NINTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE American Society FOR COLONIZING THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOUR OF THE UNITED STATES. WITH AN APPENDIX. Washington City. PRINTED BY WAY & GIDEON. ....... AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. The Ninth Annual Meeting of the AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY, was held in the Supreme Court room, at the Capitol, on Monday, January 9th, 1826. The Hon. HENRY CLAY, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Society, took the chair. Mr. CLAY rose, and said, it was with great regret he had to communicate, that the worthy and venerable President would be unable to attend on this interesting occasion of the annual meeting of the Society; and in consequence of his absence, he had yielded, to what he believed to be the wishes of some of his friends, and to a sense of the duty enjoined by the Constitution of the Society, to take the chair. Every one was so well apprised of the object of the present meeting, that it would not be necessary to occupy their time by dwelling on it; it was well known to every one, that it was to disclose the transactions of the Society during the past year-to open prospects for the future, and to derive from the past, and the contemplation of the future, new animation in stimulating them to the great objects of the enterprise which had engaged their attention. |