The Litchfield County post., 1828-11-20

GItF0CE yTOM ~ DtscOWsc WS1Oesc" W w"
Rec. DIR. Wainwright, on the occasion
of forming the African MissiO" School
Society.
When any new project is presented TO
our notice, the only inquiry will be. IS 1t
useful and feasible. Now my hearers, J
YOU are assembled together at this time, to !
hear one which we think has these recon-
mendations in an eminent degree. A So
ciety has recently been formed, entitled
the African Mission School Society. lis
name announces its design, which is to pre-
pare missionaries to be sent into Africa
In regard to that injured and neglected
country, great degree of ignorance has
heretofore prevailed. We have known as
little about its moral and religious capabllI-
ties, as about the great geographical prob
lem, the course and termination OF its NIGH
ty river. But information definite and au-
thentic now begins to reach US; and this
information tells the philanthropst and the
christian that boundless field is opened
to their benevolent labors, and one which
promises full as fairly as any mission
AIRY ground ever did, toarepay with abund-
ant harvest, such as will undertake its cul-
tvation. Africa, regard as region OF
peculiar interest to us, and one whlchpre-
sents to US peculiar obligations to care for
its moral and religious Improvement. We
are indeed separated from it by animmense
ocean, but we have taken its children from
their homes, we have held them in bond
age,we have obtained large portions of our
temporal comforts and luxuries from the
labor of their hands. We are all, to GER
tain degree, involved in the guilt Of inus-
tice toward this much suffering people. l
say ace, for | cannot ON this point make a
line of distinction. I would indeed on ev-
cry point, forever forget the terms north &
south as terms of national Distinction; but
most assuredly upon this. For here we
are under like condemnation. Slavery
once polluted thenow free and untram-
melted states of New England. And why
has it not remained the curse of our land
Because we were wiser, or loved freedom
better, than our southern brethren? No,
but because the climate of New-Engand
was heal!hful, and the white man could la
Dor beneath its sun, and no pestilence
drove him from its marshes. Had the
banks of the Connecticut been rice mead
ows, it's uplands the soil for cotton, and it's
Summer climate fatal to all but the. Afiic-
an race-the African race would in all hui
man probability,sti be in bondage among
us. And do we not at this moment, man
ufacture and wear the cotton of their own
planting and gathering and do we not,
eatof the rice and sugar which The toll of
slaves produced? Let us not then boast
of our exemption from responsibility, and
from whatever may be the criminality of
possessing a slave population. Let US ra-
Their look upon the cause as one of COM
mon interest, land the question how we are
to alleviate the evil, as one of common OBJ
legation. Let as have no examinations and
determinations. We are brethren OF one
family, and the faith of Christ commands
us to bear one another's burdens. Let all
animositysubside, and let us address our
selves to that question, as it presents itself
to me, of awful importance, how we are to
be preserved from the effects Of the grad
ual increase of our coloured and slave pop
ulation.
In answer to this, have sometimes
heard it said by persons of our section OF
the country, let The slaves be- emancipated.
Let the southern people by taking this step
sires to alleviate the conditions of Afiic-
ans. Emancipation is the cry. But it is
the language ofignorance. Emancipation
at the present day and to any extent, is an
impossibilty. Waive all the question a
bout our right to dictate to the Southern
people. in regard to what the constitution
OF the United States acknowledges to be
theirproperty. Suppose them all willing
at any moment to give up their slaves
What is to be done with them; where are
they to be sent? Who is to support per-
sons in middle age and advanced life, who
have never been accustomed TO provide for
themselves, but are as ignorant and help
less as children? They couldhot remain
in that country. They would be the i'm
mediate destruction of the white popula-
tion,and the first intelligence we should re-
ceive, would be an earnest summons to 60