many slave holders stand ready to liberate their slaves as soon as others shall furnish the means for removing them to Liberia.

Should all the Temperance Societies thus devote a part of the pecuniary savings which result from abstinence, much may be done to better the condition of our colored brethren.

Erie Co. Penn. July 7th, 1830.

We took up a collection last Sabbath in my congregation for the Colonization Society. I regret that it is so small, but the majestic river is composed of small rivulets; we hope that one from every congregation will be emptied into your treasury the present month.

New Jersey, July 8th, 1830.

While it is encouraging to see, public sentiment gradually approaching toward a just estimate of the claims of the Society, I cannot view without astonishment the apathy still so general. An Institution appealing to all that is noble in human nature, and to all that is elevated in christian character, ought to find an advocate in every bosom in this land. But in this case it is to be feared that even now, after all that has been so happily accomplished, and when the brightening prospects of the colony so eloquently plead for further aid, there is hardly a majority of our christians, our philanthropists or our patriots, willing to invest a dollar a year or half the sum, in this most unexceptionable of enterprises! But sir, the work will go on, and with accelerated speed. The Providence of God points with clear and increasing manifestation to that result.

P. S. A few hours after the above was written, I received from a member of the church who attends my ministry regularly from a village 12 miles off, a note enclosing a one dollar bill as his part of the collection. His note closes thus: "May that God who has the hearts and property of all men in his hands, and can turn them as the rivers of waters are turned, put it into the hearts of men to give a portion of their money and to assist by their asking in prayer to God, that the so-much-desired emancipation of the African Race may soon be accomplished." I only add that if all the members of this congregation had assessed themselves on this occasion with the christian Brother

as their model, in proportion to his and their means, I should have had $500 at least instead of $16 to transmit! So immense is the disproportion of magnitudes between hearts and purses.

Virginia, July 8th, 1830.

Dear Sir-On Sunday the 4th of July, after an interesting and appropriate sermon from the Rev. N. W. Calhoun, pastor of the Presbyterian Church of this place, a collection was taken up, for the benefit of the Colonization Society. Having been requested to take charge of the same and remit it to the Treasurer of that Institution, we with great pleasure enclose you the sum of thirty-five dollars, the amount received on that occasion. Patriotism and Philanthropy cannot fail to be gratified in witnessing the extended influence of your Society. Hitherto proscribed as the offspring of visionary benevolence and totally inadequate to secure the purposes of its formation, it is now begining to be looked upon as the immense engine, destined to remove a curse from one quarter of the globe and to effect the moral and political regeneration of another. Intelligent men, in every portion of our republic, who have heretofore had no faith in your scheme, and no hopes in your exertions, are now looking to the Colony of Liberia as the nucleus of a mighty nation. In this part of Virginia, the objects of the Institution are becoming much better understood: an ardent desire to see the means of its usefulness enlarged, and strong hopes of its entire success, very generally prevail among us. Amid all the charities of this charity-loving age, we feel ourselves most deeply interested in this, both as individuals and as a people. We owe it to ourselves to our posterity and to Africa, to aid in the restoration of an injured people, to the home of their Fathers and to the rights and Liberties belonging to them, but unjustly wrested from them, by the mistaken policy of our ancestors. The recent anniversary of our Independence having occurred upon the Sabbath, we have no doubt, but that the funds of the Society will be greatly increased by the generous efforts of that day; the small sum, which we enclose, is not to be taken as a criterion of our feeling and wishes upon the subject; but it will help to swell the stream made up of the thousand rivulets opened on last Sunday.

Virginia, July 9th, 1830.

The anniversary of the Auxiliary Society of this County, (Frederick) was celebrated in this place on Saturday last; and I believe that collections were taken up, on the Sabbath in all our churches, I have no doubt whatever, that the great and good cause in which you are engaged is gaining ground in this section of country. It numbers at present amongst its friends, men of the first intelligence and respectability-men whose influence must be felt. From my heart I wish you "God speed."

Salem, N. C. July 10th, 1830.

Dear Sir: Your call upon the clergy and congregations in behalf of your venerated institution, has forcibly struck the young Ladies of the Female Academy in this place, and called forth their tenderest sensibilities, so as to induce them to forego the celebration of the 4th of July, except in a religious view and with their donation-the amount of their customary expenditure on the Anniversary of our National Independence,-say ten dollars, to which I add my own contribution of five dollars, making fifteen dollars which you have herewith enclosed, together with my best wishes and those of the young ladies of my charge, for the success and prosperity of the colony at Liberia, and that the patriotic spirit of '76 revivified in 1830 may aid the wafting zephyrs in expediting across the Atlantic main, hundreds, yea thousands of the colored free, to the coasts of their ancestors, there to subserve the cause of rational liberty and the just rights of man, and above all, the spread of the cheering rays of the glorious light of gospel truth.

