The African Repository (Volume 9)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834 Excerpt: ...communities, on her shores, certainly promises more for this object, than any other means that can be devised. They can enjoy health beneath her vertical sun. No physical distinction forbids their amalgamation with her tribes. All the products of her soil, and of her rivers; and all the wealth of her mines, wait for their possession. No superior or more powerful race is thereto be dreaded; no hand of violence stretched out to rob them of the blessings of a merciful Providence. They go there to be the unmolested dispensers of good to their brethren, and to find their present duty, identified with their present interests. They go to heal the wounds of humanity, to impart courage to the timid, and hope to the disconsolate; to raise up the fallen and speak of mercy to the distressed; to enlighten the dark minded, and to sound out the trumpet notes of salvation over the desert and waste places of human life. They go to unchain millions of souls fettered in the bondage of death, and to bring them into the glorious liberty of the children of God. With such views of the benevolent spirit and tendency of the American Colonization Society towards the whole coloured race, we cannot believe that any of the wise and good of our country will long question the purity of its principles, or deny to it their support. We call upon them thoroughly to examine its claims, in the spirit of candour, and patriotism, and piety. They will find that it has been guilty of no inconsistency, of no hypocrisy; that it has never shown itself with one aspect towards the North, and another towards the South; that it is the same now that it was at its origin; that it conceals, under the semblance of charity, no elements of political discord; that its purposes, like its proceedings are all open...