The Liberator

FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS

Colonization Meeting.-' A meeting of a number of friends of the noble cause of the American Colonization Society'-as the printed proceedings inform us-was held on Wednesday evening last, in the Consistory Room of the Dutch Reformed Church, corner of Ann and Nassau streets. Rev. Dr. De Witt presided, and opened the meeting with prayer. Rev. R. R. Gurley, Secretary of the American Colonization Society, introduced the business of the meeting, and resolutions were adopted for making an effort to raise $20,000 for the funds of the Society.

In the printed account of the meeting, signed by the Chairman and Secretary, the publications of the abolitionists are very courteously styled-'THE INCENDIARY papers published in Boston and this city'! Precisely the terms bestowed on the same papers by the open advocates of slavery and by slave holders. A lucid comment, this, on the complaints that certain abolitionists have spoken uncourteously of the Colonization Society ; and also on the oft-repeated inquiry, Why the 'kindred Societies' [the Anti-Slavery and Colonization] 'cannot co-operate?' To 'co-operate' with 'incendiaries' sounds rather paradoxical, somewhat like sending 'degraded nuisances' to 'evangelize Africa.'

It should be noted that the Secretary of the above meeting was Col. WM. L. STONE, Secretary of the N. York. City Colonization Society, editor of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser ; the apologist of the Canterbury persecutors, the eulogist of the reporter and draftsman of the black law of Connecticut. We record this fact by the side of the late appointment of A. T. Judson as Agent and Orator of the Windham County Colonization Society.

What mean such honors, conferred on such men; at such a crisis, under such circumstances, and by the intelligent supporters of such an institution? What estimate do the friends of the Colonization Society themselves form of its objects, when they select such men as the fit instruments of accomplishing them ?--Ib.