Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-05-12
CAYENNE. No. XII.

cularly interesting, inasmuch as it will call up
the recollections of a great work ofphilanthro-
ply, in which you were engaged, some fof'y
years ago.
.sWould to God, that on your return to our
shores, YOU could have semitic land OF free-
dom untarnished by the presence OF slave.
Would that you could have seen this tar coun-
try, this great and rising empire, the abode a.
lone of freemen.
"Truly striking must have been the con-
trast to YOU, betweenth northern and south
ern sections of our confederation. There,
in the land of steady habits, you beheld the
genuine practice ofrepublcanism, in the mo-
rality, the industry, and independence, OF
| people, who would be the pride and orna'
| ment of any age or country. There you
have beheld an unkindly surface, wrested from
its natural udeness and made to smile with
plenty, by the labour and economy OF vlrtu-
Gus and hardy population, and fertilized by
the sweat which falls from freeman's brow.
| You have seen the benefits of education, the
| beauty of moral habits, which form the power
and character of people, elevated by all
which can elevate human nature. You have
said can this be the nation which | left in the
cradle can this be the country left hardly
emerged from a Wilderness Yet such
things are You left Liberty pluming her
youthful pinions, just ready to take her early
flight You find her soaring on Eagle wings,
undazzled by her height, preparing to leave
the favored regions where the work is done,
to skim the cloud capt SUBMITS ofthe Andes,
| and perch in triumph on the banner Of Boil
| var.
| s.In your tour General, new and diversified
scenes await you, at every link in the very
long chain of the American confederation.
You have already reached a more genial
cline, region more blessed by Heaven, but
| from the error of our fathers, more cursed by
man.
"In the South, our hearths are growing cold;
our doors, which have so oft flown open at
the call of hospitality, have rust on their him
ges-our chimneys, in which the blaze did
once run roaring up now emit feeble
smoke, scarce enough to stain the mid day
sky. Yet generous was the day of our great
ness. The social virtues dwelt in our hearts,
and under our roofs, the stranger always
found a home. Our glory has passed away
the Ancient Dominion, the seat of talent, OF
patriotism, of high Revolutionary pride and
"Reminiscences, is falling from her once high de-
gree-she yields before the powerful march
of sister states, which were once to her 'as
to Hercules IT'S true the dreamers of fancy
still picture the Southern proprietor as reci-
ming on beds ofroses, famed by the Hours Of
the Mahommedan paradise, say rather the un-
enviable couch of Guatimozin. The roses
which bloom in slavery's cline, soon "waste
their sweetness in its desert arr" and the paths
which appear to be strewed with flowers, will
be found to contain full many thorn.
"But small is the stream which divides the
Mother of the States from her now mighty off
spring. For nearly two centuries, had the pa
rent being, before this "child of promise"
beheld the light: but behold the march Of
Freedom; for where her progress is unimped-
ed by the trammels of slavery, hers is giants
stride. But yesterday, and where this great
community now hourishes was a trackless for
est-'tis now enlivened by the "busy hum of
men," and civilization and the arts have fixed
happy dwelling there; nay more, Histrionlc
TALENT has illustrated the works of the divine
Shakespeare, where late the panther hOwled,
and savage beasts of prey"
sand savage men, more savage stillthan they
The axe of the woodman rouses the echoes,
which have sleptfor ages in the silence of ma
ture; the harves. smiles in hlxuriance, where
wild flowers grew of late; and the hymns of
praise, heard from the temples of the ever-liv-
ing God, succeed to the yell of the savage. -
the signal of despair and death
"Know you of changes like these in the land
of the slare' No, my dear General-there,
like a wounded snake improvement, pros
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along:' but give TO the land liberty, and at
once she puts on her seven league boots, and
rushes to glory and empire.
'sThe American Colonization Society has
for its object, the removal of free persons of
color from the United States to the coast Of
Africa 1t interferes in no wise with the
rights of property, and hopes and labors for
the gradual abolition of slavery, by the volun-
tary and gradual manumission of slaves, when
the free persons of color shall have first been
transferred to theiraborigina, climate and SOIL
SIT has been but few years since this in
stitution commenced its labours; it has had to
encounter an host of prejudices-to overcome
very many difficulties and dangers in its pro-
gress,-but has happily planted its standard
on the shores of Africa, and given to much
injured, much enduring people, the hopes of
regeneration in the home of their fathers.