Semi-weekly Louisianian. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1871-1872, 1871-10-08

to our father land, Africa, in either
large or small numbers, by statu-
tory laws, or an undue course of
cast prejudice against us. Neither
will produce the happy epoch that
the church has so long prayed for,
that all men might come to see eye
to eye, and be of one mind and
heart, or establish the fact declared
by the Government in its formation,
that "all men are free and equal
and endowed with certain inalien-
able rights, among which are life,
liberty and the pursuit of happi-
ness" Let both church and Gov
ernment join each other to pay this
great debt by redeeming the untold
and unknown millions of immortal
souls in Africa, groaning under the
great weight of heathenism and
idolatry, and Danish forever from
that land and the world the inhu-
man practice of cannibalism. Let
there be farm of several hundred
acres of land in cultivation be Sc
cured !; on this farm establish a
normal school. based Oh the manual
labor system, with the several de-
partments necessary to fit and
qualify a young man or young
woman for the high and holy work
of a missionary in Africa. This
farm should be so located as to be
of easy access to ocean communica-
ton. 1t should be established in
some one of the Southern States, SO
as not to cause too great change
in persons from Africa, residing
there, and passing through the ac-
climation of Southern latitude in
the United States. Then let one
thousand of the children of Africa,
having good intellocts, be brought
to this school with the expressed
provision of contract with their
parents and friends in Africa that
they are to be returned to their
homes as soon as they finish their
education, to become missionaries
among their countrymen. Let
these children be of both sexes, not
under ten years or over fourteen
years of age. Let the boys be
skilled in the various trades of this
country, and the girls the various
callings of the women of our land,
that they may be able to carry these
among the women of Africa. These
children can be obtained from
several of the nations near the
coast. They will be old enough to
retain their native language while
attending school in America. At
the same time the boys can. be
taught the sciences of the mechanic
arts and agriculture. On this farm
let there be established a manual
labor school with suitable depart
ments to teach these arts, and pre-
pare them for usefulness in their
native country as missionaries.
At the expiration Of some six or
seven years. these children, now
grown up to man and womanhood,
NAV be returned back to their own
country and parents, we'll qualified
having acquired sufficient knowl-
edge of the sciences of our language,
the arts, agriculture, and religion
to make them usueful missionaries
among their own people. lam per
suaded that an enterprise OF this
character will, in its operations, re-
suit in more general good to the
nations of Africa, in redeeming them
from idolatry and heathen supersii-
tions, and the diffusing among them
a more general knowledge of civil
zation, which will serve as mighty
lever to prize them out of their de-
gredation in the next twenty or thir-
ty years than he has done by all the
money expended heretofore, and al
the precious and useful lives that
have been sacrificed in that far-of
land that is so inhospitable to
American constitutions, than has
been done by all the combined opera
tions of all the societies or associa
tions organized, with far less expense
to the church and friends of the ig
norant and degradedin that country
I am also aware that it is the pre-
vailing idea of the American Church
that the black men Of America mus
be the instruments by which thi
o,oot vorL of avanpelizatiOn of Afri