The emancipated negroes failing to work, there was a failure in the staple products of those islands: consequently this deficiency must be supplied from other quarters-hence the demand for slaves from Africa must be greatly increased. Thus far, then, the destruction of slavery has only, and greatly, augmented the slave trade. Nor is this all. It has given rise to a new species of depredations on the African race.

Mr. MCQUEEN, in his "letter to Lord JoHN RUSSELL regarding the slave trade," makes this portentous inquiry, page 58: "Will not the Brazils and other countries, admitting they agree to put down the open and bona fide African slave trade, resort to the means of carrying away from Africa (as some of them are, I hear, now doing, or about to do) laborers, under the name of free laborers? Can England prevent this? No!" We presume Mr. McQ. little suspected when he asked this question and deeply deprecated such a course, that in so short a time his own country would have set the example of "carrying away from Africa laborers under the name of free laborers." From the manner in which he asks the question, we can see how disastrous to Africa he believed such a result would prove. And yet, what was anticipation then, has become matter of history now. But the evil arises from another source than he expected. In order to carry on her agricultural operations in the West Indies, England has actually begun to import native African laborers to cultivate the plantations abandoned by the recently emancipated slaves. It thus seems the British have found a use for their recaptured Africans, and are in a way to turn their benevolence to particular profit. We would ask again what advantage does the poor African gain by being captured on board the slaver, carried to Sierra Leone, and there re-shipped voluntarily, to be sure, for the West Indies? Who believes that they can be induced to come to the West Indies, unless deception or force is employed? But suppose they doin what will their condition differ in the least from the veriest slaves, except in name?

It is impossible for us to look upon this movement in any other light than as a continuance of the slave trade, only called by another name. What does Africa gain by this operation?. The truth is not to be concealed and cannot be disguised, that all such exertions in the cause of Africa will only terminate in extending the miseries of that continent; they will plunge her into a state of deeper barbarism, will impoverish and weaken her, only to build up and enrich a foreign nation. This is indeed a sad, a deplorable state of things; a dark and gloomy picture, at the sight of which humanity must mourn, and every friend of Africa ought to weep.

We cannot shut our eyes to the fact, nor our ears to the truth, that to hope to abolish the slave trade in this way, is to hope for what is utterly impracticable; and it is attempting to accomplish it by a process which is decidedly wrong and unjustifiable.

All external efforts to put down the slave trade made during the last thirty years have not only failed," as Mr. McQ. says, "TOTALLY AND

SIGNALLY FAILED, but have tended to aggravate and increase in every way this mighty and destructive evil." This proves them to have been wrong, and not applicable to the disease which they were administered to remove. It is in vain to deny, or attempt to conceal, the fact. Even admitting that by any external means the slave trade could be wholly abolished, still the desired work is not done. Africa is left untouched-her wounds unhealedher malady uncured. "To heal up an ulcer," some one remarks, "is not to cure it." Slavery and a slave trade forms a general law in Africa. Whoever then would operate successfully, must enter Africa itself, for there the mighty evils exist-there they are planted and grow, and stand in all their strength. To cut off the branches is of little value. The roots must be dug up. The heart of the natives must be entered and changed their passions must be schooled-their manners and pursuits turned from mischievous to useful pursuits.

