the markets of the world hereafter an unlimited quantity of tropical products. Will they do it? There is a cheering prospect that they will accomplish a general welfare for their race and ours. The greatness of an undertaking is measured by its duration and capacity for expansion. So far as we can now see, Liberia may endure. It has the elements of constancy. It stands acknowledged by many great nations as a nationality. England is pledged by Jamaica and by Sierra Leone to protect it. France is bound by the memories of St. Domingo to protect it. Our nation will defend if she does not acknowledge Liberia. If Liberia shall endure it is capable of indefinite expansion. Every step in its organization and construction can be repeated, and repeated more easily than it was begun. A voice from large portions of this country announces voluntary emancipation; a voice in this hall announces compensation to masters, and a voice from the free African people of these States will announce a voluntary exodus to the land which nature adapted them to occupy at their return from captivity in our frosty climate. Each new traveller penetrating from the coast to the eastward reports hills and valleys and streams of water where the maps had laid down a desert. The colonist will follow the traveller. A highway shall be there. The people shall press onward to the sources of the Nile; and Egypt shall at last acknowledge a civilization from the west. Let the stable nationality of Liberia be assured, and the problem of tropical civilization by tropical races will be solved, and tropical products will follow; for civilization generates the wants and wishes which impel the poor to labor and the rich to enterprise. A second colony can rise by the light of the first-can profit by our mistakes, and sooner rise to independence. What has been accomplished in the tropics of Africa can be ultimately extended over the same belt around the globe. Ancient colonies were formed by those who escaped from the sacking of their cities, leaving their effects to the flames and bearing off the aged on their shoulders, and leading the young by hand. Their obscurity and remoteness from other nations was their safety; but our colonies will go forth with full supplies, secure in the chivalrous protection of strong nations, and ready to enter the market of the world with the first fruits of their industry. Much of the tropical race has nearly served out its time under the direction of the Caucasian race. They have earned their outfit. Send them back to the land of the sun. The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them, and the desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose. They shall go out with joy and be sent forth with peace. For God hath made of one blood all the nations of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath appointed the bounds of their habitation, that by co-operative labor they should work out that good for the sons of men which they should seek after all the days of their life. The Rev. Dr. PINNEY, Corresponding Secretary of the New York State Colonization Society, seconded Dr. Mason's resolution with very interesting remarks, and mentioned the presence of several Liberians; one of them, Mr. J. D. Johnson, a merchant, who had resided ten years in that country, and who, on invitation of the President, made a brief address, showing the great benefits received by those settled there; and of the earnest hope cherished in the Liberian Republic, that it would be encouraged and aided in sustaining its independence by our own Goverument. The entire propriety of the manner and matter of this address gave great satisfaction, and the facts stated were well adapted to give confidence in the efforts and reflect honor upon the young nation he represented. On motion, Resolved, That this Society tenders its thanks to the President for the able and opportune address delivered this evening, and requests a copy for the press. The Society then adjourned to meet at the office of the Society to-morrow at 12 o'clock. JANUARY 22, 1862. The Society met pursuant to adjournment, the President in the Chair. Rev. Mr. TRACY moved that the proceedings of this meeting be published entire. The following Committee was then appointed to nominate officers for the ensuing year: Messrs. Gregory, Beckman and Pinney, who subsequently reported the following list of OFFICERS: President: Hon. JOHN H. B. LATROBE. Vice Presidents: 1. Gen. John H. Cocke, of Virginia. 2. Rev. Jeremiah Day, D.D., of Connecticut. 3. Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, of N. J. 4. Moses Allen, Esq., of New York. 5. Rt. Rev. Wm. Meade, D. D., of Virginia. 6. Rev. Jas. O. Andrew, D. D., of Alabama. 7. Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, of Ohio. 8. Hon. Walter Lowrie, of New York. 9. Stephen Duncan, M. D., of Mississippi. 