A Mr. Venable, of
North Carolina, is making a speech against any special efforts to colonize
Liberia. He thinks the negro settlements there will fail; that the settlers are
incapable of civilization, and will soon relapse into barbarism. This is a fine
commentary upon that view of the special providences which justifies the slave-trade
and slavery in this country for these hundred years, in order to return the
race to the land from which it came, and thus introduce or transfer our
civilization into that region of the earth!
The days wear away
beautifully. Ought any one to be placed in such a position as to desire the
lapse of time? . . .
SOURCE: Mary Tyler
Peabody Mann, Life of Horace Mann, p. 332
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