The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1848-05-06

is an inherent probability in the event which
l have predicted. from its accordance with
the general tendency 10 compensation. and
an equalizing adjustment OF the balance Of
good or evil, traces Of which are clearly APP
parent in the history Of the world. Power
and civilization, greatness and reRown. have
never been permanent in races or localities.
climates or colors. Within the short peri
cd Of authentic history, the scepne OF evil
zstion and power has been successfully wiel-
ded by many difierenE races, from all whom
in turn it has been wrested by another race
Ii has shown itself equally ayerse to a per-
manent residence in any quarter Of the
globe, and has alternately occupied and
abandoned many regions Of the earth, which
have successfully passed through the ex-
tremes OF power and degradation, OF refine
ment and baIbarism. Assyria and Egypt at
one time monopolized the power, the arts,
and the sciences Of the world. They have
long been sunk in baTbarism and degada-
ton. The freedom, the eIoquence, the re-
nown OF Greece. once held the world in adj
imitation and fear; bu. for long centmies she
has been the slave of barbarian, and as bar
barous as her oPpressors. Italy has been
alternately the seat Of both freedom and
slavery, power and weakness. enlightened
elegance and gross superstition. Within
the last four hundred years Spain has pas
sed through the extremes Of freedom and re-
nown, slavery and disgrace. Power and
civilization seem mus far to have travelled
from the Car East in {. Western direction, sue
cessively visiting and deserving almost every
race and region in its route. Even the
cherries deserts Of Arabia have not always
been deserted, and me darkness Of the mid
die ages was cheefed by the science, the
civilization, and the renown OF her Saracen
Cahphs. Almost every other race has had
its day OF light, however deep the darkness
which has followed. But the lot Of the ne
gro has as yet been an unmingled heritage
OF woe. That beautiful system Of compea-
sation which pervades the work Of the Gre
ator, by which any apparent injustice or de-
feet in one gift to his creatures is atoned for,
and compensated in some other way. is fine
ly illustrated by Paley, and is too familiar
to be dwelt upon by me. And If the AlIi-
can negro is not the only one Of His crea-
lures to whom the rule does not apply, We
would suppose it natural, that AZ some time,
and in some way, the long delayed hour Of
compensation would arrive. What SPLEEN
did illustration Of the rule will be given, il
the negro race shall finally be exalted by
the same hand which laid them low. II
arts and civilization, wealth and renOwn.
life and Immortality, shall be bestowed up
ON their country, by the Anglo Saxon, in
return Cor the dark atlociiy of the slave
trade, and the long bondage Of the deadly
rice swamp. Who will not reloiee If such
shall finally be the result! Who would
not wish in his day and generation to con
tribute his feeble aid in atoning for great
wrong inflicted by his race in other days
and in converting il into am incalculabls
blessing TO generations vet unborn! True,
we can never witness the final corrSunma
ton Of the work We cannot, except b,
Hong anticipation. feas, Our eyes upon III.
spectacle Of African regeneration. Bun even
we can gaze upon the gennination OF tin
plant whose flower and fruit will yet glad
den the eyes Of our children. Il IS our duty
to aid its struggling infancy--to enlist th,
sympathy OF our countrymen in lis support
to protect it as FAR as possible from the blnc
fury Of its enemies, with the thorough con
viciion, that the revolution Of few brie
years will place il upon foundation which
may bid defiance TO opposition.