ADDRESS OF TIE COMMITTEE


Of THE
.TTILlIING G7UNCOLONTZ1 17YO NSOCIETI
AUXILIARY TO THE
,7mcricaa Cok0aizatton AvcieiY"
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FELLOW CIrlzESs.-The Institution of
the American Colonization Society, hav-
ing for its design, the benefit of the wholel
African race, by the establishment on the
coast Of Africa, of a colony Of free people,
epocfa in the history OF our country.


This Institution, although it is not al
SOciety-nor Society Tor the
suppression of the Slave Trade-nor So
Iciety for the improvement OF the blacks
nor Society for the Abolition of Slavery
appears to US to be the only Institution
(which promises any thing great or etiectu-
in behalf of the African race or the de-
Isceudants Of Africans in this country.


And, AS Christians, protesting that phi
Ilanthropy, which in all its branches and
in its most wide spread influence, flows
Iron the love OF God II tiod so loved w,
I'VE ought also to lave one another; VIC are


happy ia being able 10 connect with that
sacred maXim hearty recommendation ut
an Institution which tends at once to pro.
,uote that humanity and attention to the
state and condition Of an oppressed and
.ldegradrd portion Of our popu!atian, the


lescendantS Of Africans an Institution


70 generally approved, that no one hardly
larrs to form an argument against 1T.


j Yes, it is happily one Of those lnsttu
.ltions about which there is scarcely one dis
I-entieht voice; men ot the most disc0r


,'ant opinions, the most opposite interests
md OF the most violent parties in politic'
= auh religious profession, seem to forge
. their differences and reinquish their ami
i tImosities, when the Colonization Society il
{ mentioned whatever subjects On othe
!, .,Ipuestions divide their opinions or their de
k knomination, they seem all TO harmonise il
j. lthis-and no wonder, the question is. 81
j, simple and SO important, that it claims as
sent, the moment it is proposed.


Besides, all disputation aust cease
- where facts are evidence. There is at tlii
y time within the limits of the United State
Ne a colored population OF one m'ifion sr1'e
,'d,1ihnndred and sirty nine taonsiM. An
- does not the character aud circumstance


of this class OF the community fail, to som
el, extent, under the personal observation
m every man? Who is there, that does NJ
s'Iknow something Of the condition OF Il
,o 'o' blacks IN the Eastern and Middle States


Are they not seen in our cities and iarg


towns, wandering as outcasts, 10 the lal
the that gave them birth Are they not SCI
er. IN our penltentares and lais, and po
no' houses? And, are they not found inhab
~, u, ing the abodes OF poverty, and haunts
Mi. vice? II we look for them in the socie
red Iof the honest and spcctable--in t
de- schools in which it is our boast that t
ave meanest citizen can enjoy the benefits
c. 'instruction--in the Sanctuaries which z
inl, open for all to worship, and to hear
k i, word of God-shall we find them thcr


No. In youth the African finds himself,
WY WY knows not why, the scorn of his playma
p,;. having no incentive to prepare for
,,g. active and honorable manhooi-no visit


Of usefulness, or rcspectability to anim