DAVID CHRISTY, Secretary of the Committee.
☞ All communications, in reference to this subject, and all remittances of money, may be made to the Agent, David Christy, Oxford, Butler county, Ohio, or to Rev. Wm. McLain, Washington City.
☞ The following paragraph, from the New York Times, was handed to the Agent just as this Address was going to press. It affords a sad confirmation of the doctrine of this Lecture, that there can be little security for African Missions, except in connection with Colonization: “Schooner Cortes, Capt. Stanhope, arrived at this port yesterday morning, from Gaboon, West Coast of Africa, whence she sailed April 14. We learn from Captain S., that on the 4th of April, the Mission Houses, Church, and other houses, belonging to the Church, at Corisco, were set on fire by the natives and entirely destroyed. Two female servants belonging to the United States were burned to death.”
☞ The Committee publish the annexed proceedings of the Oxford Council, as a matter of news, and as an important step for the colored people, without designing to indorse all the sentiments they contain.
☞ Rev. G. G. Lyons, of Toledo, is an authorized Agent for northwestern Ohio; and J. C. Stockton, of Mt. Vernon, for the northeastern counties.
From the Hamilton Intelligencer.
IMPORTANT DISCUSSION.
Oxford, May 22, 1854.
TO THE COLORED FREEMEN OF BUTLER COUNTY.
At a meeting of the Oxford Council, auxiliary to the State Council of the Free Colored People of Ohio, held on the 5th inst., the following preamble and resolutions were adopted for consideration; and on the 12th inst., an additional resolution was passed, inviting the members of the several Councils, in Butler county, to participate in the discussion. Notice is, therefore, hereby given, to all interested, that the discussion of the said preamble and resolutions will be commenced on Friday, the 26th inst., at two o’clock, P. M., in Oxford, and be continued, from time to time, until disposed of by the Council.