Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1851-04-24
HTThese thoughts are suggested by

Or Robert Brtcktniiige. Oi thls Adj
dress, VIII icb cannot be too dely cir
culatcd, We are glad To be able TO place
before our readers tie following very
striking passage:
The iargeet the most enduring, and
IN all respects the most remarkable *.
ample which history affords us of race
without a nationality, and therefore
without wha, could be eproperIv called n
distinct civilization, is this black race
And surely the pupinge through which
II has passed has been without cxam-
pie bitter and pralracitd. How much
has 1t not required to prepare II for lis
final destiny Shall we therefore say,
nothing awaits it ? We cannot say
tnis without contraliciing all that Is true
in de'ai pr found in conception in tie
history OF the past. Let Va rather be-
lieve that an exalted destiny may be in
the career 10 which il tends. Unto this
are all the testimonies Of the past-unto
ihis are all the indications OF the present.
The principles which are at work
throughout the earth can scarcely fail to
produce it The eXigencics which COLI
troll all human things present corbl-
nation which can hardly allow it to fail.
Slowly-perhaps remotely, yet inevitab
ly--'here appear TO await the black race
a nationality, Il civilization, and const-
quen'y y share in the affairs Of tins
world, immea,urabIy different from any
thing it has hitherto exhibited.
40 us has been reserved. again, an
immense, perhaps controlling portion
of this grca, work Our colonies in Al
rlca occupy the central portion Of tha,
scacOast Of the ncgros ialhcraud-
which, SO TO speak, faces inward to civ
ilization. Behind them, stretching
across the continent, are four thousand
miles Of fertile territory, Inhabited,
though not denseIy in chief part by the
black race, in the first stages of an OF
,ling civillz it.on. North and south, for
III ''''' ''o''"''a ''''''s ~ '''" "''o'-
tlon. Is also fertile country, inhabited
"''"y - Wv "''''' '"' ~ - '''''''''''
similar 10 that already stated ; Il land
four thousand miI,s broad from north to
south larger, by far, tlan lhc Roman
Al Il.
rn '"' 'o''' " '''' o'''" ''''''
ava 'ne grave VI III "'s'"c'-'"" P'o-
plea WIN more 'Iah hundred ihi'ii""s
oi inhaol'ah's' n" 'h'tES cohsp're I"
lhe same S'1hu result Inc o"" We
nave planted is precisely 80 situated US
10 receive rom without ana 10 pFola-
gave NI'''II' "'e p'S' i''Hu' n''s WIN"
al o'hcF ih'io"H eau e~rE' i"c ""-
hei'se race an" 'I'c '"'t 'o'"'''"' "'-
hlnd thls STATE ana around IL, are FI"rd
exactly n those circumst tlnces most tav-
Urahlc To the exercise oi all such mi'u-
cnccs from such a quarter. And the
STATE itse'' has been created ANA WI he
indefinitely augmented from uosc iH"-
lcri''., "h''h' VI "iI H'a' cNi''c"' are
the best iitied Tor tiis rs wen Il" loF az
lie other great ohJects connected win
African colonization. II Is impossible
To avuld the conviction that such causes
must BE- followed 10y corresponding re-
suiis. Already they have manifested
'hcIh''''cf' anu "l' h''''c 20. "'a"'''
which haS " 'o"'ari'y '"ugh' "le pro-
'''"o'i u '"e 'o'o''''s "''" '"'J W"
themselves 10 "'r e'hIa' co''ro' o' ''e"
laws Is rtireS,h'e" l" oe """"' '"c"'y
N''es 'ho's numerous ''"'' VIC '"''''''''
| 'h'het'''' we ""'c etH' o"' " -
! Ia "a tea thousand colonISls nul McF
Laws ana 'i's'!i"ioi'' are r's"''ei' an"
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d,mption Of the black race in Africa
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