New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-19

80 l. 49,. -;sv svfo bad psas-d forty years OF
"a ~. - .,sve In the 6eld wbs at the age Of seventy
IL @ ~ s,Se character with the elegance OF scribe
rlS 49,, Psrk tells Us that Lawsuits argued win
q. raeb ability 6uency, and At a. mneh Lsnsta
- ,be Interior Of Africa, az at Edinburzn eernny
su suere that the condition OF tae most sdvsnoeo
1rentral Asrcs il wretcbed msny in consequence Oh
,e sve trade which exists among them IN the most oe
Iorabe form The Only wonder g. that with TINS cancer
sfpg into their vtss from age 70 age any degree o. c
il;z.,n can exist BIT think II may be said, WITHOUT
ex,0ceraiion that degraded are the ninety millions Oh
Africans ninety millions exist In Europe 20 wnich an
euptry contributes her quota not much ess degraoea
Tire and certainly ali Important difference,
TINT IN Europe nterrnin gied with those Ninety millions
are fifteen or twenty millions Possessed OF al degree
of culture up the very highest; while IN Afics tn;fS
not an individual who according 20 our s'anaAu nas
s,tsned a high degree Of cultivation. But If obvious
csuses for this can shown II 10 unphllosOpnch 70
infer from it nessenud ncspsciy But all doubts Of
the capacity Of the African race Tor cell goyernLneu mo
Of their irrprovabity under favorable circumstances
seem 10 me 10 be removed By what we witness az inc
present day both in country and on me coast
Of that continent Notwithstanding the disadvanagesoi
their condition in this country, spscmens oil in%iecI
ability the talent Of writing and speaking capacity Ior
business for the ingenious and mechanical arp i1r SC
eoupts for the ordinary branches OF acsdencH I1nn
ing have been exhibited BY our colored oretien rnn
would do no discredit to AngloSaxons. ran Su1er.
well recoected in New England, was person o. gfse
energy His father an African slave: hs motner an
Indian Of the Elizabeth Islands, Mass pave alreIuy
niuded 20 the extraordinary attanrnens OF AO1eIans
msn A men OF better manners or more resPee'aoie
sIpearance never saw. GU.
The learned blacksmith Of Alabama, now IN siberia,
has attained celebrity scarcely nienor 10 tna' o. ms
white brother known BY the same designation IRE
gently attended the examinations al schoo III 1stn
bridge ct which Beverley Williams was pupil Two
youths from Georgia and son OF my own WeIe nls
fellow pupils Beverley born slave IN MISSISSIPPI
and appaiently of pure African blood. lie wa one OF
the bert scholars perhaps the best LATIN scholar IN MS
Glaze These indications OF intellectual aolity, az
4 rded under dscourBgiDg circumstance al nome.
If Africa the llDcr1a (tle Cfbh-
ton Of this Society ought to put TO resi- AL oOuyls
on this question The affairs OF that interesting se'e
neni under great difficulties and discouragements nave
been managed with discretion an energy, ana must
sav all things considered with success which eu
borizes tie favorable influences az 70 the capscy
Of the colored rAces for selgoyernnent aOou ~
wears since the settlement began and think must De
allowed that its progress will compare fayoroby with
that Of Virginia and Plymouth after an equal length oil
time. ,,.,...
If Republican Government II is administered with
nbiiy the Courts Of Justice modelled after our
own. They have schools and Churches. Inc sou Is
TILED the country explored, the natives are civilized,
the slave trade il banished. friendly intercourse IL
maintained with foreign powers and England ana
France have acknowledged their independent soVer'
eighty Would handful of AngloAmericans from
the humblet classes Of society here do better than
this "
The truth is, Mr. Prcsident-and with this conclude
our influence has been and trust ever VIII be, NJ
work through the agency Of the Colony OF Liberia ana
The other similar agenses trust hereafter TO be added
abundsnly competent TO effect this great undertaking
and that Is the sovereign power OF Christian Jaw an
sir this, after all is sometimes resisted ana
commercial enterprise becomes bankrupt State pohcy
il Outwtted but in the long run, pure, manly rater
let me say, heavenly love- can never FAIL ,
Ii is the moral sentiment, principally under the guu
ance and impulse of religious zeal that has civilized tae
world Arms, and craft and marnmon seize ther OPP
poIunity and minge in the work but cannot h It's W.
islity That our colored brethren equally with our,
selves are susceptible OF the moral sentiments 1t would
aH, INF m dtpeprnmcut I'LL
last year in newspaper anecd0te which seemed 10
put this point in beautiful and affecting light that
with your permission will repeat it. ,
citizen of Rapides, in Louisiana, with MS Servant
started for California hoping to improve his not prosper
Gus circumstances by sharing the golden harvest OF nat
region For a while they We're successful but the
health Of the master at length failed. What IN that as
ant region under constitution orbidding Slavery and
in that new and scarcely organized society wa
the SLAYER Priest and Levi the master lay Ill OF ~
plus fever and looked on him ana passed by on
The other side; but the faithful servant tended watched
protected hl stricken Master BY day and by ncht-Os
companion, and friend. At length the master
died What then was the condnct OF the slave, as he
stood in these lonely wastes by the remains OF MIN WHO,
when living he had served He dug his decent grave
in the golden sandsgathercd up the fruits Of their Joint
abors-hose he considered the sacred property OF hf
masters fanily)-toiled few more weeks under the
burning OF California summer 70 accumulate the
Of his passage to the States and then re-
turned to the family OF his master in Louisiana.
cannot vouch for the truth of the story: have
This sr is too good be invented believe know
il must be true and such fact proves more for the
possession by the African Of the moral sentiment
by Which the land OF their fathers Is TO be civilized
than volumes of argument Sir that master, aud That
slave ought TO be in marble and bTass II person so
humble as myself so could pass away to be ior.
Gotten dare promise IT, would say their memory shall
| never perish o foTfuHdi dm6o; siquid mbd CdrHHd
rcssiaL NuilG dies nRQRam memoirs nos e1hsa ara
There is moral wealth In that incident beyond the
treasures of California If all the gold she has NJ
ready Welded to the indomable industry OF The al,
ventHrer and all that she yet locks from the cupy Of
man. in the virgin chambers OF her snewclad SieIrs
! vete all molten into one ignot, It would not buy inc
moral worth OF that scene. Sir, leave you % make
the application have told youyou knew IT well De
iore1how Africa is to be civilized aud who are 20 do
the work and VIVA. reAins but to bid God speed the
| undertaking. -, r.
The delivery of the address interrupted by fire.
! quent bursts of applause.
Rev Charles H. Reed of Virginia, delivered Few re
marks in support OF the position that rs the duty OF
the whites ~ sustain the blacks until they can stand
alone aud he pressed the colonization cause Is CHRIST
! ian enterprise. observation-disclosures.
/ Hon G. r. Mercer gave a minute history OF the Colo
zson Society urging that the Society should be guard
! cd against fanatic Abodonsts on one hand, and the
equally fanatic advocates OF Slavery abstract good
On the other.
! The Society then adjourned.