gn interference," &c., from all parts of the hall. Mr.
Thompson persevered as few men would have done, but at last
yielded to the evident determination of the audience, and
took his seat. The hall then became still, and Mr. Gurley
proceeded.

We do not know that any Anti-Colonizationist was convinced by
these discussions; except men who are committed against the
Society, we believe the very general opinion is, that their
overthrow on the field of argument was as complete as any
could desire. It is evident that the cause of the
Colonization Society is gaining a hold on the convictions and
affections of the people of New-England stronger than it ever
had before. We say this in view of facts which are coming to
our knowledge from various parts. The storm of abuse and
misrepresentation with which it has been assailed, is
beginning already to contribute to its strength.

Now he begged to remark that the paper from which he had read the
foregoing extract, the New-York Observer, together with the one from
which it was originally taken, the Boston Recorder, printed more
matter weekly than all the avowed abolition newspapers, in America,
put together, did in half a year. He would notice farther, in relation
to the great display of abolition publications which had been made by
Mr. Thompson on the platform, that one of the papers lying there on
the table, had advocated his principles and cause when he was in
Boston, and likely to be mobbed at the instigation, as he believed,
of Mr. Garrison. Some of the remainder of the publications were, he
believed, long ago dead; some could hardly be said ever to have
lived; some were purely occasional; the greater part as limited in
circulation as they were contemptible in point of merit. Not above
two or three of the dozen or fifteen that had been produced before
them--and the names of which he (Mr. B.) required to be recorded--were
in fact, worthy to be called respectable and avowed abolition
newspapers. But to come to the point immediately in hand. He would
on the present occasion attempt to show that abolition was not worthy
to supplant the colonization scheme in the affections of Americans
or Britons, or of any other thinking people. He acknowledged that
there were many respectable men in the ranks of the abolitionists;
but these, almost without exception, had been at one time
colonizationists; and had he time he might show th