3. This brings us to consider the third plan for abolishing the slave trade, viz. the Colonization of the African coast, and regeneration of the native tribes; which had its origin in the efforts of the American Colonization Society, and has already been successfully tried. What of good is to be done to Africa, and for Africa, must be done in Africa. She must be the field of her regeneration. That Colonization will accomplish this regeneration, we think is established by the experiment which we have made. The Colony has already done something toward abolishing the slave trade. Before it was planted, that whole coast was literally lined with slave factories. More than two thousand slaves were annually carried away from Messurado and Cape Mount. Bassa Cove was also a large slave mart until the year 1834, when the Society purchased the territory and broke up the factory. Between five and six thousand were shipped annually from it. Indeed it was the centre of an extensive and rapid trade. Little Bassa was also a slave factory. In 1839 Gov. BUCHANAN marched the troops of Monrovia down there, broke up the station, burned down their factory, and put an end to the trade in all the region. According to the best calculation which can be made, the Colony saves annually to Africa twenty thousand of her children who would have been carried from her territory into bondage if it had not been planted there! If we can raise the means to purchase the territory north of Monrovia, and that lying between our settlements on the coast, the Colony will then command more than three hundred miles of seaboard, and effectually suppress the slave trade to that extent. Not only so., There are now a very large number of native kings who have entered into treaties of peace and friendship with the Colony, and have stipulated forever to abolish the slave trade in their borders. It is impossible to calculate the number that are actually kept back from slavery through the influence of these treaties. This, however, is certain, that a change of sentiment is going forward on this subject among the natives. Those who formerly would sell their kindred as soon as they would any article of merchandize, now would as soon cut off a right

hand or pluck out a right eye, as sell a fellow creature to the slaver! This is the process by which we hope to see the slave trade abolished. Not by rendering it hazardous for the slavers to carry them away, not by cutting off the demand for them in other countries; but by rendering it impossible to buy them, because the minds of the natives are changed, and they have abandoned, of choice, and under the force of conscience, the horrible traffic: And there is no other way of securing this result than the one we are pursuing.

The view we have here taken of the character and operations of the American Colonization Society, cannot fail to interest most deeply every benevolent heart. The Colony it has planted forms a bright and powerful centre of civilization and religion. How mighty must be its operations. and influence on the surrounding nations of Africa! What a heaven-bound bulwark it presents against the men of blood who have so long infested that shore and bound its children in chains! How rapid must be the triumphs of the Gospel in such circumstances! to the world must be the glory of its results, coming in contact with the strongest powers of earth and hell, and vanquishing them, when all the arts and devices of men, all their implements of war and conquest, had utterly and signally failed!

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What an appeal then does this cause make to every patriot, philanthropist and christian in our land! Something has already been contributed in its aid. But does not a work so great in itself, so auspicious in its promise, and so brilliant in its achievements, demand something more? Ought not rent, torn Africa, to have a larger share in the affections? Will not the earnest appeal, the importunate cry from the thousands congregated on board the slave ships, be regarded with deeper interest, and arouse the dormant feelings of every American citizen? "If thou forbear to deliver them that are drawn unto death, and those that are ready to be slain; if thou sayest, behold I know it not; doth not He that pondereth the heart consider it, and He that keepeth thy soul, doth He not know it, and shall not He render to every man according to his works?" Reader! do you not know it? Have you delivered them? Can you not redeem some poor African that is "drawn unto death," and restore him to the land of his fathers? Can you not do something more to rescue "those that are ready to be slain," and to kindle up amidst their dark and benighted dwellings a light of liberty and religion which shall never be extinguished? Come then, nobly, generously come, help us to redeem a nation from oppression, and to beautify it with righteousness! Come, lay up a treasure in this cause! It shall never rust! It will gather interest in the gratitude and thanks of a nation-a continent disenthralled.

Washington City, August 15, 1841.

DIRECTOR FOR LIFE.

WE take pleasure in announcing that FRANCIS GRIFFIN, Esq., of Washington county, Mississippi, has constituted himself a Director for Life of the American Colonization Society, by the payment of one thousand dollars ($1000) on the Fifth of July, ult.

AGENTS.

T. J. SHEPHERD, Esq., of this city, has been appointed an Agent of this Society for Virginia. We trust he will meet a warm reception from our numerous friends in that State.

L. T. WALKER, Esq., of this city, has accepted an Agency for this Society, and has proceeded to Tennessee, in company with SION HARRIS, à Colonist, from that State, who has resided ten years in Liberia, and visits his native place to take his friends with him to Liberia. He is one of the persons who so valiantly defended the Missionary station at Heddington.

