Female Miss. Society of the Reformed Presby. Church, Princeton, Remitted by G. B. Arnold, for Utica Colonization Society, MISSISSIPPI. Remitted by Rev. W. Winans, from Natchez, for Miss. Colonization Society, $114 68; John W. Bryan, $100; John W. Burress, $25; Mary B. McGehee, $25; John Whittaker, $25; Matilda Stewart, $12 50; Louisa Germany, $5; Julia Ramsy, 5; Stephen Windham, $11; Almira Davis, $5; S. M. Richardson, $1; Sam. H. Stockett, $10; Mrs. M. Smith, $2; Master W. Richardson, 10 cts; Francis A. Evans, $100; J. Ross, $25; J. H. Leverich, $10; Armstead & Otto, $10; Sarah B. Evans, $100; John G. Richardson, $25; Mr. Harring, $10; S. Franklin, $25; Mason Pilcher, $10; S. K. Rayburn, $5; W. Winans, $5 40; Bowe & Crenshaw, $2 57; W. M. Curtis, $2 57}, ALABAMA. Remitted by Rev. John Allan, Huntsville, on his own account, $11; for Dr. From other sources. Nett sales of Camwood, per Brig Hobart, from Liberia, Total, 671 83 50 00 $2,129 54 NOTE. In the acknowledgments of Contributions, in the 1st No. for March, only $10 is mentioned as the amount of collections in Rev. S. W. BRACE's church, Skaneatelas, N. Y.; $15 was received, being the amount of a Thanksgiving collection. AGENTS WANTED. We have recently received several letters from our friends in Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee, encouraging us to hope for liberal contributions from those States, provided suitable agents are employed. Will not the patrons of the Society name to us three such agents? Their services are required immediately. TO SUBSCRIBERS. WE earnestly appeal to those who are indebted for the Repository, to remit the amount due, both for 1840 and 1841, and thus save the Society the expense of employing agents to collect. Post Masters will remit; and any bank bills current where subscribers reside, will be received in payment. WE beg the attention of our readers, in the South and South-west, to the notice that an expedition will sail from New Orleans about the 15th of April next. We hope all our exchange papers will insert this notice. Let the Emigrants on all the tributaries of the Mississippi be ready at that time; and, let the patrons of the Society remember, that the expedition just sailed, has drained our treasury. Our funds, then, must be increased, and that immediately. Let all our agents redouble their diligence, as we are doing at this office, to raise money. It will require every possible exertion to provide the means to send off the contemplated expedition. THE AFRICAN REPOSITORY, AND COLONIAL JOURNAL. Published semi-monthly, at $1 50 in advance, when sent by mail, or $200 if not paid till after the expiration of six months, or when delivered to subscribers in cities. VOL. XVII.] WASHINGTON, APRIL 15, 1841. [No. 8. 66 AFRICAN EMIGRATION. "A SHIP has lately sailed from London for the coast of Africa, on board of which is Mr. BARCLAY, the General Agent for Jamaica, whose object it is to induce natives of Africa to proceed voluntarily to the West Indies, as free emigrants, to be employed in the cultivation of the cane, &c. They are to be quite unfettered by engagements before embarkation, and free to choose their own employers and make their own terms on reaching their new homes. It is suggested that this is the commencement of an African emigration which may one day supersede the slave trade throughout the world." We cut the above extraordinary article from the Philadelphia Presbyterian. The planters in the West Indies have tried several expedients for procuring laborers to supply the places of those freed slaves who have refused to work on the plantations. They have offered strong inducements to the Germans, yet have obtained but few. They have had several agents in this country endeavoring to induce the free colored people to emigrate. Their success was, for a time, encouraging; but the first who removed were dissatisfied, and many have returned, and made such a report as will probably put an end to further emigration to the British Islands. The project of supplying the Islands with laborers from Africa, has been entertained for some time, and has received the sanction of the Government. The Palladium, a newspaper published in St. Lucia, one of the smaller islands, thus notices the scheme: "We look upon this as presenting a golden opportunity to those who have taken a correct view of the condition of our labor market, for acquiring that additional force-and of the right sort of which there is so great a want just now. The emigration cry is general throughout the Colonies-particularly in Demarara and Trinidad, where large funds have been already prepared for the promotion of emigration on an extensive scale and the population of Sierra Leone, as far as we have been able to ascertain it, is not of that inexhaustible number as to leave the smaller Colonies much chance against their larger and more