THE AFRICAN REPOSITORY, AND COLONIAL JOURNAL. VOL, VI. Published by order of the Managers of THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. THE PROFITS ARISING FROM THIS WORK, ARE DEVOTED TO THE Washington: 1831. JAMES C. DUNN, PRINTER AND PUBLISHER; GEORGETOWN, D. C. Church, Maryland Convention of the Associate Methodist Education, African 257 Religion of an African tribe, Review of Judge Blackford's address, on the course and termination of the Niger, Report of Philadelphia Committee, - of Committee, in Senate of Massachusetts, of the African Mission School Society, Recaptured Africans, - Female Colonization of Georgetown, Pennsylvania State Colonization Worcester Co. Massachusetts Societies, formation of Auxiliaries, Delivered to the Colonization Society of Kentucky, at Frankfort, December 17, 1829, by the Hon. Henry Clay, at the request of the Board of Managers. GENTLEMEN OF THE COLONIZATION SOCIETY OF KENTUCKY : I MOST sincerely wish that the task of addressing you, on this occasion, had been assigned, by the Board of Managers, to some individual more competent than I am to explain and illustrate and enforce the claims of the Society to the friendly and favourable consideration of the public. I yield to none in a thorough persuasion of the utility of the scheme of the Society, in a profound conviction of its practicability, and in an ardent desire for its complete success. But I am sensible that there are many others who could more happily than I can, throw around the subject those embellishments which are best calculated to secure attention, and engage the cordial and energetic co-operation of the community. When the application was first made to me to deliver this address, I hesitated to comply with it, because I apprehended that my motives would be misconceived, and my language be misrepresented. Subsequent reflection determined me to adhere to the maxim of my whole life, to endeavour to render all the good in my power, without being restrained by the misconceptions to which I might expose myself. In entering upon the duty which has devolved upon me, I ask only the exercise of ordinary liberality in judging the imperfections which will doubtless mark its performance. In surveying the United States of North America and their Territories, the beholder perceives, among their inhabitants, three separate and distinct races of men, originally appertaining to three different continents of the globe, each race varying from the others in colour, physical properties, and moral and intellectual endowments. The European is the most numerous; and, as well from that fact, as from its far greater advance in |