Brought forward, 430 58 Two Ridges, Jefferson county, Ohio, by Rev. T. Hunt, Rochester, New York, Female Aux. by E. Peck, Donations Bangor, Maine, by the Rev. R. R. Gurley, viz: Thomas A. Hill, John Fiske, James Crosby and W. T. & H. Paiva, J. A. Poor and Geo. W. Pickering, each $25, B. Wyatt, 200 50 40 15 M. F. Norton, Edward Kent, S. J. Foster, M. L. Appleton, Chas. 100 S. Upton, G. Hodsdon, G. Starrett, Moses Patton, John Appleton, 60 Z. Smith, B. Nourse, and two other individuals, each $3, 12 C. Kidder, R. Perkins, Jur. J. Wilkins, and another individual, each D. Sanborn, Ed. R. Johnston, Edw. Warren, Isaac Fowler, W. Frost, 12 M. Bolles, Jun. A Friend, Boston, by the Kev. R. R. Gurley, viz: Philip Greely, Jur. Samuel Door and J. C. Dunn, $100 each, Professor Ripley, Newtown Theological Seminary, - Gorham Benevolent Society, Otisfield, Rev. J. P. Richardson, by W. Hyde of Portland, Portland, by the Rev. R. R. Gurley: A friend to Africa, 250 Mrs. L. Cutter, Mrs. Cath. J. Bradley, and O. B. D. each $50, 150 Wm. Cutter, John Neal, Luther Daña, C. Goddard, Josiah Pierce, and E. Greely, each $25, 150 D. F. Emory, 20 T. A. Alexander, John Chute, and E. Steele, each $10, 30 Mrs. D. Greely, 6 E. Hayes, J. Smith, E. Steele, and Mrs. Payson, each $5, 20 2 Sumner, Rev. S. Sewall, D. W. Lord. Kennebunk Port, to constitute his mother, Mrs. Phebe Lord, 1 80 Life Members. 30 Do to constitute his wife, Mrs. Lydia A. Lord, a Life Member, THE news from the Colony, brought by the Louisiana and given in the present number of the African Repository, is in one particular most distressing, but in other respects gratifying. It contains the afflicting fact, that an infant settlement within the Liberian territory, founded by a colonizing association auxiliary to the parent institution, and under the immediate direction of its founders, has been invaded by one of the native Kings, and made a victim to the horrors of savage warfare. But it shows, on the other hand, that the confidence which has ever been felt by the advocates of colonization in the beneficent, Christian, and elevating chara ter of the system, was not misplaced. No sooner were the citizens of the older settlements informed of the catastrophe at Bassa Cove, than with one voice and one hand they rose to aid and to relieve the surviving sufferers, and to prepare for defence against the extension of hostilities to themselves. The kindness to the distressed, the sagacity and the promptitude, which were manifested on this occasion, would do honor to any community, wherever established and of whatever color; and they constitute an answer to a thousand denunciations, which precludes a reply. Several circumstances are rumored to have contributed to the attack of King Joe Harris on the Bassa Cove colonists; but which, or whether any of the rumors, and in what degree, is correct, cannot be known with certainty till an investigation, which is understood to be in progress, shall have been closed. It is however, admitted on all hands, that the entire want of the means of military defence among the settlers, was at once an inducement to the assault, and a cause of its success. It will be recollected that some two or three years ago, one of the counts in Mr. A. Tappan's indictment against the parent Society was, that "powder and ball" had been admitted into the colony.On that occasion, he was reminded of the crisis, when a hand ings to pull down the pillars of the great sanctuary of society, even over its own head,—that spirit (if it can be called such) is subdued at length in some good degree into subordination to the intellectual, social, spiritual instincts of man. New avenues are opened to his energies in these departments; the world is no more divided between a camp and a charnel-house. Mind, instead of force, has become the arbiter of nations; mind is the medium of influence, the measure of advancement, the minister to the gratification of those old longings of humanity, which, though never to be reasoned out of it, may yet be, and have been, a thousand times refined. A diligent minister it is,-indefatigable indeed, but willing and discretionary,-admitted to the privilege of advising and to the participation of results,-a companion and counsellor, more than a slave. The spiritual instincts, strictly, are included in the catalogue of resuscitated powers. The manifestations of these are in their nature noiseless, and void of ostentation; and their achievements are the same; but they are none the less real, nor the less considerable, for the want of those qualities which most attract the admiring gaze of men. The missionary spirit, alone, were sufficient to characterize the age. It is the missionary age, not less than the mechanical, or the mental, as those have severally described it who chanced to be engrossed by its changing aspects; it is the age of each and all, of glorious exertions, and great and splendid victories in all,-the age, as we began with saying, of adventure. The application of steam to purposes of navigation was an adventure. The railroad was another. Every discovery of science, and every application of it in art and in practice, were others. So was the American Revolution; and so was the French. So was the Temperance Reform; and so was the Bible Society; and the whole organization of Public Benevolence;-and the scheme of the Education of the People ;-all of them, and myriads more, harmonious issues of that stupendous source of sublime events and experiments, the mind of man,-fairly awakened at last from its slumbers, and, as a giant refreshed, relieving its panting energies with the luxury of adventure. The life of Ashmun lay in an important division of this great field of enterprise. He devoted himself early to the cause of African Colonization-itself one of the noblest demonstrations of the enlightened intellect, and courageous but considerate enthusiasm of the times. At a critical period in its history, he became its ruling director; and for years afterwards,-the pregnant years of the formation of its first character, the responsibility of its whole regulation depended upon him alone, as the Colonial Agent of the Institution. Nor is it too much to say, that the absolute preservation of the Colony, and its present existence, may be ascribed to his incredible exertions of an equally incredible energy; united, indeed, with an extraordinary fitness in other respects, for the place he was found in, at the momentous juncture referred to. Had the Colony utterly faied, and especially under the pressure of those gloomy circumstances, which it will be seen that Ashmun so effectually resisted and repelle, the shock, doubtless, mung-ed fotel to the Association itself, and proportionately e of that chari even every appearance inconsistent with the mild and beneficent spirit of a Christian people. If in seeking to avoid the latter, we may be supposed by any to have incurred the former evil, we confide in the justice and generosity of our fellow-citizens, who will not fail to attribute it to an earnest wish to eonciliate the degraded natives, and by light and love, rather than by military array, to impart to them the blessings of our civil and religious institutions. 