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be free to meet and mingle,- to rise by our individual worth, without any consid- eration of caste or color; and they who deny us this right are false to their own professed principles of human equality. We ought, in particular, to be allowed here. We have more than the rights of common men;- we have the claim of an in- jured race for reparation. But, then, I do not want it; I want a country, a nation, of my own. I think that the African race has peculiarities, yet to be unfolded in the light of civilization and Christianity, which, if not the same with those of the An- glo-Saxon, may prove to be, morally, of even a higher type. “To the Anglo-Saxon race has been intrusted the destinies of the world, dur- ing its pioneer period of struggle and conflict. To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise. On its borders I trust we stand; and the throes that now convulse the na- tions are, to my hope, but the birth-pangs of an hour of universal peace and broth- erhood. “I trust that the development of Africa is to be essentially a Christian one. If not a dominant and commanding race, they are, at least, an affectionate, magnani- mous, and forgiving one. Having been called in the furnace of injustice and op- pression, they have need to bind closer to their hearts that sublime doctrine of love and forgiveness, through which alone they are to conquer, which it is to be their mission to spread over the continent of Africa. “In myself, I confess, I am feeble for this,- full half the blood in my veins is the hot and hasty Saxon; but I have an eloquent preacher of the Gospel ever by |
