blic did a vast amount of good before the Great Rebellion in
the United States, but since emancipation its population has been fed
by the natives who have been educated and converted to Christianity.
Professor David Christy, the great colonizationist, said in a lecture
delivered in 1855,--

"If, then, a colony of colored men, beginning with less than
a hundred, and gradually increasing to nine thousand, has in
thirty years established an independent republic amidst a
savage people, destroyed the slave-trade on six hundred
miles of the African coast, put down the heathen temples in
one of its largest counties, afforded security to all the
missions within its limits, and now casts its shield over
three hundred thousand native inhabitants, what may not be
done in the next thirty years by colonization and missions
combined, were sufficient means supplied to call forth all
their energies?"

The circumstances that led to the founding of the Negro Republic in
the wilds of Africa perished in the fires of civil war. The Negro is
free everywhere; but the republic of Liberia stands, and should stand
until its light shall have penetrated the gloom of Africa, and until
the heathen shall gather to the brightness of its shining. May it
stand through the ages as a Christian Republic, as a faithful
light-house along the dark and trackless sea of African paganism!

FOOTNOTES:

[106] Ethiope, p. 197.

[107] Foreign Travel and Life at Sea, vol. ii. p. 359.

[108] Bishop Scott's Letter in the Colonization Herald, October, 1853.

[109] In Methodist Missionary Advocate, 1853.

[110] Gammell's History of the American Baptist Missions, pp. 248,
249.

[111] Edward W. Blyden, L.L.D., president of Liberia College, a West
Indian, is a scholar of marvellous erudition, a writer of rare
abilities, a subtle reasoner, a preacher of charming graces, and one
of the foremost Negroes of the world. He is himself the best argument
in favor of the Negro's capacity for Christian civilization. He ranks
amongst the world's greatest linguists.

[112] Report of Bishop Payne, June 6, 1853.

[113] Colonization Herald, December, 1852.

[114] Ethiope, pp. 207, 208.

CHAPTER XI.

RESUME.

THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN FAMILY RE-AFFIRMED.--GOD GAVE ALL
RACES OF MEN CIVILIZATION.--THE ANTIQUITY OF THE NEGRO
BEYOND DISPUTE.--IDOLATRY THE CAUSE OF THE DEGRADATION OF
THE AMERICAN RA