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COLUMBIAN COLLEGE
IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
The following {information relative to the Co
lumbian College, in the District of Columbia, has
been forwarded on by the Hon. R. J. Meigs, to a
eetdletnan in this town, who has politely handed
it to us for publication. The reader can at once,
have a full view of the principles upon which it is
founded —also a letter from the President of the
United States, giving it his sanction—together
with the remarks of the ‘ Boston Patriot’—like
wise a statement from the Professors of the Theo
logical Institution at Andover, (Mass.) giving it
their warmest approbation.— FaytltivilU Gasetlt.
The trustee? of this institution have the
satisfaction of announcing to the publick,
that it will he opened for the admission of
students in the classical department on the
second Wednesday in January next. It is
desirable that applicants should present
themselves on that day for examination ;
for attending to which the faculty of the
college will make the necessary arrange
ments.
The Rev. William Staughlon, D. D. by
the unanimous voice of the trustees, ha?
been placed at the bead of this college;
’ the Rev. Ira Chase and Alva Woods, pro
cessors. Provision will be made for other
kprhfessors and for tutors.
The general course of instruction in the
jbest respectable colleges in the United
jtalee will be pursued.
I An edifice containing (besides halls, and
Niblick rooms) chambers for at least one
faidred students is prepared; a steward
Ipointed ; and arrangements will be made
?so economical a plan that boarding will
at a very reduced price. The
frteeshave no hesitation in declaring their
le.f.that less than three dollars per week,
* cover the entire expense of a student
washing, fuel, and candles.
preparatory school it has been judged
to organize, in which young gen
tian may fit themselves for entering tbe
clical department, and in which appli
es!. who may be found, on examination,
VnoLlly qualified, may have a convenient
sitton for completing their preparation.
Foljs a suitable instructor will be provid
ed The admission fee, tuition, boarding,
&cje same as in the classical department.
T trustees would do injustice to them
seli to the institution, to parents and the
gu? ms of youth, and to the community
at I >, were they to withhold from publi
city following letter from the President
oft Inited States to the president of the
boa
Washington, March 24, 1821.
“ —1 avail myself of this mode of as-
Sttrit on of my earnest desire that the
collf vhidi was incorporated by an act
*■ rfC ess, at the last session, by the title
of th Columbian College of the District
of Ci bia, r * may accomplish all the use
ful j oswr for which it wa9 instituted ;
aud l with great satisfaction, (bat there
is goifeason to believe, that the hopes of
thoselofcuve so patriotically contributed
THE MISS I O 4R Y.
to advance it to its present stage will not
be disappointed.
“ Its commencement will be under cir
cumstances very favourable to its success.
Its position, on the high ground north of the
city, is remarkably healthy. The act of
incorporation is well digested; looks to the
proper objects; and grants the power well
adapted to their, attainment. The estab
lishment of the institution within the federal
district, io the presence of Congress, and of
Hhe government, secure to the young meD
who may be educated in it many important
advantages ; among which, the opportunity
it will afford them of hearing the debates in
Congress, and in the Supreme Court, on
important subjects, must be obvious to all.
With these peculiar advantages, this institu
tion, if it receives hereafter the proper en
couragement, cannot fail to be eminently
useful to the nation. Under this impres
sion, I trust that such encouragement will
not be withheld from it.
“ 1 am Sir, with very great respect, your
very obedient servant,
JAMES MONROE.”
The trustees pledge themselves that no
thing on their part shall be omitted, which
can contribute to fulfil these favourable an
ticipations of the chief magistrate.
By order of the Board,
O. H. BROWN, President.
ENOCH REYNOLDS, Secretary.
CblumbianCollege in theDmtrict of Coluntbia.
We have witnessed with great pleasure
the establishment and flattering prospects
of this national institution. Situated at our
‘national metropolis, it promises much good
not. only to the literary, but to the yet more
importaot interests ot our rising country.
