Aux Col Society Connersville, Indiana,
Aux Col Society Brookville, Ind.
Aux Col Society Madison, Indiana

of Courtland Alabama,

of La Grange Alabama,
of Tuscambia, Alab.
of Florence, Alab.
of Bolivar, Tennessee,
Somerville Society, Fayette co. Ten.
Memphis Society, Shelby co. Tenn.
Covington Society, Tipton co. Tenn.
Jackson Society, Madison co. Tenn.
Paris Society, Henry co. Tenn.
Aux Col Society of Clarkesville, Tenn.
of Columbia, Tenn.
Shelbyville Aux Society, Tenn.
Aux Society of Franklin co. Tenn.
of Rutherford co. Tenn.

Henry A Wise,
Hon Abner S Lipscomb,
Samuel W Parker;
Rev Augustus Joceylyn
Rey J H Johnston
Dr J Shackelford,
Rev Daniel P Bestor,
Micajah Tarver,
Judge Posey,
John H Bills,

Col Bennett H Henderson,
Henry W Mosely,
Rev Doctor Chapman,
Wm Armour,
Wm Brown,

Doctor Walter H Drane,
Gen Allen Brown,
Rev George Newton,
Dr Samuel Crocket
Rev Wm Eagleton,

J M Ray,

T Nyxon Vandyke,
Caleb B Smith,
John Milton Johnson
John King,
Richard M Sheegog,
Edward D Sims,
Doctor E Coons,
G Little,
EK Belcher,
Granville Lewis,
Seth Wheatly,
Robert G Green,
Col John Read,
WR Harris,
Joseph Hise,
Col Wm S Moore,
Samuel Escue,
FL Owen

James D Scrape,

Isaac Coe,

SOCIETIES.

PRESIDENTS.

Aux Colonization Society of Randolph Co N. C. Major William Hogan,

Aux Society of Rowan County, NC

Cumberland Aux Society, N C

Albany Aux Society, New York,

Hudson Aux Society, New York,

Aux Col Society of Dutchess co. New York,

Aux Society of Fredonia, Chautauque co. N Y.
Nassau and Schodack Col Society, N Y.

Aux Col Society, Catskill, NY.

Aux Col Society of Hillsdale, NY.
Aux Col Society of Troy, New York,
Aux Society of Waterford, N Y.

Female Aux Society of Middletown Conn

Aux Col Society of Alexandria, D C.

of Washington, DC.

of Georgetown, D C.

Ladies' Aux Society of Georgetown, DC
Young Men's Society of Georgetown, D C

Aux Col Society of Carlisle, Nicholas co Ken.

of Salam, NJ

of Talmadge, Ohio,
of Friends, Bedford Pa
of Richmond, Ind
of Putnam co. Ohio,
of Fredericktown, Md

of St. Clairsville, Ohio,

Thomas G. Polk,
Louis D Henry,
Harmanus Bleecker,
Hon Rufus Reed,
Philo Ruggles,
John Crane,

Mr. Warner,

Orin Day,

Adonijah Biddwell,
David Buel, sen.
Samuel Stuart,

Mrs. Joseph W Alsop,
John Roberts,
Joseph Gales, jr.
Joel Cruttenden,
Miss Ann Searle,
Jenkins Thomas,
James Quiett,
James Newell,
Rev John Keyes,

Benjamin F Butler,

John B V Varrick,
Philip Wells,
Samuel B Ludlow,
Robert Dorlan,
Rev Henry Truesdell,
OL Holley,
Rev M W Dwight,
Mrs Eliza A Ward,
NR Fitzhugh,
James H Handy,
Richard B Maury,
Mrs Eliza M Gurley,
William B Magruder,
E F Chappell,
Edward Smith,
Philo Wright,

John Finley,
H Shaffron,
Lewis Medtart,
William M'Neely,
David F Newton

William Long,
Thomas R Walker,

Alexander Long,

Edward Lee Winslow,
Ebenezer F Backus,

John Bowers,
Alfred Raymond,
Austin Smith,

SOCIETIES.

Aux Col Soc. of Madison co. (at Huntsville,) Alab.

of Winchester, Tenn.

of Sumner co. (at Gallatin) Tenn of Knoxville, Tenn

of Blount co (at Marysville,) Tenn. of New Market, Tenn

of Washington co (at Jonesboro) Ten of Kingsport, Tenn.

of Harrisburg, Pa

of Carlisle, Pa

of Columbia, Pa.

of Lawrenceburg, Ind.

of Lebanon, Ohio,

of Paintlick, Garrard co. Ky.

of Dearborn co. Pa.

of East Attleboro, Mass

of Rahway, NJ

of Deep Run, Henrico co. Va.

Juvenile Col Society of Cincinnati, Ohio,
Aux Col Soc of New Lancaster, Ohio,
of Licking co (at Newark,) Ohio,
of Erie, Pa.

of Buffalo, NY.

of Brooklyn, NY.

of Middletown, Jefferson co. Ky of Springfield, Washington co. Ky. of Danville, Mercer co. Ky.

of Lancaster, Garrard co. Ky.

of Richmond, Madison co. Ky of Flemingsburg, Fleming co. Ky of Geneva, N Y.

PRESIDENTS.

Dr MS Watkins,

Hon Nathan Green,
Joseph Robb,

Gen Richard G Dunlap,
Col J Foute,

Dr JB M Reece,
Hon Thomas Emmerson,
JCRhea,
William Graydon,
Chief Justice Gibson,
William P Beatty,
Hon Judge Test,
Francis Dunlavy,

George Palmer

A Vansinderen

SEGRETARIES.

