The Litchfield County post., 1828-11-20

to secure a more efiectual power over the
slaves. This has been urged as an argu-
meni against The Colonization Society by
many. in our part of the country but very
inconclusively, as appears to me. | doubt
not that there are selfish and ignoble be-
ings, who are actuated by such motives, g.
wh0 have no true love of liberty-and no
regard to the condition of The poor Afric-
an. But what matters this, so as the pro-
iect itself be good one, and be calculated
to effect the object we desire. 1t should
not suffer, because others enter into it with
baser motives than our own.
But to make colonization effectual, it is
not sufficient that the arts of civilized srci-
ETY. be carried to new country the Cos
pei is also needed. | will not insult your
understandings and religious principles by
arguing on this point. You know better
than l can declare unto you, that cviliza-
ton without christianity is valueless-nay,
you know that the former cannot subslst
without the latter. = be civilized, ma
ton must have religion, and this religion
must be christianity. Now, where is At
RIGA. dark, degraded, ignorant Africa;
where is it to obtain this blessed gift 3
How shall they hear without preacher, 81
how shall they preach except they be sent,
and how shall they be sent except by our
exertions; All this has been felt-Ihe APP
peal has been mude-funds have been raj
sed and appropriated-and still greater
sums could be collected for this noble pur-
pose. But, alas, we cannot use what we
now have-wc cannot obtain missionaries.
The want is universal. 1t is felt sensbly
in Great Britain as we'll as in our own
country. But a short time since, letters
were addressed to different persons, from
the Church Missionary Society stating that
they locked anAiously to this country for
missionaries, catechists and schoolmasters
they wished for pious, intelligent and ac-
tive men of colour for this purpose, and
stood prepared to give them an ample sup
port. The white man, as we are convin-
eed from melancholy proof, cannot endure
that climate; and besides, his colour which
is associated with the ideas of disease, un-
fits him for usefulness amongst most OF the
tribes. The call then, is loud for African
missionaries throughout the christian COM
munity. Now, to supply the deficiency SO
| universally and SO deeply feli, the African
Mission School Society has been project
ed. 1t is not intended to interfere " th d.
ny Society already established; nor to
take upon itself in any degree, the direc-
ton OF missionary enterprises. Its sole
object is to select and prepare instruments
for them. Its hope is, in the present year
to obtain Il few pious and intelligent young
men of colour. and to educate them with
reference to the propagation of the gospel
in Africa. The leading object in such "a
plan Of education should be, to fit them 10
become teachers of the Word of God in
simplicity and purity. Learned and ac-
complished tbeologians are not needed for
this work; but pious, humble, and devoted
men, deeply instructed in the gospel scheme
of salvation, and familiar with the oracles
| of truth in our English verson-such will
make useful and effective missionaries. In
addition to this, we would give knowl-
edge of the first principles of the useful
sciences and arts; viz botany, mineralo-
gy, surveying, civil and municipal law, land
political economy. Nor should the attain
ment of an adequate manual dexterity, in
the performance of agricultural and me-
chanlca labor,b be neglected. These quail
ifcations may be of great Importance in
aiding the native tribes in their approach
ing to civilization, and in gaining a desira-
BILE influence over them.
II by the present undertaking, we can
prepare few individuals each year, who
can be rendered useful in the great work of
renovating Africa,we should think that our
society has occupied ground, at present va
cant, with a struc ure which however hum-
BILE, promises to be eminently serviceable
to the cause of christianity and civiIiza-
ton.
| hive urged upon your notice, my
brethren, the claims of Africa as. peculiar
ly binding upon US the inhabitants of the
United States: and the selfish considera-
tons which should excite our attention to
to those claims. Long asl have detained
you, however, must in one word more
appeal to you as christian men, Influenced
nv M 0thar motivcS than <hnco vcy, doriva