At the adjourned meeting on Thursday evening, the following Resolutions were offered and unanimously adopted.

By HON. S. MASON, (of Ohio):

Resolved, That this Society, while it should neglect no proper means of increasing its resources from the contributions, and donations of individuals, will still continue its just appeals for aid, and to cherish the expectation, that such aid will finally be granted, to the Legislatures of the several States and the General Government.

By Rev. WM. McLAIN, seconded by REV. DR. PROUDFIT, of New York.

Resolved, That in order to carry through the indispensible operations of this Society the present year, a sum not less than $40,000 is necessary! and therefore, that, relying on the blessing of Heaven, and the liberality of a benevolent public, we will raise that amount before our next annual meeting.

By HON. J. F. MOREHEAD, (Senator from Kentucky):

Resolved, That the Society will ever cherish the memory of their late distinguished Vice President, the Hon. SAM'L. L. SOUTHARD, whose early services to the Institution were invaluable, and whose virtues as an eminent statesman and philanthropist must ever live in the remembrance and affections of his country.

By HON. J. R. UNDERWOOD, (of Kentucky):

Resolved, That Mr. JOHN MCDONOGH, of New Orleans, for his continued and philanthropic efforts in training and preparing eighty of his slaves for the enjoyment of liberty, and in transporting them to the Colony of Liberia, has rendered a service to humanity, meriting the highest commendation of this meeting, of the friends of Africa, and of the human

race.

By the SECRETARY OF THE SOCIETY:

Resolved, That the evident advances of the Colonies of Liberia in agriculture, commerce, and all the pursuits of lawful industry, in habits of social order and religious duty, and especially the desire they have mani. fested to diffuse the light and blessings of Christianity among the African people, strengthen our faith in their character as competent, in their progress, for self-government, and for the exertion of a renovating influence over wide districts of Western and Interior Africa.

We wish it were in our power to present to our readers the very eloquent and effective speeches by which the sentiments of the resolutions were impressed upon the memories and hearts of the general meeting. We hope that many, if not all these speeches, will be written out, and that the country will be permitted to see the hope and energy with which the several orators expressed their purpose of urging onward the great enterprize of African Colonization as worthy the regards, not only of private benevolence, but of state and national patronage. It is due to Mr. Wise to say, that in moving his resolution, he took occasion to avow that

his sympathy with the great movements of the world for the suppression of the slave trade, was limited to the movements more especially of his own country. We desire the furtherance of all movements originating in just and generous motives, and we believe such motives do, in a great degree, animate the European powers. The remarks of Mr. Wise on the benevolent influences of this Society, towards both the colored and white races, and all classes, were not less admirable for truth of sentiment than for force and beauty of language. We can only add, that the tributes paid to the deceased Vice Presidents of the Society, moved the audience, and that the meeting was one of the most gratifying and animating we have ever been permitted to attend. We are now summoned to duty: we hope for the co-operation of all the friends of the Society.

THE VOLUNTARY BLINDNESS OF GOOD MEN.

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THE Editor of the African Repository, in a small work, ("Mission to England,") published some months ago, had occasion to notice the deep prejudice prevailing among the intelligent Directors of the African Civilization Society of Great Britain against the American Colonization Society. He doubts whether there is in the entire series of numbers of the “ Friend of Africa," the organ of the Civilization Society, the slightest notice of LIBERIA, or of the great work in which the Colonization Society is engaged, and which probably suggested the entire scheme of operations adopted by the Civilization Society. But let any overheated abolitionist cross the ocean from England to our shore, not to examine, by extended survey and profound investigation, the system of slavery, and general condition of slaves in these United States, but to strengthen his pre-conceived and erroneous opinions by a few detached facts, and thus gratify the morbid appetite of too many of the English public, with matters of reproach towards Americans, and his work is noticed, praised, and its worst paragraphs spread out before the eye of all England. Hence in the friend of Africa for June of the present year, we find a notice of "Joseph Sturge's visit to the United States," in which, after speaking in terms of comendation of the work and of the writer as a "witness of undoubted probity," they quote the following passage as true, although every citizen of the District of Columbia, and every well-informed American knows the predominating ingredients are falsehoods:

"The District of Columbia is the chief seat of the American slave trade; commercial enterprise there has no other object. Washington is one of the best supplied and most frequented slave marts in the world. The adjoining, and once fertile and beautiful States of Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina, are now blasted with sterility, and even encroaching desolation." "The impoverished proprietors find now their chief source of revenue in what one of them expressly termed their, crop of human flesh.' Hence the slave-holding region is now divided into the slave-breeding and slave-consuming States. From its locality, and from its importance as the centre of public affairs, the District of Columbia has become the focus of this dreadful traffic, which almost vies with the African slave trade itself in extent and cruelty, besides possessing aggravations peculiarly its own."

