THROUGH the merciful kindness of our heavenly Father, we are permitted to celebrate the Thirty-third Anniversary of the American Colonization Society. Another year of distinguished prosperity has drifted by. We contemplate the past, with feelings of gratitude and exultation. Progress has been made. Principles have received new strength and enlargement. The fountains of benevolence have poured forth their fertilizing streams. The tokens of divine favor, and the manifestations of Almighty Power have been liberally granted in every emergency. The spirit of emigration has been gradually increasing. Favoring gales have safely wafted the Society's vessels, freighted with expectant freeman, to their new homes on the shores of

Africa. From their newly erected

houses and their humble abodes, they have sent back such a voice of contentment, and such good news of the land, that many of their kindred

and acquaintances, are preparing to follow them. The Republic of Liberia, though young as to years and small as to numbers, has displayed much of the wisdom of riper age, and the strength of vigorous manhood. Peace and prosperity have been in all her borders. The monster vices peculiar to that coast have felt, and withered under, the increasing influence of civilization and christianity. The native tribes have more tenderly felt the wretchedness of their barbarous condition, and been inspired with new zeal to imitate their more highly favored neighbors. Among the nations of the earth the fame of what Liberia has already done, has spread far and wide, and confidence in the stabili

ty of her institutions has been greatly augmented.

In illustration of these general statements, we present the following details of operations of the past year.