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Published semi-monthly, at $1 50 in advance, when sent by mail, or $200 if not paid till after the expiration of six months, or when delivered to subscribers in cities. VOL. XVIII.] WASHINGTON, SEPTEMBER 15, 1841. [No. 18. EXTRACT FROM A FOURTH OF JULY SERMON. "Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the first fruits of all thine increase: So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine." PROV. III-9 and 10. "LET us consider, 1st, the duty enjoined; 2d, the blessing annexed. How then may the Lord be honored with our substance? By giving, as he hath prospered us, to the Colonization enterprise, or for the rescuing of the free people of color of the United States from their political and social disadvantages. 1st. Political. These relate to politics or the science of government. What else can they be in any government, in a juxtaposition with its birth-right subjects, excluded from all its privileges and immunities, I had almost said, with only the exceptions granted brutes, but profoundly ignorant? With few exceptions they are wholly incompetent to any literary investigations, and not until within a few years have they been privileged with even a primary school education, for this one most obvious, but now ridiculous reason, they want none. Nor can they, as they are, ever tread the paths of science, or discern with suflicient clearness the philosophy of an appropriate form of government for any community, much less a large and prosperous nation. It is from these disadvantages we would rescue them, at the sacrifice of whatever the effort may demand, both of time and property, talent and influence. "2d. Social disadvantages. These relate to a general or public interest. They are, their entire ineligibleness to any place of trust or responsi bility in the community in which they may reside. To no posts of honor are they raised, as well, both from their complexion, as their literary disqualifications. Not, however, either in a political or social character, because they are deficient in intellect, which must utterly and forever exclude all hope of elevation; but chiefly an essentially because their very circumstances in life forbid the development of a conclusive powerful mind. Lest such an announcement should appear chimerical to some prejudiced mind, I will mention a fact as it is reported. At an election of members for the Chamber department in the Government of England, a colored man of no extraordinary standing, by birth, was elected to fill that dignified. post, to the disappointment of many of more noble parentage, as men often estimate, but which neither God nor true virtue estimates. This tells volumes for the free people of color, and must cast forever into the shades of oblivion, the objection so often raised, reiterated, and trumpeted from one end of the earth to the other, that they have no mind, they cannot be educated. In our country we are favored with fair specimens that such opinions are wholly groundless. But we add another evidence to the fact from Governor BUCHANAN. The youth of the colonies, says he, discover an eager desire for improvement, and their progress, considering their opportunities, is almost incredible. Among the young men of Monrovia, there is a larger proportion of good accountants and elegant penmen, than in any town (American) of his acquaintance. Hence the motives to elevation, by every means in our power, of the free people of color amongst us. Success to the wheels of Colonization. May they roll over every opposer, and roll on, till all the oppressed sons of Africa shall be rolled home. "2d. God may be honored by aiding the Colonization Society, as he hath prospered us, in placing the free people of color in a country where they may enjoy the benefits of free government with all the blessings which it brings in its train. The testimony of sixty years experience and effort of the Abolition Society in England and America, is fully in point that they cannot enjoy these benefits in a juxtaposition with the white people of the United States. "To remove all that are willing to cmigrate within the reach of their means to Liberia, is the avowed and steadily prosecuted object of the Colonization Society. At this point it exhausts all its energies and concentrates all its efforts. Nor is all this sacrifice to no purpose. Mark the resolution passed September 29, 1836, at a public meeting of the citizens of Monrovia Resolved, That this meeting entertain the warmest gratitude for what the Colonization Society has done for the people of color, and for us particularly; that we regard the scheme as entitled to the highest confidence of every man of color; that we believe it the only institution that can, in existing circumstances, succeed in elevating the colored people; and that advancement in agriculture, mechanism and science, will enable us speedily to aspire to a rank with other nations of the earth.' But other facts corroborative of the opinion above are at hand. In Liberia there are four colonies and twelve Christian settlements, dotting a coast of about three hundred miles, extending their dominion by fair negotiation back into the interior and along the Atlantic shore; the whole incorporated into a Federal Republic after the model of our own, with like institutions, civil, literary and religious, and composed of Africans and descendants of Africans-most of whom were emancipated from bondage in this country for the purpose some of whom were recaptured from slave ships, and a small part of whom are adopted natives that have come in to join them. There is Christian civilization and the government of love; there is a civil jurisprudence and polity; there are courts and magistrates, judges and lawyers; there are numerous Christian churches well supplied with ministers of the Gospel; there are schools, public libraries, and a respectable system of public education; there is a public press, and two journals, one weekly and one semi-monthly; there are rising towns and villages; there are the useful trades and mechanic arts, a productive agriculture and increasing commerce. In their harbor are to be found ships trading with Europe and America, and the exports are increasing from year to year, and all this the enaction of somewhat less than twenty years, an achievement of which there is no parallel in history. These are the natural born blessings of a free government. To this object, my readers, we solicit your attention, and