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benevolence or curiosity attracted to witness the departure of the emigrants . They were very cheerful , smiling" gaily at the prospect before them . A hymn was sung , in which the officers and crew , emigrants and visitors , mingled their voices in unfeigned solemnity . After which , the R ^ vr-Mrri ^ onansT ^ rd ^ an ^ ffeTti o ^
ate and pertinent address , and invoked on them the blessings of Almighty God . When we extended them the parting hand , and bade them adieu for ever , they seemed overcome by a sense of our kindness
and burst into tears . Thus departed , accompanied by the sympathies and prayers of the patriot and the Christian , the first expedition of emigrants to Liberia , frotn the Valley of the Mississippi , and the port of New Orleans . '
The * 'African Repository , ' has recently published a letter from two highly respectable coloured men , to the Rey ; . Mr . J ^ l ^ y ^ in regard to the Colony at JLiberia . They were deputed by their friends in Natchez , to visit Liberia , and make report of the condition and prospects of the Colony at Liberia . The authors of this
report have determined on removing to the Colony with their families . They have , ere this , probably sailed . The letter , which is too long for insertion in our pages , gives a most favourable account of the condition an ( * prospects of the Colony . It concludes thus : * jt is our deliberate
judgment , that the free people of colour will greatly improve their character and condition , and become more happy and more useful , by a removal to Liberia . There alone can the black man- enjoy true freedom ; and" where ~ th atfreedom"is , shall be our country /
The friends of African emigration in America have started a magazine , called ' The Colonizationist and Journal of Freedom , ' devoted primarily to the exposition and support of the princi p les and plans of the American Colonization Society ,
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as the former have heretofore been mainly declared in the authentic publications of that Society , and the latter developed in the course of its history , and the history of the Colony it has founded on the African coast / Temperance Societies appear to be fast annihilatinsr one of the worst
"features of American manners . Ori one occasion the keeper of a house of public entertainment delivered a lecture on the evil effects of habitually drinking ardent spirits , and declared his resolution not to suffer any more to be sold in his house . Another painted on his sign board ,
* No ardent spirits sold here . ' These are indications of a zeal against the filthy vice of drunkenness in which we rejoice . The time will come , when artificial preventives will not be needed , meanwhile we are glad of any measures whose tendency is to restore men to the constant possession of reason .
Foreign Missions and JBiWe _ j Sor cieties occupy as large a sh are of attention in America as here , and are carried on in much the same manner ; but perhaps with even a greater manifestation of zeal . In addition to the file of the
* Christian Register , ' from which we have gathered the foregoing particulars , we have received several numbers of a weekly newspaper , denominated ' The Friend / the first ^ un ^ ber of which was . published jn April last . We extract the following —* Proposals for publishing in the city of Pittsburgh , a weekly paper , to be entitled ' The Friend /
The Young Men ' s Society of Pittsburgh and its Vicinity , propose to have published , under their superintended title ; the first number of which shall be issued early in the following month of May . ' ' TheSociety now named , which sustains the relation of a Branch to the
? ' American Young . Men s Society , " was organized on the first day of this present year . The object of it h the
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1833, page 249, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2619/page/25/
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