the labors and the contributions of every friend of his country and lover of the Redeemer's Kingdom. Whatever is great and noble in the various other benevolent enterprises of the age sheds a beauty and a lustre on this. In whatever they endeavor for the spread of liberal principles and the extension of the Redeemer's Kingdom, this is indissolubly conjoined. Does the philanthropist look abroad over the scathed and torn face of society, and feel a tender sympathy for the woes of his fellow men, and desire to extend them relief? Here is an opportunity for him to bless the neediest and most wretched portion of the human family! Does the patriot, while reflecting on the rise and fall of empires, and surveying the elements of evil inwrought into the texture of our own country, feel a trembling of solicitude for the destiny of our republican institutions, and the hopes of the world, as hanging upon them? Here, he may give to his patriotism fullest scope. Here, he may lay his hand upon one of the most portentious evils which threaten our peace. Here, he may touch with his finger the gathering cloud and dissipate its darkness before its 66 seven thunders have uttered their voices," and before its lurid lightnings have darted upon their work of death! Does the friend of home missions seek how he can most effectually bestow his charities, and best preach the gospel to the destitute in our own country? Here is a field which de mands his consideration. Who, in our highly favored land, more needs the spiritual teaching, the divine illumination, and the heavenly consolation of the gospel than the colored population. None surely have been less thought of and cared for! None have been more needy and helpless! And how can they be most successfully brought under the means of grace, and the redeeming influences of religion? Not surely by the ordinary process of missionary operations. Their condition is peculiar, and the manner of approaching them must be adapted to it. Present relief may doubtless be rendered them in their present circumstances. But when the next generation comes on the stage, they will be but little, if any, in advance of what the present is now. Unlike the settlement of whites in some part of the west, who need some assistance this year and the next; and very soon will be able to take care of themselves and extend assistance to others situated as they lately were, the colored people while in their present circumstances will need perpetual care and attention. He, therefore, who would most effectually aid them, must first assist in placing them in circumstances where they will be relieved from the civil and social disadvantages under which they labor in this country. To all the friends of home missions we would most respectfully present COLONIZATION as deserving a share of their contributions for the advancement of their favorite object. Does the advocate and patron of lic, imbued with the principles of liberty, sustaining American institutions, adorned with temples for the worship of Jehovah, keeping holy the Sabbath, gathering thousands of children into the fold, bringing millions of outcast heathens to a knowledge of the Saviour, and giving prosperity, happiness and salvation to hosts of human beings hitherto degraded in the scale of human existence! This may be seen! Such will be the result of untiring and liberal efforts in this enterprise of African Colonization ! Nothing is wanting but fervent prayer, foreign missions seek a field broad as his benevolence and ripe for the harvest? Here it is! Africa with her teeming millions! Every company of emigrants sent out by this Society may be regarded as a band of missionaries. They go to that country with some knowledge of the gospel; they are accompanied by intelligent ministers of Christ; they form there a Christian society where all the advantages of civilized and Christianized institutions are exemplified, and which becomes a bright and powerful centre of civilization and of religion. How mighty must be the in-enlarged means, increased exertions fluence of such a minister and such a and unflinching perseverance, to secongregation upon the surrounding cure this "devoutly to be wished for nations and tribes of heathens! and consummation?" how rapid will be the triumphs of the gospel in such circumstances! Shall these be enjoyed? Ministers of Christ, and heralds of salvation to a perishing world, shall this great cause be longer suffered to languish for want of adequate support? have you given to it the thought, and the con Does the friend of Sabbath schools feel his benevolence stirred within him? Here are children to be educated: children whose parents never have known the way of life: chil-sideration which its merits demand? dren anxious to be taught, and in situations where the first teachings will be like laying the foundations of a new world. Do the friends of education, of the Sabbath, the bible, the tracts and the temperance societies, seek to enlarge the influence and extend the usefulness of these noble and glorious institutions? With what feelings of gratification would their hearts swell to look through the vista of time and see this germ which benevolence has planted on the African shore grown into an extensive and powerful repub have you suitably commended it to the affections, the prayers, and the liberality of your respective churches? Has bleeding Africa had that large place in your efforts which its enormous size and urgent wants demand? On the coast of that ill-fated continent from which their fathers were torn, has been planted an infant republic, composed of their free and civilized descendants; they have been restored to their own land, and they will be a blessing to that land; from their happy abodes, the light will shine into its dreary wastes, and "its solitary places shall be glad," and its "deserts shall rejoice and blossom as the rose!" A country scourged and depopulated by the slave trade, will be brought to new life and fruitfulness, and filled with her longlost children restored through the efforts of Christian benevolence. 