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will be a mournful spectacle. If it must be so, the country will have reason to trem- ble, when it remembers that the fate of nations is in the hands of One who is very pitiful, and of tender compassion. Do you say, “We don’t want them here; let them go to Africa?” That the providence of God has provided a refuge in Africa, is, indeed, a great and noticeable fact; but that is no reason why the church of Christ should throw off that responsibility to this outcast race which her profession demands of her. To fill up Liberia with an ignorant, inexperienced, half-barbarized race, just es- caped from the chains of slavery, would be only to prolong, for ages, the period of struggle and conflict which attends the inception of new enterprises. Let the church of the north receive these poor sufferers in the spirit of Christ; receive them to the educating advantages of Christian republican society and schools, un- til they have attained to somewhat of a moral and intellectual maturity, and then assist them in their passage to those shores, where they may put in practice the les- sons they have learned in America. There is a body of men at the north, comparatively small, who have been do- ing this; and, as the result, this country has already seen examples of men, for- merly slaves, who have rapidly acquired property, reputation, and education. Talent has been developed, which, considering the circumstances, is certainly re- markable; and, for moral traits of honesty, kindness, tenderness of feeling,- for he- roic efforts and self-denials, endured for the ransom of brethren and friends yet in |