NEW PUBLICATION." Letter to the Hon. HENRY CLAY, President of the American Colonization Society, and Sir THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON, Chairman of the General Committee of the African Civilization Society, on the Colonization and Civilization of Africa. With other Documents on the same subject.-BY R. R. GURLEY.-London, Wiley & Putnam, 1841."

THE above is the title of a pamphlet of sixty-six pages, which has just been laid on our table. It is written in Mr. GURLEY'S usual felicitous style, and abounds in passages of great beauty and eloquence. It embraces a wide range of subjects, some of which are of a controversial character. It was called for, as the author suggests, by the circumstances in which he found himself placed. In the preface he says, "I regret extremely that I have been favored with so few opportunities of explaining the views and policy of the American Colonization Society to the British public, and that means have not been afforded me for defraying the expenses necessarily connected with the plans and preparations for large meetings."Again he says, "I visited Scotland, and sought every proper occasion, among her hospitable and high-minded people, to correct the prevalent errors in regard to the Colonization Society, and to commend its principles and philanthropy to their benevolent and reflecting minds. Though no general sympathy was shown in the cause which I advocated, I received many civilities and kind attentions, for which my thanks are due."

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"I subsequently submitted the views of the American Colonization Society to the General Committee of the African Civilization Society, expressed to them the warm interest felt by the Society I had the honor to represent in their cause and proceedings, but received from them no

cordial responses or proofs of reciprocal regard. There was courteous attention, a decent respect, and liberty to retire!"

Under these circumstances Mr. G. thought some publication setting. forth the purposes and accomplishments of American Colonization was demanded; and hence the pamphlet now before us. We give below some of its finest passages. Much of it is filled up with letters, documents, and an address, which have before been published in this country.

"There is much variety as well as peculiarity of misfortune in the condition of the African race. The great majority of this people still inhabit their ancient land of Africa, broken up into almost innumerable tribes, differing, to some extent, in complexion, customs, knowledge, and superstitions, slightly united by social ties, governed by arbitrary chiefs with little form of law, and generally and deeply degraded by long-prevalent barbarism, the rites of a debasing religion, by slavery and the slave trade. Estimates of the population of Africa have varied from sixty millions to one hundred and fifty millions, and probably the exact number lies between these two extremes. This vast population is spread over a country of great extent and fertility, abundant in resources, penetrated by many large navigable rivers, and blessed with rich advantages for agriculture and commerce with civilized nations.

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A portion of this race occupy the British West Indian Islands, with advantages and encouragements for improvement, having been raised by the power of the English Government from slavery to freedom.

"Another portion (not exceeding probably altogether, including the free blacks of Mexico, five millions) exist as slaves in the Brazils, Cuba, and the French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, and Dutch colonial possessions in various parts of the globe.

"Another portion (about 3,000,000) are in the United States, the majority in slavery in the Southern States of the union, and about half a million free and scattered throughout all the States.

"Finally, a considerable number (though less we presume than are in the same condition in Christain countries) are in slavery in the Mahomedan empire.

"From this brief and very imperfect survey, it is evident that the whole number of Africans in exile in all parts of the world is small compared with that of those still residing on the soil of Africa. For can we doubt, from the facts and statements exhibited in the recent work on the slave trade and its remedy, that the greatest physical evils endured by the African race result from the slave trade, which, though utterly condemned by the general opinions and laws of Christian nations, is nevertheless prosecuted by avarice and inhumanity to an unprecedented extent, attended by the most shockingly criminal and cruel acts, and an immense waste of human life. Nearly or quite half a million of wretched Africans are annually torn from their homes, a moiety of whom perish in capture, during their march to the coast, in the holds of slave-ships on their passage across the ocean, or during the first trials of toil and exposure in a foreign climate. In view of an evil so terrible, so enormous, it becomes all humane and Christian men, immediately, solemnly, and with their might, to exert themselves to discover and apply the remedy; and, unmindful of minor differences of sentiment and all merely personal considerations, to unite in measures the most efficient for the relief of such inexpressible miseries, and the redress of such atrocious wrongs as are involved in the slave trade. Yet as the source and seat of this trade is in the barbarism and degradation