The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1859-11-21
BALTIMORE.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 81, 1853,

The recent discoveries Of comparatively civilized
and productive races in Central Africa by LIVING
STONE and others, seem to have revived IN the
minds Of the followers of EMANUEL SwEDENBoR'
the remembrance of certain revelations OF MS maui
more than hundred years ago, ana winch n"U'
at the time such an effect upon his olsciPies as ~
inspire them to undertake the hlSt orgahizeo e-
fort ever made to abolish the Slave trade. Inc
disclosure If SwEpENnoRG referred TO in the
Continuation ofthe Las! J1dgment in the following
language:
s being the character of the Africans even in the
rd there is the present day (1757.) a revelation
among them, Which, commencing an the centre Of their
continent communicated around bat does reach their
coasts They acknowledge Lord the God of heaven
and EARTH and laugh at the monks in those parts they
visit, and at the Christians who talk of threefod Di-
vniiy, and of salvation by thinking saying, that
there is who worships ALL who does not live
cong to his religion and that whosOever does not must
become stupid and wicked, because in such case he
ceves nothing from heaven Ingenious wckedness too
they call stupidity because life death in
it. have heard the angels rejoicing this revelation
bncause bv means of it. communication is onened for
them with the human RATIONAL hitherto closed up by the
blind which has been drawn over the things of faith "
The rapt seer saw all this in Il vision somewhat
darby it appears to us, but the revelation caused
a number of his enthusiastic admirers 10 assemble
at Norkioping, in Sweden, in the year 1879, for a
purpose which is thus described in what The Ne,v
Jerusalem Messenger published as an extract from
MSS. History Of the Nelp Church.:
"The principal business of the Conference at Norkio-
ping to consult upon and devise the practicable
means of forming association whose wishes and en-
eayors might centre in one object that of forming set
Element among those nations where certain prospect
seemed to Of establishing peaceably without
position their new system which might serve ne basis
for a and free community Charles Berus Wadstrom
present at the meeting and he states his letters
the Ne'g JerUSa Magazine of 1900 that this
To he
were persuaded that the coasts Of Africa would scarcely
admit of being peoped by body of true and sincere Chris
tians, unless the slave trade, firmly rooted and the
only object OF commerce in those fruitful regions, could be
abolished. Before the memorable meeting dissolved
every one present expressed his and his
codai assurance TO labor each in his particular station
and increasingly exert his utmost abilities, in
ing and in carrying into execution plan only for the
abolition of the slave trade, but for the general cvza
ton founded true Christian principles of those unCul
tiYated and hitherto abused nations"
The purpose thus unanimously entertained and
announced, appears 10 have borne some fruit for
we are informed by the same authority that
Soon afterwards jealous and wellinformed Swedish
traveller T. Nordenskjod, published plan for cOlonizng
the coast of Africa in which he designated Sierra
as the proper site for colony and by his influence
and activity the court of Sweden his Swedish Majesty
induced to grant permission to emgrate hither with
families This several wears before the society
for the abolition Of the slave trade was formed in London
In 1877, Mr.. Wadstrom, with Dr. Sparrman and Chev.
alier Captain Arrhenius, proceeded voyage to the
coast Of Africa intending to penetrate to the interior
Dr.
man and Mr. Nordenskold afterward founded congrega
ton at Sierra Leone and in 1892 it selected by the
British Government the place for the residence the
fugitive slaves who had escaped from the Americans and
taken refuge with the British during the Revolutionary
War Twelve hundred of these then transported
thithcr,"
Thus, it seems, the first attempt at colonization
on the coast of Africa, with view to the anchor
alton of the condition of its people, was suggested
by vision Of the founder of the New Church and
made by some of his followers The enterprise
must have failed or merged in the holder and more
powerful organization for the abolition of the slave
trade subsequently established in LONDON, and We
presume the memory of the undertaking would
never have been awakened but for the apparent con-
frmaiion of the somewhat indistinct hint thrown
outby the Scandinavian Prophet of the existence OF
arevelation commencing in the centre of their con
"tinsnt, which is communicated around, but which
"does not reach the coasts" We give these ex-
tracts solely because the facts embodied in them
belong to the history of the Slave Trade, and are
unknown to many who take an interest in the sub
ect