. ere professors of our Holy Religion. If the project did not l6ok b eyond the happiness of the two races now in A m e r i c a , it would b e entitled to their warmest encouragement. If it were confined to the removal" only of the free coloured population, it would deserve a l l their patronage. W i t h i n those restrictions how greatly w ould i t not contribute to promote the cause of virtue and morality, a nd c onsequently religion ! But it presents a much more extensive f ield a field only l imited by the confines of one of the largest quarters of the habitable g lobe   for r eligious and benevolent exertion. T hroughout the entire existence of C hristianity i t has been a favorite o bject o f its ardent disciples and pious professors to diffuse its b lessings by converting the Heathen. T h i s duty is enjoined by its o wn sacred precepts and prompted hy considerations of humanity. A l l C hristendom is more or less employed on this o bject, at this moment, in some p art or other of the earth. But it must, in candor b e owned, that hitherto missionary efforts have not had a success c orresponding, in extent w ith t he piety and b enevolence o f t heir a im, o r w ith t he amount of the means which have been applied. Some n ew and more efficacious mode o f accomplishing the beneficent purpose must be devised, which by concentrating energies and endeavors, and avoiding loss in their diffuse and uncombined application, s hall e nsure the attainmeat of more cheering results. T h e A m e r i can C olonization Society presents itself to the religious world as u n i ting those great advantages. Almost a l l A frica is in a state of the d eepest i gnorance and barbarism, and addicted to idolatry and superstition. It is destitute of the blessings both of C hristianity a nd c ivilization. T h e Society, is an instrument which, under the g uidance of providence, w ith p ublic assistance, is competent to spread t he lights of both, throughout its vast dominions. And the means a re as simpie as the end is grand and magnificent. T h e y are to d eviate from the practice of previous Missionary institutions, and e mploy as agents some o f the very brethren of the Heathen sought to be converted and brought w ithin t he pale of c ivilization. T h e S ociety proposes to send, not one or two pious members of C hristianity i nto a foreign l and, a mong a different and perhaps a suspicious r ace, of another complexion, but to transport annually, for an i n definite n umber of years, in one view of its scheme, six thousand, i n a nother, fifty-six thousand Missionaries, of the descendants of A frica i tself, w ith t he same interests, sympathies, and constitutions o f the natives, to communicate the benefits of our r eligion and of the a rts. A nd this Colony of M issionaries is to operate not alone by p reaching t he doctrines of t ruth and of revelation, which however delightful to the ears of the f aithful and intelligent, are not a l ways comprehended by untutored savages, but also by works of occular d emonstration. It w ill o pen forests, b uild t owns, erect temples of public worship, and practically exhibit to the native sons o f A frica t he beautiful moral spectacle and the superior advantages o f our religious and social systems. In this unexaggerated view of t he subject the Colony, compared w ith o ther M issionary p lans, pre-