Letters on the Colonization Society: With a View of Its Probable Results ... Addressed to C.F. Mercer - Couverture souple
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We may boldly challenge the annals of human nature for the record of any human plan, for the melioration of the condition or advancement of the happiness of our race, which promised more unmixed good, or more comprehensive beneficence than that of African colonization, if carried into full execution. I ts benevolent purpose is not limited by the confines of one continent, nor to the prosperity of a solitary race; but embraces two of the largest quarters of the earth, and the peace and the happiness of both of the descriptions of their present inhabitants, with the countless millions of their posterity who are to succeed. It appeals for aid and support to the friends of liberty, here and elsewhere. The colonists, reared in the bosom of this republic, with a perfect knowledge of all the blessings which freedom imparts, altho they have not always been able themselves to share them, will carry a recollection of it to A frica, plant it there, and spread it over her boundless territory. And may we not indulge the hope, that, in a period of time not surpassing in duration, that of our own colonial and national existence, we shall behold a confederation of republican stales, on the western shores of A frica, like our own, with their congress and annual legislatures, thundering forth in behalf of the rights of man, and making tj rants tremble on their thrones? .T fr. Clay. it will enable them to become a free, independent, civilized and christian nation in the land of their forefathers. Elevated in character and in full enjoyment of the rights of man, they will not only assume a station in the great human family, which it is impossible for them to attain in this country ;but their example and influence will gradually extend over those numerous tribes, which, through all time have remained in a state of barbarism and degradation, and cruelly subjected to slavery by su
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