The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-17


the temple which we have erected. Through the
fundamentally Of this society the National Legis-
lature passed law which denounces the slave
trade 10 be piracy, and those who concerned in
1t, II caught, are hanged.
Old England, mighty England, with her power,
and age and experience, and with the efforts of all
her r, statesmen, has spent one hundred and fifty
black man, and has failed in the West Indies and
Sierra Leone And why have this society q hand
full OF men in this young republic, surpassed her
She worked in her scheme by the sword and the
bayonet, and the white man. We have learned
wisdom by her failure. We move not by armed
troops, but work by moral appeals and reason, and
appeal to justice; and we act by the main instru-
mentality of the black man. We work by the
means of the workshop, and the school house, and
by putting the black man there. The other day we
took the republic infant, and led him until he ac-
quired the sinew and power of man, and then
said to him, " Take care of yourself" They have
got the best government organized. II forbids
white man from owning foot of soil in Liberia,
as he (Mr. ScoTT) would forbid black man from
owning foot ofsoil here. The white and the black
man cannot sit down together. He would ring
this in the Of the fanatics: the superiority Of
the one must make the other inferior. In com
mcrcial point Of view, she had immense riches
within her borders; gold dust, ivory, and all the
tropical fruits. She would take from surplus
products, and we receive hers in return. But the
brightest feature is-this scheme carries the black
man back to the land Of his fathers, and abolishes
the slave trade which the law declares to be piracy
NIL up with population, and we will want no treaties
with France and England to put down the slave
trade.
The question was then taken on accepting the re.
port of the secretary and referring to the Board
Of Managers for publication, and decided in the
affirmative
The Rev. G. w. BErHusE offered a resolution
With gratitude to Almighty God for past blessings
on our cause, we arc determined to take courage,
and to GO forward with redoubled zeal He said that
but for the public announcement, he should most
heartily have left the subject in the hands of the
other gentlemen who had preceded him not for
the want of zeal, but he was compelled to travel
the whole of Monday night, and now had
vous headache, which almost blinded him, and
nearly deprived him of his thoughts and utterance
He had anticipated that the opening address of the
president would be brief, for that gentleman never
speaks without meaning, and one sentence from
him (Mr. Clay) was worth more than hundred
such as he Mr.. b. could utter He had thought
that the president would establish the line on which
he might safely speak, and he had had no more
fear OF this than OF the spray of the ocean, after
dashing against the rock. He called that man a
fanatic who, under perverted conscience, was al
ways malignant enough to attack the policy of be-
nevolence, and would not reason the question in
which we are concerned; and such one Is dan
gerous Just In proportion as he assumes to be con-
scientious, because he assumes the force of right
and duty. The blusterer is always a coward. Like
the bubble, he bursts with his own wind. In
fung the assaults Of the opponents of this cause,
he said that they had adopted measures similar
to those for which they impeached the society.
They took the blacks away from the soil on which
they were born, and transplanted them in the
British North American colonies, where the frosts
were as hurtful to them would be the heat the
South to men Of the North. Gerret Smith had Of
fered his wild lands in the coolest section for col
enization scheme. [Laughter.l They have learned
that 1t was always lawful to learn from enemy,
for they have taken leaf from our book. God, in
his providence, sent the slaves of the Amistad
bither, and they sent them back again, and they
keep up their Mendon scheme. Persons in the
said hat fha riafxy Ayino fat in thp
face OF Providence, and that the black man would
always be in state of slavery, misery, and
degradation. The Bible teaches that all men,
OF whatever complexion and country, are brothers,
bors. We cannot dispossess ourselves of this obi
CATION without describing Gods Holy Word He
found the black man kneeling at the same cross
with himself, and buoyod with the same hope Of
Immortality and how dare he refuse Christian
sympathy and bencvolence? We all the chill
dren Of Father in heaven. In 1898, he thought II
was the inhabitants of st. Domingo rose in revolt,
and the endeayour 70 make that monkey empire
has been the worlds laugh And we now see the
result: Faustn the First, with his Gordon Of mobiles
and dukes, scarcely leaving private man under
his government Compare II with Liberia, free,
unchecked in the exercise of every principle of
right which every man can claim, with all the
elements Of true greatness. II Is not the white
man forcing ON, az in this British West Indies and
in Sierra Leone, by force of arms The people OF
Liberia are governed by their worth and dig
nifty, and confidence in the good God, who ii were
impous to say did not love his children all alike.
Mr. Bethune challenged parallel 10 the existing
state Of things in Liberia Ships Of all nations
touch there; commerce expanding its wings;
emssaries had gone 10 that country, and there was
but one opinion in favor OF the republic. The
colored man governs IL better than the white man
could. Men who have been sent in our national
ships TO suppress the slave trade have died there.
Encourage the colonists, and they will eradicate
the traffic altogether, as they already have in some
degree The republic will outlive every kingdom,
and need not last long at that. Dir. Bethune said
that he could appreciate all that had been said about
Anglo-Saxon virtue. He found that where the
English could, they would smugglc goods and
build fort Gibralter itself Is little better than n
smuggling post. On our own coast, there was an
insect which looks small a Musquifo, but its
hum was not unheard across the Atlantic; and
the breechless barbarian, called king. laugh
teri We have here the motive Of trade which
induced Great Britain 10 acknowledge the Re
public OF Liberia. II there had not been ivory,
gold dust, camwood, and hope and design OF
penetrating Africa, excellent President Rob.
erts would have gone home without his acknow-
Judgments. The reverend gentleman then gave
reasons why American statesmen should encour-
age the enterprise Of colonization. MIR. CLAY, he
said, gave the nobest donation Of all when he gave
his name, but the smallest star shines In the fir
mamcnt Of light which God has given. We can
not say that our armor has been battered, because
the lances Of the enemy have been shattered against
II. The little shrub which was planted ON the coast
OF Africa Is n mighty tree, whose branches,
extending over that land, will be laden with the
choicest blessings.
The question taken, and the resolution sub
mittcd by this gentleman was agreed 10.
The Rev. r. X. GURLEy said that for the second
time, after the lapse Of quarter Of century, he
had recently stood the heights Of Monroyis.
When he frat visited that country, the colonists
were but two hundred in number; they had not
then long pitched their tents, and they hold their
worship 20 God in a matched house. In the town Of
Monrovis there are four hundred well built
houses Of stone warehouses, having for their f6un
dation the rock Of the cape Nearly all the build
ings are well constructed, and occupied by well
instructed, peace loving community, with churches
10 the living God, and whose manners are not 70 be
exceeded by thoee Of persons living in this country
lie stayed there two months; he went 10 see the emf
grants Of the different settlements, and found them
in happy and prosperous condition. He had the
privilege Of meeting with all classes occupied their
pulpits; and he had never addressed more devcut
and more deccntly clad congregations. He could
not now express alt that he felt, and urge with suh
cient emphasis the claims Of tbcse people ON the
charity and support Of the American people. He
might speak Of their commerce, OF their hourshing
farms, and Of the certainty Of opening plsntstions
Of sugar and cotton on coil not surpassed by any
on the Mississippi. That ON the ~. Paups and the
st. Johns was not equalled in any portion Of our
own country The most favorable light which pre-