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

onf.easIIv 5eneScisl intsroourse with the lees ad
80 toibes las been 10 Africa, from the dawn o.
cry 10 the present day the all powerful sseSs :.
rrsi civil war anarchy and socis disorgsalz41os
- hss been cause Of her rnaking 50 ie Prosis'
4 seyJizatOn. III 49,
.so.ber. I her cimsse-her mighty equatorial ex'
80 more extensive tract q lsDd betw cen tne - ~,
sr In all the rest of the eiobe-ber fervld veru,s'
"a burning down upon tho rank yegetsnon o. es
IL pains and rendering her shores sn1 wsssl re
resfiferous foreign Constitution III an, fSom
ry-,rhea character seems sgsin 10 shut hsr o ia
- ordinary approaches Of cvlizHtlon Co -. .s,a,.
9urenents ID Commercial gain are 700 "sas h;r but
~ ercb ant 70 tbese feverous dstrc's ..ts tae
Dyte for adventure, approaching % nAn,o, ,he de.
$500 90 who Christian beuevoence lures W -.
Aed Enissiorar 10 this field Of labor, 2 If in
offeu 70 his doom Here then, we see 20 ,,rbannv
srerces which seern 20 seal The Iste ~ D. ~
"a a. a., .boy,instion of dcsolatiOn bu.; NV
r,e,k and reverence the providence U y,..a
cing out Of these natural disadvaul'ag I'd tbis co
Disadvantages 10 mans aPpasr ssre trade, out Of
beiess elements Of physical and moral
svlvt of long cycles Of suffering siu ~ ~,
Ience and retriyuo suc1 M nsyoI1 esn nv
iee51cine ray from these element oy tne osss s
- ~ 5gyisfisp beneyolence, tue msane OF the
,l,irnste regeneration OF Africa Inc HronSeo eon.
Zoe of CRTisteDdom dcnOunces the Save raoe, put
- IN 1, II has existed for three centuries and hlied
- nj tbe Western Hemisphere with i've or SIX
isrs of the defendants Of Africa, OF whom ABOUT
Ii9u and half IN the islands and on the coniinsnI
bve from time 10 time become iree thougn oolh an
ye5 under circumstances unfayorable 10 mental ci'
az vet still partakng, In the map, OF many Oh tne
gesngs Of civilization and Christianity, amply quail
~ a. Liberia has shown, 10 convey those blessings 70
l. native Land OF their fathers ,x,-,.
commented the chosen instruments are pfepsreI'
. err in the opinion that the same Providence Wncn
y arranged permitted THIS mysterious Vi
scnts u calling and inviting them TO the asspcious
cork All other means have been tired IN VAIN Pne
,yenture has rasearied-strengh, and courage, ana
aduTance almost superhunsD, have iangulsned anu
yken dOwn-we appointed expeditions htted our un,
~ the auspices Of powerful associations and powerful
-errmeuts baye ended in csatous failure; and IT'S
oved at last that the Caucasian race cannot acmeye
~ long deferred work When that last noble expe'
DION which was sent out from England think In tne
rear 1S4l under the highest auspices 20 found an agr
eursl settlement In the interior Of Africa ascended
lie Niger every white out Of one hundred and hity
sekened and all but twOor three II my memory serves
M died while of their dark skinned ssocates also
hundred end 6fiy Ia number with all the added labor
and snxiety that devolved upon them lew only were
mex snd they individuals who had passed years
b. a temperate climate, and not one dieo
! say again, Sir, you Caucasian, you Pfouu hnsIo'
saxon you sef sufficient sllattemptng WINE man you
1snpot civlize Africa You have subdued ana eppfo-
,riaied Europe the native are melting before yoh
america "a The untirney shows Of Apr1l before
,etnal aun you have possessed yOurse OF INDIA you
rprace CbDa and Japan; the renotest sles OF ue "a
etc are not distant enough TO elude your notice put
Copira Africa confronts you, and bids you denance
Your squadronF may range OF blocade her coast Dut
neither on the errsnds OF peace nor the crends Of war;
esn you penetrate 10 the interior The God OF nature
10 doubt, for wise purposes, however, mscrutaole,
Ia drawn across the chief inlets a Gordon you
annot break through. You NAV hover on the coast,
ut you dare not set loot on shore DEAN sic
yortress at the undeiended gttewsys oil her mud
nat visges-yollow and intermittent levers piuc
teucs and poisons that you eau see % wen as ee
,ss your approach. AS you ascend the rivers pest
nee shoots from the mangroves that fringe tier NOBLE
snks and the glorious SUM- which kindes all inferior
,ure into teeming bursting life, darts disease into
,N languid system. No, you are not elected Tor TINS
,smentous work The great DFposer, In another
ssnch of his family, has chosen out rece--descend-
