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chiefs, &c. ; and even a few Europeans have raised 

 themselves to thrones in India, without even a cent to 

 commence on. We read in Reynolds's History of the 

 Indies, what a few hundreds of Portuguese have done in 

 East India ; of an intrepid leader with a small band 

 defeating an army of thousands, and at a time, too, when 

 the mode of warfare in Europe was conducted without the 

 knowledge of the science of the present day. We know 

 what the Spaniards achieved in America ; we know what 

 a mighty kingdom a few merchants have raised in East 

 India ; we know how often and often colonies of a few 

 scores of whites have located themselves in these States, 

 and succeeded in progressing against thousands of In- 

 dians, and all the other obstacles that opposed them. In 

 no one of these cases I have mentioned, was there the 

 same advantages held out, as there is now, by the collec- 

 tion of these freed negroes, to achieve the same revolu- 

 tions in Africa. No one can say the project is mere 

 speculation. Had the band of active, energetic men, 

 who went to Cuba, collected a few thousands of negroes, 

 and placed themselves at their head, and set themselves 

 down in Africa, who can doubt that the result would 

 be rapid strides in progressive improvement, not by 

 war, but as Mr. Penn did in Pennsylvania. Neither 

 the Spaniards, Portuguese, Dutch, nor English, ever had 

 the same facilities at their command ; and when we com- 

 pare the science and improvements of the present with 

 those of two centuries ago, say 1650 ; and, on the other 

 hand, consider that the negroes in Africa are now in as 

 benighted, yea, in a more benighted state than the Ameri- 

 can Indians, no comparison could be made between 

 the East India people and the negroes. There would be 



