Liberty advocate., 1839-02-21

position, we no more dare advocate the Colon
ization Society than Aboitionists
But TO DR.. Goheen's letter. We have mott.
ced it chiefly for the purpose of presenting the
following extracts
"Since my residence in Africa, my eyes have
been compelled to view things differently TO
what they did in America Having been cdu.
Gated in non-saveholding State, was daily
taught 10 look upon the man who held slaves
as monster scarcely human, and at all times
to regard those engaged in or holding slaves,
as participating in crimes of the deepest dye
and, Notwithstanding have resided in one and
travelled in several slave States, and never be-
held the shade ofa shadow Of an attempt at the
cruellies said to be practised daily uaon the
slaves, yet it was impossible for me II over
come early prejudices, or to believe any thing
else than that slavery as there practised, was
the greatest evil in the States, or in the world,
which now very much doubt. That slavery
as 1t exists in some parts Of the universe, is an
evil unparalleled by any other, is most true
but that 1t is burdened in the United States.
with all The crueltes and barbarites that the
race is subject to, is very far from the fact.
"Savery in the United States, in its worst
lorm, and under the lash, is not as bad as slave
Try in Africa in the miIdest form. 1t is a well
known truth that in Western Africa nne-tenths
of the whole population are in a state of slave
ry The females are all sold at an early age,
TO be, when they grow up, wives or beasts of
burden, as their proprietors may require. If
the majority here we're not slaves, how would
they ever get into the foreign slave dealers
hands? Where do the Portuguese and Ameri-
co SpanardS get their cargoeS of slaves? By
Plundering and ravishing the country3 No..
by seizing and tearing them from their habita-
tions along the coast? No. Nor yet by hunt
ing them from place 10 place with dogs; but
they are obtained from the kings of the coun-
try, who send and bring them from the far in
terror, in droves, and sell them as cattle to the
highest bidder. They are sent in hundreds
from the interior 10 the "Slave factories" and
sold for tobacco, powder, guns, cloth, and whs-
key. Our coast is thickly settled by natives,
who dwell secure from molestation by the
slaves: they are not stolen and gathered pro-
mlscuousIy by every and any means; nor are
they deprived OF their liberty when they are
forced to leave these shores-they only change
masters Slaves they are, and such they had
been to the most savage rulers, who inhict upon
them the seyerest punishment, and feel free to
kill, TO eat, or to throw them upon the funeral
pile, at pleasure. Slavery IN the States, cannot
possibly be as great one as it is here There
thousands hear the word of God, and become
Soundly converted to the Christian faith here,
hitherto, they have had no such opportunities,
and 1t appears evident that God is about to over
rule through the instrumentaIity of the Colon-
zation Society, this, as he did Joseph's slavery
in Egypt, and thereby bring about great and
lasting blessing to this whole country. have
heard men, who have been taken from this
country in slave ships, and returned by the Co
Society, bless God that ever they
were bought by the SLAYER and carried to the
States, where they heard the gospel preached,
and had their dark understandings Illuminated
by Divine grace.*
Gentlemen in America may say the crnel
atrocities heaped upon the colored man in the
South are not paralleled in any country; but ifI
they will only come abroad and suffer them
selves to fall into the hands of a native king, or
even "head-,nan" they will experience to
their sorrow punishments equally unheard Of,
nay, in a thousand degrees more painful than
any of the "torturing inventions Of the south
ern planters" Colored men may also talk of
they endure, and of the inferior ranks they are
to fill in society, and point the lis
tener to the degraded station that they occupy
in the public mind in consequence of some of
their brethren being slaves in the South; when
if it had not been for that "same hell-deservingI
practice" they themselves would now (if in ex-
stence at ally be proving these African forests,
with thousands of untaught heathens who in
habit them, as naked as when the light first
iawned upon them. They would be here
Oondmen, the slave of slaves, used as beasts of
burden, and at all times liable to decapitulation;
hey would be without any knowledge of a
3od or a hereafter, and suffering all the bar
PARTIES Of a savage invention. | say without
my knowledge of God, or hereafter, be-
cause have seen them examined before the
courts of justice by an Interpreter, aad they
Jay their "gree grees," are only Of service du-
ing life, that "when they die they die" and
hat no part Of them continues to lve-they !
augh to scorn the idea. They say they know
lothing about what becomes OF them after
Ieath, that if they do wrong their gree grees
will kill them, and that they all die, and all rot,
md that be the end. Such are the privileges
md enjoyments from which they are torn,
Vhen sold to savers, and forced TO leave "thelr :
lappy homes and peaceful country" for life
# slavery, with christian privileges, in anoth-
r hemsp phere.
do not wish to be understood as advocating
lavery. am firmly set in opposition 10 II;
Dut as Christian man, who desires TO see ms
elbow man in the most comfortable condition,
nd enjoying Christian liberty and Gospel priv
leuas | do saw that if the Colonization CauSel