A

DISCOURSE

BEFORE THE

YOUNG MEN'S

COLONIZATION SOCIETY

OF

PENNSYLVANIA,

DELIVERED OCTOBER 24, 1834, IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH, PHILADELPHIA.

BY

J. R. TYSON.

WITH A NOTICE OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, AND OF
THEIR FIRST EXPEDITION OF COLOURED EMIGRANTS TO
FOUND A COLONY AT BASSA COVE.

PHILADELPHIA:

PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY.

TREASURER.

LLOYD MIFFLIN.

SECRETARIES.

Foreign Correspondence-ELLIOTT CRESSON.

Domestic Correspondence-Rev. W. A. M'DOWELL, D.D.
Recording-TOPLIFF JOHNSON.

HOUSE

19 NOV 1937

LIBRARY

AT A MEETING OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS of the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania, held November 11th, 1834, the following Resolution, offered by Dr. JOHN BELL, was unanimously and cordially approved, viz:

Resolved, That the BOARD OF MANAGERS, in the name of the SOCIETY, return their grateful acknowledgments to JoB R. TYSON, Esq. för his appropriate and excellent DISCOURSE, delivered before the Young Men's Colonization Society of Pennsylvania, on the 24th of October, 1834, and that a copy of the same, be requested of the Author for publication.

Extract from the Minutes.

TOPLIFF JOHNSON,

Secretary of the Board of Managers.

Philadelphia, Dec. 5, 1834.