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258  IMPORTANT PROJECT.

and he, I am confident, will carry it on to a glorious consummation. I trust the time is not far distant, when I shall, at home, openly do and say what I can, in behalf of my enslaved brethren in the United States."   


IMPORTANT PROJECT.

FROM THE NEW YORK SPECTATOR.

The march of the colonization cause in the South is onward. The corresponding secretary of the New York Colonization Society, has received a letter from the Rev. R. S. Finley, agent of the State Colonization Society of Mississippi, dated, Natchez, February 22d, 1837, informing him that the societies in the states of Mississippi and Louisiana, have each resolved to establish a colony on the coast of Africa, and that each society will expend twenty thousand dollars a year, for five years, in sustaining them: that the Mississippi Society has already purchased a suitable territory for that object, and it is supposed that a purchase has also been made for the Louisiana Society.
2. Mr Finley mentions, "We have nearly secured the sum of 20,000 dollars for the first year, in the Mississippi Society, and are confident of

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raising the same sum in Louisiana, as the enterprise is popular in both states. We are preparing to send out an expedition to Africa soon after the 1st of April; and Mr. Blodget, a gentleman of piety and learning, is appointed physician and sugeon; and there are about fifty emigrants at or near Natches, waiting for passage to Liberia. 
3. "We also propose to open a large farm for the purpose of raising bread stuffs for the colony, and to develop the agricultural resources of the country, by cultivating, on an extensive scale, cotton, sugar, coffee, &c. We also propose to purchase one or more vessels, to run constantly between New Orleans and the colony."

GRATITUDE IN A LIBERATED SLAVE.

Communicated by W.S., an aged and respectable citizen, who is yet living in New York, 5th mo. 1837.

Some time in the year 1790, a member of the Manumission Society, residing on Golden Hill, (now called John-street,) in New York, observed, for a considerable time, his front porch to be scrubbed and sanded, every Seventhday morning before the family were up. He ordered a servant to watch, and ascertain to whom he was indebted for this singular mark of kindness
2. At an early hour in the morning, a colored

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