The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1869-06-14


profession. We wish him a prosperous
career.
AFRICAN CoLoNzAroy.-We had the
pleasure, last evening, Of listening to very
entertaining discourse at the Second Presby.
terrain church. delivered to q large audience,
By the Rev. Mr.. IngIis, agent of the Amer.
can Society for the Colonization Of Africa.
Since the war we have not heard a pulpit
address which bordered upon political
grounds, aud at the same time contained
more solid sense, or which met with cool.
er reception, There was tue when the
nave Of the church would have ruug with
applause at the objective poiu; Of the rover.
end gentleman appeal, however much the
manner in which be reached il would have
been condemned Mr. lngls traced out,
without any attempt at superb coloring, the
progress Of the republic Of Liberia from its
infant state to its present respectable posi-.
ton From mere colonial post, or port
for the residence Of an American agent ap.
pointed to look after the suppression Of the
slave trade, it had grown to be q flourish.
ing young nationality, with six hundred
miles Of sea coast, and over six hundred
thousand inhabitants. He described its AZ.
ricultural and mechanical progress, touched
upon it's schools, academies, churches, repub.
licau form Of government, and other ele.
ments Of the most advanced civilization He
depicted il as the true home Of the black
man, and the small lump which WAS even.
tually to leaveu the whole continent Of Afri.
ca, and to coerce TO civilization the barba.
rous tribes aud hDleous wiIds Of all that vast
quarter Of the globe. He declared that the
Society which be- had tho honor to represent
accepted As a cardtusl principle, the fact
that the negro cond never attain social
equality in this country, and he beiiered
Providence Heoer designed that the negro
WDult be tie egtIdt Of the UhHc man ana.
rhrc He regarded the colored men il
America as exlles in a foreign land. In
Africa they could hope for everything; here
they could expect nothing. The appeals
for aid by the blacks, to assist them in em.
grating from this country to Liberia, had
been SO numerous as 10 bankrupt the treas.
ury ofthe society. 1t now appealed to the
white people Of America for aid to carry
forward its enterprise Its object was to
build up on the shore of Africa, a republic
where benefcent institutions and actual 50
ctal equality would exist to such degree as
to attract there the whole black population
Of America. This is the primary object.
The grander one is to ciyilize and christian.
re the whole Of that benighted continent.
II had been demonstrated most thoroughly
that wife men cannot live there. The eli.
mate is too hostile. Band after band of
nissionaris had fallen victims TO its malg.
nance, and gone down to their graves.
Some had persisted ia few moths
and none had stood to their posts longer than
. few years. Black men must become the |
and by their own ilustrious
Example, must give the wild native bari ar.
ans an opportunity to compare the advant.
lges of the civilized over the savage state. |
Those who had gone there from America
lad more than realized their expectations |
Ihe speaker cited an instance in the case Of |
Prof. FreclanJ, an educated black, who was
Dttered a very large salary if he would re.
urn from Liberia. His answer was that be
would remain where he was not oppressed |
With social inequality, and where an open
ield lay dormant for his efforts.
At the close of the instructive address of
dr. lngls, Mr.. Burnett, pastor ofthe church,
'roSe and cast cold water on the project by
declaring that everybody wanted the blacks
# America to remain where they are
With more assumption than courtesy he de,
lied that the object of the society was to re
ieve America Of its black population, but |
only to educate portion Of :" ~"H SEM
them TO Afr;~. missionaries. Mr.. lnghs |
being the accredited agent of the society, |
and having been laboring in his present
phere OF usefulness for many years, is per.
laps somewhat versed in the purposes of the
association he represents, and no doubt
laite as responsible in his assertions as the
eyerend gentleman of our own city. How.
yer that may be, the collection raised
amounted to almost enough to purchase
oothp picks for any halfdozen colored indi.
lduals who might consent to cross the brine
md give Congo beef trial
This morning the Union, in lieu of its
sual Geographic digest of murders, suicides,
nd breach of promise cases, gave its read
rs column and half of criticisms on the
DISCOURSE, and follows up Mr. Burnett's tao.
les to dot. The fact is, when somebody
Ise owned the negroes Of the South, and
hey had to be stolen previous to their ex.
ortaton, colonization was very fine thing,
nd em,aently worthy to loosen the philan.
1roPiC strings of any sinners purse - q
'ut they are now excellent voting cattle in I
ne interest OF the great moral party, where, t
Liberia may go to the bad and the Q
roast and mssticate each other to /,
leir hearts content. 1t is no longer an az b
'ir for christians to he troubled with. :
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