cumstances we feel encouraged to invite all the Auxiliary Societies throughout the land to follow the example of that in Kentucky, and to urge our friends, every where, to send in their petitions to the Government of the Union, praying that such measures may be devised, and such means be afforded, as can, consistently with the constitution of the country, be brought to aid the scheme of African Colonization. Contributions To the American Colonization Society, from 26th December, 1829, to January, 1830. By Messrs. Robert Gilmer & Sons, of Baltimore, for 1829 and 1830, on the plan of Gerrit Smith, Esq....... ... $200 By Gerard Ralston, Esq. of Philadelphia, Treasurer of Penn- ... By members of Calliopean Society of Georgetown, D. C. com- By Thos. D. Baird, of Pittsburg, Pa. as follows, viz: .$ 7 .... His own contribution,.. ..... By collections in Presbyterian Church, Fairville, Erie co. Penn. Donation by Rev. Eliphalet Nott, D. D. President of Schenec- Do. by Benjamin Smith, Esq. of England, the son of the gen- Do. by D. F. Newton, of Fifes,....... ..... 25 2 25 50 10 5 12 62 10 7 78 12 56 7 50 50 100 1 Do. by John Ware, of Chester C. House, South Carolina,..... 1 150 Hampton County Massachusetts Col. Society, per Hon. J. C. 125 $744 96 The money alluded to by the Rev. Mr. Candee, of Oxford, N. J. in his note published in the Belvidere Apollo of the 1st of December, was doubtless included in the sum received from R. Voorhees, Esq. and acknowledged in the September No. Errata. December No. last page, seventh line from bottom, for 2d payment of Jasper Corning, Esq. on the plan of Gerrit Smith, read 3d payment. January No. page 328, seventh line from bottom, for 1824, read 1829. PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, AT THEIR THIRTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING. THE Society held its Annual Meeting on Monday evening, the 18th of January, at the Capitol, in the Hall of the House of Representatives. The ample room, so kindly granted to the Society, was, at an early hour, filled to overflowing, with citizens and strangers from every quarter of the Union, and at seven o'clock the Hon. CHARLES FENTON MERCER, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, was called to the Chair. appropriate prayer was offered by the Rev. Dr. LAUrie. The following gentlemen appeared as Delegates from the Auxiliary Societies : From the Society of Canfield, Trumbull county, Ohio. The Hon. ELISHA WHITTlesey. From the Indiana State Society. The Hon. WILLIAM HENDRICKS. From the Society of Newark, N. J. The Hon. THEODORE FRELINGHUYSEN. From the St. Clairsville and Belmont Co. Society, Ohio. The Hon. B. RUGGLES. From the Society at Pittsburg, Penn. The Hon. WILLIAM MARKS. From the Society of Hampton County, Mass, The Hon. ISAAC C. BATES. An From the Society in Wilmington, Delaware. From the Society in Cincinnati, Ohio. The Hon. JACOB BURNET. From the Washington County Society, in Penn. From the Societies of Crawford and Erie Counties, Penn. From the State Society of Vermont. The Hon. BENJAMIN SWIFT. From the Society of Zanesville, Ohio. The Hon. WILLIAM IRVIN. From the State Society of Maryland. The Hon. B. C. HOWARD, J. H. B. LATROBE, Esq. From the Society in New York. G. P. DISOSWAY, Esq. From the Society in Alexandria, D. C. From the Society in Georgetown, D. C. JOEL CRUTTENDEN, Esq. SAMUEL MCKENNEY, Esq. ROBERT P. DUNLOP, Esq. The Annual Report was then read by the Secretary, Mr GURLEY. The following resolutions were then adopted: On motion by the Hon. Mr. IRVIN, of Ohio : Resolved, That the Report just read be received and printed. General WALTER JONES then rose, and, in a very appropriate and impressive speech, of some minutes, portrayed the high character of the venerable President of the Society, Judge WASHINGTON, and eloquently expressed the grief which not himself only, but the Society and country have deeply felt, for the loss of private virtue and public worth which has been sustained by his death. He then offered the following Resolution, which was unanimously adopted : Resolved, That this Society entertain a deep sense of the loss which it has sustained by the decease of its venerable President, the Hon. BUSHROD WASHINGTON, and that it will cherish an affectionate remembrance of his intellectual and moral worth. Mr. KEY stated that he had just been requested to discharge a duty which it was impossible for him to decline. It was to propose a Resolution, calling on this meeting to do honour to the memory of one who had given his life to the cause of African Colonization-who had forsaken friends, kindred, and country, and the fairest prospects of fame and happiness, to fulfil the dangerous and honourable duty to which he had devoted himself, and in which he had fallen! As a member of the Board of Managers, where the zeal and talents of Dr. Richard Randall, (the lamented individual to whom the resolution referred) had been so conspicuous, it was grateful to his feelings to be permitted to