The principles upon which it has been
established, are liberal and correct. In its
character we find the following cathoiick
article:—
“That persons of every religious denom
ination shall be capable of being elected as
trustee* ; nor shall any person, either as
president, professor, tutor, or pupil, be
refused admittance into said college, or
denied any of the privileges, immunities or
advantages thereof, for or on account of his
sentiments in matters of religion.”
Os the board of trustees are several dis
tinguished gentlemen of Washington, as
well as persons of different religious denom
inations. The expenses of a student at
this institution will be moderate. The
trustees have no hesitation in declaring
that less than three dollarsy probably little
more than two dollars per week,will cover
the whole of a student’s expenses, for board
ing, washing, fuel, &c. The situation of its
buildings is a remarkable fine and healthy
one, upon the high hill, north of the capitol,
.commanding a wide prospect of the sur
rounding country, and enjoying the benefit
of fine air and water. The course of in
struction is to be that of the most approved
colleges ofour country; including the study
of the Latin and Greek classicks, belles let
tres, the philosophy of the mind and the
abstract sciences. The price of tuition is to
be fifty dollars per annum, payable in two
payments, one thirty, and the other twenty
dollars.
Under these circumstances, Columbian
College comes before the American publick
for patronage. The establishment of a
college at the seat of government was a
favourite object with our Washington, as
well as with other distinguished men of our
country. The effort having now been
made by the enterprise of a few individuals;
their appeals to the favour of the publick
deserve at least a favourable bearing.
Should they be enabled to persevere in
their undertaking, till success crowns their
efforts, the benefit, which oor whole coun
try will derive, will be great and important.
An institution for literary instruction, at
Washington, bringing together young men
from the various quarters of our wide ex
tended country, so meet as it were on neu
tral ground, removed from all their section
al feelings and prejudices, and placed with
in the immediate sphere of the operatioi*
ofour national government, where they
will learn both to love and admire the sim
plicity and regularity of its movements, an
institution so situated will have a highly
important and beneficial effect upon the
salubrity of our Union. It will be the
source from which streams of mutual good
will and brotherly love will flow through
our happy land.
The Professors of the Theological insti-.
tution at Andover, Mass, have been pleased
to make the following statement respecting
the “ Columbian College, iu the District of
Columbia.”
Theological Seminary , Andover ,
September 25th, 1821.
To the friends of learning, and religion
we beg leave to say, that we have consid
ered the establishment of the Columbian
College in the District of Columbia, as an
event of great importance, and as likely to
be of extensive and lasting utility to the
best interests of man. We entertain a high
. respect for the president of the college,
and for those generally who are its guardi
ans and supporters. With the young gen
tlemen who have been appointed as profes
sors, we-have bad opportunity to become
particularly and very intimately acquainted;
and we are happy in being able to say, that
we have formed an opinion altogether in
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their favour; that we think their appoint
ment to these offices very judicious; and
that we feel great satisfaction as to their
talents and their literary acquisitions, the
soundness of their religious opinions, their
sincere attachment to the cause of Christ,
and their disposition to discharge, with dili
gence and fidelity, the arduous duties of
the station! to which they are called. It is
our earnest desire that this infant but prom
ising institution may enjoy extensive and
liberal paironage, and may soon be furnish
ed with a,library and funds adequate toils
objects as a seminary of learning and piety;
and above all, that it may enjoy the
favour of Him, whose blessings give success
to every great and good design.
E. Porter,
* Leonard Woods,
Moses Stuart.
—* ozo:*:ozo~
GRAND BASSA.
AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
The London Missionary Register, in speaking of
the American Colony in Africa, introduces the
following interesting Remarks and Extracts.
Purchase of Land for a Colony , at St. John's
River.
In our last Number we stated the inten
tion of the American Agents to proceed
down the coast; and that they were to be
accompanied by William Tamba and Wil
liam Davis, two of the Church Missionary
Society’s Native Teachers. By despatches
just arrived, we learn that they have suc
ceeded in their object.
