Excerpt from American Colonization Society: A Letter by Rev. Joseph Tracy, D.D., Containing Memoranda, Concerning the Late Appeal of the Executive Committee of the New York State Colonization Society to the Friends of African Colonization Such was the state of affairs April 9, 1867, about a month before the annual meeting should have been holden, but was not, and there was no reason to expect that it would be. On that day, it happened to be my duty to acknowledge the receipt of a letter from you. I added, in an off-hand style, on a single page of note-paper, an exhortation to labor for the reorganization of that Society; for the return of Mr. Dodge, and others who had, withdrawn, to their former activity as members, even if it should lead to a conflict with the minority whose management had driven them into retirement, and the retirement of that minority in their turn. The thought of a controversy suggested a danger. That Society holds in trust, for education in Africa, the proceeds of bequests to the amount of some A controversy ending in a disruption Of the Society might give rise to doubts as to the rightful custody of those funds, and, in the end, for want of a clearly legal custodian, they might be claimed by residuary legatees, or revert to the heirs of testators, and thus be lost to the cause of education in Africa. I therefore added a caution against this danger. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.