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: APPENDIX.

Note A.

THE conduct of the citizens of Boston, during the preparations for the Vine's departure, was worthy of the high character they have acquired for liberality towards the various benevolent institutions of the age. We refer our readers, for particulars, to the concluding article in the Appendix of our Report of the last year.

Note B.

"I am certainly justified in the assertion that very few even of the most indolent minds amongst us, have not clear and precise ideas of our system. The last annual election of Colonial officers in August, was distinguished by a dispassionate intelligence of selection, which afforded the best pledge of the kind yet given, of the increasing competency of the people for self-government. The election resulted in the appointment of such men to the offices of the Colony, as not only possess the essential qualifications for a proper discharge of their functions, but who were known to be entirely disposed to a cordial co-operation with their Agent.The civil prerogatives and government of the Colony, and the body of laws by which they are respectively secured and administered, are the pride of all. Former experience has convinced them of the absurdity of straining a point of personal independence to such lengths as to weaken the force of the laws, or impede the energetic movements of the executive arm. The first appearance of such turbulent examples (and every expedition from the United States furnishes several) is now seen to excite disgust, and awaken a general sentiment of derision and opposition; which seldom fails more effectually to instruct and cure the ignorance and perversity against which it is directed, than the coercive power of law itself.

"The litigious practices of the first and second years of the Colony, have been so far reformed by the accession of more friendly feelings, and correcter ideas of moral justice, amongst the Colonists, as, for some months past, to have left the courts of justice little else to do, but to verify transfers of property, and announce, in cases of difficulty, the just construction of the laws.

"In the punishment of offences, the most lenient maxims of modern jurisprudence have been observed, by way of experiment on human nature, in that particular modification of it exhibited by the population of this Colony."

Note C.

Many of the early emigrants to Liberia - were among the most distinguished of their class, for intelligence and piety in the United States. They did not embark in the difficult and doubtful enterprize of founding a Colony, without reflection. They were prepared to meet the obstacles which must be surmounted, and to endure the trials which were inevitable. Speaking of the carly events of the Colonial History, Mr. Ashmun observes,

"To arrive at the remote spot on which these humble scenes were transacted, I must tax the reader's imagination with a flight across the Atlantic ocean, which, by limiting the circle of his ordinary avocations, may hitherto have bounded the range of his liveliest sensibilities. I must send it far from the polished and populous districts of European and Asian refinement-beyond the habitations of civilized man-to the least frequented recess of a coast almost the least frequented on the globe. On this spot, a handful of coloured emigrants from the United States, in whose bosoms the examples of history had never kindled the fire of emulation-whose only philosophy had been acquired from a series of dispiriting conflicts with every form of physical and moral adversity-and whose prospects, at that moment, were as dark and appalling, as the memory of the past was embittered-ejected from the land of their birth,-hostility, famine, and destruction menacing them in that of their adoption: such is the humble character of the individuals, and equally humble is the scenery and the action which are to enliven the incidents of this narrative."

Yet amid scenes like these, the religion of these settlers did not die. It appeared to take deeper root in the storm, and not only sustained its professors, but pervaded the minds of a great portion of the community.

"Under the second division of the article of information, already in part anticipated, it is a circumstance to me, and I trust will prove to the Society, more substantially satisfactory than any others I have to communicate: that their Colony is in deed and reality a Christian community. The Holy Author of our religion and salvation, has made the hearts of a large proportion of these people the temples of the Divine Spirit. The faith of the everlasting Gospel, with an evidence and strength which nothing short of the power of the Almighty can produce or sustain, has become the animating spring of action, the daily rule of life, the source of immortal hope and ineffable enjoyment, to a large proportion of your Colonists. God is known in his true character-his worship is celebrated in its purity-the doctrines of salvation are received in their genuine simplicity by very many. Occurrences of a favourable or depressing aspect are regarded as dispensations of the Almighty, and followed with correspondent feelings of gratitude or humiliation. Tears of affectionate joy or sorrow are often seen to flow in the house of God, from hearts silently melting under the searching influence of his word. I have seen the proudest and profanest foreigners that ever visited the Colony, trembling with amazement and conviction, almost literally in the descriptive phraseology of St. Paul, 'find the secrets of their hearts made manifest, and falling down upon their faces, worship God, and report that God is in the midst of this people of a truth.'

"These facts I have judged it my duty to state, to the praise of that God to whom we are entirely indebted for so precious a testimony of his favour, and for the information of thousands in the United States, to whose prayers and pious attentions we may, under the Most High, refer it. I am not insensible of the delicacy and responsibility attending the publication of a statement of this nature; and of the great danger a more cautious pen than mine might incur, of communicating on it, either too little or too

much. But as the grand secret of the improving circumstances of this Colony, of the respect it commands without, and of the happiness, order, and industry which reigns within it, is wrapped up in the controlling influence of religion on the temper and habits of the people, I should greatly wrong the cause of truth, by suppressing or too lightly passing by, a topic of such leading importance. The precious hopes of an immortality of vigorous and beatific existence in the presence of God and the Redeemer, are no inefficient principles of action and of happiness in the human mind, even in the midst of this mixed and tumultuous life: and they have attended and sustained a large number whom Providence has taken from us, till they passed rejoicing, the limits of mortality, and left us in tears. Many more are now waiting, full of the same glorious hopes,' for the final summons of their Heavenly Master.-And shall it ever be, that a torrent of infidelity, heresy, or irreligion, shall, in judgment for our ingratitude, find its way from the dark caverns of hell to this consecrated retreat of the humble worshippers of God; and convert to a moral waste, a young plantation which He condescends himself to water and to keep!"

Note D.

A house in Baltimore is about to commence trade with Liberia, and we hope will find sufficient inducements to prosecute it. Probably no station on the whole western coast of Africa is more favourable to a profitable traffic with the interiour than Montserado. Its rapidly increasing commerce augurs well for its prosperity, and by affording very strong motives to companies for trade to send out their vessels, will contribute greatly to the facilities for emigration, and consequently, to the augmentation of its nuur

bers.

Note E.

In a war with the native tribes, during the very first year of the Colony's existence, the members of the settlement, instructed and directed in their operations by Mr. Ashmun, evinced a degree of energy and courage, which has not perhaps been exceeded

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