commerce alike contrary to morals and to law; they will encourage the composition of such works as will be useful to the abolition, and the translation of foreign works on the same subject, where the design and tendency of them is ascertained; they will make known, and second every enterprise which shall be carried into effect with the intention of annihilating directly or indirectly the slave-trade. The publications intended to appear in the Journal of the Society shall first be submitted to the committee of publication.

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ART. 3. The committee is therefore authorized to open and carry on a correspondence, 1st in France and in Europe with such societies and persons as are devoted to the same work, or are disposed to concur in it, in order to profit by their counsels, their example and their assistance 2d, beyond the continent of Europe in order to confirm and encourage the progress of exertions for the abolition of the slave-trade and the amelioration of the condition of the blacks, in different parts of the globe, and especially to animate and assist the philanthropic establishments on the coast of Africa for the civilization of the blacks.

ART. 4. The result of this correspondence, of which an account shall be rendered to the council of the society, shall be made public, either by insertion in the journal of the Society, or in some other way.

ART. 5. The Society will accept contributions, offered by a member of the Society, or by any other person, appropriated specifically for the abolition of the slave-trade. The committee is also authorized to receive subscriptions in money or other offerings for the same object. The different sums contributed will be placed in the hands of the treasurer of the Society, who will keep a separate account of them.

ART. 6 The expenditures judged useful by the committee, shall be supplied only out of the special fund, except by express authority of the cou ncil ofadministration.

ART. 7. Besides the ordinary communications of the committee with the council of administration, there shall be once a year, a report of all their proceedings, as well as a statement of the most interesting circumstances which have come under their cognizance in the course of the year. This report shall be added to the general report of the Society, and read with it at the annual general meeting conformably to the 17th rule.

The committee will receive subscriptions for any sum which shall be offered to them, and communications from any person who shall be disposed to collect subscriptions or enter into correspondence with them. Letters should be addressed free of expense to M.M. les Presidens and Membres de la Societe de la Morale Chretienne, rue Taranne, No. 12.

The amount of the subscriptions will be received at the office of the Society, and by M. Dominique Andre, banker, treasurer of the Society rue Cadet No. 9.

No. 7.-Sept. 7, 1822.

The adjourned meeting on the subject of an Auxiliary Colonization Society, and of a Society to aid in the suppression of the Slave Trade, was held on Wednesday evening, George Blake, Esq, in the chair, Mr. Lewis Tappan, Esq. Secretary, in the absence of the Rev. Mr. Frothingham, who acted as Secretary at the previous meeting. The following Report was presented by the committee and read, and after an interesting discussion of the whole subject, was unanimously accepted.

Report of the Committee appointed at Boston to consult about the expediency of affording aid to the Colonization Society. The Committee appointed to consider the expediency of forming a Society for the purpose of aiding the funds of the Colonization Society, or assisting in the suppression of the slave trade, have paid such attention to the subject referred to them as the time and their opportunities would permit, and respectfully submit the following Report:

The importance of providing some remedy for the evils arising from the rapid relative increase of the black population in some portions of our country is becoming every year more serious. It is now well known that where a slave population abounds their ratio of increase is much greater than that of the people among whom they live.-Hence the time cannot be far distant, when their numbers in some of the States and their power, will predominate over that of those who hold them in servitude, unless some mode is devised of diminishing their numbers, or some provision made for removing the surplus portion of them.

It was in the expectation of furnishing, in some measure, a remedy for these evils, or at least of diminishing their danger, that the American Society for Colonizing the free people of colour of the United States was established. This Society has been in operation nearly six years, and its affairs appear to have been conducted with much enterprise and zeal, and as your Committee believe, in a spirit of enlighten. ed Christian benevolence,

Were the objects of this Society extended no farther than to the Colonization of such people of colour in our country as are already free, or who will become free in the ordinary course of events, they would not, in the view of the Committee, be such as to excite that deep interest among us which is necessary to secure a very active co-operation. It might indeed afford some advantages to that unhappy people to remove them from their present degraded state, to a condi tion more free from temptations to vice, and more favourable to moral and intellectual improvement; and it would doubtless confer a benefit upon the community from which they are taken. And if through the medium of a Colony thus established, the arts of civilized life and the blessings of Christianity can be introduced among a people who are ignorant of both, the good that may be done may be greatly increased, But the accomplishment of these objects, valuable as they are, appears too remote and of too difficult an attainment to admit of their enlisting our feelings very ardently in the cause. Other objects of benevolence press upon us with more urgent solicitations and more immediate prospects of usefulness.

