tically speaks, thundering forth in
invigorating terms, "Arise and depart for this is not your rest."

This makes us bold in saying that emigration is the only medium by which
the long closed doors of that continent are to be opened; by her own
children's returning, bearing social and moral elements of civil and
religious power, by which that continent is to be resuscitated,
renovated and redeemed.

Thirty-one years ago the first emigrant ship that ever sailed eastward
from these shores to Africa, conveying to that dark land a missionary
family of some two hundred souls--her own returning children, enriched
with the more enduring treasures of the western world; there by them on
the borders of that continent, overshadowed with the deepest gloom, were
raised the first rude temples of civilization--the first halls of
enlightened legislation--the first Christian altars to the worship of
Almighty God that have ever proved successful, or of any permanent,
practical utility. Then and there arose the long promised light, the
star of hope to the benighted millions of Africa. Since that day the
star has risen higher and higher, the light extended along the coast and
reaching far back towards the mountains of the Moon, radiating,
elevating and purifying; and to-day we behold a nation born on the
western coast of Africa, respected, prosperous and happy. Here then is
practically and beautifully solved, on the true utilitarian principles
of this wonder-working age, the mysterious problem: By whom is Africa to
be redeemed? The answer comes rumbling back to us, over the towering
billows of the Atlantic, from the Republic of Liberia, with a voice that
starts our inmost souls, falling with ponderous weight upon the ears of
the free colored people of this Union--"thou art the man, thou art the
woman."

James A. Jackson, of Baltimore, eulogized Hayti as standing as high
above the other West India islands as the United States does above the
republic of Mexico, in the point of commercial importance. This island
had tried the experiment of republicanism and had changed it. It was now
a question with the colored people, in their present condition, whether
they were more suited to a republican than monarchical government. The
productions of the soil of Hayti and of her forests were referred to,
and the fact alleged that she would produce mo