Caswell R Clifton
John Goodwin
Dr L D Ring
Spencer Jarnagan
Rev Latin Dunlap
John Caldwell
Seth J W Lucky
C Garney
John M Foster
Saml. A. M'Coskey
Dr George Moore
Dr Morris

fident we are, that should the motives to voluntary emancipation, which are presented in the fact of the establishment on the Coast of Africa, of a prosperous Colony of coloured people, prove effectual, the consequences will not be less auspicious to Southern interests, than to the happiness of those who would be made partakers of freedom, in circumstances where only, they may appreciate its dignity and worth. Such consequences could be deprecated only by those who prefer the gratifications of selfishness to the pleasures and rewards of virtue-their private advantage to the general good of their country and mankind.

It is denied that the object of the Colonization Society is national; and that Congress has any constitutional power to give it aid. The majority of the people of this Union, we believe, think otherwise, and numerous acts of Congress prove, indisputably, that this body has regarded the right of making appropriations to promote objects not certainly of greater general utility as clearly granted in the Constitution. But, it belongs not to the Society to decide what may or may not be the constitutional powers of Congress. In relation to these, there exists, we are aware, - great diversity of opinion, and while the Society solicits, in behalf of its design, the consideration of the National Legislature, it neither desires nor expects aid which can be afforded only by violating the principles of the Constitution. It presumes Congress to know its own duties and is content to submit the merits of its cause to its wise and patriotic judgment.

The hostility, manifested towards the American Colonization Society, has not been excited then, by any departure of the Society from the design and the principles which it avowed at its origin, nor yet from any thing in its character or proceedings unfriendly to the rights and interests of the Southern States. It is the success of the Society, it is the fulfilment of the hopes and predictions of its Founders that has awakened the desperate and malignant spirit which now comes forth to arrest its progress. Voluntary emancipation begins to follow in the train of Colonization, and the advocates of perpetual slavery are indignant at witnessing in effectual operation, a scheme which permits better men than themselves to exercise without restraint the purest and the noblest feelings of our nature. These strenuous asserters of the right to judge for themselves in regard to their domestic policy, are alarmed at a state of things which secures the same right to every individual of their community. Do they apprehend that the system which they would perpetuate cannot continue unimpaired unless the privilege of emancipating his slaves for the purpose of Colonization shall be denied to the master? Do they feel that in this country and this age the influences of truth and Freedom are becoming too active and powerful and that all their forces must be summoned to the contest with these foes to their purposes and their doctrines?

If so, their defeat is inevitable. Such men have more to do than to counteract the efforts of our Society. Few and feeble even in the states of the south, they must gird themselves for warfare against all the Friends of virtue and liberty, of man and God. A true son of Virginia has said, "I may be permitted to declare that I would be a slave-holder to-day without scruple. But I hold it due to candour to say, that if there be a statesman in the United States, and I believe there are two or three such, who is content that we shall always hold them in servitude, and would advise us to rest contented with them, us and our posterity, without secking or accepting means of liberating ourselves and them, he deserves a heavier vengeance than the orator's bile, the curses of America counselled to her ruin, and of outraged Africa. Let me not be considered harsh; for inasmuch as the piratical tra

der for human beings on the African Coast, the master of the slave-ship, is the most detestable of monsters in action, so, I must say, is the advocate by cocl argument of slavery in the abstract, odious in thought."

The Colonization Society would be the last Institution in the world to disturb the domestic tranquility of the South. What we have now written has been in self-defence. The interests of many concerned in the management of this Society are identified with those of the South, and while they have looked to the Southern States for efficient support, they have received thence the most cheering and substantial proofs of public favour. They trust that they are not insensible to the responsibility under which they act; that they are ever disposed to take counsel of prudence, and that their motives and their measures are not unworthy of the approbation of the American people and of Heaven.

Numerous in almost every State of the Union, are the Friends of the Society, and few, we trust, even in any State, are its enemies. The enthusiasm of youth and the wisdom of age; the eloquence of the statesman and the minister of Christ; the power of faith and prayers of the devout; manly vigour and female piety and beneficence, unitedly, encourage and sustain it. The good of this world and the glorious of another and a better, look joyfully upon a spot already reclaimed from the darkness and desert of Africa, and illumined and blest with civilization and the gospel. On the rough and stormy waves of affliction, in which for ages this continent has been overwhelmed, gleams the star of hope and promise, and a merciful and heavenly voice breaks forth from the cloud-it is the voice of the Son of God-to still the commotion and put the wrath of the tempest to sleep.

(No. 4.)

The noble plan of Mr. Gerrit Smith, of New York, to raise $100,000 for this Society, in the course of ten years, by subscriptions of $1000, (each subscriber to pay $100 annually for ten years) has made some progress during the year. We would by no means despair of its accomplishment, though we regret extremely, that our wealthy friends come forward so slowly to give it their patronage. We entreat them to consider the magnitude of the object, and to lend their aid to its full accomplish

ment.

Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, New York.

Jasper Corning, Charleston, South Carolina.

Theodore Frelinghuysen, Newark, New Jersey.
John T. Norton, Albany, New York.

E. F. Backus, New Haven, Connecticut.

A Gentleman in Mississippi.

Matthew Carey, Philadelphia.

Willian Crane, Richmond, Virginia.

Fleming James,

A Friend in Virginia.

ditto.