Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-01-29

creation Of this society ought to rest all doubs ON
this question The affairs OF that
under great difficulties and dsconrag have heen
managed with a discretion, an energy and ,ons,
all things considered with which auhor;-a ~
favorable differences to the capacity of the
races for selfgoyernment 1t is about thirty wears s
the settlement began, and think it must be alIored !
have already minated that it's progress will corn
pare very fayoraby with that of Virginia or Plymouth
after an equal length of time. They have established
well-organzed constitution Of republican government Il
is administered with ability the of justice are
modelled after they have schools md churches
the soil is titled the country is explored; the natives
are civilized; the slave trade is banshed friendly in
erconrse is maintained with foreign Powers and England
and France have acknowledged their independent soye
reigny. Would handful Of Anglo Americans from the
humblest classes of society have better than this?
The truth is, Mr.. President, and with this conclude
nence has been, is and trust ever will be ri work
through the agency of the colony Of Liberia through
other similar agencies hope hereafter be established
abundanty competent effect this great undertaking
and that is the sovereign power of OAristan love- All
sir this after all is the only irresistible power Military
force is sometimes resisted and subdued commercial en-
terprise becomes bankrupt; State policy is outwitcd;
but in the long run, pure, unselsh, many-rather let
me say heaveny-loye never fail moral SEN
ti1aents pacay under the guidance and impulse of re,qious
zeal, that haze ccized tie cord Arms and craft and
mammon seize their opportunity and mingle in the work
but cannot kill its vitality That colored brethren
equally with ourselves susceptible of the moral sent
ments, it would be afront to your discernment to-
argue Sir read last year in the newspapers an anec-
dote which seemed to put this point in beautiful and
with PERMISSION Will
citizen of Rapdes, in Louisiana, with his servant
started for California hoping to improve his prosper
circumstances by sharing the golden harvest of that
region For awhile they successful but the health
of the master at length failed What in that distant
gion under constitution forbddng slavery and in that
new and scarcely organized society," what conduct
of the slave? Priest and Levite the lay i'll Of
typhus fever, and looked him and passed by
the other side But the faithful tended watch
ed protected his stricken MASTER by day and by night
his companion, nurse, and friend At length the master
died. What then the conduct of the slave he
stood in those lonely wastes by the remains of him whom
living he had served, and who struck down by
the great Emancpaor? He dug his decent grave in the
golden sands gathered up the fruits of their joint abors
those he considered the sacred property Of his masters
family toed few more weeks under the burning Of
California summer to accumulate the means Of paying
his passage to the States and that object accomplished
returned to the family of his master in Louisiana
cannot vouch for the truth Of the story The Italians
have saying of anecdoe of this kind, that f not
true it is well invented" This sir is too good to be
invented; believe, now it must be true. And such
fact for the possession by the African
of the moral sentiments by which the land of their fathers
is to be civilized than volumes of argument Sir, that
master and that slave ought to live in marble and brass
If person humble myself, to pass away
and be forgotten, dare promise it, would say their
mory shall never perish.
FORTUNATE ambo! 81 qud mea carmina possnt,
Nulla dies unquam memoir vos extinct evo.
There is moral wealth in that incident beyond the
treasures of California. If all the gold she has hitherto
yielded to the ndomabe industry of the adyenturer and
all that she yet locks from the cupidty of in ths
virgin chambers of her serras, all molten
into vast ingot it would not buy the moral worth of
that scene.
Sir, leave you to make the application have told
you, you knew it well before how Africa is be civilized,
and who to do the work and what remains but that
we that every friend of humanity should bid God speed
to the undertaking.
mr. EvEnErT was frequently interrupted by applause
throughout the delivery of this address.