"On board the Harriet, from Norfolk, of one hundred and sixty emigrants, between _forty_ and _fifty_ had been slaves, emancipated on condition of being sent to Africa. "In addition to these instances, several others might be added, particularly that of Richard Bibb, Esq., of Kentucky, who proposes to send _sixty_ slaves to Liberia--two gentlemen in Missouri, who desire to send _eleven_ slaves--a lady in Kentucky offers _forty_--the Rev. John C. Burress, of Alabama, intends preparing _all his slaves_ for Colonization--the Rev. William L. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, manumitted 11 slaves, who sailed a few weeks ago from New-Orleans. "In this work of benevolence, the Society of Friends, as in so many other cases, have nobly distinguished themselves, and assumed a prominent attitude. They have, in North Carolina, liberated no less than _652 slaves_, whom they had under their care, besides, as says my authority, an unknown number of children, husbands and wives, connected with them by consanguinity, and of whom, part went to Canada, part to Liberia, part to Hayti, and a portion to Ohio. In the performance of these acts of benevolence, they expended $12,759. They had remaining under their care, in December, 1830, 402 slaves, for whom similar arrangements were to be made. "It holds out every encouragement to the Colonization Society, that the applications for the transportation of free negroes, and slaves proposed to be emancipated on condition of removal to Liberia, _far exceed its means_. There are, in North Carolina _and the adjacent states_, from _three to four thousand_ of both descriptions, ready to embark, were the society in a situation to send them away. "_R. S. Finlay_, Esq., at a late anniversary says,-- "I know that much pains have been taken to _calumniate_ our brethren of the south, by representing them to be the advocates of perpetual despotism. From an _extensive and familiar acquaintance_ with their views and sentiments, formed upon actual observation, I know this not to be the fact. I have publicly discussed this subject _everywhere in the southern states_, from the eastern shore of _Maryland to the Gulf of Mexico_, in the presence of hundreds of slaves at a time, and with the general approbation of the audience to which my addresses were delivered,--and have uniformly represented it as affording the best and only safe means of _gradually_ and _entirely abolishing slavery_. Indeed, so well is the moral influence of the operations of this society understood in the extreme south, that all _the advocates of perpetual slavery are bitterly opposed to it_, and _none are its advocates, but the friends of gradual, peaceful, and ultimate entire emancipation_!" 16th _Report_.