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AMERICAN COLONIZATION SOCIETY.
A few days since, this association held its
annual meeting in Washington. The address
was delivered by the Secretary of State, MI.
Everett, and is every way worthy of his great
reputation.
There are few subjects more interesting than
the history of slavery in the United States
In the year 1907, three English ships, having
been driven by stres,> of weather within the
Capes of Virginia, assembled James river, and
q, the spot known as jamestown, planted the
germ of the first English Colony in America.
In 1920, so say oui annals, Dutch man-o-
war assembled TO the same place, and there
landed twenty slaves. For the first time, then,
in the new world, the descendants ofthe three
sons of the Patriarch Noah were brought face
TO face on the same spot. The wild Indian
was tine representative Of Shem, the barbarous
negro of Ham, the enlightened white man OF
Japheth. Each race entered upon its separate
career and whatever Interpretation we may
give to the scrptural texts which relate TO the
descendants of Noah, each Of those careers
seems, in a wonderful degree, correspondent
with the prophecy OF that patriarch, uttered
four thousand years before, "God shall enlarge
Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of
Shem, and Canaan shall be his servant" The
white man, the descendant of Japheth, began
Immediately to multiply, to increase, and to
wax exceedingly mighty. With the irresisti-
BILE progress of destiny, he swept from one
ocean to the other. Forests fell before him,
cities rose up at his bidding, the face ofnature
changed beneath the magic of his touch, and
the desert blossomed like rose. Civilization,
plenty, peace and happiness followed his pre-
destined footsteps. New principles of govern
ment were established under his auspices, new
motives of action were offered to man, and in
his new residence, he became the wonder OF
the world.
And what was that new residence? 1t was
the snts cf Shem-the birthright of the wild
and thrfIless descendants of the Patriarch
Oldest son-the unfortunate Indian, whose dis.
appearance from the land of his fathers, was
necessary to fulfil the prediction TO the letter.
1t is useless, now, to dwell upon the wrongs
and fate of that unhappy race. They seem TO
have been doomed from all time, and they are
but obeyng their destiny. Far be it from us
TO justify, upon this plea, the violent conduct
of such as have been NEST busy in working
their MdesF tT9B h4,S to
execute the DEGREES of Providence-the blind
instruments of his unerring wisdom and unal-
terable will-were not of that class from which
he will choose, when he shall think proper to
make up his jewels. But that they have been
made the means of effecting divine purpose,
we think is evident from the whole history of
the Indian tribes. The unfortunate Alb origines
have disappeared before the white race as the
snow of winter melts under the influence ofthe
vernal breeze. But few years shall have
elapsed Ia few years, we mean, in the history
ofnations) and he shall have been among the
things that were.
Wonderfully different, and in perfect accor-
dance with this Interpretation of Noah's pro
phecy, has been the history of the black race
on this continent. If left to his own unguided
instincts, the probability is that he would have
disappeared along with the wild Indian. Blu,
the hand of Providence was upon him, to keen
him in his position, as the servant of Japheth
Instead of dwindliRg away, under the influence
of civilization, he multiplied and increased,
as rapidly as the white man. He has been
taught to know the only true God-has &C.
quired the arts of civilized lfe-and has been
gradually but steadily advancing in the devel-
opment of his intellectual faculties. This he
never could have done, had he not been kent
in continual connection with the white man
OF as those who insist upon giving to the pro-
phecy of Noah the Interpretation to which we
have alluded, unless he had been the servant
ofJaphelh.
The emancipation of large numbers of slaves
by private individuals, in the Southern States
and the abolition ofslavery, itself, by those oil
the northern and middle divisions of the Union
after the war of the revolution raised
question as to the final disposition of those who
had thus obtained their freedom. Long be-
fore, the condition of Africa, a land of appa-
rently hopeless barbarism and heather su.
perstition, had addressed itself powerfully
10 The sympathies of the religious and the
humane. All means of introducing the Cos.
pei, and of inducing the savage tribes of
he interior TO receive its missionaries, an
peared TO be hopeless. Civilization, the su.
preme good of other chimes, had apparently
brought to them nothing but unmitigated evil.
They had seen il only through the medium OF
the slave trade, and its features were to them
anything but inviting. 10 process of time, fire.
quent attempts were made by Europeans to in.
troduce the bible and the arts among them, bu,
always with very limited success. The white
man sckened and died in the presidential eli.
y tie of Africa. Jealous as he might be in
the pursuit of his religious calling. his