The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-02-10
From the Boston Courier.
Mr., CLAY,

This gentleman has recently made a sneech
before the Auxiliary Colonization Society of
Kentucky, which for eloquence of thought and
language, in our opinion exceeds any of his
published speeches. 1t presents sketch of
what is contemplated by the parent society, and
of the advantages of which the plan adopted by
that society is susceptible. As an encourage
ment to perseverance, and as an antidote to
dependency in the work before the society, the
orator says:
In the execution of these vast schemes
which affect the condition and happiness of
large portions of the habitable globe, time is
necessary, which may appear to us mortals,
of long duration, but which, in the ewes of
Providence, or in comparison with the peri
DDS Of national existence, is short and fleet
ing. How long was it after Romulus and
Remus laid the scanty foundations of their
little state in the contracted limits of the
Peninsula of Italy, before Imperial Rome
burst forth, in all her astonishing splendor.
the acknowledged mistress of the world !?
Ages passed away before Carthage and
other Colonies, in ancient times, shone out
IN all their commercial and military glory.
Several centuries have now elapsed since
our feretathers first began in the morasses
OF James river and on the rock of Plymouth.
the work OF founding this Republic, vet in
Its infancy. Eighteen hundred years have
rolled over since the Son of God, our bles-
sed Redeemer, offered himself on Mount
Calvary, voluntary sacrifice for the saliva
ton of our species and more than half of
mankind continue to this day to deny his
divine mission and the truth of his sacred
word.
Towards the close of the speech, we find the
annexed paragraphs.
The Society is an instrument which, un-
der the guidance of Providence, with pub
Tic assistance, is competent to spread the
lights OF both, throughout its vast dominions.
And the means are as simple as the end is
grand and magnificent. They are to devil
ate from the practice of previous Mission
airy institutions, and employ as agents some
OF the very brethren of the Heather sought
to be converted and brought within the pale
OF civilization. The society proposes to
send, not one or two pious members, of
Christianity into foreign land, among a
different and perhaps suspicious race, of
another complexion; but to transport annu-
ally, for an indefinite number of years, in
one view OF its scheme, six thousand, in an
other, titty-six thousand, missionaries, of
the descendants Of Africa itself, with the
same interests, sympathies, and constitu-
tons of the natives, to communicate the ben
efits of our religion, and of the arts. And
this colony of missionaries is to operate not
alone by preaching the doctrines of truth
and revelation, which, however delightful to
the ears of the faithful and intelligent, are
not always comprehended by untutored saw
ages, but also by works of occular demon
stratlon. 1t will open forests, build towns,
erect temples of public worship, and practi-
cally exhibit to the native sons of Africa,
the beautiful moral spectacle and the supe-
rIor advantages of our religious and social
systems. In this unexaggerated view of
the subject, the Colony, compared with 9TH
er missionary plans, presents the force and
grandeur OF noble steamer, majestically
ascending and with ease subduing the cur
rent OF the Mississippi, in comparison with
the feeble and lettering canoe, moving slow
~ among the reeds that fringe its shores.
1t holds up the image of the resistless pow
er of the Mississippi itself, rushing from the
submits ofthe Rocky Mountains, and mark
ing its deep and broad and rapid course
through the heart of this continent thous
ands of miles to the Gulf of Mexico, in COM
parlson with that of an obscure rlvulet wind
ing its undiscernable way through dark and
dense forests or luxuriant prairies in which
it is quickly and for ever lost.
Not one word need be added, in conclu-
sion, to animate your perseverance or to
stimulate your labors, in the humane cause
which you have deliberately espoused. We
have reason to believe that we have been
hitherto favored, and shall continue to be
blessed with the smiles of Providence
Confding in his approving Judgment, and
conscious of the benevolence and purity of
our intentions, we may fearlessly advance
in our great work. And when we shall. as
soon we must, be translated from this into
another form of existence, is the hope pre-
sumptuous that we shall there behold the
common father of whites and of blacks, the
great Ruler of the Universe, cast His All
Seeing Eye upon civilized and regenerated
Africa, its cultivated fields, its coasts stud
ded with numerous cities, adorned with
towering temples, dedicated to the pure re-
ligion of his redeeming Son, its far famed
Niger and other great rivers, lined with
fiourishing villages, and navigated with that
wonderful power which American genius
first successfully applied and that, after
dwelling with satisfaction upon the plori-
Gus spectacle, he will degn to look with an
probation upon us, his humble instruments
who have contributed to produce it.
What property of mind can be supposed to