We are no friends to the traffic in slaves in Africa or America. But it is not true that the District of Columbia is the "chief seat of the American slave trade" nor "that commerce there has no other object," nor "that the neighboring States are now blasted by sterility," nor that "the impoverished proprietors find their chief source of revenue in the sale of slaves," nor that the District of Columbia is the focus of the internal slave trade," nor that "this trade almost vies with the African slave trade itself in extent and cruelty;" nor can any good cause be advanced by the publication of such exaggerated statements. We are for humanity, but we will never seek to divorce her from truth. It is not improbable that Mr. Sturge thought his statement correct, but honest errors are not the least noxious, and the African Civilization Society should have on this subject too much knowledge to endorse them. Its editors and representatives should be men of more than one idea. The intelligent and Christian people of the District of Columbia feel quite as true a concern in the welfare of the colored population, and will be found to act as decidedly for their benefit, whenever they can act with advantage, as any of the Directors of the Civilization Society.

MISSIONARY

LABORS AND SCENES IN SOUTHERN

AFRICA.

BY REV. ROBERT MOFFAT.

(Concluded.)

THE author proceeds to give many facts of high interest that occurred on this occasion. The curiosity of the people to hear him preach, their eagerness to learn the letters of the Bechuana language, the happy effects of his preaching are all described with clearness and force. But we must necessarily be restricted in our extracts, and we therefore leave out this part and proceed to pp. 605-603.

"Before closing the account of the Bechuana mission, it will be proper to state, that during the years 1837, 1838, a rich blessing descended on the labors of the brethren at home, at the out-stations, and, indeed, at every place where the Gospel was read and preached. Large additions of Bechuanas to the church at Griqua town have already been noticed, and in 1838 great accessions were made to that of the Kuruman, under the very efficient, assiduous superintendence of Mr. Edwards. The number of readers connected with the mission had increased in equal ratio; while the infant school, commenced and carried on by Mrs. Edwards, with the assistance of a native girl, gave the highest satisfaction. The people made rapid advances in civilization, some purchasing wagons and breaking their oxen for those labors which formerly devolved on the female sex. The use of clothing became so general that the want of a merchant was greatly felt, to supply the demands for British commodities. This induced us to invite W. D. Hume, in whom we placed implicit confidence, who had already traded much with the natives, and traveled a great distance in the interior to take up his constant abode on the station for that purpose. He built himself a house and the measure has succeeded beyond our expectations. Mr. Hume had also rendered a very considerable amount of gratuitous labor in assisting the late Mr. Hugh Miller, in raising the walls of the chapel, and subsequently in finishing it. The place of worship was so far in readiness that it was opened in November, 1838. This was a deeply interesting

season to all, and especially the missionaries and the church which has been gathered from among the heathen. Between eight and nine hundred entered those walls, now sacred to the service of Jehovah. A deep sense of the divine presence was felt on that memorable occasion. The Rev. P. Lemuel, of Motito, took part with the resident missionaries in the solemnities. In the afternoon of the following Sabbath, one hundred and fifty members united in commemorating the dying love of Him who had redeemed them by his blood, and brought them by his providence and grace from tribes-some very distant-to participate in the heavenly banquet. Many, with eyes suffused with tears, compared their present happy condition with the ignorance and degradation from which they had been graciously delivered. The church has since increasd to two hundred and thirty. "Mothibi, the chief of the Batlapis, had long turned a deaf year to the invitations of the Gospel, and his declining years and fading faculties led us to fear that he was following some of his contemporaries who had died without hope, after having possessed abundant means of becoming wise unto salvation. By a letter, however, lately received from Mr. Edwards, we have the following delightful intelligence, which cannot fail to proclaim to all the potency of the Everlasting Gospel to one who was truly subdued by it in the eleventh hour. Two of his sons with their wives were already members of the church; and Mahuto, his wife, was some years ago baptized by the Griqua Missionaries.

