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Mary E. Morrill, $2 50; Bezaleel Farnum, M. Francis Cutler, Mrs. Ruth T. Duncan, each $2; "a freewill offering" fiom the young ladies of Kimball Union Academy, $20; "a freewill offering" from the young gentlemen of Kimball Union Academy, $30 75; Jno. Bryant, Henry Wells, Rhoda Morrill, Dea. Dan. Morrill, Jno.Spaulding, Lucinda Morgan, Henry M. Scales, Rev. Amos Blanchard, Julia Ann Baker, Mary N. Cutler, Mary E. Chellis, Miriam Chellis, each $1; Hiram Sleeper, 50 cts.; Wm. H. Bryant, 25 cts.....

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RHODE ISLAND. By Capt. George Barker:-Providence-Rev. A. Brown, $7; Cash, $5; Calvin Dean, $10.. Westerly-Rouse Babcock, J. L. Morse, O. M. Stillman, each $5; Rev. T. H. Vail, $2; Cash, Cash, each $1..... Peacedale-Hon. S. Rodman, R. P. Hazard, each $5........ Kingston-Mrs. George Engs... North Scituate-Hon. Ira Cowee Blackstone-Erastus Lamb...... Woonsocket-E. B. Newell...... Mansville-Capt. Daniel Hale... Centreville-Rev. J. Brayton, $2; Rev. M. Fifield, $1....... Concord, N. H.-Postage Repos.

CONNECTICUT.

By Rev. John Orcutt Waterbury-Miss Susan Brown, $10, in part to constitute herself a life member of the Am. Colonization Society; L. W.

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Coe, $7; A. Benedict, J. S. Mitchell, S. M. Buckingham, each $5; Chas. B. Merriman, W. H. Merriman, N. B. Platt, R. W. Cairns, each $3; Rev. J. L. Clark, J. Puckingham, S. J. Holms, N. Hall, each $2; E. S. Clark, C. Benedict, J. G. Eaton, N. B. Stiles, O. B. King, R. A. Hitchcock, J. E. Johnson, R. M. Rand, F. J. Kingsbury, R. C. Norton, Mrs. E. B. Linsley, each $1...... East Had lam-Rev. Isaac Parsons, N. S. Williams, Geo. Higgins, S. Tyler, W. E. Nichols, each $2; Mrs. Sarah Cone, Miss Anna Cone, each $3; Jona C. Cone, E. Spencer, J. B. Stillman, W. L. Fuller, R. S. Pratt, J. Gladwin, G. Higgins, each $1; J. Silliman, Mrs. D. Brainard, each 50 cents; Miss L. A. Chapman, E. Snow, each 25 cents; Others, $5 50to constitute Mrs. Sarah B. Parsons a life member of the American Colonization Society. 30 00 Birmingham--Geo. W. Shelton, $15; J. I. Howe, Mrs. N. B. Sanford, E. N. Shelton, D. Bassett, T. Burlock, J. B. Kellogg, each $5; H. Somers, $4; I. J. Gilbert, $3; Mrs. Mary Naramore, Capt. May, T., Piper, Mrs. George W. Shelton, ech $2; J. Arnold, C. A. Sterling, L. Osborn, L. L. Lomer, W. C. Bristol, S. A. Downs, Mrs. Charles De Forest, each $1.... Hartford-Isaac Tourey.. East Hartford-Legacy left the Connecticut State Col. Society, by the late Mrs. Hannah Bigelow, Chas. H. Northam, Esq., Executor.

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VIRGINIA.

Morgantown-Fourth of July collection in the Presb. Church of Morgantown, Va., by Rev. James Davis....

OHIO.

Sycamore-Collection in the Associate Reformed Church of Sycamore, at the close of a discourse by the Rev. Henry Allen..

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nization Society, amount expended on account of emigrants, by Rev. W. D. Shumate, Agt. Missouri State Col. Society... 811 75

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FOR REPOSITORY. MAINE.--Bath--R. Nutter, to July, 1854.. VERMONT.--Charlotte-Jno.Strong, to July, 1857.. MASSACHUSETTS By Rev. Jos. Tracy:-Lowell--W. S. South worth, to January, 1855, $1. Haverhill-Miss Susan Emerson, to September, 1855, $1. Monson-Mrs. Sarah Flynt, to May, 1852, $1. Medway-Caleb Fisher, to October, '55, $2. Winchester--Luther Richardson, to July, 1855, $1. Hingham-Lincoln Jacobs, to Jan., 1855, $2; David Fearing, to July, 1855, $2....

