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46 regard this commonly despised population; and how vigorously should we address ourselves to the work of teaching them who are to teach a vast and teeming continent. There is no time to be lost. The work moves on to its consummation. Individuals and legislatures are offering large means to send those who are willing to go. And it is hoped that ere long our general government, with its ocean steamers, its overflowing treasury, and its sense of obligation to Africa, will lay hold of this work and push it forward with all of its mighty energies. And I am not destitute of hope that England and Germany will yet remember, with suitable compunctions, whence came American slavery, who it was that brought this African race from their land to this; and that these memories will assist their general philanthropy and Christian zeal, and cause them to render us their powerful aid in this work. Indeed a great eleemosynary scheme like this, affecting so large a portion of the world's inhabitants, has all the proper elements of a world's charity Already has this cause found favour and received substantial aid in England, from both individuals and the government. France, England, and Prussia have all acknowledged Liberia as belonging to the family of nations. And why may we not entertain the hope, that, in time, all the Christian nations of the world will be assisting in some department of African regeneration, by means of colonization from America.

We at this moment have every indication of an