Thus th yoke of servitude, let us zealously at- blessings poured out upon us. tempt to lessen that number, and lighten || shall we stand acquitted to our children, als that yoke as much as possible. Then of having entailed upon them, without may we with clear consciences, and an effort at removal, one of the most RT thankful hearts, rejoice before Heaven deadly evils that ever afflicted a naon each return of this day, for the many "tion." ERROR CORRECTED. We understand, that the idea has gone abroad, that servants have escaped from their masters, and become settlers in the Colony at LIBERIA. No such thing has occurred. without the fear of contradiction, that every settler in our African We assert, African Colony, was either born free, or possessed, legal title to his freedom. The mistake on this subject has arisen from the fact, that the design of the Colonization Society is, by many, confounded with the scheme for Haytien Emigration. One instance, and one only, there has been in which a servant attempted to obtain passage in the Society's vessel, but before he left this country, without success. INTERESTING EXTRACT FROM SCHOOLCRAFT'S TRAVELS IN THE VALLEY OF THE MISSIS SIPPI. SELF-EMANCIPATION. by the former. The excitement of a spirit of industry, by allowing the blacks a portion of time to themselves-by giving them work to perform, if they choose, and paying them for it the moment "WE lay it down as a principle, that whatever a slave earns above the full cost of his maintainance, is procured by the alter nate effect of stripes and rewards, operating through a system of judicious tasks. And we think it is finished, is no less profitable it further capable of demonstra- The experience and practice of mation, that more labour is to be ny slave-holders in the southern states gained by the latter method than prove this. to the master than to the slave. al with him to fund the remaining It also ensures the punctual performance of their daily tasks, as they do not begin to work for themselves until they have finished what their duty requires to their master. To perfect, then, this system of tasks and rewards, which, in some degree, is now in full operation on every well-conducted plantation in America ;to render the former as little onerous to the slave as may be, and to make the latter a bare equivalent for the work perform-ting the happiness and emancipa third, or to receive it in checks on a plantation store,-which checks shall have no currency off the limits of the estate. In this way, more work will be done than it is possible in the ordinary mode to procure, and the produce of the plantation, the workshop, or the mine, will be enhanced in a ratio. corresponding to the whole annual amount paid in rewards. And thus the proprietor, while he enjoys the noble pleasure of promo tion of his bondmen, has, at the same time, the additional satis ed; and to fund the avails of this extra labour in such a manner, as to make it applicable to the pur-faction of knowing that he is purchase of the slave's freedom, is, suing the very best means for imas we think, the important desi-proving his own fortune. deratum in the emancipation of the blacks. We will illustrate our views by the following proposition: Every profitable slave, under the strong excitement of a money reward, will complete his task one, two, three, or four hours before the usual time of quitting the field or the work-shop. Let him receive a proper compensation for this extra work. But lest he should make an improper use of the money, or spend it in riotous or luxurious living, let every planter establish a Saving Institution, Plantation Bank, or Depository, for the express use of his slaves, in which two-thirds of the avails of all extra labour shall be deposited by the slaves a proper times; and let it be option We will suppose such a slave as we have been considering, to be worth. in the present depressed state of commerce, six hundred dollars. When his earnings, deposited in Bank, amount to one hundred dollars, he shall have the whole of Monday free from task, to work entirely for himself. He then has two days in the week, including the Sabbath, at his own disposal ;-this will enable him more rapidly to acquire, by voluntary labour, the second hundred dollars, with which he purchases Tuesday. He has now three days, two of which are working days, at his own command, and with these two days he purchases Wednesday, and so on, in a progressive ratio, until the whole six days are his own, and he is free! He will enter society with habits of industry and temperance, which are calculated to render him a valuable citizen; and we will venture to assert, that any slave, who is not possessed of sufficient mental energy and We have allowed ourselves to cover pages, when we only intended to write as many sentences; but trust the subject is one, which, from its own intrinsic importance, and from the apparent neglect it has received from preceding tourists, will induce the culations that indulgence which we claim for them." firmness to submit to this prepa-reader to extend to our hasty speratory discipline, cannot be qualified for, and is scarcely entitled fo, the enjoyment of civil liberty. PRINCE MORO. "The following paper," says the Christian Advocate, "was put into our hands by a friend, who received it from a friend in Fayetteville, in North Carolina, by whom it was drawn up." Such cases we believe are not uncom mon. We have heard of several instances of learned Mahomedans among the slaves in the southern states, who were probably either princes or priests in their native country. About the year 1808, a South Carolina rice planter, purchased and sent to his plantation a