But if, while these purposes are accomplished, the Colonization of the free people of colour will aid effectually in the suppression of the Slave Trade, so as to lead to the entire abolition of that detestable traffick; and at the same time afford such encouragement to the emancipation of slaves as to prepare the way for the gradual extermination of slavery, it would become an object worthy of the attention and assistance of the whole Christian world.

That such are the designs and expectations of those who are most active in managing the concerns of the American Colonization Society, the Committee have the fullest confidence. The Committee are not prepared to give an opinion how far these expectations are likely to be realized. If a Colony decidedly and actively hostile to the Slave Trade can be maintained on the coast of Africa, and especially if several could be supported on different parts of that coast, much might doubtless be done to aid cruisers in the pursuit of slave ships, by furnishing supplies, and by giving information of their places of rendezvous. We are also assured that there are proprietors of slaves who are desirous of emancipating them, and that many will be thus emancipated as soon as an asylum shall be suitably prepared for them, and the means provided of transporting them to it.

We have no means of ascertaining how extensively such a disposition prevails among the holders of slaves. But there is reason to apprehend that it is at present limited to a very small portion of them. The events of the last two or three years have furnished melancholy proof that the great body of people in the slave holding states are very little disposed to relinquish any of the advantages which their slaves afford them. That there are exceptions to this feeling we are fully persuaded, and we hope there are many. It is only from the belief which the Committee very cordially entertain, that the active members of the American Colonization Society are perfectly disposed to frame their measures with reference to the entire suppression of the Slave Trade, and to a gradual and prudent, but complete emancipation of those now held in slavery, that we can regard the society as having any claim upon the sympathy or assistance of the people of New-England.

At the same time there are other modes by which assistance can be given towards suppressing the Slave Trade, without losing sight of the objects which have been mentioned.

A Society is particularly needed to aid in prosecuting those who are concerned in carrying on this trade. By combining the influence and exertions of its members, this purpose may be accomplished much more effectually than by individuals alone.

The Committee would therefore respectfully recommend, that a Society be formed for the general purpose of assisting in the suppression of the Slave Trade; that a subscription be opened to provide funds for the proposed Society; and that the government of the Society be fully authorized to make such a disposal of the funds as they shall judge most conducive to the object of its institution. If, on further attention to the subject, the Managers of the Society shall be satisfied that the operations of the American Colonization Society are favourable to the suppression of the Slave Trade, they will be disposed to aid them as far as their funds will permit; while they will not neglect any other means, that may present themselves, of accomplishing that object. As, however, there may be some who are prepared to contribute at once to the funds of the American Colonization Society, the Committee would propose that the subscription should be so arranged as to leave it to the option of each subscriber, either to appropriate the amount of his subscription directly or indirectly to that object, or commit it to the disposal of the government of this Society.

E. HALE JR. per Order.

The Committee also presented a draft of a Constitution of the proposed Society, which was adopted, as follows; and it was voted that the blank in the second article be filled by the Managers.

CONSTITUTION.

Of the Massachusetts' Society to aid in the Suppression of the Slave Trade. Art. 1. The Society shal be called "The Massachusetts Society to aid in the Suppression of the Slave Trade;" and its objects shall be, either to assist the American Colonization Society, or to contribute towards suppressing the Slave Trade by such other means as the Managers shall judge best.

Art. II. Every person who shall subscribe and pay annually a sum not less than dollars, shall be a member of the Society.

Art. III. The officers of the Society shall be a President, Vice-President, Corresponding and Recording Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall also be Managers, and five additional Managers. The Board of Managers shall have power to elect honorary Vice-Presidents.

Art. IV. Every subscriber shall be permitted to appropriate the amount of his subscription, either to be paid over to the American Colonization Society, or to be left at the disposal of this Society, as he shall direct in his subscription.

Art. V. All the funds of the Society not specially appropriated, as described in the preceding article. shall be subject to the order of the Board of Managers, to be disposed of as they shall judge most conducive to the objects of the Society.