The weekly Anglo-African. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1859-1861, 1859-09-17

the mouth of every river that runs out in
to the ocean; they are on either side OF
the rivers; they have gone up there, OBJ
tanning all the advantages of the market
from the interior, all the ivory, gold, and
palm-oil, particularly, and valuable skins
They bring these to England and the Uni
ted States. and they are becoming rich
They receive as profits from single cargo
from five to twenty thousand dollars. Go
to these merchants and ask them about Af
RIGA, and they don't know anything about it.
You cannot get word out of them. There
are eighty-three white-men thus engagedi in
Lagos alone. We wrote, some time ago,
to an English gentleman who has done
great deal for free cotton-growing in Atri-
ca. We asked for information and advice
in regard to our prospect. He wrote back
=" We are not in favor of colored people
going there in small companies, for this rea-
son: if they do they aoaN snterrupt the
trade already established 6etaceen Africa
and England" That opened our eyes,
If that trade was of so much value that
English manufacturers were anxious to
preserve it to themselves, we thought that
was the very reason we should go and take
advantage of it. There is gentleman at
Staten Island, New York, who manufac-
lures what we call sperm candles. They
are made of bleached palm oil. This gen
tleman has, on Staten Island, village OF
manufacturers. He has hundreds of men
in his employment there. He sends out
bis ships to Africa, that come back laden
with palm oil; and he then whitens it and
makes it up into candles He has accumu-
lated fortune of millions of dollars and
lives in princely palace in Fifth Avenue.
And colored-men, while they have suffered
the white-men to plumber the land of their
| forefathers of living souls, for three hun
dred years, now that the wonderful discoy-
cries of Livingston, Barth, Bowen, and 9th
ers, are opening the hitherto unknown
wealth of that country, when God, and
science, and unconquerable human energy,
have turned the tide of fortune in our ia
vor, we refuse to throw ourselves upon it
simply because some white-men have i'm
pudently said we shall go. He who tells
me l shall leave my country is an impu-
dent man, and he who says | shall not go,
is a fool | will do as please, either to
60 or stay The conpna0n-Sense of the
world is in favor of this movement. We
hold no other sentiments.
Now you can pass opposing resolutions
in your New England Conventions, if you
choose, but you can't stop such man as
Captain Roye bringing in his goods-im-
porting the first sugar ever brought from
! A Al, I
| prevent him from putting his profits in his
| pocket and returning for more. You will
not hinder such men as Joseph Turpin, DIR.
Dunbar, and Mr. Johnson, from loading
vessel for Africa. You will not hinder any
man that is disposed to do it. You might
pass resolutions until they were stacked up
as high as mountains, and they would
laugh at them, and when they were ready
would go, because their common sense is
with them.
Again, hold that the laws of trade and
commerce are with this movement. 1t
cannot be otherwise. The resources of
that country are opening, white-men are
daily equipping their vessels and filling
their pockets, and laughing at us poor col
ored people quareling among ourselves
and destroying the character Of every man
who fails to agree with us. In California,
after the white-men have taken up the
gold you will see my poor brother coming,
all covered with dust, with his tongue loll-
ing out (great laughter to take what is left.
Had they been advised to 60 there in ear
ly times, when they might have taken ad-
vantage of the opportunities which the
country afforded, and they would have
said, "pm not going because I'm told to go
therep We can't please such people. 1t
will be seen, after our more active, ener-
getic Anglo-Saxon brethren have got rich
by trade and commerce in Africa, then our
people will be trotting there; then we will
begin to talk about putting our funds to-
gether and buying vessels. II there qoere
dozen ships sailing ont Of Boston han
Dor, keeping up trade betaoeee these cam
tries, that tact soatld do more for the ocer-
throaoing Of Slavery, IN cyeatinga respect
for oarselves, and breaking dorm the acaHs
Of prejudice, than Gfty thousand lectures Of
the most eloq4e,stmeno Of this land. 'Truel
truelp) l have gone along the docks in
New York, and when l have seen those
young men with their books in hand, TAX
ing account of the eargoes of the African
vessels, have asked DR.. Dunbar" Doc
tor, do you receive anything like disre-
spect? Do you hear any unkind remarksW
Said he, 81 receive nothing but the utmost
respect / saw white men who looked
solemnly and respectfully on, and they
came up and spoke to these young men,
asked them the character of the cargo they
were taking out, and wished them success,
safe voyage over, and happy and safe re-
turn 1t is not, after all, our big talk that
is going to break down prejudice; it is not
your New England Conventions, your
splendid speeches, and fiery denuneiations;
but if this adamantine wall is to fall, it will
be when we shall come up and stand by
the side of other men, and in every depart
ment of cultivated life show that we are
their equals in every respect. ~
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