Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1839-09-25
Colonization an Tne;.rnhralnce to NISSAN.
airy labor.

coionization an Tne:anlral,ce to Erissio.,s
..... airy LabOr.
Inc history Of mankind will show
that the plan of Introducing colonies Of
civilized inhabitants has never been bene.
hclal to the aborigines of any country
Inc colony has often prospered, while
the natives have persisted. In missiona-
fy operations, our design is not to people
the world with transplanted nhabi.ants,
out 10 convert, save and elevate the ma
tlVes. The means employed, therefore.
should be dlrect y and singly aimed at
TINS result. Those who engage in the
enterprise should manifest that their OBJ
Ject IS not the common object of adven-
turers; but the sublime, self-denyinc.
seit-sacrlllclng purpose of the genuine
| missionary. --r
AS an illustration OF the correctness Of
these views, we extract the foiowipp
from the Missionary Herald for Seplem,
Der, respecting the colony al Cape Pal
mas, Western Africa. 1t is part of let
ter from Rev. Mr.. Wilson IN York
Evangelist ....4 ..-s ..... -...--,' :,
| 1t is difficult for us TO say how much
impression has been made 1pon the mass
OF the people by missionary labor. They
have a decided conviction that it will he
advantageous to their children to be edu-
Gated and those of them who have their
children in our schools, manifest no de-
sire to remove them. They have been a
good deal surprised to find that their own
people car communicate with each other
oy means OF writing, and they have taken.
IN one or two cases, a great deal of pains
to satisfy their minds Of the. possibility of
1t. They have some knowledge Of the
Bible, OF Jesus Christ, and Of the way of
sal vatlon; but this knowledge is not very
minute, and it is not obvious that It exerts
any very considerable influence over their
minds. In temporal point of view we
Go not see that there have been anv i'm
portant advances, Nine-tenths of the v-o.
men are still to be seen in state of a.
most entire nudity. The men, with he
exception OF some Is or 20 who have
gowns and wearthem on stated occasions.
continue pretty nearly in the same condi-
ton as they were when we found them s
! years ago. Their mode of living IN
dense and compactly settled villages is
doubtless a material barrier to their i'm
provement. So long as this is the case.
they must be subject to numberIess broils
among themselves, suffer from pilferino,
| and will not be able to raise stock and
poultry, or to cultivate gardens And
this zoe fear eOiU be The case Just so long
as they are contiguous to an American
settlement, a0hich they regard Nth suspi-
caom and dread. In relation 10 the notire
people aa1amed1ately about The Cape, there
IS realty reason to fear that their mot;ou
has actually been retrOgrade. Iaroe
numbers of them are degrading them
selves into hucksters and petty traders
Their herds of cows, sheep, goats and
other domestic animals, are not now bv
one half so numerous as they were FIVE
| years ago. They have not more furni.
tufe IN their houses than they had then;
and 10 the whole community, with the ex-
certlon of one belonging to nv interpret
er, there IS not a single garden; whilst in
nelghbering villages of similar size, it is
! not uncommon to find fifty or one humid
red acres, in the Immediate vicinity Ct
their towns, occupied as gardens
Influence of seIfsEaness Ola the Reason.
For we believe that to be true. which
some have affirmed, that were there apv
interest IN life, any concernment of arpe-
lite and passion, against the truth of geo
metrlcal theorems themselves, as of ri
angle having three angles equal to two
right, whereby mems judgments may be
clouded and bribed, notwithstanding all
ihe demonstrations of them, many would
remain at least skeptcal about them
wherefore mere speculation. and dry
mathematical reason, in minds unpurified,
and having a contrary interest of carnali-
ty, and. heavy load of infdelitY and dis
trust sinking. them down.. cannot alone be-
get an mistaken confidence and assurance