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Africans go out to kidnap, they shout and hurrah round the village and frighten the inhabitants and catch them when they run. I do not know that those who purchase guns from the colony use them for this. Those who deal with slave-traders receive guns in exchange for slaves.

65. Can rum be procured at any of the stores? Yes.

66. What is its price? From $1,25 to $1,50 cts. per gallon.

67. How many went out in the Ajak last fall? About 150 or 160.

68. How many died? Twenty nine died on the voyage of whooping cough, cholera, and bowel complaint-they were almost all children. The voyage was very long. About 45 died in seasoning.

69. Were any of the physicians employed by the colony, there, when the passengers of the Ajax were sick? No. Drs. Hall and Todson were both away.

70. While you were there the Jupiter, the Argus, and the Ann arrived. How many died out of the passengers? The Jupiter brought 50, and two of them died. The Ann brought forty, and none died. 71. Are the natives healthy? They are as healthy as any people. They look far better than the blacks here. 72. How long does the seasoning last.From 3 to 24 months.

73. Does the sickness when it seizes them, make them discontented? It often does.

74. Can they ever attend to their business while sick with this disease? Many can. Children have it not as bad as grown persons.

75. Are they generally healthy after they have had this disease? Remarkably so.

76. Have any of the colonists been connected with the slave trade? Such a thing has been said-but no proof has been given. 77. What is the punishment for a person engaging in this trade? He is hung.

78. Are the colonists generally disposed to cheat the natives? They make the best bargain they can generally-so men do else where. Some of the natives are so keen as often to cheat them.

79. Have the colonists a disposition to traffick and not to agriculture? Much more attention was given to trade than to farming. More attention was given to agriculture in

4 months before I came away, than had been in six whole years before.

80. How many emigrants escape the fever? I saw three or four who had never been down a day.

81. Would the same number of slaves set free here be as well as they are there? No.

82. Why do you think so? They are not looked down upon, nor trampled upon there as they are in this country. They can do as they please.

83. Do the mass of the free colored people here live as comfortably as the mass of the colonists? No.

84. What would be necessary to enable a man to live comfortably if he went from here to Liberia? A suitable set of utensils, furniture, clothes for two or three years, enough of food to last till he could raise a crop. All these would cost about $150.

85. Does it require as much labor to raise enough to support him there, as it does here? No. He can support his family better, with half the labor.

86. Why can he do this? Because, what he raises there grows far more abundantly and with less labor.

87. Were the most of those who went out in the last expeditions emancipated slaves?— Yes.

88. Do they permit men to leave their wives there, or wives to leave their husbands? No, they put such persons in jail.

89. Are efforts made to persuade the free colored people in Kentucky not to emigrate? Yes-more than to persuade them to do so. The enemies of colonization are more active than its friends.

90. Were efforts made to prevent you giving testimony in favor of the colony? Yes. I was told in New York that if I liked Liberia, I had best keep it to my myself-that it was not popular, and I had best say nothing about it. In Philadelphia, too, I was called upon by a person to take my testimony; but he wished to make me answer according to his notions and not according to what I knew.— He wanted to ask and answer the questions both himself.

W. M. TUNSTALL, Chairman. ROBERT MCKEOWN, Secretary.

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CONCLUSION OF THE TENTH VOLUME.

In order that the volumes of this work may hereafter commence with the year, the Tenth Volume terminates with the present number. A copious Index to the whole ten volumes of the Repository has been prepared for the press, with much care and labor, and will soon be published. The Editor considers it proper to state, that absence from his office during a large portion of the past and present years, has rendered it impossible for him to give much attention to the Repository. It is hardly necessary for him to say with what success the duties that have usually devolved on him, have been discharged, since the best evidence on this subject is found in the original articles of the work, particularly in the Review of MR. BIRNEY's letter, in the last number. In these articles (from the pen of another member of the

present Board of Managers of the American Colonization Society), the Society has been ably vindicated from the aspersions which men, regardless alike of honor, of justice, and truth, have cast upon it. We refer not to MR. BIRNEY, who has doubtless permitted his imagination to dim the light of his reason, and from abstract speculations concerning human rights, to deduce the practical duties of life. We refer to men who, under the white flag of Peace, and the starry banner of Freedom, consider themselves privileged to vend wholesale slander and falsehood, and claim therefor the crown of martyrdom.

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The readers of the African Repository are aware, from the publication of the last Annual Report, and two additional reports which appeared in the March and August numbers of this work, that the Society has been for time laboring under pecuniary embarrassments, owing principally to its having sent out too large a number of emigrants to the Colony for the two or three years past. At the last annual meeting of the Society, it had an outstanding debt of $45,645.

