A republic founded by black men, reared by black men, maintained by black ENGLAND'S WORK IN CENTRAL AFRICA....SIR HARRY H. JOHNSTON 16 THE EYE, THE EAR, AND THE COMMONWEAL OF WHITES AND BLACKS.. PRESIDENT: 1892 RIGHT REV. HENRY C. POTTER, D. D., NEW YORK. VICE-PRESIDENTS: 1851 Rev. Robert Ryland, D. D., Ky. 1866 Hon. James R. Doolittle, Wis. 1867 Mr. Samuel A. Crozer, Pa. 1870 Mr. Robert Arthington, England. 1874 Rev. Bishop R. S. Foster, D. D., Mass. 1875 Mr. Samuel K. Wilson, N. J. 1876 Rev. Samuel E. Appleton, D. D., Pa. 1876 Rev. Bishop H. M. Turner, D. D., Ga. 1877 Rev. William E. Schenck, D. D., Pa. 1878 Hon. Richard W. Thompson, Ind. 1881 Rev. Bishop H. W. Warren, D. D., Col. 1882 Mr. Henry G. Marquand, N. Y. 1884 Rev. George D. Boardman, D. D., Pa. 1884 Rev. Bishop E. G. Andrews, D.D., N.Y. 1884 Prof. Edw. W. Blyden, LL. D.,Liberia. 1886 Hon. Alexander B. Hagner, D. C. 1888 Rev. J. Aspinwall Hodge, D. D., Pa. 1888 Mr. Arthur M. Burton, Pa. 1891, Rev. Leighton Parks, Mass. 1892 Rev. Edward W. Appleton, D. D., Pa. 1892 Rev. William A. Bartlett, D. D., N. Y. 1892 Mr. Osmun Latrobe, Md. 1893 Rt. Rev. Thos. U. Dudley, D. D., Ky. 1893 Hon. J. C. Bancroft Davis, D. C. 1895 Hon. John T. Morgan, Ala. 1895 Mr. Robert B. Davidson, Pa. 1895 Mr. Isaac T. Smith, N. Y. 1896 Judge William H. Arnoux, N. Y. 1896 Rev. Julius C. Grammer, D. D., Md. 1896 Rev. Bishop J. A. Handy, D. D., Kan. 1896 Rev. Wilbur F. Paddock, D. D., Pa. 1896 Mr. George A. Pope, Md. 1896 Rev. Wallace Radcliffe, D. D., D. C. 1896 Hon. Henry M. Stanley, England. 1896 Rt. Rev. Henry Y. Satterlee, D.D., D.C. 1897 Mr. John Welsh Dulles, Pa. 1897 Rev. Bishop J. F. Hurst, D. D., D. C. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. 1881 Rev. BYRON SUNDERLAND, D. D., Chairman. 1878 Mr. REGINALD FENDALL. 1881 Judge CHARLES C. NOTT. 1888 Rev. A. J. HUNTINGTON, D. D. 1892 Mr. J. ORMOND WILSON. 1886 Dr. WILLIAM W. GODDING. The figures before each name indicate the year of first election. Colonization Building, No. 450 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D. C. JUDD & DETWEILER, Printers, Washington, D. C. L 448 468 LIBERIA. BULLETIN No. 10. FEBRUARY, 1897. THE EIGHTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY. NECROLOGY. During the past year death has taken from this Society two of its distinguished and most devoted and active members. The Rev. Thomas G. Addison, D. D., rector of Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church of Washington, District of Columbia, died April 3, 1896, in the sixty-fourth year of his age. He was elected a member of the Executive Committee of this Society in 1878, and filled that office until his death. As a man, he had positive and earnest convictions and the courage to speak and act in accordance therewith; as a devout Christian minister, his teachings and life were in close harmony; as a member of this Society and one of its important executive officers, he was ever at his post of duty, and most zealously and faithfully served the cause in which he had enlisted. On the occasion of his death his surviving colleagues on the Executive Committee of this Society and the Pennsylvania Auxiliary Colonization Society unanimously adopted and placed upon their records resolutions expressing their high appreciation of the services of their late colaborer, their deep sense of official loss, and most sincere personal sorrow. The Rev. George Whitefield Samson, D. D., died in New York city, August 8, 1896, in the seventy-seventh year of his age. He was born in Harvard, Massachusetts, September 29, 1819; he entered Brown University in 1835 and was graduated therefrom in 1839; he was pastor of a Baptist church at Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, of the E Street Baptist church and the First Baptist church, Washington, District of Columbia, and of the Mount Morris Baptist church, Harlem, New York, making a total pastorate of sixteen years; and he was president of the |