wealthy neighbors, in the acquisition of laborers out of it, unless immediate steps be taken, It being not known every where that Government has sanctioned the removal of Africans hitherwards, we should not wonder for their conveyance to Trinidad and Demarara. We see no difficulty, with the offer of Captain GLAUCON before us, to the planters of St. Lucia being as early and as well served as their neighbors. The voyage from this island to Sierra Leone and back, it is estimated, would be accomplished in sixty days; so that, allowing the vessel to make a month's stay there, it would only require three months in all for one voyage." Several vessel loads of recaptured Africans have been sent to the West Indies as soldiers, some have been sent under pretext of being instructed in agriculture, and we see no obstacle in the way of the British Government's obtaining a full supply of laborers from Africa. That portion of the recaputured Africans which are suited to the army, are selected on landing, and placed under drill. There is no difficulty in obtaining the consent of those rescued from a slave ship to enter the army, nor would there be any in obtaining their consent to go to the West Indies. The demand, however, cannot be supplied by the capture of slave ships, or by breaking up the baracoons or slave factories. But what difference would there be in principle, should the British, as a means of regenerating Africa, and putting an end to the internal slave trade, (the avowed object of their policy,) supply the deficiency by negotiating with the kings in the interior for surrendering their slaves, that they might be sent to the West Indies, to be Christianized and civilized? No difficulty would be found in obtaining the consent of these slaves; and, when the British have resolved that they must have more laborers in the West Indies, and that they can only be procured from Africa, we apprehend that a very slight consent will suffice them. We shall look with much anxiety for the further development of British policy, in their movements in Africa. Mr. McQUEEN'S suggestion, (which is, to regain control of the trade of the tropical produce of the world, by some means or other,) will, we believe, form the basis of that policy. This can only be accomplished by increasing the amount of labor in the British West Indies, and reducing the amount of labor in Cuba and Brazil. The latter can only be done by cutting off their supply of laborers, obtained by the slave trade, and the former can be accomplished by plans referred to in the above article. We see in a late English paper, that the British ministry contemplates a reorganization of the mixed commission court for recaptured Africans in the Island of Cuba. It is alleged that the recaptured Africans, whose cases are adjudicated in that court, are disposed of in such a way as consigns them to slavery. It is proposed to give the slaves the privilege of selecting the British Islands as their future home. The policy of the British in relation to slavery, seems to adapt itself to circumstances. In the West Indies they abolish slavery, while in the East not a chain is broken; there the iron hand of power grasps its victim as closely as ever. For years, millions have been spent, and thousands of lives have been sacrificed, to suppress the slave trade, and to secure the native African against forcible removal from his country; now, it is discovered that his condition can be improved, by taking the place recently occupied by the West India slaves. British benevolence is much affected by the circumstances of color and locality. It is greatly concerned about the condition of the Negroes on one part of our continent, but wholly indifferent to that of the Indians on another. The following extract from the Report of Mr. SLACUM, U. S. N., who was commissioned by the State Department to examine into the condition of the Oregon Territory, to be found in Senate Document No. 24, 1837-38, will show that the barbarous policy of enslaving the North American Indians has been long and extensively practised by the British Hudson's Bay Company, second only in power to that of the East India Company, and governing one-third of North America. "INDIAN SLAVERY.