imes, mahogany,
cam-wood, satin-wood, rose-wood, &c., abound there; mules, oxen, horses,
sheep, hogs, fowls of all kinds, are in the greatest abundance. She
holds out a rich temptation to commerce and a strong inducement to
emigration. To the latter the United States owed what she was, making
her one of the most effective nations of the world. For years the
glorious galaxy of stars which arose in the western hemisphere have been
casting their generous, grateful light over the social, moral and
political darkness of the East, but to-day the commanding tide of
commerce is changing. From the Pacific shores the genius of American
enterprise and industry has opened a nearer highway to the Celestial
Empire, and is now, by a closer interchange of fraternal relations,
unbolting the massive doors, and securing the commerce of China and
Japan.

On the lap of American civilization, and around the altars of this
Christian land, have been born the moral elements of civil and Christian
power, ordained by heaven for the redemption of Africa. For the last
2,000 years, that wretched land of mystery and crime has been abandoned
to the cupidity of most cruel barbarism, surpassing in degradation,
guilt and woe, all other nations of the earth. Pre-eminently high on the
page of prophetic scripture is chronicled in most unequivocal language
the name and future redemption of Africa. For twelve centuries the
problem "how shall Africa be redeemed?" has been unsolved, although
earnestly sought for by the civil and religious powers of Europe; but in
every instance it has been in vain, and the cloud of her wretchedness
blackened on each failure. Mysterious and inscrutable are the ways of
Providence to accomplish her restoration, lift her from the jaws of
death, bind her as a jewel to the throne of righteousness, and give her
a place among the civilized nations of mankind. God in his pity, wisdom
and goodness, has opened the way for a part of her crushed children,
predoomed by bloody superstitions to altars of death, to be delivered
from immolation and find an asylum under a form of ameliorated service
in the bosom of this country; and here their children have been born,
elevated and blessed under redeeming auspices. In the lapse of time, by
the same benevolent providence, many of this people have become free,
and to such the voice of heaven empha