Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1849-1856, 1851-08-28

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coast Of Africa. far surpasses it. 1t
must grow-it cannot be stopped. A
mighty continents quarter Of the
habitab!e globe, filled with q teeming
population, is still to be supplied with
all that civilization can produce;
population which instead OF perishing
as the new comers press upon them.
are OF the same blood and lineage aud
must unite with them as one people.
England has long appreciated Areas
capacity to absorb manufactures as her
sands absorb the dews. Hence her attem
pts to penetrate into the interior by her
expeditions " hich she has sent up the
Niger hence the costly establishments
maintained by her on the coast. But
the interior OF Africa can he reached
for commercial purposes but in one
way, and that is through colonies Of
free colored people from the United
/ States established along the coast.--
Colonies Of Whits men will not do, be,
cause they become charncl houses
Colonies of rec ap,ured Africans will no
do, as has been shown at Sierra Leone,
because they want the civilization ne
cessary to make them the agents Of
civilization in its relations with com.
mercc but the free colored man from
America can live. for he is in the
cline Of his ancestors, and, being iul-
ly civilized, and christian too, he is the
agent, and the only ngtn', that III.
worM contains adapted to the purpose
He has already proved his efficiency.
In no aspect Of Colonization has it
more interesting relations than in it.
commercial aspect. The strife now,
among the great Of the old nations,
England at their head. England first
and especially, is the opening of new
Markets, and in this all man ,nd is in
terested. The manufacturers and the
consumers directly. Indirectly, all those
who are relieved, as we in America
must be, when the over production of
the English manufactures finds its way
into new countries, and no longer Gre
ates giut to the ruin Of all parties in
our own.
Just at the time when this over pro-
duction IN relation to existing mark
cts is taking place, and all the suffer
ings consequent upon stagnant trade
afil'ct the manufacturing countries of
the world, Colonization comes into cx-
istence being able, alone able, to
throw open a world to be filled with the
products of civilization and competent
to build up the commerce, which is to
do for Airica, in the way of migration
from this country, what commerce is
doing for Ireland, and indeed all Eu-
rope, in transporting their people to-
our shores. The wants of Africa, her
demand for civilization and its prod.
ucIs, will build the bridge of boats,
which shall make the Atlantic a great
highway between the two countries,
crowded with those whom circumstan-
c,s will not suffer to remain here, and
whose exodus will in this manner be
facilitated.
Nor will this be the only effect of 4
state Of things as certain to happen as
the coming Of tomorrow. Along with
commerce will religion 60. That gos.
pei which Victor Hugo, with tho con-
fidence of prophecy says we must "re-
nounce unless slavery is rcnounccd."
Strange too that he should have over.
looked the fact, when he must have
known that with slavery in existence,
in America, fer upwards Of TWO hun
dreds years, the gospel has been pre-.
served here in a purify and power,
through wars and tumults, which, un-
less universal report is wofully at fault,
France herself might envy. Yes, the
gospel will be introduced into Africa,
not the gospel OF sects, but the gospel
Of our Saviour each christian man
being at liberty to worship his Creator
in freedom as his conscience may di-
rect him. Victor Hugo may then be
willing to admit that if slavery has
been driven in Turkey from the heasth
ofOmar,' where it has left Mahomet-
anism behind it, by the way, it his been
permitted to exist "at the hearth Of
Franklin" by Him whose ways are
not as our ways, nor His thoughts as
our thoughts, i'll order that nation Of
missionaries might be formed, through
whose agency the prophecy should be
realized, which promises that Ethiop-
ia shall lift up her hands unto God.
There is one paragraph in Victor
llugo's letter that we adopt most cor
daily, and we copy it entire -
:" There is an inflexible logic which
develops more or less slowly. which
fashions, which reduces according 70
mysterious plap. pcrccptib!e only 10
great spirits, the facts. the men, the
laws, the morals and the people or
better, under all human things, there
are things divine"
Exactly SO. But. whether Mrs,
Chapman or Victor Hugo are influen,
ced by the sub-divinity here referred
to may be questionable. One thing is
certoin--shai the Republic of Liberia
and the Colony at Cape Palmas have
been foinded, and enjoy at this time
an honorable and prosperous existence,
by cmigrants, the mass of whom
were ignorant and unlctered, and whose
unparalleled success in the hlstcr, of
the world can be attributed to nothing
but the protection of the builder up