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Show 110 NOTES ON But to come back to tho nC'gro. Is there no redemption for him? :l\Iust he toil on in hopeless bonda ~c ?_. ~o! thank God! a brighter destiny awn its him; but 1t IS 111 a. distnnt laud, and in the distant future. And he mt~st 'Wodc it out, too, for himself: it cannot be workc1l out for llilll. . . He must work it out for himself, under the lcn.dmgs of Gall'S proviJcncc, anU iu accon'btncc with the laws that govern the moral worhl: gradually, thcrcf~rc, ant.l slowly. He will be ·wan tell }1crc for several gcncrut10ns to .come, to clear up a!Hl subdue the soil, anJ make it healthy wh~rc now it is unbcalthy, thus scn-ing a.s the pioneer of the .wlntc laborer. At the sn.HIC time l1id own melioration will be going on ]Jm·i passu with that o~ the soil, so tlmt by t~10 time the btter is ready for the wlute lu.borer, l1e (t.he neg1o) will be ready for his exodus. ]\lean while, that exodus is preparing. "On the s~10res of Africa I sec a republic,-a republic formed of pteked men, who, by energy and self-educating force, have, 1~1 ma.ny cases, individually , raised themselves above a. condition of slavery." (Vol. ii. p. 300.) 'l'heso arc the men to by the foundations of a. great empire. _ '!'hat there are such men, I know, for I ha.vc seen them. I could mention three such, at least, in Annnpolis,-two of them jet black; and they arc to be found scattered "all .)YCr our ]and." But they arc not common; not more thnn one in a. thousand. If J.-~ibcria. has been filled up with such, (and I have reason to believe it has been, in ;L good degree,) it i:3 to be ascribed to an interposition o~ Providence. . Twenty years ago, the Amc1:iea,n Colrmization Soe~ety was in the full tide of successful experiment: money was pouring into its treasury, and emigrnnts were offering themselves in great numbers. GoJ saw that there \\·as danger UNCLE TOM 'S CAnTN. 111 thn.t tlwsc who v;c1·c sent out wnnld not :Ill be " pickt·•l men," and that it was ncressnry, tiieJ'C'f"ore, that a tcmpnr: uy check should be put to the emigrat ion. Accol'{lingl_,., He raised up G:trrison, as he h:ul raised up Pharaoh Lcfure }Jim, to work out wwonsciou.sly His purposes, n111l rt 'i ] lo raised up Theotlore Parker aflcr him, to b1·ing about a revulsion of feeling, which he is fast doing in the breast:~ (Jf nll the hone$t men of the party. I say, Tic raised np Gar. rison for this very purpose, :LlHl well tlid lw "do l1is tlirty work," a.s Pharaoh ha.d done la"s before him. He knew uot what he was doing: he me:1nt it for evil, but God meant it for good: He makes the wrath of man praise Him, anr! the remainder thercof,-tha.t is, all tl1at will not prn.ise liim,Ilc r estrains. "'l1y do the infi del~ So furiously rage together? 'Vhy do they imngine a vain thing? He that sitteth in tho hea~·ens shall laugh : tho Lon! shall haYo them in derision. 'ro come back to Liberia. I said, I ha<l r eason to lwliC't·c that it had been filled up, in a good degree, with "pickctl men;" time will show whether this is so, and it will also show the success or the fai lure of the Libcria,n expcrimrnt. If it succeeds, as I firmly believe it will, then the colored man is proviUeJ for. As to the all<'ged impossibility of transporting him to Africn, it is all moonshine : the race m:ty go on multiplying at tlteir present ra.tc of inct·casc, till t ile year ] !100 at which time they would number about 13,!iOO,Ooo, ~1n1l tfu.:on an annual t ransportation, less than double the actual cmig~ ·a.tion from Ireland last year, would carry them all over, long before the year :2000; and when Li beria shall have become a. great commercial empire, us it will in less than fifty years, if it succcccls, such n. tr:-tnsportation, with the improved means of com•eyance that will then be in common ·use, will be a mere bagatelle. Let the negro, thcu, toil |