JACOB GROSS,
WILLIAM POLK,
CHARLES SCOTLAND,
ANTHONY WOOD,
THOMAS JACKSON.

The report having been read, it was then moved by James M.
Thompson and seconded, that the report be approved and
accepted. The yeas and nays were presented as follows:--

Yeas--Jeremiah Stewart, James Martin, Samuel Wheeler, H.
Duncan, Daniel Banks, Joshua Stewart, John Bowen, James
Stewart, Henry Dennis, Eden Harding, Robert Whitefield,
Nathan Lee, Nathaniel Edmondson, Charles Scotland, Nathaniel
Harmon, Bur. Minor, Anthony Howard, James M. Thompson,
Anthony Wood, Jacob Gross, Wm. Polk, Thomas Jackson.

Nays--Nicholas Thomson, William Reynolds, William Cassel.

N. B. Those who voted in the negative, declared that the
statements contained in the report were true, both in spirit
and letter, but they preferred returning to
America--whereupon the meeting adjourned, sine die.

A true copy of the record of the proceedings.

WM. POLK.

If any weight was due to human testimony, it was made probable, at
least, if not certain, that the intentions of the promoters of the
scheme were that it should be most kind to the black man, in all its
direct action, and by its indirect influences, the precursor of the
abolition of slavery; and if the society had fallen into a mistake,
the colonists themselves had also fallen into the same; as in this
address they say the scheme has proved successful. He would,
therefore, conclude this second reason, by maintaining that he had
sufficiently proved that the scheme had been productive of good, not
only to the colored population, but also to the cause of universal
freedom.

The reasons he would now offer would be more general. And in bringing
forward the third head of argument, he observed, that the uniform
method which God had selected to civilize and enlighten mankind, and
to carry through the world a knowledge of the arts and laws, with all
the kindred blessings of civilization, was colonization. Amongst the
first commands given by God to man, was to replenish and subdue the
earth; and there was a striking fulness of meaning in the expression.
While there seemed to exist in the whole hu