Mr. Andrus and Mr. Bacon, with their
two native friends, left Sierra Leone, in a
schooner, on the 22d of March. On the
Ist of April they reached the Bassa conn
try. The old king, John, who received
Mr. Cates very cordially en his visit to
these places, is since dead. He had been
succeeded by kiDg Ben. On the 12th of
April, king Ben and the HeadmOi held a
palaver with the visiters; when an agree
ment was made for a quantity of land, to
be held by an annual payment, or tribute,
of two casks of rum, two casks of manufac
tured tobacco, one box of pipes, twenty
pieces of cloth, and other articles. The
king’s son accompanied the agents to Sierra
Leone. William Tamba, on the return of
the schooner, was put on shore at the Plan
taius, and proceeded on another journey
among the Sherbro people.
The following extract of a letter from
the Rev. W. Johnson to the Church Mis
sionary Society, dated Regent’s Town,Apr.
27, 1821, states some of the interesting cir
cumstances under which the negotiation
was brought t® a successful termination:—
Last night I was agreeably surprised at
the sight of Mr. Bacon, who has been down
the coast to the Bassa country. William
Davis also returned; aud they were ac
companied by the king’s son of that coun
try. William Tamba is gone again on a
visit to the Sherbro people.
The missionaries have succeeded in ob
taining land : they have a sufficient quanti
ty to begin a Colony in the Bassa country.
It appears that the kiug of that country is
in earnest, or he would not bave sent his
son ; which may be taken as a token of his
sincerity, in respect to his’promise of the
land. I cannot express what I felt, when
the news reached my ears. A heavy bur
den fell at once from my mind, which has
been there ever since J heard of the death
of Mr. Cates; for he, humanly speaking,
died in consequence of the fatigue which
he endured in going to that conntry; and I
was the cause of his undertaking the jour
ney ; for 1 first proposed it to him, and then
urged a special meeting to be held for the
purpose. But now I see, that had not Mr.
Cates gone thither, the missionaries would
not have received land. William Davis
produced the agreement which the king
had made with Mr. Cates, and which open
ed the way immediately.
The people were in the evening school
when YVilfiam Davis and the prince arriv
ed. I took the prince to the school house;
and, had our friends in England seen the
sight, they would have wept for joy. His
countrymen, who were standing in their
respective classes, left them without asking
leave, surrounded the son of their king,
shook hands with him in the most affection
ate manner, and inquired after their rela
tives. Some leaped far joy when they
heard that their parents were alive: and
the prospect of the Gospel soon sounding
in their ears, caused such sensations as can
not well be described. David Noah heard
that his father and brethren were all alive
and well. William Davis said that he had
seen some of those who had sold him ; and
who tried to hide themselves, being asham
ed to look at bim : the lnistress of his last
master, (who sold him to the Portuguese)
when she saw him she ran toward him, and
fell round his neck and wept; he beard al
so that his mother was alive; but she was
too far in the inferiour to enable him to pay
her a visit this lime: be however sent her
a present, and word that he hoped soon to
see her, and to have her in his family.
Some of the people were so struck when
they saw Davi9, that they would scarcely
believe he was the same; as an instance of i
one returning, who had been sold out of the
country, had never occurred before. Is
not this a Joseph’s case? Oh how wonder
ful are the ways of the Lord !
The missionaries have agreed to settle
on the shores of the Bassa country, in the
beginning of next dry season.
The journey of Mr. Cates referred to in
this extract, was noticed in our last volume.
It was the intention of the Church Mis
sionary Society, to embrace the first op
portunity of entering on the promising field
among the Bassa people, which Mr. Cates’s
visit had opened. The Society will great
ly rejoice that American Christians have
gained a footing there; and that its own
previous researches and labours have led,
in any measure, to the attainment of their
object. The new colony will serve as a
point of support to the exertions of native
as well as of American and English Chris
tians, to diffuse the light of the Gospel on
these shores.
As these circumstances have given new
interest to Mr. Cates’s proceedings with
the inhabitants of the country where the
American settlement is to he formed, we
shall extract from his Journal the chief
particulars which occurred:—
March 6, ICl9.—At six o'clock, we pro
ceeded (o a small town at the bar of St.