Pennsylvania, July 13th, 1830.

I send a draft on the Bank of Pennsylvania, for $27 collected last Sabbath in the Presbyterian Church of this place. I pray for the blessing of the Almighty to rest upon you and the glorious cause in which you are engaged. The idea that the benighted continent of Africa will one day be illuminated and evangelized through the instrumentality of our American Colony, is sublime beyond all conception.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, July 16th, 1830.

Dear Sir-In forwarding to you the enclosed check for $33 66, the amount of the collection made by me on the 4th of

July last, for the benefit of the Colonization Society, I have to regret that it is so small. Untoward circumstances, entirely unconnected with the increasing interest for the Society, together with the fact, that very recently, a large collection had been taken up for the German Missionaries in Liberia, have occasioned this. Be assured, that we continue to make the prosperity of the Society, a constant object of our prayers and accept our particular assurances of respect and esteem. (To be continued.)

Letters from Liberia.

The following extracts are from letters received by the Montgomery, a few weeks since, from some of the most respectable colonists

From Mr. Joseph Shipherd.

The most sanguine of my expectations of happiness in this Colony, have been surpassed in point of acquiring wealth, ease, respectability and the pleasures attendant on civil and religious liberty.

In Virginia my situation, compared with that of my sort of people, generally, was easy; I resolved, however, to give the balance of my life to Liberia; consequently I sacrificed what I had before intended to render easy my declining years, looking for no temporal indemnity in this world; but God has fully indemnified me already, in a pecuniary point of view, beyond my expectations; my property here now being thought by good judges worth nearly two thousand dollars; and J. B. Lundy, also has made rapid improvements, and had he but health, he might live easy. The Harriet, brought out a valuable company; they were chiefly men who knew the value of industry and application to business; they went to work as quickly as possible and built respectable habitations: no village, perhaps, in the United States, has in the same time, with similar means, been more increased than Monrovia.

The rainy season is just at hand and the rivers are swelling and boats ascend to the head of tide water with great difficulty.

It will be found, Sir, that another receptacle is indispensable; and as no inundations of the river prevent the quick ascent to King Govenor's, no better place is to be found in the Colony, than some fine airy hillside near some of the cool fountains in that fertile settlement. Here emigrants destined for Millsburg or any other spot might at all times be sent with convenience, directly from the harbour, through the St. Paul's bar, to go

through the seasoning. As one who has given to the Colony the remains of his life, and whose main wish is fully to accomplish that of the Board, by destroying if possible the dread that deters from emigration to this country, and by inviting my brethren to accept it as the best asylum yet offered them, I would invite the attention of the Board to that spot.

Perhaps religion flourishes in this little community to as great an extent as in any town in the United States, considering the want of education.

We, the poor Presbyterians, alone, of this community, suffer the want of a house to worship in, while the Methodists and Baptists of the United States have built for their members here, each a respectable house. It is a fact that our condition is looked upon by some with pity, and by the charitable with something like contempt, as being thought by our own church unworthy of that aid by which we might have a church of our own. Can nothing be done for us? Have not our church and brethren another blessing? will they not bless us, even us, who are of the same fold? How many articles, Sir, comparatively of little value, in the United States, might be converted into money, to build a house suitable for worship and a school alternately?

We are quite certain, Sir, that we never can be a people until we have within ourselves the means of subsistence, judging from the histories of other countries, particularly that of our birth.

Of all the means of independence, agriculture is in my opinion most important. To the disgrace of the Colony, that surest road to opulence is much neglected here. Since the quantity of land allowed to each has been augmented the people are much encouraged. I have seen, and there is no v growing, on the native farms in the vicinity of King Governor's Town, as good corn as I ever saw of the same age in America. From Mr. Francis Taylor.

I have your much esteemed letter of April 26th, and must apologise for not having written you sooner, but the press of business and attacks of the Fever, will I hope serve as an excuse. You kindly inquire for our

health.

I have been through the fever and am considered out of danger. As to what concerns myself, things go on pretty well. I have always thought that the establishment of a regular commercial establishment here would tend much towards the prosperity of the Colony, and I am happy to say that that object is likely soon to be accomplished. Goods to any amount may be sold from this place if things are properly managed. I have become pretty well acquainted with the different vents, and I see nothing that ought to prevent a considerable business, and regular remittances. From Rev. George McGill, June 18th, 1830.

I landed here in sixty days after we weighed anchor at Baltimore, and as you may have heard, my wife having been sick nearly the whole voyage