"Mothibi, our old king, feeble from age, stood forth with others to make a public profession of his faith, by being baptized. He has for some time been reckoned among the dead; his people viewed him as one of the past generation. I had heard, a few months before he last visited us, that he was becoming much concerned about the state of his soul, and could no longer conceal his fears, which only increased the longer he kept silent. Being quite overwhelmed, he made known his alarm to the believers, and requested their counsel and sympathy. Morisanyane, the native reader at his residence was made useful to him, and Mothibi, at length earnestly entreated his sons to take him to the Kuruman, to see his own missionaries; ' immediately on his arrival he bent his feeble steps to the mission house. Never before I believe did he visit a missionary with so much anxiety and diffidence. I found him not inclined to speak much, but rather to hear what might be said to him; he said however, that he had come to speak about his soul, that he was an old man, great from age, but without understanding; there is nothing left', he exclaimed, but my old bones and withered skin; I heard 'the word' from the beginning (twenty-five years ago) but never understood, and now have no rest night nor day; my soul is sorrowful and burning with anguish; my heart is sick and rises into my throat; my mind is dark, and my memory cannot retain the good word, but though it forsakes me, it does me good; it leaves something behind in my soul, which I cannot explain, but which causes me to hope. I wish to cast myself at the feet of Jesus, the Son of God, in hope and expectation that he will have mercy on me. I feel that it will be my wisdom to sit at the feet of believers who are grown to manhood in knowledge, to be ever instructed by them in the paths of duty and salvation.'

"On inquiring among those who had observed him of late, I found that they all thought favorably of him, for they had seen him weep repeatedly over his sins, and his lost state as a sinner. He expressed ardent desires

to live, and die at the feet of Christ, and to be united to his people and there being no scriptural objection, he was proposed and received by the church in this place Though the rightful chief of 20,000 Bechuanas, Mothibi stood with as much humility as others of his people beside him, whom he formerly considered as his servants' or 'dogs,' to receive the ordinance of baptism. He may not be a bright star among the believers, but if enabled to follow up his desire to live and die at the feet of Jesus,' though he go halting the few remaining days of his life, he will be at last received to Glory, a monument of what grace can do even in the eleventh hour."

P. 690, Ch. 24.-The Basuto Mission. Speech of Mosheshe. Extended operations. Omnipotence of the Gospel. Hope for Africa. The Niger expedition. The duty of the Church of Christ. Anticipated results. Potency of the scriptures.

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Having already exceeded the limits of the present work, the author feels it necessary to confine the different subjects on which he intended to dilate within a very narrow compass. It is with the greatest satisfaction he refers to the French and Wesleyan brethren in the Basuto country, southeast of the Kuruman, whose labors have been abundantly blessed not only in that district, but to the borders of the colony. Mosheshe, King of the Basuters, had long desired to receive a missionary, in order to procure for his subjects those advantages which he had heard other tribes had derived from the residence of a missionary among them. After long reflection, in 1833, he sent two-hundred oxen to some of his servants, ordering them to go and find the great chief of the white people, and obtain from him, in exchange for the cattle, men capable of instructing his subjects. His servants obeyed; but, after a few days' march, they fell in with some Corranas, who deprived them of their cattle. This adverse circumstance did not discourage Mosheshe; for having heard that a Griqua from our missionary station at Philippolis was hunting in his dominions, he sent for him, inquired respecting the objects and labors of the missionaries, and entreated the strangers' assistance in the accomplishment of his wishes. This was promised; and on the Griquas' return to Phillippolis, he related the affair to his missionaries; and it is worthy of remark, that just at this juncture three missionaries from the Paris society arrived at the station. They were on their way to the Bechuanas beyond the Kuruman, but on learning this circumstance, they could not but consider it as an unequivocal call which they were bound to obey. That was a part of the country which had been but little traversed by Europeans, and had been made the theatre of crime and bloodshed by the Benganaars. The brethren arrived in July 1833, when Mosheshe gave them a most friendly reception, and assisted in selecting a suitable spot for a mission station, which they called Morija. Messrs Cassalis, Arbansset and Gosselin commenced this important mission, and they now exert an influence over at least twelve-thousand souls. Public worship is well attended, and the Sabbath punctually observed, by those of the people who make a profession of the Christian religion. The unremitting and self-denying labors of these valuable men have been remarkably blessed, and their hands have been strengthened by additional laborers from the same society. They have translated portions of the word of life into the native language. The influence exerted by Mosheshe over the minds of the people has been a most effective auxiliary to