TO THE FREE PEOPLE OF COLOR IN KENTUCKY.

Your condition in the State is made more stringent on your past privileges by the operation of the laws of the State that went into operation January 1, 1861. The Kentucky Colonization Society would present to you the best relief, in our judgment, to your political embarrassments. It is a free passage to Liberia, and six months support after you arrive there, and to those of you who have families, ten acres of land, as a free gift, upon the condition you will settle on it, and five acres on the same terms to every unmarried adult, male and female. You shall be placed, at no expense to yourselves, in a good settlement of your own color, from this and other States, back from the sea coast, on high and rolling land, which is rich and well watered. We also give to you the assurances of the laws of Liberia, that, upon taking possession of your land, and the commencement of its improvement for your residence on it, you will have the full right of citizenship in that Republic, whose citizens are only those of your own color. We counsel you to give up your prejudices against Liberia as your home and that of your children. Come to the wise conclusion to examine the advantages and disadvantages to you upon your settlement in Liberia. There is no country that you can select for your home but will have more serious and weighty objections to your making choice of it than can be adduced against Liberia. The Society has erected, in the settlement alluded to in Liberia, suitable buildings for you to live in for six months, and another building expressly, that you may be better attended to when sick. In honesty of mind, and with Christian philanthropy, we make these proposals to you. In like spirit we ask you to consider them, for it is a time with you for sober thought, where should our best and permanent home be? Your inquiries for information about Liberia will be answered by Rev. Alexander M. Cowan, Agent of the Society, by writing to him at Frankfort, Kentucky. He has visited Liberia, to know from his own observation its true condition.

By order of the Board of Managers of the Society.

FRANKFORT, January 26, 1861.

HENRY WINGATE, President.
GEORGE W. LEWIS, Secretary.

THE PEOPLE OF COLOR.

Copies of pamphlet edition of "An address to the colored people of Pennsylvania," by Edward S. Morris, esq., of Philadelphia, can be had at this office, without charge. In an earnest and forcible manner the esteemed author points out the many disabilities and oppressive prejudice to which this class of our residents are subject, and the advantages to themselves, their families, their race, and to humanity, they can secure by emigration to the Liberian Republic.

The privileges and rights which that country offers to the worthy are also faithfully presented. The main exportable articles are described as sugar, coffee, cotton, ginger, arrowroot, indigo, palm oil, camwood, groundnuts, and pepper. Coffee is equal, and many consider it in appearance and flavor superior to any other. Mr. Morris lately sold a consignment of this commodity, received from a merchant at Monrovia, of six hundred pounds at 22 cents per pound. It was purchased to sell again at retail prices. A previous lot of two hundred pounds commanded 25 cents per pound. We hope that a commercial treaty will soon be entered into between our country and Liberia, so that the ships and cargoes of the latter may enter our ports free of all tonnage dues and exactions, and that its Independence may be formally acknowledged by the Federal Administration. Great Britain, France, Prussia, Belgium, and other European Powers, have anticipated us in this regard, and are securing the valuable trade of that rapidly expanding region of the vast African continent.-Colon-ization Herald.

PROSPECTS OF OUR FREE COLORED POPULATION.

Is there not one wise man among the leaders of the free colored population who is capable of discerning the signs of the times, and what is best to be done by his people? From various causes operating, and likely to continue to operate, a large number are considering whether for their own benefit, and that of their families, they shall not remove to Hayti or Central America.

Excepting the distance, Liberia manifestly offers every privilege and motive in a superior degree to either Hayti or Central America. The latter States have for thirty years been alternately in revolution or civil war. The language is foreign, the religion Roman Catholic established by law, the educational privileges very small, and family relations loose and highly immoral. To each one of these evils Liberia presents a strong contrast, and therefore presents a more desirable home in which a Christian freeman may settle his family.

Superadded to these are some high moral considerations. Every settler in Africa strengthens the opposition to the slave-trade, and directly aids to defend Africa from the spoiler. The great centre of the African race is on that great continent; and until progress is made for elevating, Christianizing, and civilizing her millions, the descendants of Africa will participate in her degradation and dishonor. Emigration should be to Liberia, and not to Hayti.

We invite the thoughtful and inquiring to read the speech of William M. Davis, a law-student from Liberia, delivered in Vermont, at a late meeting, as containing a reliable account of Liberia and its advantages, and also the article from Dr. Yeomans on the Christianizing of Africa, published in the December Journal.

The article from the pen of Dr. Yeomans, discussing the prospects of Christianity in Africa, especially will repay careful reading. If,

as now seems possible, we may almost say probable, the African slavetrade shall be legalized, we see no prospect of successfully conducting missions on that coast, except within the limits of civilized governments. Liberia-its extension, increase, and perpetuity assume increased importance, and should elicit the hearty support of all who pray for the conversion of Africa.--Colonization Journal.

LIBERIA AND OUR COLORED PEOPLE.

The clipper ship South Shore, which carried to Liberia a portion of the recaptured Africans landed at Key West, has arrived at New Orleans, with advices from Buchanan as late as September 24. President Benson's Administration in Liberia, is elevating that African State to a most promising condition. The country is every way advantageous for enterprising colored settlers. It has a salubrious climate, rich soil, good manufacturing and commercial facilities, religious freedom, an excellent Republican form of Government, and a recognized Independent Nationality. The Colonization Society offers free passage and support on the voyage, and for six months after arrival, and the Republic will cede lands for farms to worthy immigrants. We submit short extracts from letters written by prominent and reliable citizens of Liberia.

