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Show 200 Africa, where they came from. Our minister is an agent of the Colonization Society, and 110 thinks tbat, upon tho most moclcratc calculation, these violent proceedings of the Abolitionists, few as they arc, lHwe put back ]~muncipation ::tt least two hundred years. Tho State of Massachusclts, where they first started, ought to tako the law of them. Gov. Everett said it might be done, a long time ago. '.rho Stale of Georgia has offered five thousand dollars for the head of their ringleader, Garrison." Hero he laughed a su1Jcrb laugh of satisfaction and contempt, for be felt that he was on the strong side;- that one and only side which tho discriminating faculties of Jonathan arc exercised from infancy to discover. I did not ask him what the South would do, deprived of three millions of laborers; nor whether the navies of the world would suffice for their transportation ; nor what resources the fatal Libc· rian coast offored for their subsistence ; nor whether they would consent to go ; nor whether tho rule TIIF. YOUNG SA II.Oit. 201 that made Africa their home, would not make Europe ours, and leave tho United States to the red men; nor whether the Slaveholders would not cry in chorus, (as one of them, Latrobe, President too of a. Colonization Society, more recently did to Victor llugo ;) "Speak of colonizing our Slaves if you duro! " Neither diU it seem allvisable t~ meet the other arguments,- historical, theological, physiological, arithmetical, or dystogistical; _to inquire what need there was of a legal prohibition of intermarriage. if such an intense repugnance existed between the races ; or bow color could be tho mark of Cain, seeing that his posterity perished in Noah's flood; or whether the remarkable two hundred years problem with which Slaveholders amuse Abolitionists, did not equal, in its lucid profusion of data, the celebrated one with which tho cabin boy proposed to puzzlo the lords of the admiralty : - " If holf " pound of tobacco cost sixpence, what will a. cartload of turnips amount to?" I omitted, too, to ask what violence there |