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..... Zanesville-Wm. Culbertson, by Rev. W. Wylie, D. D..... ILLINOIS. Eureka-Contribution from the Amite County-E. T. Merrick, MISSOURI. 7 00 13 00 5 00 18.00 15 00 50 00 25 00 75.00 St. Louis-Missouri State Colonization Society, amount expended on account of emigrants, by Rev. W. D. Shumate, Agt. Missouri State Col. Society... 811 75 Total Contributions...... $620-59 FOR REPOSITORY. MAINE. -Bath--R. Nutter, to July, 1854.. VERMONT.--Charlotte-Jno.Strong, to July, 1857. MASSACHUSETTS.-By Rev. Jos. Tracy:-Lowell--W. S. Southworth, 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.... 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. FiskevilleH. 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 Depot--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... 2 00 KENTUCKY.-Paris-William C. Lyle, to January, 1855.... ILLINOIS.-Springfield-Hon.Jno Moore, to January, 1854... 10 00 Total Repository. Total Contributions. Total Legacies..... 22 00 7.00 .1.00 12.00 2.00 1.00 3.00 .... Total on account of emigrants sent to Liberia.... Aggregate Amount. 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 expen ditures 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 cannot, at present, calculate on funds to dispatch an expedition from Bal- come from we cannot tell. 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, insert- || of the colored population, manifest ed on our last page, is from a source in our Southern States. Enjoying 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 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 various 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 'far more great friend of the negro, Bishop Meade, of the Episcopal church. This book is described as likely to meet the wants of masters and servants than anything which has yet been presented." Not a few of the slaves pray, exhort 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 for tunes 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 that himself and those under him were cognizant of the humane and disinterested intention of their mas ter. However their departure has been delayed, and under white government, they are now anxiously and successfully pressing on, and soon will doubtless be "sitting under their own vine and fig tree." This same gentleman thus intends to prepare and fit alt his slaves for the only place where they can enjoy real freedom. Being now advanced in years, he has his plans so arranged, that should death overtake him be successors will put them in execution, as originally resolved by himself. masters are now preparing their slaves for future usefulness in Africa. They consider they would be doing not only their servants, but the natives of that benighted continent, an injury in sending them there without some preparation for the change. Hence, more than one officer of the Colonization Society, resident at the South, is actively engaged in a thorough course of instruction, calculated to make them good citizens. When this shall have been accomplished, they propose giving them their freedom, and such money, tools and clothing, as is sufficient to make them comfortafore his designs are completed, his ble, and to afford them a start in their new home and country. This was the praiseworthy course pursued by the truly benevolent late John McDonogh, of New Orleans, who in 1844 emancipated over eighty of his people, and furnished them with an ample outfit. His example is being largely followed. A distinguished Virginian, widely and universally known and respected for his labors of love in this and other christian institutions, has now a large company on an estate in Alabama, (which he purchased for the purpose,) undergoing not only the training necessary to qualify them for the blessings of liberty and equality, but to acclimate them for removal to Africa. Were it not for the baseness of the [black] overseer, appointed to the office from his previous good conduct, but whom power corrupted, some sixty of them would ere this have been in Liberia. What adds to his disgrace is the fact, Various other instances of the same generous and honorable character could be mentioned in this connection, which for prudential reasons alone, we are compelled to forbear adverting to. This work is truly a noble one, embracing both home and foreign obligations. Many of the slaves in our Southern brotherhood of States are destined to bear the lamp of truth and righteousness to their unnumbered and unenlightened countrymen, according to the flesh.How important even in this respect, that they should be rightly taught? Let the whole body of christian professors gird themselves up for the heavenly mission, and the great Creator of all, who is no respecter of persons, will abundantly crown their labors with success. [From the Colonization Herald.] Spirit, Scope, and Work of African Colonization. THE Genius of African Colonization does not, in any sense whatever, affiliate with slavery on the one hand, or with abolition on the other. WM. C. And yet, there are found among its friends and patrons, both the christian slaveholder at the South, and the christian abolitionist at the |