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them, must be prospective, remote, and dependent on 
the manner of opening such intercourse.” 
“ Under all these circumstances it is quite evident 
that no undertaking formed by private individuals for 
purposes purely commercial can prosper in the interior 
of Africa. That consequently no establisliment there 
can thrive unless it originate with Government, and be 
under its immediate jorotection and authority.” 
“ The prejudices of the Africans will doubtless even- 
tually give way; the talents and energies they may 
possess will be developed when they witness among 
themselves a community formed of their own country- 
men, rescued by humanity from a condition the peculiar 
nature of which is invested by their superstitious fears, 
with vague and indescribable terrors. The very exist- 
ence of such a community, exalted as it would be in 
its own estimation, and in the enjoyments of the 
benefits of civilization, would excite among its neigh- 
bours a desire to participate in those blessings and 
would be at once a normal or model society, gradually 
spreading to the most remote regions and calling forth 
the resoiu'ccs of a country rich in so many things 
essential to commerce, might change the destinies of 
the whole of Western Central Africa, and would 
not be liable to the local disadvantages which may 
interfere with the prosperity of the colony of free 
blacks which the Americans have established at 
Liberia.” 
Another great and glorious effect of the existence of 
