Daily national Republican. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1862-1866, 1863-01-21

obllterated forever, tho werld would lose no
great truth, no profitable art, no exemplary
form Of life. Tho loss Of all that Ia African
would cause no remarkable deduction from
anything, but earth's black catalogue Of
crimes.
The experiment therefore as 10 its effect lie
designed 20 lmpart instruction 20 such a race
| from higher one. IL has had It's success, and
promises more. The herolsm Of the Christian
missionary Is still needed, for like all sinful
men, the African needs faith, christian faith,
and that faith we trust will overshadow the
continent, through the fundamentally, at least
In degree, Of Christian colonists In Liberia.
| We must romembcr that the African have never
had Socrates 10 talk wisdom 10 them, nor a
| Cyrus, who was not slave merchant, nor a
| Pythagoras, TO teach that kindness was vir-
tue. Hence, tho difficulty which the Christian
Missionary has had with them, has been to sat
lsfy their minds as to the miraculous phonomo-
non Of there being good man.
The Republic OF Liberia contains popula-
| tlon Of 200, 900 Inhabitants, not moro than one
twentieth Of this number arc American colo
nsts. Its growth has been gradual and healthy.
The government, from It's successful adminls-
tration by blacks alone, for the last fifteen
years, appears 30 be fully established, and with
all Its short comings, l would say TO tho colored
| man In this country, who regards the highest
interests Of his children, TO young men Of aC-
tlvity and enterprise, that Liberia affords the
strongest attractions. l presume that this So
ciety considers that the colored man has his
rights, ono Of which is TO stay In this country,
the land Of his birth, II he prefers It, the other
10, to go to Liberia, II he prefers that and better
his social, moral and political condition.
! would not Join In any attempt 10 crush out
the aspirations Of any class OF men In this
country. But It Is an actual fact whatever may
be thought Of Il, that here the colored man has
never risen 10 that position which every ono
should occupy among his fellows. For, suppo-
sing the wishes of the philanthropist towards
| him TO be fully accomplished, secure him his
political rights, unfetter him In body and intel
lect, cultivate him in taste even, and while nom
lnally free, he Is still In bondage, for freedom
must be the perogative of tho white, as well as
Of the black man, and tho white man must also
be len free to form his most intimate social re-
latlons, and he is not, and mover has been dis
| posed, In this country, 10 unite himself with a
caste marked by so broad distinction as exist
| between the two races. Tho testimony, on these
points, of those who have had abundant ad-
vantagcs Tor observation has been uniform and
| conclusive. For the colored man himself, then
for his children, Liberia Is an open city of ref
uge. He there may walk the earth In his full
manhood, and he may there become a freeman,
not only In name, but freeman in decd and In
truth.
! Hon. Jno. A. Kasson next spoke. Forty-slx
I years, he said, through periods OF prosperity
! anu university, ana tnrOuHn tue btlli more ann
| geTous one Of Indifference, the society had
struggled on and continued to exist; before
either the lightning current of the electric tele-
| graph had bounded over the breadth of a con-
! tinCnt, almost transmitting 10 and from one
another the murmuTs of two distant oceans In
a seconds space, or the irOn-ribbed monsters
I of the deep had been launched forth, to rUyO-
! lutionize modern warfare.
1t had taken the stone rejected by tho builders
Of our Government, and made II the corner
stone for the civilization Of Africa. Il had
opened to the intellect and energies Of the world
and to the manifold blessings of commerce
that mysterious Ethiopia whose resources, peo.
! pie, and government, even In the days of the
Prophets and remote antiquity, had been O
sealed book to tho nations. The honorable
speaker eulogized the great spirits who had
| conceived and fosterOd tho idea Of African col
/ onlZation, and had contributed 10 the founda.
ton Of this society; Crawford OF Georgia, Clay
| of Kentucky; with many other illustTlous
names, brought to bear the full scope Of thCiI
mighty powers on this end, and Infused the
! lustrous influence Of their great examples
throughout the organization. What the Roman
question Is to Europe, colonization Is 10 Amer,
lea; the latter only being more eminent In II
range, and more glorious for us whom attained
| He considered the various solutions proposed
TO this scheme, the one acknowledging and up
holding slavery, as a necessary effect OF mental
tho other regarding those faults az Academia
circumstances, and according TO them equa
rights with the white race. But these two the
orics, with all their varied speculations, do moi
solve the difficulty they only shift II.
He cited the remarks Of the society's found,
ers and earliest patrons to provo the policy Of
Fastening the emigration from amongst US
Of the eolored race, a race so essentially differ
ing from us In temperament and mode Of living
| Ho thought that the new relations growing out
Of their sudden emancipation would, like all
great, changes be productive Of good and ovi
elements, and that the latter might BIO profit
ably turned to thu furtherAnce Of the grand oh
! Ject Of the society. That 10, he favored the en-
nctmeRt OF law for tho compulsory COLOMBIA
ton on other portions of the African coast Of
negroes who Would be guilty of penal offences
and other symptoms Of insubordlnation to thu
dominant racej but In doing SO he did not wish
| to be understood as dlsparagiug, or in any way
interfering with tho voluntary scheme, which
has 90 successfully developed In Liberia.
| -
l SHcoED READING OF Mr.. VASpHSHoTF.-Th
first reading Of Mr.. ", on Monday evening
was In every respect complete success. Not
withdrawing the numerous entertainment
which Invited the presence OF our citizens OF
that evening, Willardb' Hall was crowded will
highly Intellectual and critical audience, wit
did not fall 10 appreciate tho rare and wonder
reader varied from the comic to the dldactic
from the sacred to the profane, and from tn
sublime TO the ridiculous, his unrivaled powor
of producing the effect consequent upon tn
proper rendition Of each were fully exhibited.
Tonight, an opportunity will be afforded GU
citizens Of hearing part Of his arrangement
of "Les MiseTablos," which has been read b,
him with such scldt In New York, g.. Louis
and other cities East and West.
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COMMITTED TO THE OLD CAFIToL.-MaIo
Rufus NJ. Wharton, First N. c. sharpshooters
Surgeon James G. Green, Fifth Va. cavalry
Sergeant Jas. W. Adams, Twenty-frst N.
volunteers, Prlvates Robert 8. Morgan, Fiji
Va. cavalry, VIM. s. Beard, Twenty eighth N
q. volunteers, Isaac Craig, Sixth Georgia vol
unteers, and Geo. II. Waterheld, Sixth Georgia
volunteers, prisoners Of war, have been sent +,
the Old Capitol prison by Provost Marsha
Dost6r, to be held for exchange.
A BRIBED SENTINBL.-James Strong, Will
acting as sentinel at the Old Capitol prison
day before yesterday, permitted two soldiers
named Murray and Howard, confined undo
sentence Of court martial, TO climb over tn,
walls and escape, receiving therefor about fort!
dollars. As soon as Mr.. Wood was advised o
ha hn NnAI a.. han Tho.