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44 among us in such ignorance and degradation, when they have in them the germ of so fine a development. We must improve them, even if they are to stay among us—we dare not leave them as they are." Even at the North, the neglected negro will have efforts made in his behalf. The Liberians have schools, academies, and ere long will have colleges: why should we not provide schools, academies, and colleges for our coloured people at home why should we not have theological seminaries, normal schools, agricultural schools, for them, where the great leaders of the coloured race would be trained and sent forth! Such must be the reflex influence of Liberia upon America. North and South, the condition of the blacks will gradually improve, and as it improves so will they grow in fitness for freedom, and as they become intelligent and aspiring, will the free blacks of the north become dissatisfied with their disfranchised condition here, and be attracted to the coloured Republic beyond the ocean, where they may have scope for their utmost powers. And thus education, love of gold, (as before alluded to,) oppression, emancipation, Christian zeal, and even abolitionism, will conspire to empty our land of these aliens, and to lift Liberia to a noble elevation in the scale of nations.

There appears to my mind a tender and remarkable coincidence between the bondage of Africans in America, and the ancient bondage of the Jews in Egypt. Your own minds can easily trace the most obvious features of the comparison. The analogy.