the United
States would, they suppose, soon be at an end. The facility of
escape, the near neighborhood of friends and aid, it is urged,
would rapidly drain off from the Southern States all the most
intelligent, robust, and bold of their slaves.

Dr. M. R. Delany, of Pittsburgh, was the chairman of the committee
that made this report to the convention. It was, of course,
adopted.

If Dr. D. drafted this report, it certainly does him much credit
for learning and ability; and cannot fail to establish for him a
reputation for vigor and brilliancy of imagination never yet
surpassed. It is a vast conception of impossible birth. The
Committee seem to have entirely overlooked the strength of the
'powers on earth' that would oppose the Africanization of more than
half the Western Hemisphere.

We have no motive in noticing this gorgeous dream of 'the
Committee,' except to show its fallacy--its impracticability, in
fact, its absurdity. No sensible man, whatever his color, should be
for a moment deceived by such impracticable theories.

On the African coast already exists a thriving and prosperous
Republic. It is the native home of the African race; and there he
can enjoy the dignity of manhood, the rights of citizenship, and
all the advantages of civilization and freedom. Every colored man
in this country will be welcomed there as a free citizen; and there
he can not only prosper, and secure his own comfort and happiness,
but become a teacher and benefactor of his kindred races; and
become an agent in carrying civilization and Christianity to a
benighted continent. That any one will be turned aside from so
noble a mission by the delusive dream of conquest and empire in the
Western Hemisphere is an absurdity too monstrous and mischievous to
be believed. Yet 'the Committee's Report' was accepted, and
adopted, and endorsed by a 'National Convention;' and is published
and sent forth to the world.

In July, 1855, Rev. James Theodore Holly, an accomplished black
gentleman, now rector of St. Luke's Church, New Haven, Connecticut,
U.S., was commissioned to Faustin Soulouque, Emperor of Hayti, where he
was received at court with much attention, interchanging many official
notes during a month's residence there, with favorable inducements to
laborers to settle.

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