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16 somewhat as Nehemiah did when returning from captivity to Jerusalem, and like the Roman of old, he must feel ready to fall upon his face and kiss his mother earth; and in meeting his native brother, he can but acknowledge, with a mournful tenderness, the tie which binds them together. They clasp their hands, eye meets eye, heart responds to heart. One in colour, one in taste, one in temperament, one in origin, now one in residence, one in interest, must they not be one in faith and hope, and through eternity, one and inseparable. Already they dwell together in love, and the work of deliverance is rapidly progressing. The Hottentot retires before the white colonist of the south, the Moor was driven out by the Spaniard, the aborigines of America could not be induced to remain with the whites, but the native of Africa dwells side by side with the Liberian, lives in his family, imbibes his habits and opinions, submits to his laws, sits down with him in the house of God, and in every way shows that he feels the Liberian to be his brother. The demonstration is already complete. Whilst every effort to introduce Christianity by the ordinary system has failed, every effort to introduce it by negro colonization has succeeded. Every such colony still exists, and wherever its jurisdiction extends, has banished piracy and the slave-trade, established constitutional civil government, trial by jury, and the reign of law, introduced the usage and comforts of civilized life, and imparted them to many of the nations, established schools, built houses of worship,