10. Hon. Wm. C. Rives, of Virginia. 11. James Boorman, Esq., of New York. 12. Henry Foster, Esq., do. 13. Robert Campbell, Esq., of Georgia. 14. Hon. Peter D. Vroom, of New Jersey. 15. Hon. James Garland, of Virginia. 16. Hon. Willard Hall, of Delaware. 17. Rt. Rev. James H. Otey, D. D., of Tenn. 18. Gerard Ralston, Esq., of England. 19. Thomas Hodgkin, M. D., of England. 20. Rev. E. Burgess, D. D., of Massachusetts. 21. Thomas R. Hazard, Esq., of Rhode Island. 22. Thomas Massie, M. D., of Virginia. 23. Gen. Winfield Scott, U. S. A. 24. Hon. L. Q. C. Elmer, of New Jersey. 25. James Raily, Esq., of Mississippi. 26. Rev. G. W. Bethune, D. D., of New York. 27. Rev. W. B. Johnson, D. D., of S. Carolina. 28. Rt. Rev. C. P. McIlvaine, D. D., of Ohio. 29. Hon. J. R. Underwood, of Kentucky. 30. James Lenox, Esq., of New York. 31. Rev. Joshua Soule, D. D., of Tenn. 32. Rev. T. C. Upham, D. D., of Maine. 33. Hon. Thomas Corwin, of Ohio. 34. Hon. Thomas W. Williams, of Conn. 35. Rev. John Early, D. D., of Virginia. 36. Rev. Lovick Pierce, D. D., of Georgia. 37. Hon. R. J. Walker, of New Jersey. 38. John Bell, M.D., of Pennsylvania. 39. Rev. Robert Ryland,of Virginia. 40. Hon. Fred. P. Stanton, of Kansas. 41. Rev. Nathan Bangs, D. D., of New York. 42. Hon. James M. Wayne, of Georgia. 43. Hon. Robert F. Stockton, of New Jersey. 44. Hon. Edward Everett, of Massachusetts. 45. Hon. Washington Hunt, of New York. 46. Hon. Horatio Seymour, do. 47. Hon. Joseph A. Wright, of Indiana. 50. Gen. John S. Dorsey, do. do. 52. Benjamin Silliman, LL. D., Conn. 53. Hon. Joseph R. Ingersoll, of Penn. 54. Hon. Edward Coles, of Penn. 55. Rev. Howard Malcom, D. D., of Penn. 56. Rev. J. P. Durbin, D. D., of N. Y. 57. Edward McGehee, Esq., of Mississippi. 58. Thomas Henderson, Esq., do. 59. Daniel Turnbull, Esq., of Louisiana. 60. Hon. Thomas H. Seymour, of Conn. 61. Hon. Samuel F. Vinton, of Ohio. 62. Rev. O. C. Baker, D. D., of N. Hampshire. 63. Hon. William Appleton, of Massachusetts. 64. Rev. E. S. Janes, D. D., of N. J. 65. Rev. Matthew Simpson, D. D., of Ind. 66. Rev. Levi Scott, D. D., of Delaware. 67. Rev. R. R. Gurley, of D. C. 68. E. R. Alberti, Esq., of Florida. 69. Hon. J. J. Ormond, of Alabama. 70. Hon. Daniel Chandler, of Alabama. 71. Rev. Robt. Paine, D. D., of Miss. 72. Hon. J. J. Crittenden, of Kentucky. 73. Rev. R. J. Breckenridge, D. D., of Ky. 74. Solomon Sturges, Esq., of Illinois. 75. Rev. T. A. Morris, D. D., of Ohio 76. Henry Stoddard, Esq., of Ohio. 77. Rev. E. R. Ames, D. D., of Illinois. 78. Rev. James C. Finley, do. 79. Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri. 80. Hon. John F. Darby, do. 81. Rev. N. L. Rice, D. D., of New York. 82. Hon. J. B. Crocket, of California. 83. Hon. H. Dutton, of Connecticut. 84. David Hunt, Esq., of Mississippi. 85. Hon. George F. Patten, of Maine. 86. John Knickerbacker, Esq., of New York. 87. Richard Hoff, Esq., of Georgia. 88. Henry M. Schieffelin, Esq., of N. Y. 89. W. W. Seaton, Esq., of D. C. 90. James Fulton, Esq., of New York. 91. Rev. John Maclean, D. D., of N. J. 92. Richard T. Haines, Esq., do. 93. Freeman Clark, Esq., of Maine. 94. William H. Brown, Esq., of Illinois. 95. Hon. Ichabod Goodwin, of N. H. 96. Hon. John Bell, of Tennessee. 97. William E. Dodge, Esq., of New York. 98. Rev. John Wheeler, D. D., of Vermont. 99. Solomon Sturges, Esq., of Illinois. 100. Hon. L. H. Delano, of Vermont. 101. Robert Ives, Esq., of Rhode Island. 102. Rev. Thomas DeWitt, D.D., of New York. The Society then adjourned to the third Tuesday in January, 1863. LATEST FROM LIBERIA. Intelligence is received by the brig Ann, also advices by the English Steamers, to December 7. We have before us the Message of President Benson, which we shall early publish entire. The Liberia Herald of the 20th of November, contains a very full and spirited account of the attack made by a Spanish steamer on the Liberian armed Schooner Quail, in the harbor of Monrovia, and the gallant repulse she suffered from that vessel, and the fortress, manned by the Liberians, on the Cape. We copy the following condensed statement from the New York Journal of Commerce of the 5th instant. "Gov. Hill, of Sierra Leone, was at the time absent at Madeira. He returned early in October and sent Captain Smith, in Her B. M. Steamer Torch, to Monrovia 10 express to President Benson the friendly feelings of Her Majesty's Government. The Torch arrived at Monrovia, October 17, and returned next day to Sierra Leone. "On the 14th of November, Her Majesty's Steamer Falcon, Captain Keneage, arrived at Monrovia, and was authorized to assure the Liberian Government of the sympathy and friendly feelings of the British nation. On the 19th of November, the President entertained Captain Keneage and several of his officers, atdinner, with several distinguished