From Rev. Armistead Miller-Many of the emigrants from your noble State (Pennsylvania) are doing well, and promise great things towards the upbuilding of our country. James Miller is carrying on his tin-shop with decided success, and in connexion with with others in the firm of Miller & Co., is beginning to make quite a business show. I see nothing to hinder them from doing a very lucrative business, for which they have many advantages.

From the Rev. James S. Payne.-You will find in the late numbers of the Liberia Herald, a series of articles, written by myself, with the view to arrest the attention of the colored friends of the United States, and direct their emigration to the land of their fathers. Deeply convinced that no country is so truely in need of them, it is much to be regretted that any seem to have their preference elsewhere. It may be said that this field is ready for an immense number of them, that on it they are more likely to achieve their elevation and that of their kinsmen according to the flesh, than on any other part of the known world. How strange the reluctance to emigrate to it? But from the unmistakable state of things in your country, emigration is becoming a stern necessity. A portion may yet be induced to make Africa their choice, and assist to leaven the mass of ignorance which exists on this continent.

From Vice President Warner.-I am happy, indeed, that Liberia has begun to make a favorable impression upon the public mind

abroad, that the industrial and enterprising habits of her citizens, and the high tone of moral and religious influence which they are exerting upon the surrounding aboriginal tribes, have raised our country in the estimation both of the white and the colored people in America. It is to be regretted, however, that those of our brethren who are sojourning among you, and who are exiles in a strange land, hearing of the efforts we are putting forth, and the success which has crowned them, to re-establish ourselves in this our fatherland, should be satisfied to remain inert, and be afraid to cross the narrow stream which separates them from their ancestral home.-Col. Herald.

A PLAN FOR ORGANIZING A LIBERIAN AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT SOCIETY.

Our friend G. W. S. HALL, Esq., of Baltimore, who is intimately acquainted with Liberia by several years residence on her coast, and whose efforts have been unintermitted to advance her welfare, develops, in the following letter to President Benson, a proposal which must commend itself to the people, and to all the friends of that Republic. In connexion with this letter, Mr. HALL publishes the earnest recommendations of his proposal by the President, and other warm friends of the Society, and we shall be glad to publish donations for the object.

To His Excellency, President BENSON,

Hon. J. J. ROBERTS, and others,

Citizens of Liberia : BALTIMORE, Feb. 6, 1861.

DEAR SIRS: Permit me respectfully to solicit your approval of, and co-operation in carrying out, a measure which it is believed will, if adopted under proper precautions, greatly benefit the agricultural interest of Liberia. I mean the formation of a National Society, which, under whatever name it may be called, shall be in effect a Liberian Agricultural Implement Society, having for its object the important task of providing your farmers with sugar mills, cotton gins, and such other machinery and implements of husbandry as they may require, besides the introduction of beasts of burden, at the original cost and expense of transportation to Liberia.

From want of ability to purchase the requisite implements, your farmers have not yet been able to prepare extensively for exportation the several products which are so well adapted to your soil and climate; although much has been done by the Colonization Societies and individual friends of Liberia to make up for this want. But if the Society now proposed should be formed, and its operations carried on in the spirit of its intention, there can be but little or no

doubt that it will ultimately prove the medium through which every industrious farmer in the Republic may be furnished with the requisite machinery, for the preparation of whatever agricultural product he may consider most worthy of his especial attention.

This can only be done by the aid of capital, judiciously managed, and it is difficult to name any specific sum as being requisite, for scarce any, that might in reason be named, would be likely to exceed in amount that which could ultimately be made available. We will, however, assume that the Society should commence operations with a capital of $3,000; all the bona fide contributions of Liberians, and paid into its Treasury prior to commencing operations.

With even this small amount in hand, it would then be in a position to remit and purchase a portion of the machinery which might be ordered by responsible individuals, and especially to urge its claims upon those friends in this country who have heretofore contributed so liberally in aid of the agricultural interest of Liberia.

Although in no way connected with your Government, or under its direction, this Society should be so entirely national as to represent, through its Officers and Directors, the agricultural interest of each of your Counties. To secure this, its managers might consist of one member from each county, who should also be a member of the County Agricultural Society-besides, the President of each of these Societies as ex-officio members of the Board.

I would also respectfully suggest that the chief officers, consisting, perhaps, of a President, Secretary, and Treasurer, might be residents of Monrovia or its vicinity, and that they should be not only men possessing the confidence of your entire community, but so well known and respected abroad, as to secure the generous and earnest co-operation of all friends of Liberia, who might desire to benefit her through the agency of such a Society.

I now ship by the Bark Cordelia, consigned to Mr. D. B. Warner, a sugar mill and two boilers, valued at $150, with a request that they be delivered to the President of this Society, if it should be organized. The mill was given me by Mr. George Page, of this City, for the exercise of my own judgment in the donation of it; and the boilers are added as a gift from the firm with which I am connected.

Permit me, in conclusion, to add that it is with considerable hesitation that I thus take the liberty of pressing my views upon your consideration, and I should not have ventured so far without first obtaining the kind countenance of several prominent friends of Liberia, from some of whom I have received the letters herewith sent you. Very truly and respectfully, your most obedient servant,

G. W. S. HALL.

THE ASHMUN INSTITUTE.

In the midst of so much discussion with reference to the colored population of our country, the Ashmun Institute has been, during the past year, favored of Providence to continue the work for them,