call for this tribute of respect to his memory. It was still more grateful to him, and still more his duty, as a native of Maryland, to offer a resolution which endeavoured to express and to record the worth of him whom Maryland had given to the cause of this Society. He was proud to know how early and earnest an interest that State had manifested for the success of this work of patriotism and benevolence. The means of making the Society's first experiment on the African coast, he well remembered, were chiefly furnished, and with a zeal and readiness that did them honour, by the liberal inhabitants of her principal City—that City which has so recently received our thanks for another contribution to our Treasury. But, Maryland deserves to be remembered, on this occasion, for far richer gifts than those of treasure-she has given us her sons. Her small metropolis, small in extent and population, but great in the estimation and affections of all who have had the happiness to know it-her small metropolis has afforded two noble sacrifices to this cause of humanity. Nor has Maryland ceased to be prodigal of such gifts, when such a cause demands them.Another of her sons is now proceeding to the same scenes of peril, and has offered talents, health, and life, to the service of that cause in which his brethren have honorably fallen! If time permitted he would be glad (he said) to show why it was that Maryland felt this distinguished interest in the success of this enterprisewhy it was that she should feel it. He could, however, at present, only hint at the principal cause which had produced, and would continue to produce, this feeling. She was a border State-a slave State binding on a free State, a situation which both enabled and compelled her to compare the advantages and disadvantages of their respective institutions. She was, moreover, in a situation which enabled her to see that a change of system, greatly and evidently to her benefit, was within her power-that there was an evil, which, however irremediable elsewhere, could be removed, and was in fact removing from her. Therefore she looked, and well might she look, to Colonization and to Colonization alone. To abolition she could not look and need not look. Whatever that scheme may have done, heretofore, in the States now free, it had done nothing and could do nothing in the slave States for the cause of humanity. This subject he rejoiced to know was now better understood, and all began to see that it was wiser and safer to remove, by Colonization, a great and otherwise insuperable impediment to emancipation, than to act upon the subject of emancipation itself. Maryland, it must be expected, will avail herself of her advantages, will profit by the lessons she is compelled to learn. All that can be required of her, by others who are differently situated, is that she will do this, (as she may and will) with justice to them, carefully avoiding every measure which may injure those, who, from the difference in their situation and circumstances, have different interests and different duties, interfering in no other way with the institutions of others than by silently and safely teaching them what she has silently and safely learned that a slave State, bordering on a free State, need not long continue such, cannot long continue such. He would not, however, detain the meeting upon this subject. He had only risen to ask the meeting to express their regret for the loss of Dr. RANDALL, and their affection and respect for his memory, by passing the resolution he now submitted: Resolved, That this Society will cherish a sincere and affectionate remembrance of Dr. RICHARD RANDALL, late Colonial Agent of Liberia, and that the Board of Managers be authorized to cause a monument to be erected in the Colony, in commemoration of his talents and his worth. Gen. JOHN MASON, after some appropriate remarks, enforcing the importance of exciting the free coloured population of our country to efforts for the purpose of securing the means of defraying the expense of their transportation to Liberia, submitted the following preamble and resolution, which were adopted: Whereas the Society, by means of the liberal contributions of its friends, has been enabled so to plant and foster the settlements it has made in Liberia, that they are now in a condition sufficiently prosperous to ensure to the Free People of Colour, in this country, advantages universally acknowledged; and it is but reasonable that those disposed hereafter to join these settlements, and have the means, should defray the expense of their own transportation Resolved, That it be recommended to the Board of Managers to devise such a system as, in their judgment, may be best calculated to increase the number of settlers of the proper character, by applying the funds of the Society to the transportation of those only who are unable to pay for it, and by inviting to emigrate, in consideration of other facilities, such as may be able to |