citizens. Toasts were given in honor of the Queen, of the President, of Captain Keneage, and others. Captain Keneage and his officers seemed much pleased with their visit to Monrovia, which would have a tendency to strengthen the friendly relations existing between the two countries. The Falcon would remain several days longer at Monrovia. "The Governor of Sierra Leone and the English squadron are, without doubt, instructed by the English Government to aid President Benson in case of any further attack by the Spaniards. Additional armament had been placed on board the Quail, and the Fort on Cape Mesurado had been strengthened by several pieces of heavy ordnance, and a masked battery under the Cape. "In view of these facts, and considering that Liberia was founded by American philanthropy-Henry Clay being among the foremost-that its first ship of emigrants in 1819 was convoyed over by the United States sloop-of-war Cyane, by order of President Monroe, and that it has had the friendly aid of our navy under every succeeding President to the present day-would it not be well and desirable for our government to send forthwith, as a present, to the aid of Liberia, one of our steam gunboats, to repel these Spanish slavers, and to sustain this young nation, which has emanated from our own land." Nothing could be more expedient, wise, or humane than the gift by the United States of a small armed steamer for her defence, and the suppression of the slave trade. REV. AND DEAR SIR: Letter from the U. S. Agent. MONROVIA, November 27, 1861. The brig Ann, of New York, sails to-morrow, will touch at Cape Palmas, and thence proceed immediately to the United States. Although I cannot now write to you as fully as I would wish, yet I trust a few lines will not be unacceptable, especially as it is not long since I had the pleasure of writing more at length. I am happy to be able to say that a kind and watchful Providence still continues to guard the interests of this young, and comparatively feeble nation. The dreadful attack from the hostile Spaniards is yet in the future, and not unlikely may be indefinitely postponed. Independently of the very tangible and rather destructive evidence which the government of Liberia gave the Spanish steamer, on the 11th September, of their readiness and ability to repel any such attack upon them as was then made, it is not at all improbable that they may have heard of the very active part which Great Britain has taken in the affair. So soon as it was known at Sierra Leone, His Excellency the Governor of that Colony, dispatched Her B. M. Steamer, the Torch, to come at once to the aid of the Liberians, and, on her return, the Falcon took her place, and has been lying for nearly a fortnight in our roads. The utmost vigilance is kept up on the part of the military and naval forces of the country, and there is cause to believe that should another attack be made, the invader, to use the language of one of the officers of the Falcon to me, may find himself "blown to pieces." Hostilities of a very serious character have been prevailing among the interior tribes for some time. Towns have been burned, murders committed, and many captives taken. The Liberian Government immediately interposed, and one man, quite an intelligent native, reared in the family of one of the early settlers, and supposed to be a staunch ally, and friend of the republic, has been arrested and is now in jail, after an examination which it is believed will bring him before the grand jury, and may end seriously. Of his compli city with the head-men and ringleaders of these wars on innocent allies of Liberia, there seems to be strong evidence. My fears entertained and expressed sometime since of a great scarcity of food, have proved as yet groundless. Notwithstanding the failure of your Mary C. Stevens at the time we all expected her, and the fact, in addition, that the visits of American vessels, with full cargoes, are becoming more and more rare, yet there has been no want. Foreign provisions have been higher, but our native bread stuffs have been plentiful, and so far as I can judge the crisis has passed, and there will be no want of any of the real necessaries of life in Liberia. To God be all the praise in the first place, and next a meed of praise must be awarded to our farmers, who so industriously keep us supplied with potatoes, and cassavas, and eddoes, and beans, plantains, and bananas and scores of the other good things which this wonderfully prolific soil so luxuriantly produces. The Liberian government are carry The liberated Africans are doing well. ing out, in good faith, their contract with your Society, and I take pleasure in giving the required certificates to that effect. These people improve fast, and I am every day more and more convinced that to efficiently benefit the |