The Northern star, and constitutionalist. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1834-1837, 1834-08-23

ing only dross. 1t might separate very
friends, now harmonious in the great en-
terprises of the day aad send discord anC
dismsy through the sacramento host
The unballowed controversy might break
out in colleges, and theological semina-
ries, and raise up a generation Of con-
ficling ministers to perpetuate strife
through the coming generation.
There would be great danger, that the
collision would degenerate into party spir-
it, depreciating each others success, and
ampIiiying and rejoicing in each others
mistakes, and publishing to an exultlng,
unbeIieving world, each others fail,ngs
aad bring a deep reproach, over which
angels must weep, upon our common
Christianity. No hindrance of the Col
onization Society TO the cause of abolition
could well become as great an evil, as the
controversy likely to be introduced, by an
effort to put it down. 1t would be an a
uomay in the history of our benevolent
institutions, a root of bitterness, unknown
in our churches before baleful comet
athwart our heavens, shaking pestilence
and war from its firery train. And why
should the Colonization Society be eject
ed from the brotherhood ct benevolent in
stitutionsi Both associations are agreed
in most Of the great principles which COM
mand the entire subject
That slavery is wrong, and great ma
tional sin and national calamity, and that
as soon as possible it is to be brought to
an end. Not however, by force, nor by
national Legislation, nor by fomcnting ia
surreclion, nor by the violation OF the
cons,itution and the dissolution of the un-
ion but by information, and argume mt,
and moral suasion-and by the spontane-
GUS action of the slave-holding States
Nor are they of necessity antagon;s. So
cieties in practice.
1t is not necessary that the Coloniza-
ton society should be or claim to be an
adequate remedy for slavery. Her great
and primary object, is the emancipation
Of Africa, while she anticipated as an in
cidental result, the emancipation Of the
colored race at home. But if time has
disclosed what she could not fansee, she
may bow submissively 10 the PVSviden,ial
will Of heaven.
I If in the urgency Of her early argu-
ments, she has spoken in terms Of unad-
|vised depreciation Of the free people OF
color, her most devoted sons have ac-
knowlcdged the mistake, and are disposed
TO repair the injury. If she has insisted
TOO peremptoriIy, emancipation can never
in any circumstances, take place on the
soil, she may quite consistently wave the
discussion of that point, and leave TO
heaven and time, tic manner Of abolition
Of Slavery. The Colonization Society
does not dsnounce the Shareholder. be-
cause it would not facilitate, but him
der her work but her silence does not
prevent others from doing il, if it seems
good in their sight. If the effect Of colo
nization would be to increase the security
of slave property, the effect would be on
ly temporary and limited, and more than
balanced by the general and more pcrma-
nent good, for the diffusion Of light and
argument, which she could circulate
where the agents of abolition could not
come. Every instance of abolition for
colonial purposes, attracts notice, and
produces discussion, and carries a new
sppeal to the conscience Of the slave-hold-
er, and new hope TO the bosom Of the
slave. The Colonization Society need
not insist that the entire colored popula-
ton shall be emptied out upon Africa nor
is il necessary that the Abolition Society
should insist that none should GO thither.
Is it Indispensable, TO the emancipation
of the sons of Africa, that their mother
country should sit in darkness, and drink
blood amid the terrors of paganism and
the slave trade, till all her excited chill
dren are emancipated? Must her sons
be taught to harden their hearts against
her, till the entire rcproach of slavery is
wiped away' is no compassion to be
moved, no prayers to be offered, no mis-
sionarv spirit to burn, no sorrow Of heart
to be felt for kinsmen according to the
flesh,i in benighted Africa? Is there no OBJ
legation on Christians of the colored race,
to volunteer for the introduction of Chris
tfanity to the land OF their fathers' Where
then is the necessity Of collisioni The
Colonization Society is not required to
insist on its exclusive efficiency to put a.
way slavery, and the Abolition Society is
by no peculiarly OF wisdom or foresight,
authorised to insist that slavery shall ter
inmate only in one way, and their own
single fundamentally.
lConcluded next week.