The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-05-27
NUMBER 81.
Elevation of the Negro Race.

We have received, says the Philadelphia In
quirer, little volume entitled 'sThe Condition
| Elevation, Emigration and Destiny of the Col
ored People of the United States" The author
is Martin r. Delany. His sole object, as lie
states in the Preface, has been to place before
| the public in general, and the colored people of
| the United States in particular, great truths
concerning this class of citizens, which appear
to have been heretofore avoided, as well by their
friends as their enemies. He first glances ct
the condition of the various classes in Europe,
and then proceeds TO sketch the comparative
condition of the colored people of the United
States. He says they are denied an equality.
not only of political but of natural rights, and
there is no species of degradation to which they
are not liable. In certain States the colored
race is in a condition of abject slavery, while
those Of their descendants who are freemen-
even in the non-slave-holding States, occupy the
very same position, politically, religiously, civ
lily and socially, with but few exceptions, as
the bondman occupies in the Slave States. The
subject is followed out in much detail, and vari-
| Gus suggestions made as to the best mode of
elevating the colored classes. The colonization
scheme IS denounced, and the American Coloni-
| zation Society is described as an enemy to the
colored man, as anti-Christian in its character,
and misanthropic in its sympathies. In reply
to the question-what is necessary to be done
IN order to elevate the condition of the colored
man the writer urges an acquaintance with
the various business enterprises, trades, profess
| sions and sciences of the day. The work con-
| cludes with suggesting an expedition Of adven-
| ture to the eastern coast of Africa, to make re-
searches for suitable location for the settle
ment of colored adventurers from the United
States and elsewhere. The writer says
The Eastern Coast of Africa has long been
neglected, and never but little known, even to
the ancients but has ever been our choice part
of the Continent. Bounded by the Red Sea,
and Indian Ocean, it presents the greatest ia
cilities for immense trade, with China, Ja-
pan, Siam, Hindoostan, in short alI the East
Indies-of any other country in the world
With settlement of enlightened freemen, who
with the immence facilities must soon grow in
| to powerful nation. In the Province of Der
| bera, south of the Strait Of Babelmandel, or
the great pass, from the Arabian TO the Red
| Sea, the whole commerce OF the East must
| touch this point.
| Also, great railroad could be constructed
from here, running with the Mountains Of the
Moon, clearing them entirely, except making
one mountain pass, at the western extremity of
! the Mountain of the Moon, and the south cas-
tern terminus of the Kong Mountains entering
the Province of Dahomy, and terminating on
the Atlantic Ocean West which would make
the great thoroughfare for all the trade with the
East Indies and Eastern Coast Of Africa and
the Continent of America. All the world would
pass through Africa upon this railroad, which
would yield revenue infinitely greater than
any other investment in the word.