To meet this difficulty, the Board of Managers passed an order, authorizing a loan of $50,000, to bear an interest of six per cent. to be paid off in twelve years, providing a Sinking Fund of $6000 a year from their receipts. for the regular payment of the annual instalments and interest. Upwards of $20,000 of this Stock has been taken by our creditors and friends; the former receiving it in part or in full for their claims; the latter advancing its amount in money. More than one-half of our outstanding debt has been discharged during the present year, and the balance is owing to persons who will either take stock for it, or wait our convenience for payment. It is true, the stock is still considered as a debt, but it will be paid off so gradually, as scarcely to be felt by the Society.

To effect this great object, and to supply the necessary wants of the Colony, the Society had to refrain from sending out any additional emigrants during the present year, except fourteen liberated by Mrs. Ann Page, of Frederick county, Virginia, who were sent out in the same vessel which carried out the colored people of the late Dr. Aylet Hawes, of that State, dispatched by our Auxiliary, the Young Men's Society of Pennsylvania, who are settling a new place at Bassa Cove, a territory mentioned in our last Annual Report as having been lately added to Liberia.

In the mean time, it is expected that our Agent, Mr. Pinney, will have made such regulations and improvements in the Colony, as will greatly conduce to its future prosperity, and such as will enable the inhabitants, by well-applied industry, to raise sufficient sustenance in the Colony to supply, not only all the wants of the present settlers, but also sufficient to feed such as may hereafter be sent there, independently of the Parent Society.

The principles of the Colonization Society are not to be shaken. They are gathering strength from opposition, and will outlive all the fury of the storm which has been excited against them. Made prevalent, they must preserve the integrity of our Union, exalt our national character, and open the way to the freedom, the elevation and happiness of the whole African

race.

CONTRIBUTIONS

To the American Colonization Society in the month of November, 1834. Gerrit Smith's First Plan of Subscription.

Mathew Carey, Philadelphia,

John T. Norton, Albany,

$100

100

Collections from Churches.

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do Presbyterian church, by Rev. J. Byers,

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Bethany church, Allegany co. Pa. by Rev. William Jefferey,
Bangor, Lancaster co. Pa. in the Episcopal church,

Bellevieu,

Chester District, S. C. by Warren Flenniken,

Franklin co. Pa. at Loudon and Welsh Run,

Germantown, Pa. Methodist Episcopal church, by Rev. J. Woolsen,
Hilltown, Bucks co. Pa.

Morgantown, Berks county, Pa. Episcopal church,
New Britain, Bucks county,

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Schenectady, Reformed Presbyterian church, by Rev. E. D. M'Master,
Presbyterian church, by Rev. John M'Master,

Strasburg and Lancaster, by Rev. Mr. Torbut,

Auxiliary Societies.

Clarksville, Ohio, by Samuel .V. Watkins,

Connecticut Auxiliary Society, by Seth Terry, Treasurer,
Kenyon College, Ohio, Auxiliary,

Virginia Auxiliary, by B. Brand, Treasurer,

Zanesville aud Putnam Auxiliary, by H. Safford, Secretary,

Troy Auxiliary Society,

Albany, from J. H, Prentice,

E. P. Prentice,

T. W. Olcott,

Donations.

Cash,

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Mr. Webb,

Franklin county, Pa. from Robert Kennedy,

Kinsman, Ohio, from John Kinsman and George Swift, $5 each,

Mrs. Rebecca Kinsman,

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James Lenox,

H. F. Varick,
William B. Astor,
Robert Maitland,
Philip Hone,
John Morrison,
S. Whitney,
J. & W. Kelly,
John C. Halsey,
Henry Young,
Richard Irvin,
D. Lord,

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Moses Allen, for a collection at the Dutch church, Fishkill,

Philadelphia, from Elliott Cresson,

Salem, Mass. from Rev. S. M. Worcester,

Troy, from T. B. Bigelow,

Stephen Warren,

David Buel,

D. Buel, Jr. Mr. Mabbitt, John Paine, D. O. Kellog, A. P. Heart,
John Hunter, D. Walker, W, Webb, J. L. V. Schoonhoven, A.
S. Perry, J. M. Warren, Mrs. N. Warren, J. L. Thompson,
Phil. T. Heartt, John V. Tassett, D. Gardner, P. H. Buckley,
R. P. Hart, A. Robbins, James R. Taylor, each $5,
a Gentleman,

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TO THE

AFRICAN REPOSITORY,

FROM VOLUME ONE TO VOLUME TEN, BOTH INCLUSIVE.

PREPARED IN PURSUANCE OF A

RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS

OF THE

AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY,

ADOPTED SEPTEMBER 26, 1834.

WASHINGTON:
PRINTED BY JAMES C. DUNN.

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