~ Of this tonid region children OF this vertical sun
ID tilted them by ages Of stern discipline, for the gra'
4 or achievement
In lore sa realms snd lands remote, supported - He
pass unamed through burning ine and breathe the tainted
Sir believe that the suspicious work Is begun; that
inca win be ciyilized-civilized by her returning
Sprng and descendants believe 1t, because will
ut think that this mighty and fertile tgOn 10 TO re-
udu forever In It's present state-because can see
70 other agency adequate TO the accomplishment
4 The work. and do behold in this agency most
mytterous fitness. am aware tina! doubts are
entertained of the practcabtlity OF the work,
founded, in part, ON the supposed incapacity oil
ne civilized men of color in this country TO carry
On an undertaking of this kind, and partly on the Cup
roscd hopeless barbarian OF the native races which
thought by some persons TO be 40 gross as to defy the
approach Of improvement, believe both opinions TO
erroneous 1t would think be unjust 10 urge, as
issd men OF color in this country, that they have
not made much intellectual progress 1t appears to
me that they have done quite os much as cou" DC
sxnrcted under the depressing circumstances IN winch
/, ~ have been plaoed. What branch OF the Eu
out an family, If held in the same c0ndiuon ior uree
eetures would not be subject 10 the same rsproach
Nr Jefferson in his Notes on Virginia urges the nteec
us nfrmiiy Of the African race existing In the nted
sstes He might have been led TO doubt the justice o.
hi concclusions by rejecting that IN the very same
work hc thinks necessary to yinGcate the race 70
which we ourselves belong from charge OF degene acy
made by an ingenious French writer Why, SIR is but
shOrt time since we AngoAmericans were hahtaaiy
roken OF by our brethren in England MS a degene
and inferior race Within thirty years Las oeeh
encnpuousy asked in tie liberal journals OF Europe
reference TO the natives OF the country OF Franklin
"a Washington and Adams and Marshall and Jefferson
AMI Madison oflrvlng Prescott Bancroft, Ileknor, Bry
an, and Longlenow, "Who reads an American book q
IN Tie face Of facts like these, becomes us to be some
what cautious in setting down the colored race IN Amer
lea rs one of hopeless inierority.
hgin Sir it doubted whether there Is IN the naive
tscs Of Africa basis of ability may 0sethat
word in which hope Of their future CIVILIZATION can DC
roundad IL Is said that they alone, oil all the trioes
Geaith have shown themselves incapable Oh lmproy.
4 ns their condition Wen, Sir, who knows THAR Ot
~ carly history Of ourrece know but LITTLE In any
NH OF the globe dark cloud hangs It, Ine whole
Moth and West of Europe, till the Roman civilization
shene in upon it, benighted as Africa is now II
esc certain that at very early period OF the history
II he world some Of the native races OF Ataca had at
ised high degree of culture. Such was the case Of
he ancient Egyptians dark coored race, though not
81 What We call the negro type. lucy NSCohueEcu ine
PARENTS OF much OF the civilization of the Greeks, and
iudted OF the whole ancient world. As late as the
'h century before the Christian era Plato passed thr-
teen years sudyin their sacred records The massive
Monuments Of their cheeIess culture have wihstoos the
ofme better than the more graceful creations OF
ecceian art Races that emerged from harhsrsm later
IhGn these of Africa have with fearful vclssitudos on
Ihe part of individual States acquired and maintained
superiority over Africa but ann not prepared 10 say
HAT Il RESTS on natural sauses OF final and abiding
character We into error by contemplating things
TOO much nthe gross There are tribes in Africa which
tSye made contemplate progress in various branches
~ human improvement On the other hand. II we look
closely the condition Of the OF the population in
Il surole from Lisbon TO Archange, from the Hebrides
| 10 the Black Sea II we turn from the few who
possesses wealth, or competence education, culture
| md that ior4ship over Nature and all her forces
Which belongs IL instructed mind If we turn
: rom these, 10 the benighted destitute op.
| pcsstd, supersttous, abject Millions whose
ives are passed in the hopeless tolls Of the
ae the factory the mine-whose inheritance is beg.
:Ny whose education Is stohd ignorance--st whose
daily table hunger and thirst arc the stewards
whose fesuyity is brutal intc.uperance III ,y,