Year: 1860

former master. j speak now of the ac


tual relative position Of the two races in


the Southern States, and on the supposi


ton that they are to continue to inhabit


the same land. But it would be foreign


to my purpose to pursue this idea further


For my own part, after the maturest


consideration ] could give to the very diff.


ficult problem how slavery in the United


States is to be ultimately disposed Of,


am unable to separate the idea Of coloni.


cation from emancipation on an extend
ed scale. Dwell together as equals. the


two races never can, at least in this conn.


try. Wherever the sons Of Ham and the


sons Of Japhet have been brought into


iuxtaposition, the original law Of servi.


tude in some of its forms has universally


prevailed: "a servant of servants shall


he he unto his brethren" / do not so


much understand this in the light of a


command that it should be SO. as Of a


prophecy that it would be so. SO it has
ever been, so it is at the present moment,
even in the place where now stand; for


you know there is and can be no equality


here. All attempts, hitherto, to force the


two races into an equal social position


have only served to exhibit the amiabIe


folly Of their authors. The repugnance re.


mains unconquered and uncomfortable,


and the inferior race must. by law which


we cannot control, remain under some


kind of subordination to the higher intel.


lect of the Anglo-Saxon, till it shall


please God to lift up the curse pronounc-
ed four thousand and five hundred years
ago. How this will be brought to pass


is not yet altogether manifest, but the


dawnings of Gods providence in regard


to the African are not perhaps undis,
tnguishable at the present moment


They can, think, he discerned in the
opening Of door for the return and re-
gathering Of this long servile race in
the land where their brethren are now
clustered. AS Joseph's brethren, when
they sold him in Egypt, meant it for evil
and God meant it for good, so may bless
ings incalculable yet spring from an act
in itself-the carrying away of the Airi-


can to sojourn for time in state of


bondage. That time has not been lost to
him. Compare the moral condition of
the Southern slave with that of his almost


brute brother in the forests of Western
Africa-worshipping the Devil, and pro-
pitiating his wrath with human sacrifices
and rites obscene; administering the pois-
on water; warning eternally, and wallow-
ing without shame or restraint in the
grossest sensuaity-and say if his bond
age, hard as bondage may seem to us, has
not been to him a blessing? Beyond all
doubt, he has been unspeakably elevated
in the scale of being, humble as his posi-
ton may still be. He has gained the
knowledge which would never have
dawned on his dark mind in his native
land. He has been made to know God
who made him, and the Saviour who
bought him, and all these precious truths
of the Gospel which, more than any 9TH
ers, tend to improve and ennoble mans
nature; his bondage, then, has not been
to him altogether curse. Very far from it.
And, now that he has been in some de-
gree prepared for usefulness in the hands
of another master, shall we lot say to him,
and to all his brethren dwelling in the
land of their captivity, "as fast as the
way is prepared and the door is opened,
return to your yet benighted brethren in
the country of your forefathers, and i'm
part to them the blessings you have re-
ceived: bear to them the tidings of the
everlasting Gospel; acquaint them with
the arts of civilization you have learned;
open the wilderness to cultivation; let
arise, and let schools be estab-
lished; let the native African see with his
own eyes, and bear witness to to the su-
periority of Christian and civilized over
brute savage life. Be the founders there
of new empire; build cities on every har-
Dor and inlet along the coast; and know
that, when you are achieving these things,
you are doing what none else can do for
the millions there. You are reducing
them to state Of civilized humanity;
and you will also be doing what l fear
can never be done by treaties, and pro-
tocols. and squadrons of armed cruisers
you will be putting an end forever to
the African slave trade"


Such, l trust, will yet be the mission
of the descendant of the African in this
country. 1t has been begun already
The colony at Liberia, the nucleus of
future African empire, was prospering
under the fostering care Of the best OF our
great men, both at the North and the
South, when it encountered deadly and
relentless foe in those who now claim to
be exclusively the friends of the African.
Their friendship has been fatal in every
way, and will be, till the objects Of their
benevolence are torn from their embrace.
But though their perverse labors have i'm
peded for time, they have not been able
to arrest an enterprise, which | have ever
regarded as comprising more of enlight-
pned, and comprehensive, and far.reach
ing benevolence, than any other which
this age has brought forth. When the
present agitation, so aimless and fruitleSs
of everything but evil, shall have died
away, we may suppose that the desire OF
the African exile will be more distinctly
and finally turned towards home already
prepared to receive him, where he can
stand erect as a man, conscious of no SUI
perior by his side. When the present
advantages, and fair promise and hope of
the colony at Liberia, shall have been
spread before him, and the dream ofequal-
ity here with white man, whispered in his
ear by his unreal friends, shall have been
dissipaed, we may trust that he will him
self feel an ardent desire to that which is