John’s River. Davis read a few verses of
the second chapter of Isaiah, and addressed
the people. They were attentive and wil
ling to hear; but could say nothing as to
the probability of a person being allowed
to settle among them as a teacher.
At two o’clock we procured a canoe, and
crossed the river in search of John White,
the headman, who was to conduct us to
King John. After walking about three
miles on the sand-beach, we arrived at a
town of kroomen and fishermen. Here we
learnt that John White’s town was some
miles further on, but that he was gone to
king John’s town to attend the funeral of a
deceased headman. We set off - , therefore,
for the king’s town.
We had not gone far, before a man came
after us from John White, saying that he
would meet us at a small town in the way.
We proceeded thither, and found him wait
ing. He conducted us to King John’s
town.
King John’s town is about six mile 9 from
the sand-beach in a fertile country. The
soil appears good; and though in the midst
of the dry season, there is plenty of grass
to support the numerous cattle which graze
round the town. The houses arc general
ly circular, (he roofs commencing at about
three feet from the ground : many of them
are carried up, in a conical shape, to the
height of twenty or twenty-five feet; the
top being defended by a turf of earth, on
which a plant resembling house-leek grows.
They are better built than any that we
have lately seen. Mud walls and matted
floors are common.
Oar arrival was soon noised abroad;
when men, women and children ran togeth
er to look at the white man. 1 was sitting
in a large palaver house, which in leas than
ten minutes was so filled with people, that
the heat became quite oppressive; while
the noise was soch, that a stentor must
bave despaired of being heard. I was
obliged to move into the open air, where I
sat nearly half an hour to gratify (heir cu
riosity. It was amusing to observe the va
rious countenances which surrounded me.
Many of the men came to shake my band;
while the women pressed on the shoulders
of the men, and thrust the children under
their arms and legs in all directions, with
various indications of surprise or fear. Af
ter the crowd of men and women had re
tired, the children seemed determined to
indulge a little longer in the novel sight;
and moved round me at a few yards dis
tanoe, to survey both back and front, as we
would do chained wild beasts.
The approach of the king was now an
nounced. Some mats were spread ; and a
wooden-seated chair, which had lost Us
back, was brought for him to sit upon.
The king is a feeble old man ; but possesses
his faculties much better than I expected.
He was dt#ssed in a long robe of country
cloth, made in the Mandingo style ; and had
on his head a blue scarlet cloth cap, orna
mented with Vandyke and tassels. By the
help of a staff, he was able to walk to his
seat; and his sight was Sufficient to distin
guish me very readily. He inquired after
my health, my name, and my business.
Being satisfied on these points, he said he
wap glad to see me, and to hear what I told
him. its it was getting dark, I deferred a
longer interview till the morning; telling
the king, that if he would then assemble his
people, we would read the book which we
had brought, and talk to them about it. He
cheerfully assented: and after a little more
conversation respecting the places which
we had visited, whence we came, and the
doctrine that we taught, he went away.
The people then began to express their
opinions about us. That we should have
walked from Sierra Leone, seemed almost
incredible ; a.nd in order to get rid of the
difficulty, one man stated it to he his opinion
that I came down from heaven ; which he
thought, of course, a shorter journey.
The king supplied us with a house : and,
soon after, sent a large bowl of beef and
soup: but as it had too large a portion of
palm-oil for my taste, the men enjoyed the
benefit of it. In ap open shed, near the
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house appropriated to our use, was the
unburied body of the deceased headman, as
they reported. Before we began oor
meeting for prayer, the people had assem.
bled at this shed, with drums and horns,
howling and dancing in the extravagant
manner which we had before witnessed. I
expected that we should scarcely be able
to hear the voice of prayer for their noise ;
but, before the first hymn was finished,
they heard us, and left their dancing to
come and look at us: nor did they begin
any more during the night, to my great
comfort.