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RHODE ISLAND.-By Capt. Geo. Barker - Westerly-J. & P. Noyes, to August, 1856, $2. East Greenwich--Josiah Barker, to June, 1855, $1; Ebenezer Slocum, to July, 1855, $1. North Scituate-J. A. Harris, C. H. Fisher, each $1, to June, 1855. Woonsocket-John Osborn, to August, '55, $1; Rev. Jno. Boyden, E. T. Read, each $1, to June, 1855; Eli Pond, to July, '55, $1. CumberlandGeorge Cook, to June, '55, $1. Valley Fails-Benjamin Fessenden, to June, '55, $1. Centreville-Mrs Susan Whitman, to Sept., '56, $2; Mrs. Mary A. Greene, George K. England, Wm. D. Davis, each $1, to June, 1855. Phenix-Dea. R. Levally, Horatio Stone, each $1, to June, '55. FiskerilleH. W. Emmons, to June, '55, $1. Olnenville-L. A. Waite, to June, 1856, $2... CONNECTICUT.By Rev. John

Orcutt-Waterbury-Dr.C.H. Carrington, R. E. Hitchcock, each $1, to September, 1855; E. C. Clark, to September, '54, $1; C. C. Post, to September, 1855, $2; L. L. Trumbull, to June, 1855, $2.............. NEW YORK.-Cold Spring Har bor-Mrs. E. H. Derrickson, to September, 1855.. VIRGINIA. Woodville Depol-- Dr. M. L. Anderson, to January, 1857, $5. Petersburgh-Jerry McH. Farler, to August, 1855, $1; Peter R. Jones, to Sept., 1855, $1. Pedlar's Mills-Miss Kitty T. Minor, to Jan., 1854, $2; Lancelot Minor, to Jan., 1857, $3.....

2 00 GEORGIA.--Dalton-Rev. Thos. Turner, to January, 1855....

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THE

AFRICAN REPOSITORY.

VOL. XXX.]

WASHINGTON, NOVEMBER, 1854.

[No. 11.

Where is the Money to come from? THIS question has pressed heavily on our minds for some time past, and circumstances have not yet enabled us to arrive at a satisfactory answer. We have a great work before us; and yet we are obliged to halt, and to hang our hands down, in view of the fact that we cannot command the means to enable us to carry on the work as actively and extensively as we desire, and as we might if our resources were not so limited. We are consequently compelled either to become more deeply involved in debt, which is not desirable and not altogether practicable, or to curtail our operations, and allow the results of the present year to fall below those of the last.

greatly enlarge the sphere of our operations, if our poverty did not warn us not to promise what we cannot calculate on fulfilling. And in view of the immediate pressing demands on our Treasury, and the necessity of incurring heavy expenditures to accomplish what has already been undertaken, we confess that we. feel greatly discouraged.

The time was when we found it difficult to secure emigrants to send to Liberia; but that time has passed; and now the great difficulty exists in the deficiency of funds to justify us in encouraging the numerous applicants with the assurance that the Society will send them. We might

The prompt and liberal responses to our special appeal for funds, to enable us to send to Liberia the slaves that have been offered to the Society, are very encouraging; but as the funds thus received will all be required for the object for which they were so freely given; and as our general receipts during the present year have not been large; we cannot extend our operations, as we greatly desire; and cannot command means to enable us to make some necessary improvements for the more comfortable accommodation and location of emigrants in Liberia, which we regard as highly, important.

We are now making arrangements to dispatch an expedition from Bal timore and Norfolk, which must be sent; and if we could raise the means, we should like to accommodate a large number of applicants in some of the Southern and Western States, by sending a vessel from Savannah before the close of the year. But where the money is to come from we cannot tell.

As stated in our May number, we

cannot, at present, calculate on funds from any particular source-from the General Government, from State Legislatures, or from estates in litigation in which this Society is interested as a legatee-to enable us to meet our pressing wants, and to extend our operations. We, therefore, hope that the friends of the Society, throughout the country, will do what they can to help us to carry forward the great work.

[From the Christian Observer.] Efforts for the Colored Race.

