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Rh Lord, and soon those mango groves will resound with hymns to Christ, soon the light of life flashing free throughout that land will wake into life a multitude of Christian nations, and the descending sun of Africa will look, not upon senseless mirth and revelry, but upon the ascending incense of thankful worship, and upon all the tokens of a happy, thriving, and elevated population.

It should not be supposed, that in these remarks I am pretending to present all the varied and valuable aspects of African Colonization. Its advantages in furnishing the only solution to the problem of negro emancipation, in securing the desirable separation of the white and coloured races, in tending to allay the most fearful of all the excitements which have threatened our national existence, in conferring incalculable blessings upon the emigrants, by delivering them from hopeless thraldom here, and by establishing them in the land of their fathers, midst plenty, freedom, knowledge, and religion, and midst openings tempting them to the noblest endeavour; its advantages in developing for the benefit of the world, and especially of our own country, the unimagined riches of Africa—advantages, which it is astonishing our Government has not hastened to secure, as she might so easily have done—these, and other kindred views of the subject, so suggestive and enticing, must be passed over almost in silence, as somewhat inappropriate to this day and place, and as by far too copious for our time. But this is less to be regretted as our periodicals and newspapers are