The weekly Anglo-African., 1859-10-01

public lecture in order that the people gen.
orally might hear some of the reasons
which induced this gentleman to turn his
face Afterwards; also to tender to him a
formal and public welcome. Accordingly
an invitation was sent by a committee Of
gentlemen to the DR., requesting him to
lecture to the citizens of Monrovia, on any
evening he might choose TO appoint, and
upon any subject that he might be pleased
to select. The Doctor consented and APP
pointed Monday evening, July 9Th.
The evening came. and though the
weather was somewhat inclement, large
crowds assembled in the NJ E. Church, to
hear DIR. Delany. Dr. Samuel f. McGill
chairman of the meeting, at the time APP
pointed, arose and introduced to the audi
ence DR., Martin Robinson Delany, of Can
ada. The subject was the political con-
diton and destiny of the African race
The Doctor began with the condition Of
the colored people in the early history OF
the anti-slavery movment. He divided
their history up to this time, into four peri
DDS. LIST, the period of letter-wrting -
when the writing of letters by colored men
gave indications to their white fellow-citi,
zens of African intelligence; when letters
written by men of color were sent to the
city of London as aliterary curiosity He
referred especially to the letters of James
Forten. I'd. The period of neacspape,
publishing, when colored men directed their
attention to the proving to white men that
they were as capable as the whites of edit
ing newspapers and scattering their
thoughts, expressed in proper shape and
form, all over the country. sending their
ideas into the parlors and chambers
into the studies and Offices of their oppres-
sors. Sd. The period of iectuy11a9, when
colored men felt it not only their duty to
send their thoughts to their oppressors on
paper, but to meet them face to face, and
prove to them that they had equally with
them the ability to advocate Or0liY their
own cause. 4th. The period of c0Huen.
tons, when colored men met to discuss the
great question of an African nationality
"We are now in this PERIOD said the DR.
and it is the desire of an African nation
atty that has brought me to these shores.
The Dr. spoke at length of the various
causes which have conspired to retard the
progress of the colored man in the United
States. He described the condition of the
negro in that country as being stationary
for the reason, said he, that two oppo 5it'
forces of nearly equal power are brough
to bear upon him, Abolitionism and Colo
nization. He compared the inf ,ences o.
these two institutions to two strong cords
passed around the belly of the colorc7
man; one would drag him from the la1t
that gave him birth to Africa-and the 9th
er is brought to bear upon him with equa
force to keep him in his native land; S,
that by a well known law of philosophy
being under the influence of two equa
forces operating in contrary directions, hi
position must be stationary, while over til,
heads of his white instigators, he sometime
hurls his fulminations at his brethren il
Liberia.
The Doctor then went on to state til,
proceedings of Convention held in 1854
in Cleveland, Ohio, where, convinced o
the necessity of separate nationality il
order to the elevation of the African, b,
took ground in favor of emigration from
the United States, to some country wher,
the colored man might be able to establish
a distinct nationality. (Applause.) Thi
gave ofense to some with whom he ha(
fought in the same ranks, and Professo
Vashon wrote letter to Douglass Paper
I'opposing his view and maintaining tn,
creed of the anti-slavery leaders-a Greco
very short, viz; We were born in Anne
RIGA; in America we were reared; in Anne
RIGA we will live; in America will we die
and be buried with our fathers and moth
ers." Professor Martin H. Freeman, O
Allegany, replied to Professor Vashon anG
turned back his creed upon him with crush
ing force, just by placing the same argu
ment in the mouth of the slaves of some
Virginia plantation, supposing them to be
at liberty to seek some congenial home
1--WE were born on massa's plantation; on
| massas plantation we were reared; we will
live on massa's plantation; provided he
don't send us to Georgia. we will die on
massa's plantation, and be buried with the
rest of massa'S niggers" (Applause.) We
could not help thinking of the truth and
justice of the comparison. How astonish.
ing is it that intelligent colored men in the
United States, now laboring SO hard against
the idea of emigrating from the land of
their birth do not take these things into Sc.
rious consideration.
The Doctor then referred to the reason
lngs which led him to the conclusion that
emigration was the best and only hope of
the colored people in the United States
He said he looked around and saw men OF
all other races fleeing from countries where
they were oppressed and seeking shelter
wherever liberty was to be found for them.
He saw the Irish and Dutch, the Huneari.
ans, and others who forever turned then
backs on their native land because it de-
MED them that liberty which was the birth.
right of man. He made reference to the
flaming and patriotic speeches of Louis
kossuth in the United States; and he did
not wish for one moment to entertain the
idea that the same causes which move the
hearts of the white man, and prompt him
to energetic action, could not touch and
move the colored man. (Applause.)