Address of the Hon Edward Everett Secretary of State At the Anniversary of Th
Address of the Hon Edward Everett Secretary of State At the Anniversary of Th
Everett Edward
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We judge in the gross. Certainly there are tril)es wholly broken down by iinernal wars, and the detesrable foreign slave trade ; but this is not llie cliaracier of the entire populition. They are not savages. Mo-t of them live by agriculture. There is some traffic between the coast and tlie interior. Many of the tribes have a rtspeclable architecture, though of a rude kind, but still imply- ing some progress of the aris. Gold dust is cr)llected ; iron is smelted and wrought ; weapons and utensi...ls of husbandry and household use are fabricated ; cl itii is woven and died ; palm oil is expressed ; there are schools ; and among the Mohammedan tribes, the Koran is read. You, Mr. President, well remember that twenty-one years ago, you and I saw, in one of the committee-rooms of yonder Capitol, a native African, who had been forty years a field slave in the West Indies and in this country, and wrote at the age of seventy the Arabic character, with the fluency and the elegance of a scribe. Why, sir, to give the last test of civilization, Muiigo Park tells us in his journal, that in the interior of Africa, lawsuits are argued with as mucli ability, as much fluency, and at as much leiiJlh, as in Edinburgh.
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