The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-05-10
Anniversary OF the African Education and
Clvizaxataom socioty.

Anniversary OF the African Education and
Civilization socicty.
The above Society held its first anniversary
Friday evening, ut, the Tabernacle, in Broad
way. AT g O'Clock, there being = very rssPsssa-
be assembhgc present, james Harper, Esq, late
Mayor of tho city Of New York, as President of
the Society, was called to the chair Whereupon,
the meeting was opened with prayer by the ven
cradle Mr.. Thompson, of Rochester.
The Secretary, w. r. Allen, Esq. then proceed
ed to read the report BY this appears that the Society
yet in its infancy and though it has made beginning,
operations to the extent desired for the of funds
The following gentlemen stated having respond
highly and cordially approbatory of the object purpose
and intentions Iof the Society to wit Ward Esqr Of
1a Ssms uosy sHs ysa s
6,. smong the good Next followed the names Of Hon
Hon 2 MoEnsloTs Col y oUn IF fist
Judge Williams. Of Vermont Dr. Dewey, Of Rochester,
and Dr. Miller, Of Princeton Nj Passages from the let.
and interest in the object Of the Society were read
by all which, it appears, that the anccnt and honora-
prophets of the same. giving stability ecai and respect
ability to the religious confederaciesn for which the
hs SOCIETY hss number OF
ready to 60 out missionaries for the purpose fPro
noting education and civilization in Africa but that they
are not as yet able to despatch them this errand for
want Of necessary funds Others there were who
anxious to 60 out on the mission, they
pose the Society proposes establish schools plan
ofthe normal and manual labor schools prepare suta
bic African persons for this undertaking For this object
of funds are required In the mean time to pro-
mitigate and extend the objects and usefulness Of the
cety, periodical has been commenced, devoted to the
purpose Of making known and carrying out its great de-
| signs.
The report having been read, the hon. chairman intro
duced DR. MAcoos Of Richmond Va, who proceeded to
address the meeting The learned pastor began by OBJ
serving that this society not intended to revolution
ize any existing political compact" to make aggres
sons upon any other social organization Its only OBJ
ectwas the promotion Of human good it not sum-
moned together by sect creed party the only ban
1t up that Of peace literature and love- After
meeting and combating some Of the prejudces which
stood in the way of the objects Of the society the learned
gentleman observed that in redeeming Arica-n CIV
ing the benefits of education to her benghtcd peoplen
giving to her the civzing light and influences Of chris
rescuing whole quarter Of the globe from
y-colored people the only fit and proper agents
The reasons for this were evident First, they alone
them to endure the dangers of the climate. No
country in the world superior TO Africa in
general in health of cline and Beauty, and richness Of
soil and landscape but in Western Africa II all but
impossible for white to live II is said that in this
portion of the great continent every organic creature
country Only the colored endure the miasmata
which exhale over the whole extent of the western
that white become acclmated on the western
coast If this be So is evident that the colored
who have the power to endure the climate are the only
deeming power is to be conveyed to this unhappy
try The next position he would lay down the fol
e mind to @
great enierprse-from which positions it follows
Mr. M then proceeded to establish and illustrate this
position by variety Of historical facts Africa had not
She had once been the theatre Of great and general
civilzaton-she had been the great original home Of
Literature science and art The Bible and also all the
rank in the history Of civilization II from Africa,
then called Ethiopia that civilization art, and science,
extended into Egypt thence it spread to the Red Sea-
and from thence TO Mesopotamia. This was not
TIE end Of its progress From Ethiopia, the march
to sn sy hs to sss, a. C.
the western world were Themselves originally colo
MES from Ethiopia The Egyptians were the origina-
tonfrom them the classic Greeks boastcd Of having
ccved their arts and science and their letters Now
woolly hair 1--WE should have liked to have been refer
not single s1ss
succeeded tho Persian conquest (The learned speaker
da not say ne here intended the cchque. o. oy
he referred toy After exposing and |amentng, in elo
qucnt terms the present degraded situation Of modern
Ethiopia which Mr. NJ said was the result Of thirty GEN.
turtles Of oppressiono oppression which they had suf
icred more than any other nation since they had been
subjugatcd by the white Caucasian racehe proceed
to show that this high degree of civilization for which
Africa had been celebrated was not confined mere
ly to the ages before Christianity but that after
wards in the first centuries of its existence the African
people had been second people the globe in sci
ence art, literature and civilization Origen Cyprian
Terullian St. Augustine all these celebrated men, we're
Africans Mr.. NJ next proceeded TO demonstrate that
not only the African race were endowed with the ply
steal qualities, abovcmen tionednot only, also, with
the mental capabilities had also been shown but that
they also possessed Of those moral sensibilies
which equally necessary, both to mpel to effort
and to ensure to the effort itself The modern
African also Che observcd the power of sefgovern
ment In proof OF this Mr.. NJ. adduced the example Of
the present Governor Of Liberia. This person (sad Mr.
MY was at one time poor barber In the city in which
reside (aichmond, va) After enlargng upon the So
cia and other qualities Of the African Mr. NJ went
on to show that the Saviour Of the world selected
those whom he sent fohnot from palaces but from the
huts Of the poor and humble and from the boats Of fisher
men-so, in the present case the humbleness oil the
agents proposed to be employed, was rather recon,
mendation; and, certainly, was means which would
render them more fitted for the great object
which il the aim OF the society to promote
God made the human mind to be educated, 70 be freely
educated under human instruction. The highest iacuI
ties OF man. mind thought reflection reason have been
gwen 70 man for nothing else; and evident nat zoo
IN framing the human mind designed for education and
enlightenment When child is born, in whatever cline,
when II receives that vital spark which Is never to be
exungushed and which, like the scraph, is destined 10
shine Tor eternity, there Is JOY" because soul which
= 70 live through eternity born into the world The
body material and must parish, but not the soul the
mind When the Creator founding this earth, this
world. he said. h lioht this IN