The African Repository (Volume 8) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: nization Society, i. worthy of the intelligence and liberality of the young men of thii city: and that its object is eminently calculated to enlist their warmest sympathies and exertions in it. favor. A constitution was .adopted, and the following gentlemen appointed officers and managers: ? Gabriel P. Disosway, President. ? John R. Townsend, John Cleveland, Wm. R Williams, Richard Lawrence, and Theodore Dwight, Jr. Vice Presidents.? Wm. Inglis, Corresponding Secretory.? James Trippe, Recording Secretary. ? Joseph L Frame, Treasurer. The Causb or The Colonization Society. ? A highly respectable assembly recently convened at the City Hotel, New York, to take into consideration tho proper course to be pursued in reference to the advancement ct the great objects of the Colonization Society. The Hod William A. Dner, President of Columbia College, was called to the chair, and Richard R. Lansing, and William Kent, Esquires, were chosen Secretaries. The meeting was addressed by the Rev. Dr. Cox, L. H. Clarke, S. A. Foot, S. P. Staples and J. S. James, Esquires, who dwelt with force and feeling upon the importance of energetic and combined action in accelerating and accomplishing the benevolent scheme which .the Society has in view. The following resolutions were adopted. Resolved, That in the history of the Colony of Liberia, from its commencement to the present time, we have evidence, amounting to demonstration, of the practicability of the measure, and that nothing is wanting to ensure its ultimate success, but the effective co-operation of the American people, without regard to ectional interests and feelings. Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the American Colonization Soci ty stands prominently forth, among the philanthropic enterprises of the age, and ie...