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 heats of which are intolerable to the whites. Consequently, we conceive it to be one of the two great purposes of Providence, in permitting the removal of a portion of the African race to the New World, — to people the torrid zone of that continent and the neighboring islands, with a race capable of cultivating and enjoying it. For it is the will of the good Creator that all parts of the beautiful world He has made, should be filled with happy inhabitants. Now, it is plain that that removal had to be effected, in a manner, by force; for from their ignorance of the maritime art, as well as from other causes, it is manifest that the Africans would never have migrated of themselves. Hence, the ‘ temporary permission of the slave-trade, in which, though so distressing in itself, we can yet see the hand of a wise Providence, turning even man’s selfishness and hard-heartedness to final good, —

 Thus, out of evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression."

Through this instrumentality, moreover, — distressing