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which commends it to their judgment, their hearts, and their purses. Indeed it might have been enough to say that in the religious world, it had Archibald Alexander for its historian, and in the political world, Henry Clay for its devoted head for many long years. Both may be placed among its founders, as they were its fast and efficient friends through their long lives. It has been but a brief space since Alexander was called away, full of years, labours and honours, and left a name not soon to fade from the annals of the great and good. And now Clay too has gone. Yes, by that sad event, which has touched the deepest fountains of national feeling, an event which will awake the sympathies of the civilized world, and I may say, which was so nobly and feelingly honoured by the people of Philadelphia, not only did the world lose a great political teacher, the nation an unrivalled statesman and orator, the realms of genius a peerless star, the ranks of social life a man of outgushing feeling, and amazing powers of fascination, but this great cause of colonization lost its oldest, firmest, most devoted, and influential friend, who has by his death left vacant the presidential chair of the Society. It were difficult to say which State has more loved and cherished colonization, Virginia or Kentucky—but they are mother and daughter; the one gave Henry Clay a cradle, and the other a tomb. The Virginians who laboured with him in the early period of this cause—such as Madison, Marshall, Monroe, Thornton, Randolph, and Alexander—have mostly gone before him to the