Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1834-07-30

Prospects Of Liberia-Those Abolition fana-
tics who sheer at the efforts of the Colonial
ton Society to establish settlements on the coast
|of Africa under the presumption that the
scheme will prove abortive, do not reflect how
much more Quixoc some of their own wild
projects are OF sending missionaries to Pekln or
|Seringapatam, with the hope of converting the
natives ofthose countries The chances oil sue
cess for the colony of Liberia are, after making
all due allowance for the inferiorty ofthe blacks,
just as fair as were the daring attempts OF
the early white settlers upon the continent OF
North America. Were not the expeditions OF
Columbus, Cabot Raleigh, Hudson, Winthrop,
Ogethorpe, &C. also deemed visionary? Sup
pose our Puritan, Protestant Catholic, German,
Dutch, Swedish ancestors, had been OF such
tmid temperament that they would have been
deferred by the discussions of the croakerS OF
that day2 Our glorious empire would have
still been a wilderness of savages, and this
great experiment which we are making to de-
monstrate the capacity of man for self-govern-
ment would have been to this day an ITO
plan dream. With our own proud example,
therefore, before us, we should be the first to en-
courage this noble attemptto reconquer degrad-
ed Africa from her miserable vaSsalage by
the light which her own liberated children take
back with them from this free country. The
day may come when Liberia shall prove anoth-
er rock of Plymouth, and Timbuctoo the seat
of another Harvard-when Africa, the land Of
HE moor, of the desert and the camel, shall
have its GASES peopled by sovereign States; and
the inappreciable blessings Of education and
of republican institutions shall extend over her
sandy plains from the gates of Hercules to the
mouth of the Niger.-M y. Star.
Graham the temperance lecturer, succeeds
very well in the bread and water line, but there
are some of his doctrines and practices, that
are it seems, absolutely indigestible. He is now
in Portland, giving lectures to the married la
dies at which neither their husbands nor other
persons of the masculine gender-except the
lecturer himself-are permitted to be present.
Spinsters too are excluded. 1t is very natural
that gentlemen should wish to pry into the Sc
cretS of these Eleusinian ceremonies, to pluck
out the heart of their mysteries; but all their eX
ertions to obtain peep at the doings Of the con-
clave, have proved fruitless. The married la
dies refuse to reveal to their leige lords title of
what takes place at their secret sessions, and
fearing that the breath Of suspicion might light
on them. they have had public meeting, and
passed flaming resolutions, declaring that Mr..
Graham neither says or does any thing that
might offend the most fastidous delicacy. Mr..
Graham gives out that in these lectures he dis
courses on the science Of human life.
This does not exactly satisfy the curious gen
tlemen and spinsters of Portland ga discourse
on human life" is about as definite title for
lecture, as "a dissertation upon things in gene
rap would be. The Portldnders, like so many
Paul Pry's are curious to know what peculiar
ramification of the science Of human life the
learned lecturer chiefly confines himself and
his learned audience to. They will not be con-
tent with the protestatons of the married ladies,
that there is no harm in Mr.. Graham's secret
discourses. The Portland papers are getting
warm on the subject-N. Y. Times.