children in all lands, we have formed ourselves into an Association, to be known as the African Civilization Society, and we severally agree to be governed by the following

## CONSTITUTION.

### ARTICLE I.

The Society shall be called the "African Civilization Society," and shall act in harmony with all other societies, whose objects are similar to those of this Association.

### ARTICLE II.

The object of this Society shall be the civilization and christianization of Africa, and of the descendants of African ancestors in any portion of the earth, wherever dispersed. Also the destruction of the African slave

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trade, by the introduction of lawful commerce and trade into Africa; the promotion of the growth of cotton and other products there, whereby the natives may become industrious producers, as well as consumers of articles of commerce; and generally, the elevation of the condition of the colored population of our own country, and of other lands.

### ARTICLE III.

No one shall be sent out under the auspices of this Society, either as a religious teacher, agent, or settler, who shall uphold doctrines which shall justify or aid in perpetuating any system of slavery or involuntary servitude.

### ARTICLE IV.

The donation or subscription of not less than one dollar annually, shall constitute any individual of good moral character a member of this Society; and the payment at one time of twenty-five dollars shall make any person a life-member.

### ARTICLE V.

The officers of this Society shall be a President, Vice-President, a board of twenty Directors, a Recording Secretary, a Corresponding Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall hold office for one year, and until their successors are regularly chosen.

### ARTICLE VI.

The members of this Society may be distinguished as either active, corresponding, or honorary members.

### ARTICLE VII.

The President shall preside at all meetings of the Society, and in the event of his absence one of the Vice-presidents shall discharge his duties. The Recording Secretary shall keep a regular and distinct account of the transactions of the Society. The Corresponding Secretary shall conduct the correspondence of the Society, and also act as its General Agent, under the direction and with the consent of the Board of Directors.

The Treasurer shall keep the accounts, and have charge of the funds of the Society, holding them subject to the control of the Board of Directors.

### ARTICLE VIII.

The President, Vice-Presidents, Secretaries, and Treasurer shall be ex-officio members and officers of the Board of Directors.

The Board of Directors shall manage and regulate the affairs of the Society, and shall have power to make by-laws for its own government, so as to fully control the business and funds of the Society.

Five members of the Board of Directors, when regularly convened, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

### ARTICLE IX.

The Board of Directors shall have power to form special committees from among their own number, and to fill any vacancy occurring among the officers, for any time intervening before the regular election.

### ARTICLE X.

The Society shall hold an annual meeting during the month of May, on any day the Board of Directors may designate, to elect officers, receive

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reports, and transact its official business, not otherwise delegated to the Board of Directors.

Special meetings may be held at other times, as the Board of Directors may designate.

## ARTICLE XI.

The annual meeting shall consist of the regular officers and members of the Society at the time of such meeting, and of delegates from other co-operating Societies, each Society being entitled to one representative.

## ARTICLE XII.

The Constitution shall be altered only at an annual meeting of the Society, by vote of two-thirds of the members present, upon a proposal to that effect, transmitted to the Corresponding Secretary, and published in the city of New-York, at least two months prior to the annual meeting.

## SUPPLEMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE AFRICAN CIVILIZATION SOCIETY.

In order the better to make the origin and objects of the African Civilization Society known, and to define its designs, intentions, and true position, and to secure that harmony and co-operation originally designed with other similar institutions, previously established by the colored people of the United States and Canada, as well as that by the friends of the African race in great Britain to aid these movements,

*Resolved,* That the succeeding articles be added as an essential and fundamental part of the Constitution:

ARTICLE 1.—The Society is not designed to encourage general emigration, but will aid only such persons as may be practically qualified and suited to promote the development of Christianity, morality, education, mechanical arts, agriculture, commerce, and general improvement; who must always be carefully selected and well recommended, that the progress of civilization may not be obstructed.

ARTICLE 2.—The basis of the Society, and ulterior objects in encouraging emigration shall be: Self-Reliance and Self-Government on the principle of an African Nationality,—the African race being the ruling element of the nation, controlling and directing their own affairs.

## OFFICERS.

*President*.—Martin Robinson Delany, Chatham, C. W.

*Vice-Presidents*.—Rt. Rev. D. A. Payne, Bishop A. M. E. Church, Xenia, O.; Tunis G. Campbell, Esq., 50 3d-st., N.-Y.; Rev. Jeremiah Asher, Philadelphia; William Whipper, Esq., Columbia, Pa.; Daniel Parish, Esq., Philadelphia; Rev. Duncan Dunbar, New-York; Benjamin Coates, Esq., Philadelphia; Hon. Joshua R. Giddings, Jefferson, O.; Rev. Daniel H. Vandevere, Elizabeth City, N.-J.; Rev. Joseph P. Thompson, N.-Y.; Rev. Theodore L. Cuyler, Brooklyn, N.-Y.; Rev. James Myers, Brooklyn, N.-Y.; Rev. William Hague, D.D., N.-Y.; Rev. John Cary, N.-Y.; Rev. J. T. Crane, Brooklyn, N.-Y.

*Treasurer*.—John Peterson, Esq., 7 York street, New-York.

*Corresponding and Recording Secretary*.—Rev. Henry M. Wilson, 26 Bible House, New-York.

*Directors*.—Rev. H. H. Garnet, 174 W. 30th st., N.-Y.; Rev. H. Kingsbury, 26 Bible House, N. Y.; Rev. H. M. Wilson, 26 Bible House, N. Y.; Wm. H. Moore, Esq., 147 Mott st., N. Y.; Rev. John Cary, 97 W. 33d st., N. Y.; Rev. A. A. Constantine, 152 Grand st., Jersey City; Rev. H. W. Bellows, D.D., 57 E. 20th st., N. Y.; Allan Hay, Esq., 35 Broad st., N. Y.; Rev. Benj. W. Wilkins, 153 Baxter st., N. Y.; Jer. W. Bowers, Esq., 153 Thompson st., N. Y.; Lewis N. Green, Esq., 109 W. 18th st., N. Y.

*Finance Committee*.—T. G. Campbell, I. T. Smith, H. M. Wilson, Jer. W. Bowers, John Peterson, Peter S. Porter.

The Directors meet in the office on the first Thursday of every month.

2. Resolved, That so far as possible, this application be made, and collections obtained from every Church in the land, without regard to color or denomination.

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HENRY M. WILSON, Secretary.

## PREAMBLE.

It is evident that the prophecy, that "Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God," is on the point of fulfillment, and that the work, when commenced, shall be "soon" accomplished, when compared with the apparently slow progress of the Gospel in the other grand divisions of the globe. In order, therefore, to aid in this great work, and promote the civilization and Christianization of Africa, as well as the welfare of her children in all lands, we have formed ourselves into an Association, to be known as the African Civilization Society, and we severally agree to be governed by the following

## CONSTITUTION.

### ARTICLE I.

### ARTICLE II.

The object of this Society shall be the civilization and Christianization of Africa, and of the descendants of African ancestors in any portion of the earth, wherever dispersed. Also the destruction of the African slave