gang of slaves, among whom was a man of a slender frame and delicate constitution, who was not able to labour in the field, or had not the disposition to do so. His health failing, he was considered of no value, and disregarded. At length he strolled off, and wandering from plantation to plantation, reached Fayetteville, was taken up as a runaway and put in jail, where he remained for some time. As no one claimed him, and he appeared of no value, the jail was thrown open, that he might run away; but he had no disposition to make his escape. The boys amused themselves with his good natured playful behaviour, and fitted up a temporary desk made of a flour barrel, or which he wrote in a masterly hand, writing from right to left, in what was to them an unknown language. He was also noticed by some gentlemen of the place; but his keeper grew tired of so useless a charge, and he was publickly sold for his jail dues. His purchaser, a gentleman living ret about 30 miles from Fayetteville, a peaceful subject, not a despot, finding him of rather a slender In his person he is well formed, make, took him into his family as of a middle size, small hands and a house servant. Here he soon be-feet, and erect in his deportment. came a favourite of the inmates His complexion and hair, as well of the house, particularly of the as the form of the head, are dispre children. His good conduct in a tinctly of the African character. short time put him in possession Some years since, he united himof all his master's stores, and he self to the Presbyterian church, gradually acquired a knowledge in Fayetteville, of which he conof the English language. His tinues an orderly and respectable master being a pious man, he was member. A gentleman who felt instructed in the principles of the a strong interest for the good Christian religion, which he re Prince Moro, as he is called, sent ceived with great pleasure; and to the British Bible Society, and he seemed to see new beauties in procured for him an Arabic Bible; the plan of the Gospel, which had so that he now reads the Scripnever appeared to him in the Ko- tures in his native language, and ran; for he had been reared and blesses Him who causes good to instructed in the Mahomedan re- come out of evil, by making him ligion, and it was found that the a slave. His good master has ofscraps of writing from his pen, fered to send him to his native were mostly passages from the land, his home, and his friends, Koran. It would seem that he but he says "No, this is my was a prince in his own country, home, and here are my friends, which must have been far in the and here is my Bible-I enjoy all interior of Africa-perhaps Tom-I want in this world. If I should buctoo or its neighbourhood. At all events, his intercourse with the Arabs, had enabled him to write and speak their language with the most perfect ease. Some of the Africans pretend to say he was what they call a "pray-God to the King;" by which may be understood, a priest or learned man, who offered up prayers for the king of his nation, and was of his return to my native land, the fortune of war might transport me to a country where I should be deprived of the greatest of all blessings, that of worshipping the true and living God, and his son Jesus Christ, whom to worship and serve is eternal life." [The individual described in the above article, was heard of by the Editor some years ago, and through the exertions of household. His dignified deport-one deeply interested in the African ment showed him to be of a su- cause, he became possessed of some perior cast-his humility, that of of his beautiful writing in the Arabic ༥. language. If we were acquainted with the characters of all who have been the victims of the slave trade, how many would probably be found, to have been evered for their knowledge and rank in their own country?] NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW. We extract from a short notice | am of the opinion, that if they in this work, of the progress of will bring forward any definite the American Colonization Socie- proposal to Congress, for which ty, the following passage:they will hold themselves responsible, and which it is in the power of Congress to grant, they ought to be assisted to a reasonable extent." He concluded by saying "I will vote for any proposition under the above restrictions, which Mr. Clay, or Mr. Mercer, (both of them being of the Society,) will bring forward; and I am fully of the opinion, that the Representatives from the Eastern States will agree with me, in this view of the subject." "The Eighth Annual Report, represents the Colony to be in a prosperous condition. Two Agents, the Rev. Mr. Boyd and Dr. Ayres, were commissioned a year ago, to visit the middle and eastern States, as Agents for the Society. In their report is the following statement: "A distinguished member of Congress, from New England, after expressing his disbelief in the practicability of the undertaking, observed, "gentlemen at the south, have given this subject more thought than I have, and they think differently. It is a matter in which they are more particularly interested; and I We hope the subject will soon be brought, in a proper shape before Congress, and we have no doubt, the opinion of the distinguished member above alluded to, in regard to New England, will be verified." CONVERSION OF A NATIVE AFRICAN. The Reverend Lot Carey, a sion and baptism of one of the coloured Baptist Minister, in Li-natives. This poor heathen, had beria, has given in a letter to a visited Sierra Leone, and there gentleman in Richmond, a very first became impressed with the interesting account of the conver-truths of the Gospel. "He came |