66 Upon the whole, in balancing the difficulties which attended this subject, it was fully determined that adequate means of self-defence in the last extremity, if discreetly used, would, according to our constitution, be not only "dissuasive from war," and promotive of peace, but absolutely necessary to its permanent preservation of peace. In the mean time, trusting, under God, to the protective influence of the adjacent colonies-confiding in the amicable relations subsisting between our people and the surrounding tribes, and hoping that the demonstration of power afforded by the occasional appearance on that coast of an American ship of war, would awe those designing and wicked persons, who might be tempted by the defenceless condition of the settlement to disturb its repose, we were actively engaged in preparing to send out a third expedition, when the disastrous news, which Las clothed the friends of Africa in mourning, reached our shore. The account of the unprovoked massacre of about twenty of the colonists, in cold blood, by a neighbouring tribe, under the command of King Joe Harris, has already been communicated to the public. The effect of this unexpected and infamous attack, has been for the time, to disperse the colonists. But an asylum for the survivors was mercifully near at hand. An adequate reinforcement was speedily sent down to their relief from the upper colonies, and being joined by a faithful native ally, they promptly repelled the invaders. It is most gratifying to be enabled to say, that the second expedition, consisting of 63 emigrants from Georgia, did not arrive until this tragedy was over, and were safely landed at the port of Monrovia, so that notwithstanding the disaster so much to be deplored, the great body of our colonists not only escaped injury, but are now sheltered in the receptacles of Liberia, awaitig the occasion and means of their re-establishment under happier auspices." The Address announces the purposes of the Pennsylvania Society to be, not to send out another company of emigrants during the present season; to despatch commissioners, with power to re-establish the settlement; to send out provisions, clothing, means of defence, &c.; to request the General Government to renew the cruises of the United States' vessels of war on the African coast, and their visits to the American colonies planted there, &c. From the dreadful scene at Bassa Cove, the mind turns with pleas sure to the picture of Liberia generally, which is brought by the same arrival. The reader will find in our present number copious extracts from the colonial newspapers received by the Louisiana. They exhibit the Colony as having reached a point of moral elevation which its most sanguine friends would never have ventured to predict that, under the auspices of a private Society merely, it could attain in sixteen years. Not the least striking feature of its adt vancement is the style and spirit of the articles in the newspaper itself. The present Editor, like his predecessor, is a colored man, though with fewer advantages of education. But under the genial influence of civil and political freedom, his mind has become raised, expanded and enlightened. His compositions are characterized throughout by good sense and sound morality; and in some instances they rise to eloquence. Considerable ability is also shown by several of his correspondents; as will be seen from the only specimen for which we have found room. These instances will add strength to the opinion that Liberia is the true home for the colored man. An important advance has, it will be seen, been made, in giving to One the younger members of the Colony the benefits of EDUCATION. hundred and forty-one are receiving instruction, through the generous aid of American ladies, and one of the American churches: The moral influences which the Managers had put into operation in favor of TEMPERANCE, have already produced encouraging results. In the course of about a single month five hundred and three persons pledged themselves to total abstinence from the use or sale of intoxicating liquor; and the sight of it has become rare. The monitions of the Managers on the subject of AGRICULTURE, have also had a most salutary effect. The dangerous prejudice in favor of trade has abated, and the Colonists are at length alive to the paramount importance of cultivating the soil:-a pursuit recommended at once by the fertility of their land, and by its happy influence on their morals. Public spirit, the child of free governments, has sprung up among the citizens of Liberia, and has taken a direction conducive to the public prosperity. A general feeling of contentment with their condition and of a desire to improve its advantages, prevails. And above all, nothing appears from the last arrivals to diminish the confidence created by the whole current of previous information, that the great interests of RELIGION are sedulously cherished at the Colony. The papers from which the foregoing information has been derived, state some facts concerning the mental debasement of the native African tribes, which illustrate the importance to them of a civilized and Christian community in their neighborhood. In connexion with the intelligence concerning the Colony, brought by the Louisiana, it should be stated that information has been received from other sources, showing that the people of Liberia, in acquiring the spirit of liberty, have also become sensitive on the subject of their political and civil rights. This species of jealousy, though in principle inseparable from the nature of free governments, requires in practice great discretion to restrain it from running into unwholesome excesses, often ruinous to liberty itself. In some instances an impatience of rule has been manifested, indicating a desire to abridge the necessary period of the political pupilage of the Colony. But, it is believed, that with few exceptions, the Colonists are convinced that the Colonization Society is as anxious as they themselves can be, for their political independence, and that in withholding it for a single moment is actuated by considerations looking exclusively to their own happiness and safety. To these, it is obvious, the continued authority of the Society will be for some time indispensable. On the instant when it shall cease to be so, it will be withdrawn; but meanwhile it must be preserved, with such occasional limitations of its energy and extent as may seem to the Managers to be permitted by circumstances. The reader will be particularly struck by the portions which we have copied of an article from the Liberia Herald, in relation to the movements of the Abolitionists in the United States. It tells them that the citizens of Liberia are contented and happy; that this condition is the result of their removal from America; and that they have no desire to return hither. It argues that the course pursued by the |