THE article on this subject, inserted on our last page, is from a source worthy of entire confidence. There is a revival of interest and of effort in behalf of the African race, in many places at the South, which, if not impeded by interference from abroad, will effect the most cheering results. There is a law of benevolence, which the gospel writes on the renoverated heart of our fallen nature-a law recognized by thousands, to whom Providence has entrusted the care of the blacks, more potent and salutary than any argument which man can frame, in its silent and hallowed influences, on which, under God, we must rely for the elevation of the colored race, and for the removal of the evils which mar the condition of the ignorant, the poor and neglected, in every community.

RELIGIOUS PRIVILEGES OF SLAVES.

Increasing Interest in their Behalf-Preachers and Teachers Appointed to Instruct ThemEmancipation.

Not the least among the fruits of the cause of African Colonization, is that of the increased attention to the moral and religious instruction

of the colored population, manifest in our Southern States. Enjoying a position where we are generally informed of all movements on this point, we are enabled confidently to assert the interesting fact, that not only the minister of the Cross, but the physician and the statesman, as well as the planter, are awakened to its importance, and are bestirring themselves in thus doing good to the souls and bodies of those committed to their care. Nor is this praise-worthy spirit of benevolence confined to individual philanthropy, but the various ecclesiastical bodies and organizations among the patrons of christian missions and of humanity at the South, aided in many cases by the friends of slave and master at the North, are "provoking one another to good works."

A recent visit to the South, during which this matter was made one of special observation and inquiry, confirms our previously formed opinion, that there never was a period in which so much interest was manifested for the spiritual welfare of the African race, as at the present moment. Applications are

being constantly made to the värious theological seminaries and schools of learning of the country, for preachers and teachers to instruct these people. Many have already answered favorably, and gone forth with zeal and energy, and others are preparing themselves for this large sphere of usefulness. Several of these have been attended with the happiest results. This mission and that to the race in Africa, is peculiarly our own. With three millions and a half among us as slaves, and a half million as freemen, we stand in a position to them before God and man, such as no other people have ever stood.

The duty of providing adequate religious instruction is now generally admitted. Masters who care little for the ordinances of religion themselves, are willing to have their slaves instructed. One inducement to such may be self-interest; because religion promotes morality, and that secures good health and more faithful service. In numerous instances, a missionary is supported by a single planter, while in other cases, two, three or four unite in the compensation of a teacher to labor on their several estates.

Generally the slaves are instructed orally. Latterly they have been taught to read, and catechisms have been written for their special use. Works of evangelical writers, such as "Baxter's Call,” “Allein's Alarm,” "Bunyan s Grace Abounding:" but particularly The Pilgrim's Progress," and the Bible, have been put in their hands. Perhaps no book is more acceptable than a Hymn book: for they are all fond of music, and often learn more christian doctrine from good hymns and the Psalms, than from any other source. Quite recently a volume of "Sermons for Servants" has been issued in Virginia, under the sanction of that

great friend of the negro, Bishop Meade, of the Episcopal church.This book is described as far more likely to meet the wants of masters and servants than anything which has yet been presented."

Not a few of the slaves pray, ex-, hort and preach publicly. Often in the absence of the white pastor they take his place and perform the usual services of God's house, with acceptance to their hearers-among whom their masters and mistresses are often found-and with honor to themselves. Their language is necessarily plain, and owing to their very limited education, much repetition occurs. Occasionally, a beautiful figure of speech will gush out with all the earnestness and impressiveness natural to one thus elevated. One of these expressions we shall probably never forget. It occurred during prayer, by a member of the well known African church in Richmond, Virginia, and was used in an evident whole souled application to the throne of grace, that God would cause his sable brethren to pass from darkness into the light of the gospel.

"Do, I pray you, Lord," interceded he, "convert my poor brethren and sisters, before Justice shuts Mercy's door." How comprehensive and sublime the figure!

The spirit of education and emancipation is growing. The rising fortunes of Liberia, and the interest felt in the welfare of the colored race, are directing the attention of wise and thinking men to this subject. And there are those who wish, as speedily as may be, with safety and advantage to the slave, to rid their families, their community, and their country of slavery. Only let the young African commonwealth continue to prosper, and the ratio of emancipation will also rapidly increase and swell.

To our own knowledge, many

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