Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-04-12
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1851.

on the slavery question. None who are acquaint
ed with their distinguished author will doubt the
purity and humanity Of his motives; nor can any
deny the great ability which he has brought to the
discussion of one Of the most difficult questions
which now agitates the public mind
Our interest in the Colonization Of Africa by free
persons of African descent has been frequently ex-
pressed; and not only every year, but every day,
is our conviction increased of the immense benefits
which, through the establishment and growth of
the Republic of LIBERIA, are to be conferred upon
this Union, and especially upon the colored race.
We regard it, however, as desirable, both for us
and for our free colored population, that their emf
grafton should be uolantary; since thus alone can
we expect that mutual confidence which should be
cherished between us and them, and that resolution
and energy in the proposed field of their labors
which will dispose them cheerfully to meet and
conquer difficulties and opposition, and win the re-
wards of courage and enterprise, strengthened by
the decisions of their reason and the purposes Of
their own choice. 1t is evident, and we hear al
most daily what is confrmatory Of the opinion that
the independent Republic on the coast of Africa, its
well-ordered Government, and the happiness and
enthusiastic hopes of its people, are working ex-
tensive and mighty change in the views of thought
full coored men as to the future destiny of them
selves and their race; whence we are induced to
believe that the number of emigrants to Liberia will
continue rapidly to increase. To what other re-
gon of the world can free people of color direct
their eyes and see any prospect of a distinct, ma
tional, prosperous existence, with all the immuni-
ties of freedom, and the nobest opportunities for
improvement and benefcence!
These thoughts are suggested by a Discourse,
now lying before us, on the Destiny Of the Black
Race delivered recently before the Kentucky Colo
nization Society, by the Rev. DR.. ROBERT BREcK-
ENR1DeE. Of this Address, which cannot be too
widely circulated, we are glad to be able to place
before our readers the following very striking
passage:
The largest the most enduring, and in all respects the
remarkable example which history affords of
without nationality, and therefore without what could be
properly called distinct civilization, is this black And
surely the pupage through which has passed, has beep
without example, bitter and protracted How much has
not required to prepare it for its final destiny Stall
therefore say nothing awaits it We cannot say this with
cepon the history Of the past Let rather believe that
exalted destiny may be in the which tends.
Unto this all the testimonies Of the pasunto this all
the indications of the present. The principles which
work throughout the earth scarcely fail produce
The exigences which control all human things present
combination which hardly allow it fail. slowy-per-
haps remotely yet nev,abythere appear await the black
nationality civilization, and consequently share in
the affairs Of this world, immeasurabIy different from any
thing it has hitherto exhibited. 49,.
fTo has been reserved, again, immense perhaps
controlling portion of this great work Our colonies in Africa
occupy the central portion that seacoa Of the negro father
land-whch to speak, faces inward to civilization. Be-
hind them stretching the continent four thousand
miles Of fertile territory, inhabited, though not densely in
chief by the black race in the first stages Of opening
civilization North and SOUTH for at least thousand miles
in each direction, also fertile country inhabited mainly
by the race condition similar that already stated
land four thousand miles long from west to east and two
thousand miles broad from north to southarger, by far
than the Roman Empethe home Of the black and the
grave Of all besdesnow peoped with than hundred
millions of Inhabitants All things conspre to the grand
result The State have planted is precisely situated
to receive from without and to propagate whn the best in
duences which all other nations exert The immense
race and the continent behind this State and around
exacuy those circumsanCes most
the exercise of all such influences from such quarter And
the State itself has been created and will be indefinitely
mented from those materials which, of all that existed
the best fitted for this well for all the other great objects
connected with African colonization 1t is impossible
avoid the conviction that such be followed by
corresponding results Already they have manifested them
selves and the native population which has voluntarily sought
the protection of the colons and subjected themselves
the genial control of their laws represented be about
twenty times than the colonsts themselves.
We have less than thousand colonists their
laws and institutions respected and to good degree obey
ed by nearly hundred thousand persons Imagine like
reu-but in much lower degree-produced by every
ten thousand additional coonss or III be thought
rational, by every twenty-five years Of effort How
manifest is it. that before shall have removed the Of
free black population before single century shall have
elapsed, powerful nation will have been created and the
ultimate redemption of the black in Africa placed
footing that which the prosperity Of any exist
ing State rests Or if any thinks proper to do let
him double triple, quadrupe the time, the TOLL and the risk
in the creation Of empire-in the redemption Of
In the regeneration Of connent-in the contamination Of
work whose benefits all nations will reap and from which
no evil can arise to any human being can well afford
our hearts sublime ends and, rejoicing day such
fruits as our works may bear, point the luminous track
IN which they who follow should tread and rejoice
the more that they shall reap more abundany than e
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