196 PRESENT AND FUTURE OF AMEKICA. 



There never was an opportunity equal to that now 

 at America s disposal. There is a wide field, a bound 

 less area in Africa for the multiplication of the human 

 race. It has been, from the first dawn of man, and is 

 now, the natural home of the negroes. They are there, in 

 the year 1851, unimproved and savage. To improve and 

 advance them in civilization would be to work out the 

 merciful designs of an all-wise Providence, and it would 

 be to place the poor negroes high in the human family. 

 To achieve so benevolent an object would be one of the 

 most glorious acts that ever has been recorded in history ; 

 one of the most noble and humane for our race and age 

 to work out. Improve and instruct the father, arid let 

 him bring up his child from his tender age in the 

 way of thinking, and that child will be susceptible of 

 greater improvement than his father; and that instruc 

 tion continued from father to son, each successive gener 

 ation would increase in mental powers. The more exer 

 cise the body goes through the more it is capable of 

 enduring ; and it is the same with the mind, it increases in 

 vigor. To say the negro is not capable of improvement 

 is quite erroneous ; the condition of the slaves in the 

 Southern States explodes the absurd charge, and it is only 

 a dogma put forth by atheists. The white races would 

 descend to the level of the negro capacity if left for ages 

 without education, and circumscribed in their intercourse. 

 Take a man from the coal mines of England and place 

 him beside the negro, and where is the difference in intel 

 lect or morals 1 and yet the miner may be the son of & 

 father who had some education, and he himself had some 

 intercourse with intelligent beings. He sees railroads, 

 machinery, &c., and hears of great goings on in the 



