Arm them with every weapon thou canst find, That none had marked with what menacing force With sudden thunder, sterner music made! V. Then Don Liugo, fixed his daring eye 66 Deem me no pirate! yet the pirate's name Hath more than thine of grandeur, less of shame! Severed by one exterminating blow, VI. The rest fought madly, and that awful deck, FOURTH OF JULY SERMONS. MANY of our clerical friends preached effectively in behalf of Colonization, on the late Anniversary of our Nation's Independence. Many of those sermons are too good to be salted down for coming generations ;— they ought to be laid before the community of readers; they ought to be circulated every where. Sermons that will induce people to give their mony to benevolent objects in these hard times, ought to be kept in active employment. We would, therefore, ask the favor of their authors to send them to us for publication in the Repository. If any wish not to send us a whole sermon, let them make such extracts as they think will be most useful. AGENTS WANTED. THE accounts we have received from the Colony of Liberia are so cheering, the success which has attended all the efforts we have made to raise funds the last few months is so great, and our wants are now so pressing, that we must enlist the services of some more agents. We have now but two or three in the field who give their whole time to it. We want to employ immediately ten more. We can assign them good ground to operate upon, and plenty of it; and we will allow them a liberal compensation. Will not our exchange papers insert the above, in connexion with some of the best articles in our present and last numbers, and thus aid us in carrying on this great work. Let them give conspicuous place to something like this: "The American Colonization Society wants immediately ten good agents to raise money for that Institution;" and they may greatly aid our cause. If any individual contemplates an agency, let him look over our receipts for the last few months, and he will see that money can be raised; and by a few moments meditation on the great operations and accomplishments of Colonization, he may be convinced that there is a field of usefulness open to him here, in which he can reap a harvest of rich reward. REMIT WHAT YOU HAVE. As we have heavy demands soon to meet, we will thank Agents, Clergymen, Auxiliary Societies and others, having funds in their hands, to remit them to us as soon as possible. They can do it conveniently through their members of Congress. THE SLAVE TRADE-COLONIZATION. THE following is from "The Friend of Africa," published in London. It shows how the slave trade is carried on in the vicinity of Sierra Leone. We have often called public attention to this fact, as presenting one of the strongest proofs that the slave trade cannot be suppressed by any naval force, however strong, while the present plans of operations are pursued, An entirely different course must be taken by their men-of-war engaged in this work, and it must be prosecuted with entirely different motives, before any good will result from their presence on the coast of Africa : "THE SLAVE TRADE.-It is a melancholy, and, in some measure, a humiliating consideration, that no where along the coast of Africa does the slave trade flourish in more poisonous vigor than in the neighborhood of Sierra Leone. "We have no intention at present to inquire into the causes of what the late Governor of the Colony (Governor DOHERTY) describes as an insolent defiance' of British authority; it is enough for our present purpose to call attention to the fact itself. We may surely learn from it the necessity of some improvement in the means which have hitherto been put in requisition for the suppression of this abominable traffic. In the following extract from a dispatch addressed by Sir JOHN JEREMIE to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, we find an important suggestion thrown out upon this head. The whole subject, indeed, deserves serious consideration. "It is with much regret and some surprise that I find the immediate neighborhood of Sierra Leone the scene of a very extensive slave traffic. The general impression is, that owing to the shoals at the Bissagos, nothing but light steamers will satisfactorily drive away the slaver from the coasts between this and Gambia.' "In another passage Sir JOHN JEREMIE anticipates an objection to which his proposal might be thought liable, and, we think, satisfactorily replies to it. "As to the expense of maintaining them, (light steam vessels,) now that I have seen this harbor and anchorage, I am convinced, that by employing them, when not otherwise engaged, to tow merchant vessels in and out, they would nearly, if not fully, repay the charge of their maintenance, and the wages of the crews. At Mauritius a considerable item in the public revenue is collected by the assistance thus afforded to the merchantmen, and doubly acceptable would it be at Sierra Leone. Nor is this my idea only. It was originally mentioned to me by one of our most extensive Sierra Leone merchants settled in London, Mr. WEST.'" One of the greatest benefits resulting from the planting of our Colony in Africa, is the influence which it exerts to suppress the slave trade, Whereever the territory is owned by the Colony, that trade is entirely prohibited; and one of the leading points in every treaty made by the Governor with the native chiefs, respects the suppression of that trade. In all cases they are required to abandon and discountenance the slave trade. 