The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1857-09-08
THE DISPATCH
.-crted Famine In Africa and its
Came.

..cora;,r to the New York Commercial Adverti-
.,s,rms,ion has been received At the Methodist
rn,..,r., Mission Rooms In that city, that there
-. ,rane snprehen sions Of general famne In Id
-. 80 that already several OF the poorer people
a,s az starvation. The account further states
ar, .n,,s NJ the missionaries on the country sta
49,. xithout any other food than green plums,
80 thai around some Of the settlements the natives
-. cuttIue down the palm trees, for the sake ofths
-. ..hnasr 70 sustain life. One Of the mission
sr;os there remarks that this state Of things hsa
Mar coming upon them for years, and attributes 1t
,,a,,, ia three causes; first, the great number OF
,a,s ard worthless persons in the community, who
will no, work and who live by beggsry second, that
,h class OF persons Is constantly increased by the
.rnr,,cy.tion from the United States, numbers OF
.he immigrants consuming q great deal and pro-
ducins nothing and third, the failure OF the ms
tyes rice crops several years ago. owing IN part 70
. bad season, but mainly to the natives general
attendance upon the Devil Bush when they should
have been upon their farms. They have never been
AHA "a recover themselves. What rice has been
Gathered for year or two past has not been enough
for food. 80 they have saved none for sowing
We call especial attention to the three causes as
sisned by this missionary for the present destitu-
lion they all resolve themselves into one, the ma
tural Incidence Of the African race, unconquerable
sxeer, by compulson. How striking the proof
which this letter affords, that after centuries OF
contact with white civilization the black man re
t.lns the ancient aud rremediabe incidence OF his
race Liberia suffers from famine, because neither
thu black immigrant nor the black native VIA
work. That 10 the history Of the race the ~ofia
over. Greeley eonfesses that they are Idle and
worthless In New York; Canada 10 groaninS aho
begging 70 get rid Of them; Hayti and Jamaica are
living monuments Of the Infinite and eternai Ia
zness that is ipgrained In the very bones ana mar
row of n negro Every leaf OF experience tnat
Time turns over, bears the same unvarying une-
ouiyocal testimony. And yet, kxeter nan Isnatics
are shriekipg for emancipation, ana American
sn,bropists meet at Cleveland TO devise some
nsn fur exempting the African from the universal
decree announced by Heaven, that by the sweat Of
his hr,w shall man live, and that ifs man will not
work neither shall he eat.
In the report Of the able speech OF Dr. Ross, be-
FIRE the late New School Convention, in this city,
occurs the following passage:
What was his position7 II is that slavery Is Or
dsjned Of God a. good in his providence, to the
master TO the slave, and to the community, so long
rs he chooses to continue it. 1t may have evils, but
10 long AZ God chooses TO continue 1t, 1t IL great
benefit He regarded the master as the reprcsen-
tatiye OF God In a great work Of benevolence-to
represent degraded man aud lift him up as high as
he can be raised to give him all the revelations of
Christianity that can be given TO him in the rela-
tions in which he stands, aud then to wait the de-
yeIopment Of Providence for higher destiny.
II would not be difficult for Dr. Ross to sustain
that position not only from the Bible, but from
every page in the history of African slavery and
Of African emancipation.