An Inquiry Into the Character And Tendency of the American Colonization And Ame
An Inquiry Into the Character And Tendency of the American Colonization And Ame
William Jay
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14, -1825. Here we have a solemn and official annunciation by the Board of Managers, of one of the most extraordinary facts ever recorded in the annals of missionary exertions. It appears from official documents, that at the date of this report, the whole number of emigrants could not have been more than 242, and had probably been reduced by death below that number; and of this number, a large portion were of course, women and children. Yet this little band of Christian missionaries, just escap...ed from the ignorance and vice in which they had been enveloped in America, and still struggling for existence in a sickly climate, and amid all the hardships and privations of a recent settlement in a savage land ; casting aside the fear of man, and with a faith almost miraculous in divine protection, admit within their gates an army of barbarians, four times the number of the whole of their little community ; barbarians too, who had long been engaged in a bloody and accursed traffick, making merchandize of their brethren ; and these barba- rians suddenly divested of their savage character, sit hum- bly at the feet of the newly arrived messengers of Heaven and the natives of ^y)7c«, receive instruction in the doctrine of immortality, and the religion of the Son of God, from lips that had never uttered any other language, than broken English !
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