66 A different course has been pursued by the British. The "Friend of Africa" says, we have been requested to call attention to the fact, that, notwithstanding the generally pleasing nature of the intelligence from the Gallinas, in one particular the treaty concluded with the chiefs is not satisfactory. It contains no article relative to the final abolition of the slave trade by the natives. This circumstance is more to be regretted, inasmuch as, in the absence of some such stipulation, no direct encouragement to trade with the Gallinas can, we presume, be held forth by the British Government." It is curious to observe how all the thoughts of the British run in the channel of trade and commerce. The destruction of the slave factory at Gallinas is to be followed up by efforts to open a profitable business with the natives. Capt. DENMAN says, "the people of the Gallinas have already in a wild state, but of the finest quality, cotton, indigo, pepper, palm nut, sugar cane, and tobacco, which they are able to cure. Salt is procured in considerable quantities, and there is no doubt that coffee would flourish as well as at Sierra Leone and Monrovia. The chiefs unanimously agreed that they could obtain camwood and ivory in large quantities; gold dust also from the interior; and that cattle might be raised to such an extent as to enable them to export hides in considerable quantities. "In exchange for these rich productions of their country, the chiefs would gladly receive from our merchants many of the necessaries, and even of the luxuries of civilized life, a fact sufficiently established by the following list of goods hitherto supplied to them in barter for their slaves:— Flour, wine, tea, butter, cheese, hats, clothes, shoes, coral, knives and forks, beads, trinkets, glass, crockery, brass pans for making salt, hardware, and cotton and linen clothes of all descriptions. "We would gladly incite some of our mercantile friends to engage in this honorable speculation. We think they could scarcely be losers by it, when we consider that during but nine months,' as Captain DENMAN assures us, no less than nine vessels,' whose united burden amounted to 1569 tons, discharged their cargoes, either wholly or in part, at the slave factories on the Gallinas." The above extracts throw much light on the present mercantile movements of the British in the neighborhood of our Colony. One or more commercial houses have already shown anxiety to engage in this speculation, and the British Government are ready to throw all manner of aid and facility in prosecuting their plans. The resources of that country are imThe withering, blighting influence of the slave trade has been unable to crush its natural and spontaneous productions. Let that curse be removed, let the natives be kept at home and induced to cultivate the soil, and who can tell what will be the amount of exports they can offer? Hence it is not surprising that the British are anxious to locate trading establishments at the commanding points on the coast. mense. We too want to see these points occupied. But we want to see them occupied with a farther and higher motive than the mere purposes of gain. We want the slave trade broken up by morally regenerating the natives, so that they would sooner cut off a right hand or pluck out a right eye, than sell one of their fellow beings to the slave ships. We want them elevated and educated. We want them to enjoy in their social happiness and domestic peace and comfort, the advantages to which their country and their commerce entitle them. For this purpose we wish to purchase their territory, incorporate them into the Commonwealth of Liberia, and extend to them the civilizing and christianizing institutions of education and religion. We are sure that our plan of operations is without a parallel in its competency to benefit the African, by protecting his race from the accursed slave dealer, and by pushing the arts and blessings of civilization and religion into the heart of his country. To aid us in this noble, but arduous work, we appeal to a benevolent public. THE NATIVE CHAPEL.-For a long time we have been revolving in our mind, the necessity and expediency of establishing divine worship in some separate place in Monrovia, exclusively for the natives. There are numbers of these poor neglected creatures, who do not attend any place of worship at all on Sunday;-first, because they are generally not clothed, and feel ashamed to sit on the same seat with Americans who are well dressed, (a feeling no doubt most heartily reciprocated ;) and secondly, because if they did, they would hardly understand the Word, delivered as it is without an interpreter. To have them then, a separate meeting house, plain preaching, and interpreted too, has seemed to us quite a desideratum; and believing this, we went to work, and have had erected a plain thatch-roofed chapel, earth floor, and mud walls, on those lots belonging to the Missionary Society of the M. E. Church, which were deeded to that Society by Gov. PINNEY, in 1835. This litle chapel stands not far from the spot where Cox, the immortal Cox,-breathed his last. It was opened for divine service on Sunday, the 7th, and was well attended. It is our present plan to have divine service performed regularly every Sabbath afternoon at 31, in this chapel. The appointment will most generally be filled by the superintendent of the mission; and when he is out of town, by the Rev. Mr. BURTON, of the conference seminary. We entreat the citizens, one and all, to send their native boys, and all with whom they have influence.-Africa's Luminary. $28 00 CONTRIBUTIONS to the Pennsylvania State Colonization Society. from the 20th June, to the 20th July, 1841, inclusive. June 22, Received of T. Sinford $5, Cash $5, R. Johnston $5, W. H. Richardson $3, J. H. Martin 5, George Harvey $5, July 5, Fourth July collection in Eighth Presbyterian church, $10 49; July 6, Do. in Sixth Street Presbyterian church, Rev. T. L. Janeway, pastor, $18 42; July 7, Do. in Spruce Street Fresbyterian church, per J. N. Dickson, $40; Do. in Presbyt'n church, Easton, Rev. J. Gray, pastor, $76 23; (of which $19 69 is from members of Lyceum and others in Rev. J. Vandeveer's Seminary, in part to ccnstitute him a Life-member of Pa. Col. Soc.) July 8, Jason Torrey, donation, $20; July 11, Rev. T. Creigh, Mercersburg, Fourth July collection in his church, $11 00; July 12, Rev. J. Peebles, Huntingdon, do. $20 53; July 14, Rev. Dr.Cuyler, Phila., do. $20 49; Eliza Jane Davie, donation, $5, per Rev. J. Davie; July 15, Samuel Davis, Esq., annual subscription for 1841, $100; July 17, Fourth July Collection in the Presbyterian Church, Germantown, per Rev. Dr. Neill, pastor, $9; Children and others of the Infants Retreat, Germantown, Fourth of July contribution, per Rev. Dr. Neill, $6; July 19, Fourth of July collestion in Rev. J. Foster's church, Towanda, $12 50; July 20, Do. in Presbyterian church, Warren Tavern, $14; Presbyterian Church, Newtown, R. D. Cravis, $11 75, 384 30 |