New-York daily tribune., 1858-10-13
RET. nv :. owENS SFcoyp LECTURE.

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~. Rovrcr -,.\ vi evening his sscc~t lecture 10
Chut,u Hall. HI. ~ .ct wss the People OF Afica.
The pelist.h p~,p,e "a : him that they cNnc from
Psyle. They sod ,sss ~ ~ hsS~pcsd ia .o-y dires-
tiops frca TImbutoo. on, e wanf Senegal, down
tie west Mark OF the Niger, a1e lseiy into Hossss
end one u;e the Sc-ar counsry rhe.r,rsiit,ohs
that their n rsr,oTs were w.c u-> ene from the
East somevferr One q thsr AAtor.sps ssd thai
they came s-,n Persia He ttnuSit that sicy might
lave been ,hs remnant Of she amy OF Sst,byses,
which was sunp,--ed 20 have neen 0ser~nelned ny
.and-storm in The desert Thorc were severd lisrs-
rirs and nunSer of learned Cen ia the hsAr "
AfIiCs. They liex great deat more st'o'a 10 thsa
We about them. They asked him ior irst,nce. 4 tbs
DAYS Of our we,ss not namev sm 50. And
when he told then that they were, hey tod HIM thst
they had found II 80 in their books The names OF
Abfaham and David, Maiianna and S.snsr~i wof-
com, on there. They language has 10 40 wore
knoEn To him; these were built up. sbs~it 129
verbal roots and 100 or 500 nouns HI supposed that
the b!ask people originated IN indie ard inter
mixed IN Sahara with white race. ssothcr
branch, mixed with the Malays, On th' east COAST
while Il ind took central course 10 to,go. fhero
were all shades ot color among the native Africans
some OF ,be se.a,ahs were almost "hite ann ehew
laueuage was not an African language. They w-re
ne.lookirg race of people, full ot energy ant hrr.
snd being white people, were ini oi mlrchld Nl~y
had conquered almost every part " AREA. I've PEA
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feet black skin and woody heads. They wcfc csIi-i
the blaCk-whte men, and considered II be ttnc
most learned of Africars. On the Nil' was vow tho
gigantic race whose ancestors sent bow q Csmby-
ses, and sai: - Find the who can bend H. " yos
can" These men had fnn boards. Al along The
Suines coast the English language sm0ch used AMI he
had been much surprised IN the interior 10y hack men
coming up Ia him aud saving " tuod morning, ST..
The whole valley of the Niger was admirably adapted
tocOlouizaOn from this country. ILL., had seen sorre
nj the finest types of men IN Africa which hc had rees
anywhere. He had often bees asked whether Ne ws
not afraid to travel ~ Africa lie was lees airsd tbsn
in this country. The heathcn population the weve
wonderfully kind and ho-pitabe. lew ycars agn
man IN Liberia started on pi-runage TO Jerusalem
with his son. In ioruba the father died. fhe people
there gave him gold told him To 90 cwo to the coast,
find vessel and 20 to his home, wh.ch he did Bat he
dared not approach the white people IN that country
the Moors would rob you, il they did not mur Ter you
We lad Judged all the Africans by The few hshernen
and slave -lealcrs thc coast. We Thought tncIn au
exceedingly lazy people. ~ the coast men Wcre.
But il the Interior they were industrious enough. In
Abbeokoota was market two miles long. Ihey sen
dresses there at s6O apiece lie knew an African init
nAtely whose wealth he had the curiosity Ia count mp
one day at African prices. II amounted To more thns
S2,GoCC0. The people are very polite, espeoliiyn
the cities IIe used To- go ont with The people m
Able, koota their farms, sometimes twenty nes dis
tam. They kuecled, where we bowed, ami he had
oil. n seen men kueeng to women in the street. they
were as polite to their women a- to each other Oa
the coast hc saw women Mt " III m the icld nut aS
the
in the hands Of the women. The ioruba language
had more abstract than the English thus taught
hiin that negroes knew how to think. When hs
preached they listened to him with the most intense
interest. lie could express himself with greater pre-
cison in the foruba language than IA the Eo-
plsi. The Africans made much Use ot iron they
snelted with charcoal aud ore md wthout
bellows. They made the glass, gsss
which the French had eudeayored in vain 30 mitHs.
Before Plinv wns born they made glass on the banss
If the NIGER. Tie women did the spinning AMI tho
IA the weaving. The people were very gresarlous,
aud did not work az home, but IL some central place,
whore they could talk with each other they worko
Their indigo WAS tree; an immense quahtty "on'o
soon be imported. lie knew 10 African King who
was absolute WithoUt the Couucil the King wou'i
do nothing. Grand Council If 30 couli deposc
him. These people were heaihcn-, and Offered hn-
man sacrfi,es So did the Grccks and Hebrews. But
alier be had preached o them they told him that they
would not ~ more, and s0 Tar ~ lee knew they kopS
their word ThcS all believed m one God, 10 th9 I'M
mortality Of the soul and that there were spirits VINO
nedat,d brtveeu item and God. lhey dressed hke
Turks II ade boots and saddles, amt their br-
DE rigging was exactly ike chat of the Mcxicans, who
received it FROM them through the Spaniards and
Moors. Their wars generally settled By one cam
Iaign. They generally uro guns made IN uHnDWg,
and their powder which j. coarse comes from BOstoo
The captiy,s taken offered rst for
denptiOn 10 their cOuutrymef, and then, II not re-
deemed are sold for slaves. The King If DahOmcy
established standing army twenty or thirty years
ago to supply himself with siayes, he found thai
he could always get plclty ii guns aud powder with
item. One.third Of his army were women. 10
thought, in case the should revolt, womas
wol,f keep them in check The City Of Abbeosoota,
ON account Of liz Opposition 10 the shye.lrade was
threatened by the King 4 DahOney, aud lO,WD men
and C0I0 women scnt against H. AbbeOkonta alone
sent ont 5000 or 2O,O0O men To oppose them f@
four hours they fought and ,2D ol the as.ailants
were klled-many of them women. lhls ended s@o
sla, e-trdde there.