-The price of a slave varies from eight to fifteen blankets; women are valued higher than men. If a slave dies within six months of the time of purchase, the seller returns one half of the purchase money. As long as the Hudson's Bay Company permit their servants to hold slaves, the institution of slavery will be perpetuated, as the price of eight to fifteen blankets is too tempting for an Indian to resist. Many instances have occurred where a man has sold his own children. The chief factor at Vancouver says, the slaves are the property of the women with whom their workmen live, and do not belong to men in their employ, although I have known cases to the contrary. We shall see how this reasoning applies. These women, who are said to be the owners of the slaves, are frequently bought themselves by the men with whom they live, when they are mere children; of course they have no means to purchase, until their husbands or their men make the purchase from the proceeds of their labor, and then these women are considered the ostensible owners, which neither lessens the traffic in, nor ameliorates the condition of, the slave, whilst the Hudson's Bay Company find it to their interest to encourage their servants to intermarry, or live with the native women, as it attaches the men to the soil:-their offspring (half breeds) in turn become useful hunters and workmen, at the different depots of the Company. The slaves are generally employed to cut wood, hunt, and fish for the families of the men employed by the Hudson's Bay Company, and are ready for any extra work. Each man of the trapping parties has from two to three slaves who assist him to hunt, and take care of the horses and camps; they thereby save the Company the expense of employing at least double the number of men that would otherwise be required in these excursions." It is strange that this Indian slavery did not attract the notice of the World's Convention. COMMUNICATED. EMIGRATION TO LIBERIA. THE plan proposed in the last number of the Repository for the emigration of an independent company to Liberia, is a most happy one. If the friends of Colonization would take pains to present the subjest to free colored men of intelligence, enterprise and means, there is little doubt that a large number would engage in such an enterprise. Men of this description have many inducements to remove to a country where they may be free indeed, in every sense of the word, where they may make and administer their own laws, and be their own governors, beyond the reach of that prejudice of education which must ever attach to them in this country. To those who have means to commence with in Liberia, the inducements are adequate to the greatest enterprise; for, while the poorest are enabled to assume a position which they could never attain in this country, those with a little property can soon make themselves independent. Those who have children will find the means to educate them in the schools already established. Mechanics will find ample employment for their labor, and the soil, yielding three crops a year, will ensure a competence, and a sure reward to those who cultivate it; while the numerous vessels touching at the ports of Liberia for supplies, will always furnish a ready market for all surplus produce, giving in return, money or the necessaries of life. Men going out with means will be aided in making investments in such articles as are required, and that will yield a profit. The disposition to emigrate, now spreading among the free colored people of the United States, promises a speedy settlement of the country; and it is only necessary to point to the results of emigration from our eastern to the western states, to show how much may be effected in a few years by emigrating to Liberia. Great privations and exertions are to be endured in the first settlement of any country. A ready example is found in the western country, which now contains its thronging millions of happy, intelligent and wealthy citizens. The more recent settlers listen with incredulity to the stories of fifteen years ago, "told, and enlarged at every telling," of the sickness, sufferings and privations of the "first settlers of the West." Those whose hardships were formerly commisserated by their "eastern friends," are now surrounded by wealth and luxury, the result of their own industry. So it will be with Liberia. Terrible accounts have been circulated of "sickness and famine ;" but the time will come when the emigrants to that country will look back with pity and amazement upon the idle fears, and want of ene terprise, in those who remain to be servants of servants, instead of emigrating at once to a country where they may take a position among the nations of the earth, and, forming their own institutions and Government, show to the world that their race is capable of appreciating and enjoying civil liberty and its blessings-a country where a field is open for emulation in literature, the arts and sciences, and where the social virtues and pleasures may be inculcated and handed down to posterity. It has been often urged that the colored man is incapable of self-government. This may be true of the mass; but there are some very capable men in the country, and on them devolves the responsibility of giving a proper turn to the views of the many. The present proposition affords an opportunity, for such as are capable, of collecting their brethren together, of superintending their emigration and settlement in a future, permanent |