The biographer of E. Tyson has taken great pains to represent him as a friend to the Colonization Society, but in this respect I am informed, by one who well knew him, he has done him great injustice.  It is confessed, indeed, that for a long period E. Tyson viewed this scheme with great jealousy.  “When we saw,” remarks this writer, “domestic tyrants, and men who had actually, in the southern slave-trade, speculated in the flesh and blood of their fellow creatures, united with their betters in a society, the professed object of which was the peopling of a continent with freemen by the depopulation of a continent of slaves, he argued, as he had a right to argue, mischief to the cause.”  No evidence is adduced to show that this same distrust of the Colonization Society was ever removed, beyond the fact that, having been the means of liberating eleven native Africans from a slave-ship, he cooperated with Gen. Harper, an influential colonizationist, in restoring them to their native country, which bordered upon the colony of Liberia.  This was the last public act of his life.

“The great concern in which he had spent his life was the constant topic of his conversation; and he continued with his latest breath to enforce the claims of the unhappy sons of slavery upon the humanity of their brethren.  It was natural that he should feel a strong anxiety about the fate of those who, through his exertions, had been restored to their friends in Africa.  He was on the alert to hear intelligence of their fate—­his spirit seemed to follow them across the mighty waters.  On one occasion he was heard to say, ’If I could only hear of their safe arrival I should die content;’ and on another, that he ’had prayed to the Father of Mercies that he would be pleased to spare his life until he could receive the pleasing intelligence.’  His prayer was heard.  The news reached his ears amid the last lingerings of life.  He shed tears of joy on the occasion; and when he had sufficiently yielded to the first burst of feeling, exclaimed, like one satiated with earthly happiness, ‘Now I am ready to die; my work is done.’  His expressions were prophetic; for in the short space of forty-eight hours, on the 16th of February, 1824, at the age of 75 years, he breathed his soul into the hands of God Almighty.”

The following are some notices of his personal appearance and mental characteristics: 

“The person of Mr. Tyson was about six feet in height, though the habit of leaning forward as he walked, gave a less appearance to his stature.  The rest of his frame was suited to his height.

“The features of his countenance were strong.  His forehead was high; his nose large, and of the Roman order; his eyes were dark and piercing; his lips so singularly expressive, that even in their stillest mood they would almost seem to be uttering the purposes of his mind.  Indeed his whole face was indicative, to a striking