、 But this work cannot go forward without means! and the means cannot in any way be so easily and properly obtained as by the clergy, of the various denominations, laying the subject before their people and interesting themselves to have a handsome contribution made to the Society, on or about the 4th of July. Oh what a joyful hour it would be for Africa, if every pulpit in this land were to speak out her wants, and every minister exert himself to arouse in the breasts of his people those feelings of benevolence that have too long lain dormant! Oh, then, "Do something! Do it soon-with all thy might," for the hour of Heaven's mercy is rapidly drawing to a close; and we are all hastening to the land of silence and of death, and the retributions of eternity. What we do, therefore, for the perishing, "must be done quickly." Could we approach every minister in the land, we would affectionately say to him, "Go Shepherd, tend thy flock; it is the flock remembering all the while that the field is the world," and that it is in the power of every minister to send forth from his own church an influence which shall extend all around the globe; to put into action a train of moral causes which shall operate to the end of time; to touch the springs of life in other men, and give direction to their opinions and conduct, and control, in a great measure, their charities. And we would then earnestly entreat him to think of this great cause; to bring it before his people; to plead for it eloquently; the more eloquently, if possible, to make some amends for having in past years perhaps forgotten it; and thus send forth streams of mercy and salvation which should make glad the whole garden of the Lord. "Rouse to this work of high and holy love, And thou an Angel's happiness shalt know,- Items of Intelligence. FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PURCHASE OF TERRITORY.- We have the pleasure of stating that since our last number was issued several additional subscribers of $1,000 each, have been added to the number previously obtained. We are convinced that it now only requires a little perseverance among our friends, and continued liberality among our patrons, to secure this most desirable object. It is By the Rev. Alex. M. Cowan : Scott Co.-Mrs. Mary Offiet, $20, Dr. D. G. Hatch, $10, Rev. J. H. Logan, Jos. Coulter, Prof. J. E. Farnam, Charles Eckles, each $5, Mrs. Mary V. Logan, $2, Thos. Clements, $1...... Harrison Co.-Daniel Tibbs, $5, William Lowery, $2, W. H. McClintock, $1.. Fayette Co.-Abraham Vanmeter, Col. R. Quarles, Cassius M. Clay, M. T. Scott, David A. Sayre, B. W. Dudley, D. M., each $30, to constitute themselves life-members, Robert P. Kenney, $10, Mrs. Eliz. Marshall, Isaac C.Vanmeter, Pres. H. B. Bascom, Isaac Sparke, John 53 00 800 Logan Co.-J. M. Glover, $5, Rev. John L. Belville, John Enoch, each $3, J. J. Gardner, $2, O. S. Knapp, Rev. T. B. Clark, James Walker, N. Z. McCullock, Rev. J. Stevenson, sen,, Richard S. Canby, Thos. Marquis, each $1, Individuals, $8..... Total Contributions.......$1,454 00 FOR REPOSITORY. VERMONT.-Brattleborough-Anthony Van Doren, to Jan., '46. NEW YORK.-Syracuse-Thomas Bennet, Esq., to 1 May, '46... VIRGINIA.-Gerardstown--Mrs. Nancy Sanks, for 1845.... SOUTH CAROLINA.-LewisvilleWm. Moffatt, to Jan., 1847... KENTUCKY.-Oak Grove-Garret Meriweather, $5. AugustaCol. James Fee, to 1 May, '46, $2.... OHIO.-Amherst-E. Redington, to 1 Sept., 1846. MISSOURI.-St. Louis-Wm. G. Peters, in full, $3. Palmyra— W. Carson, to Jan., 1844, $8.. Total Repository...... Total Contributions...... Aggregate Amount. 500 1 00 1 50 5 00 7.00 200 11 00 32 50 1,454 00 $1,486 50 upon the fact that all over the land there are multitudes feeling the same sensations of joy and gladness, in view of the splendid political fabric which our fathers reared when they joined heart to heart and shoulder to shoulder, and marched forth through danger and death to victory and independence! Now we need the benefit of this same sympathetic feeling to carry forward the work of colonization. "UNION is strength." Many things || Fourth of July, depends very much which could never be effected by individual agency, are of the most easy accomplishment by combined action. "As iron sharpeneth iron, so does the countenance of man his friend." While we labor at some herculean task, it is a real comfort to know that others are engaged with like motives and efforts with ourselves. In companionship there is not only real comfort, but also substantial assistance. Many a time our hearts tremble and we are ready to fall back in despair, in view of some vast work to be done. But only let us know that ten thousand others are contemplating the same work, that they are individually certified of the fact that the others are uniting with them, and what new life it would instil in our bosoms, and how would it nerve our arms with a ten-fold power! The very enthusiasm that stirs in the breast of every true American citizen on the glorious There are, for example, about fifteen hundred Clergymen who read our publications, and are, more or less, well informed as to the merits and achievements of the scheme of colonization; and most of whom would be willing, at some time in the course of the year, to take up a collection in aid of its funds. But the months roll by very rapidly. There are many other things claiming his attention, and nothing impresses upon him the indispensable necessity of |