The New York herald., 1850-04-12

TO pay the price. But II We were ready, ne ~ not
in condition TO take care of himself. He has not
the culture, the training the experience necessary
10 selfdependence. And where is he 10 got NO
rejecting man is prepared 10 say he is willing 10
have three millions of slaves turned loose In the
States, TO fill the prisons and poorhouses and aims
houses Of the country or to live by punder on the
community. What too, is TO be his lot for the fu-
ture in such casel Is he to live in our midst as a
marked and degraded being, through all time, or
US, cvilly and socially; are ready for amalgam-
ationi
There seems under those circumstances to be
necessity for his continuance al present IN the con-
dition in which he is placed.
In the fourth place, the hand Of Providence
seems TO be clearly pointing out ultimate design
in all this arrangement Of things londer Is africa,
with her one hundred and fifty millions Of misera-
Bile, degraded, ignorant awless, superstltious idol
ators. Whoever has stood upon her sands, has
stood upon continent that has geographical and
physical pecuiarities, which belong TO no other OF
the great divisions Of the globe. The latter appear
upon the face of them, TO have been adapted to
draw out the energies Of the natives IN their IN
equalities Of temperature, soil, and surface inviting
the ingenuity and enterprise OF man TO overcome
them, and in the varieties Of their products tempting
the nterchanges of commerce; thus affording
ample encouragement 10 the progress ol civil ana
social Improvement But Africa is STILL as OF old,
a land OF silence and OF mystery. Like the inter,
minabe dreariness Of her own deserts, her moral
wastes Of mind lie waiting for the approach OF in
huences from abroad. No savage people have ever
advanced 10 civilized state, without intercommu-
nication with others. All the continents OF the
world have, in their turn, been occupied and civil
lied by means of colonies but in no one OF them
did il appear inevitably necessary, from a pre-
vious examination of circumstances, as in that OF
Africa Ii is plain TO the very eye, that Africa is
land 10 which civilization must be brought. he
attempt has been made over and over again by
devoted missionaries and others to penetrate that
land, and seek To mpar the blessings OF clviliza-
tion and christianity TO her savage hordes. But the
"A
cannot live in Africa The annals OF the Mora
vians, Of Cape Colony, of Sierra Leone, of Liberia,
contain the record of the sacrifice OF some OF the
best men that have lived TO grace the pages OF any
peoples history in the vain attempt TO accomplish
something for her redemption through the nstru-
mentality of white men. Who. then. is TO do this
work
Let now any calm, refectng spectator of the
present state Of the world be asked TO look at Africa,
and then, from among the nations point out the
people best calculated TO do this work-and when
his eyes fall upon the descendants of the sons of
that continent now in America, will he not say,
These are the people appointed for that work
The ways OF God are mysterious. So Joseph
was solda slave into Egypt; so his father and his
brethren were driven hther by provldental circum-
stances; so their generations remained as slaves in
Egypt for four centuries and half and when the
appointed time had come, in His own appointed
way the Ruler Of nations led them TO the accom-
pllshment OF Ills great purpose And IT Is not to be
forgotten, that il not for the of holding this
people in bondage for so many years, that Pharaoh
and the Egyptians were punished but their crime
was this, that when the Divine Being had pre-
pared all things for the event he proposed to accom-
plish, and demanded by an accredited ambassador,
that they should be allowed to depart, they would
not let the people CO."
The great progenitor of the Israeltes was slave
holder the lsraelites after their emancipation, be-
came Shareholders. Nothing is clearer than that,
under the Mosaic dispensation, slavery was lawful
the institution was recognised and regulated by the
law of Moses; aud the founder of Christianity and
tlSclDIes Ind 1al he nrov of
the Roman empire were in their times full Of slaves,
and slaves subjected 10 the most rigid laws,) never
forbade or even denounced the relation rs sinful,
or eXhorted masters TO liberate their slaves; but
enJoined on masters the principles of humanity
and justice, and on slaves obedience and con-
tentment; and those notions OF morality may
well be questioned, which in our days disallow
what Chrlst and his apostles did not disallow.
such an exodus as that of the Jews from Egypt
may not be within the purpose of the Deity, in re-
laiion TO the children OF Africa in this country,
or their descendants. But has He no purpose in all
this arrangement that has been going on in the
gathering Of vast family of these people herein
their condition Of scryitude, endurance discipline
in the difficulties with which their emancipation
IL surrounded-in the natural impoeciility that the
whites ever will or can cnnsent to raise them to
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ion, and where opinion is 30 enlightened and pro:
gressivc, and there Is much benevolence and
Christian enterprise Has he not purpose in all
this TO accomplish Tin some way Of his own,
through this instrumentality) the regeneration Of
the millions Of benghted Africa The germs Of
colonies already planted there, the fruits Of
this system OF servitude. But the free African
among us cngs TO this country STILL under all his
disabilities, regardless Of the claims OF the land Of
his fathers upon him; and may not slavery and the
necessity of migration as the condition Of his re-
lease, be the appointed instrument TO produce COM
pliance The colonies We have settled in Africa
would, ere this day, have become a republic Of
power, had the free negroes Of the North been will
ling to become citizens of it, But, like the Israel
ties of old, who would, but for the divine nterpo-
stion have sacrificed their lberators in the wilder
ness and returned into Egypt, these liberated
descendants of Africa cannot be persuaded to look
toward the land Of their fathers. The millions of
their colored bondmen there awake no sympathy
IN their hearts. Their fixed and resolute purpose
appears TO be 10 remain among the whites, and
force themselves by progressive steps into a civil
and social equality with them; and IL s chiefly with
view 10 strengthen themselves in these particular
views and aspirations that they band together un-
der the abolition flag, and fill our cities with threats
OF vengeance against The white nce, il they shall
dare TO execute the laws in relation TO fugitive
slaves.
Now, when We come to reflect calmly and cam
didly upon all these circumstances in connection
with the question, is domestic slavery, az il ex-
lists al the South, sin II seems to me that ques-
iion must be answered in the negative. The rela-
ton Of master and slave may be, and doubtless is.
sometimes, the occasion Of cruelty and Injustice.
But this is also Of the relation Of husband and
wife, parent and child, master and apprentice, and
Bui the abuses Of system or relation form no sound
argument against the system relation itself I
am no apologist for abuse. am ready az any
man TO denounce cruelty, unnatural separations. a
disregard Of the domestic relations, or a depriva-
ton Of the means OF moral and religious culture 10
The slave, under our system Of slavery, a crime.
But the correction Of these belongs TO the duties of
the State governments. We, in New Jersey. have
no more right to interfere with South Carolina.
than she with US, in such mattersnor in fact have
we IN New jersey any more right TO interfere with
the slaves OF South Carolina Georgia, than we
have we the slaves Of Russia or Austria each
southern state being. in respect to this question: as
absolutely sovereign as are Russia and Austria
We are 10 reason about the institution Of slavery
as We reason about every other human institution
from its proper. humane, conscientious and lawful
use, when both parties discharge their mutual ob-
cations.
Having established, as I think, that domestic
slavery. as II exists in the Southern States is not
in itself sinful or an unnrtgsted evil this subject
- relieved from its greatest embarrassment, aud
now proceed 70 consider. What j. the duty OF the
PEOPLE of the non-saveholdnR States respecting
slavery
shall We attempt forciby to break down this in
siiiuiicn of slavery To make the aitempt is