on condition, that you go to Africa.”  Indeed, a highly talented clergyman, informed us in November last (three months ago) in the city of Philadelphia, that he was present when the Rev. Doctor J.P.  Durbin, late President of Dickinson College, called on Rev. Mr. P. or B., to consult him about going to Liberia, to take charge of the literary department of an University in contemplation, when the following conversation ensued:  Mr. P.—­“Doctor, I have as much and more than I can do here, in educating the youth of our own country, and preparing them for usefulness here at home.”  Dr. D.—­“Yes, but do as you may, you can never be elevated here.”  Mr. P.—­“Doctor, do you not believe that the religion of our blessed Redeemer Jesus Christ, has morality, humanity, philanthropy, and justice enough in it to elevate us, and enable us to obtain our rights in this our own country?” Dr. D.—­“No, indeed, sir, I do not, and if you depend upon that, your hopes are vain!” Mr. P.—­Turning to Doctor Durbin, looking him solemnly, though affectionately in the face, remarked—­“Well, Doctor Durbin, we both profess to be ministers of Christ; but dearly as I love the cause of my Redeemer, if for a moment, I could entertain the opinion you do about Christianity, I would not serve him another hour!” We do not know, as we were not advised, that the Rev. Doctor added in fine,—­“Well, you may quit now, for all your serving him will not avail against the power of the god (hydra) of Colonization.”  Will any one doubt for a single moment, the justice of our strictures on colonization, after reading the conversation between the Rev. Dr. Durbin and the colored clergyman?  Surely not.  We can therefore make no account of it, but that of setting it down as being the worst enemy of the colored people.

Recently, there has been a strained effort in the city of New York on the part of the Rev. J.B.  Pinney and others, of the leading white colonizationists, to get up a movement among some poor pitiable colored men—­we say pitiable, for certainly the colored persons who are at this period capable of loaning themselves to the enemies of their race, against the best interest of all that we hold sacred to that race, are pitiable in the lowest extreme, far beneath the dignity of an enemy, and therefore, we pass them by with the simple remark, that this is the hobby that colonization is riding all over the country, as the “tremendous” access of colored people to their cause within the last twelve months.  We should make another remark here perhaps, in justification of governor Pinney’s New York allies—­that is, report says, that in the short space of some three or five months, one of his confidants, benefited himself to the “reckoning” of from eleven to fifteen hundred dollars, or “such a matter,” while others were benefited in sums “pretty considerable” but of a less “reckoning.”  Well, we do not know after all, that they may not have quite as good a right, to pocket part of the spoils of this