March 7, 1819, Sunday —The king sent
word, that, by eight o’clock, he wanted to
hear .our book. I went, therefore,. wilk
Tamba and Davis. We found him seated
on a leopard’s skin, on a mat on the ground,
ia a small court surrounded with houses,
which were connected by mud walls, and
through which there were three entrances.
His head, in addition to the red cap, was
now surrounded with an enormous quantity
of leopard’s teeth tied together. There
did not appear less than two hundred, the
weight of which must have been severely
felt by bis enfeebled neck. About thirty
people were admitted with us, and the
doors were shut. I read part of the eigh
teenth chapter of Matthew, and addressed
them; Davis repeating, in Bassa, what t
said. They were very attentive; and
seemed thankful for the instruction given
them, and much surprised at seeing a coun
tryman of their own so far elevated above
them. Having concluded, I told the king
that 1 should like, in the forenoon, to speak
to his people more publickly, in some
place where all who wished might attend.
He said, he’was willing, and should be glad
himself to beypresenf.
I had not long returned to the house, be
fore the king,followed me ; and having: or
dered his people to catch a small bull, he
presented it to me, begging that I would ac
cept it, and order one of my people to kill
it. I thanked him; but said, as there
would be much more than we could eat
while it would he good, I would rather de
cline so bountiful a present. If that were
the case, he said, 1 should take as much
I liked, and he would fake the res thu
again thanked him, but still decline! fuT
bemg Sunday, I did not like that (I
should be so employed. All, h<v s one
would not avail, but take a part i 6 c re a of
The king therefore ordered his peojltem’s
kill it; and, when dead, would not (ken as
piece till I had chosen which part I thn Bun ”
proper. I complied, and took abou
quarter, but he would make it up nea^ ss ’
half. He inquired whether our grea and
knowledge was acquired at all by any par
ticular diet. Being told that it was not;
but that all which we knew naturally, oth
ers were equally capable of obtaining by a
little study; and that all which we knew
spiritually, God could teach him and his
people ; he seemed surprised.
It was twelve o’clock before we were
ready for morning service, which we held
in the palaver house. I had no sooner
entered, than the people fiocked together
i in crowds, to hear the surprising things
about which we talked : in a few minutes,
the king came; when between two and
three hundred persons seated themselves
around, and were silent beyond what I could
have expected from such untutored people.
We began by singing part of the nine
teenth Psalm. I then prayed : and William
Davis explained the meaning of each of
these services to them. I then read the
second chapter of Genesis; and spoke
briefly on the creation of man in a stale of
happiness, and contrasted it with his pre
sent state; leaving William Davis to en
large on these topicks. Among other
things, as a proof of man’s departure from
justice, he stated their custom of killing th
people of a whole town, if they can, for the
offence of one man, and contrasted it will*
justice and mercy enjoined by the Word of
God; on which the whole congregation,
which had hitherto been silent, set up two
or three loud shouts, as if they had been
electrified. On inquiry, 1 found that these
were sbou(9 of approbation, and meant that
what we said was very good. As soon as
silence was restored, Davis finished hie
discourse; and, after singing the hundred
and seventeenth Psalm, and praying, we
concluded the service; promising to meet
them again before night, as they seemed
still disposed to hear.
At five o'clock,we had afternoon service.
1 read the third chapter of Genesis; and
explained to them the fall of man, and the
curse of God incurred thereby; and Ihln,
directing them to Jesus as the all-sufficient
Saviour, concluded with prayer. They
were quite willing to bear, and professed
to approve what was said. The poor old
king, especially, seemed desirous that him
self and his people should have instruction.
March, 8, 1819.—They kept up dram
ming and dancing to a very late hour last
night, and deprived me of rest. The king*
came early this morning, to ask after my
health; and to tell me that he liked the
proposal which I had made, of sending Wil
liam Davis to teach them.
Four or five times in the course of the
day, 1 was called on to rend to them ; and
their desire to hear continued unabated.
Tbej busied themselves in devising means.