affectionately ask your contribution. "3d. We may honor the Lord with our substance by making the apprepriate sacrifice the cause demands, for spreading civilization, sound morals, and true religion through the continent of Africa. "This is the averred object of the F. M. Society, and to this object does it consecrate some of its choicest talents, highest ornaments of piety, and profoundest erudition. On this ground are men whom chiefs delight to honor, and the people ardently love. Nor is either the object of the F. M. Society or its plans of operation at variance, but in perfect harmony with, those of the Colonization Society. In Africa, its real character is to elevate the character of degraded man, and inspire him with new hopes of dignity and renown, by placing within his reach every facility, both for moral, religious, and intellectual improvement, so extensively enjoyed by all the civilized and enlightened nations of the earth. "Nor is it any less the object of the Colonization Society to raise a high standard from above the shores of this vast continent, consisting of 100,000,000 of souls. Every appeal to the charities, benevolence and philanthropy of this Christian community should, therefore, be regarded as an appeal from Heaven. The enterprise in which this Society is embarked is godlike, carrying on the very face of its constitution a Father's heart. Nor do I plead this cause before this religious community in vain; a cause which recommends itself to every man's conscience as in the sight of God. Already do I seem to see conscience enthroned, with a bow around her head, and blind prejudice, disappointed selfishness, and highhanded avarice, retiring in shame from her righteous decisions. The cause is on the advance; the enterprise must and will prevail. "4th. To arrest and destroy the slave trade is another object with the Colonization Society, and by contributing to it we shall honor God with our substance. But how, it may be asked, does this Society propose to accomplish this most desirable and most important object. Precisely as the F. M. Society does among all the barbarous nations within the reach of their means, by pouring light in a focal blaze into their minds, and thus receive their attention and confidence; by showing Africa her sin, in the use of all proper means, and Ethiopia her iniquities; by inspiring the natives or tillers of Africa's soil, with sentiments of self-aggrandizement and virtue ; then, in the language of inspiration, each will learn to esteem others better than himself.' * "The blessing annexed. Then shall our barns be filled.' We may be sure of these blessings when we-first, grieve and are pained and humbled under a deep sense of the condition of the free people of color. Second, when we pray for them as though our hearts were set upon their help. Third, when we are willing to, and do, make corresponding sacri fices, which the nature of the case demands. Yours most affectionately, "REUBEN PORTER." "MARYLAND COLONIZATION JOURNAL." THERE has lately been made an important alteration in the form of the above cotemporary and fellow-laborer in the great cause of Colonization. In its form and general appearance, it now resembles the Repository. Below we give the editor's reasons for this change. They are substantial. And we may remark that the Journal is edited with much spirit, and contains much useful information to the friends of the colored race. We hope it will be widely circulated. We rejoice in having such a helper in the arduous work of diffusing light and intelligence in regard to one of the most grand and benign schemes that has ever occupied the attention or called forth the labors of philanthropists or Christians. We should have earlier paid our respects to the Journal in its new form, but the two first numbers did not reach us. "OUR readers will notice an alteration in the form of this Journal, and we have no doubt they will consider it, as intended, an improvement. The present is the second number of the new series. The reasons of this change are, that the Journal will be less liable to destruction from being laid by with the common newspapers of the day, and that when the numbers of one or two years are collected together and bound they will form a more portable and better shaped volume. Although the Journal contains much matter that is of immediate interest to the friends of the cause throughout the State, yet there is much of a character that will become more valuable in after times. The volume of the Journal now in this office, from its commencement, containing a history of all the operations of the Society, of the transactions of the Colony from its first settlement to the present day, is a book of no ordinary interest. Therein is contained an account of the first expedition which arrived at Cape Palmas in the February of 1834, of the first native palaver held, of the purchase of territory, of the first landing of the emigrants, of the sailing of the vessel, of the erection of huts and shantys for the accommodation of the agents and colonists, and of all transactions even of minor importance in that little community, as it has advanced, step by step, from a mere handful of strangers, a one family on that solitary Cape, until they have spread over an extent of rich and highly cultivated territory, until they have formed themselves into a miniature government, with their churches, their schools, their public buildings, and all the ensignia of a highly civilized and happy people. Perhaps there is not in existence a more detailed account of the founding a Colony, of the formation of a new government than is to be found in the preceding numbers of the Maryland Colonization Journal. And may we not anticipate that its future numbers, which shall speak of the growth and maturity of this infant Colony, will be of equal, of surpassing interest? What is the Colony now, but a mere miniature organization, an ovum, an embryo, in which the life currents, that insure its future greatness and permanence, are just beginning to circulate? What may we not hope from the growth and perfection of that structure so auspiciously commenced? What can be of more intense and thrilling interest in after times, than a detail of the progressive steps by which a degraded and suffering race of bondsmen and slaves from one of these United States, were transported across the Atlantic to the land from which their forefathers sprang, and were established as a nation on a marked and prominent point of that beau |