The Congregationalist

COLONIZATION.

It is gratifying to the Christian philanthropist to perceive the rapidly growing interest in the public mind in favor of the enterprise of African Colonization. The important bearings of the subject, especially on the slave trade and the social and moral condition of Africa, have been impressed in a remarkable manner of late, by providential circumstances, upon the attention of the American people. The letters and dispatches which are coming to hand, from time to time, from Governor Buchanan, at Liberia, are producing a happy influence, as they throw much light, not easily to be obscured, on all the affairs of the colony, and especially on the interesting features of the scheme above referred to. It is matter of grateful notice that the chief direction of the concerns of this colony, amidst all the revolutions and trials of the times, has been preserved in the hands of men uniting in their characters a distinguished measure of the soundest intelligence and piety. This looks as though God intended ere long to answer the prayers and hopes of those who first projected this great benevolent undertaking.

A large Colonization meeting was held last week at the Broadway Tabernacle, New York, at which communications from Governor Buchanan were read the substance of which will be found in another column. Afterwards the meeting was addressed by Rev. Mr. Gurley, Rev. Mr. Haight, Rev. Joel Parker, Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen and Hugh Maxwell, Esq. The account also states that a Dr. Boheme, with whose name we have not been before acquainted, having spent some time in Liberia, "gave a most interesting account of the condition and contentment of the Colonists." Two individuals present authorized others to state to the meeting their purpose to give, the one $500 and the other $1,000, for the immediate objects of the Society.