American union. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1855-1859, 1858-10-15

I 5"'@g w SteaI ilNtis, AoWiuBf iTony ua-
4 tion TO nation, to the sea-. arc. all pledges
of success. Even the climate, iniml,icaI to
the white man, but kindly nursing moth
Ter to the African, Is pledge Of success
success in African colonization. Here on
the climate God has written his decree,
that the tho black, man shall have u coh-
genial homo. 49,, ssles q 81
Ihe immutable moral, and social laws,
which govern human affairs, favor us -
i When civilization has once Joined battle
/ with barbarism, it has never failed. Let
/ Europe, America, and India testify. In
Africa, the barbarian will not melt away
before the civilized man, as he has donIo
tin America, and as lie must do in India.
In Africa, as in the European portion of
the old Romish Empire, the oonqueror
| and the conquered are the same race.---
, They will coalesce, and form one nations
ality.
/ will mention another soeiallaw which
fayors our cause. The relations of men,
as of things, are justly founded on their
properties. The properties of the white
man and the black, are not the same. =
Their social relations cannot be practically
identical. AS the population of this con-
tinent becomes more and moro dense, there
must be conflict of races, and the free
black willibe compelled to fee to The land
of his fathers. Here, uniting with the
civilized men of his own race, he will in
crease the power of that great English ma
tion, which We foresee by the eye of Ell.
! lightened faith. nsIq I'm .;,t-,-
Yet another law will mention.g Seq
regation is essential to the greatness of
any race, of any nation The position of
Assyria and of Egypt, surrounded by i'm
1nensed deserts,was thesecret of their power.
The same law is exemplitied again in
Greece, in Northern Africa, in Italy, and
in England. You may place the African
on any part of the American Continent,
/ but he will be overwhelmed, and blotted
out by the conflict of races. In Africa,
and there only, is the, appropriate home
of the African. There he will be protect.
ed by the law of segregation, and there
/ ne Will expand to the maximum greatness
Eof his race. 80 @tSsf :
/ Who shall define The future boundaries
iof the Anglo African nation, which we
are planting? When have stood and
Looked on the wide Of the desert, have
said in my heart, let the northern limit
be here. When ! have surveyed the
beautiful and Fertile plains of the inter-
Tor, and thought of The great countries
/ beyond me, far away to Lake Chad, |
have claimed it all for my African couD
trymen. 1t is not too much to claim,
/ since their presence there will be a
| blessing 10 themselves and their lace.
They will not enter tho land Of their
fathers to kill and destroy They have
been at school in America, and are re-
turning as teachersto Africa. !
Perhaps, as some one may say, per-
Ihaps it is not time to act, but IL is Ger.
taiDIy time to knoto, that the Niger is
The central hope Of the free black iH
America. L hat great river, flowing for
/ more than. thres thousand miles, first
through the heart of the gold region,
! and then through one of the finest agri-
cultural regions insihe world, must be-
come the highwayfo vast commerce.
When the wealth of Sudan floats on he
Niger till itreaches Raba, it is probably
seven hundred miles from, the. sea by
I the meanderings of the river, but /, is
only 200 miles direct ihroughY oruba TO
/ Lagos, the port on this part of the coat.
/ oruba then, must al ways be the KEY to
the wealth and the influence or Sudan.
The surface ofthe though rising
with considerable rspidity from the soa
us admirably adapted to the construc.
ttion of roads, and the day must come.
\ when more than one railroad will be
drawn from the Niger to the Bisbt Of
| tBenin. "M fd ~ dt9 f3'1
/ The wars, to wbicli have alluded
4 above have left large district In Yoru-
/ ba and Egba without Inhabitants. The
! depopulated region extends from near
the sea 10 the banks OF the Niger. There
4 is room fortwo hundred thousand colo.
Dists from America. If once establish,
ed there,they would sson command rhe
4 traffic Of se9efal millioDs of, people. -
4 This new colony would not only secure
the key TO Sudan, but it would give
such an imp0lse to Colonization that
most Of The free Olacks ia America
4 would bastento Africa somsto Y oru.
ba, others to Liberia, and others TO still
newer settlements connecting tho two
extremes. The generosity Of England
would yield up Sierra Leone to the
growing cause province to province
would be added tho natives Of III.
i country, like the Moors Of Northern
Africa, would gradually excbopge their
religion, and their language, FOR those oi
4 the immigrants aud at last. our Eng
lishspeakiDg nation would standing
forth, vast, woathy,full Of civilized men,
and full Of Christian churches b1
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4 4 charity sermon Vas once common
ocd by tic DEAR Of ST. Paul's as fol-