Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1827-07-12

liberty enough to make them vicious,
without making them happy Are they
not a prey to the articles of the design.
ing or objects Of suspicion 10 the virtu-
Gus. Are not their very efforts to reach
common comfort and gentility, jeered
as ridiculous,o or treated as presumptuousf
Thus unfinished with the motives by
which nan rises above Gods irrational
creatures - thus dispirited and degraded,
they drag out a life. to which savage
wildness would be dignity and glory!
For the condition to which they are now
reduced, it is true, the present genera
ton cannot be blamed The guilt of it
has gone with those who have long since
rendered In their account to Heaven
W. did not bring them here and their
present political condition seems to be
decreed by circumstances in Society
which zoe cannot remove. But If we
| cannot remove the circumstances, let US
e~ndeavour to remove the people them
sslres. This we have shewn to be prac-
ticable; and it is a poor excus for neg
| letting to relieve Indebtedness that we
did not cause it-And cold indeed must
be the benevolence of that man, who
| can quietly sit himself down with such
a plea for neglecting TO forward any
feasible plan for the relief Of suffering
fellow creatures.
But we cannot-we dare not-limit
our views of the subject to this world.
The free people of colour for whom we
ask your aid. are immortal, responsible
beings; who will one day have TO appear
before the Judgment seat of Christ. Such
is the connexion between political and
spiritual condition in this life, that the
former must often give a character to
our eternal state. And when ignorance &
vice meet with no opposition from tenn
poral motives. such as sell, respect, en-
u~lation. wealth or fame, they fortify
themselves in the human mind with a
depth and strength, (humanly speaking)
beyond the moral power of tho Gospel.
The Gospel it is true, is the "poper Of
God unto salvation" and owes its eff
Cacy as well as its existence to Him: but
the Lord works BY means and uses tenn
porsl circumstances, to open its way to
the hearts of bis creatures. The Cos
pei to prove efficient among aoy PEG
Pile, should be taught in infancy, heard
in manhood and enforced by example:
Enforced by the example Of parents and
those whose close relationship gives force
to example. Such is not the case we
know with the deluded, degraded people
to whom werefer. They are too igno.
rant to read the word OF God themselves
aud they listen to it from others with
jealousy and distrust. Thus are they
virtually, without example, without pre-
cept, and, in a word, without God in
the world" If then there be any value
in immortal souls or any truth in the
holy volume. II, my hearers. you would
have the mind and conduct of this peo-
Pile transformed into the beauty of no
Illness by the power Of the Gospel. If
you would have them 10 stand forth and
bless you with their testimony in the
Judgment day-we entreat you to lend
your aid to the scheme. A scheme which
will form them into a seperate commu-
uty WIN EIObkCs vi FntHouS Au0AoAJ
with the lights Of education, with the
powerful restraints and the glorious con-
solutions Of the Gospel of Christ.
But the benefits ofColonizing will not
stop with that portion Of the coloured
race which is within the bounds Of our
Republic. We might enlarge its claims
upon our benevolence, by views of other
and greater multiiudes 10 whom it will
bear the blessings of Cbristianity-We
might call your attention to the rational
hope which it holds out, of Christianiz-
ing and civilizing millions of ignorant
Heather, who inhabit the immense con
tinent of Airica-We might shew you
the prospect which it offers of relic wing
the abused, degraded African race, from
that ahomiuable, that disbolical outrage
upon humanity, the slave trads-A trade
which is daily exhibiting scenes of cruel
ty upon their coast that "Barbarism IT,
self might pity" But our limits will
not permit, and we would now contract
our appeal, into a single, visible, tangi-
BILE point
We have told you that a Colony has
already been established. There are
now many candidates for the privileges
Of this Colony who are ready to embar k,
so soon as the Society can supply means
for their transportation. 1t is in behalf
M fhase enternriZing free oloured mn. \