and abundant means have been sent to Siam, China, and Japan.  Why not send the best talent and needful means to Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Cape Palmas, that native missionaries may be trained for the outposts of the Lord?  There is not a more promising mission-field in the world than Africa, and yet our friends in America take so little interest in this work!  The Lord is going to save that Dark Continent, and it behooves his servants here to honor themselves in doing something to hasten the completion of this inevitable work!  Africa is to be redeemed by the African, and the white Christians of this country can aid the work by munificent contributions.  Will you do it, brethren?  God help you!

FOOTNOTES: 

[115] Deut. xii. 2, 3, also 30th verse.

[116] Deut. vi. 19.

[117] Deut. vii. 7.

[118] News comes to us from Egypt that Arabi Pacha’s best artillerists are Negro soldiers.

Part II.

SLAVERY IN THE COLONIES.[119]

CHAPTER XII.

THE COLONY OF VIRGINIA.

1619-1775.

     INTRODUCTION OF THE FIRST SLAVES.—­“THE TREASURER” AND THE
     DUTCH MAN-OF-WAR.—­THE CORRECT DATE.—­THE NUMBER OF
     SLAVES.—­WERE THERE TWENTY, OR FOURTEEN?—­LITIGATION ABOUT
     THE POSSESSION OF THE SLAVES.—­CHARACTER OF THE SLAVES
     IMPORTED, AND THE CHARACTER OF THE COLONISTS.—­RACE
     PREJUDICES.—­LEGAL ESTABLISHMENT OF SLAVERY.  WHO ARE SLAVES
     FOR LIFE.—­DUTIES ON IMPORTED SLAVES.—­POLITICAL AND
     MILITARY PROHIBITIONS AGAINST NEGROES.—­PERSONAL
     RIGHTS.—­CRIMINAL LAWS AGAINST SLAVES.  EMANCIPATION.—­HOW
     BROUGHT ABOUT.—­FREE NEGROES.—­THEIR RIGHTS.—­MORAL AND
     RELIGIOUS TRAINING.—­POPULATION.—­SLAVERY FIRMLY
     ESTABLISHED.

Virginia was the mother of slavery as well as “the mother of Presidents.”  Unfortunate for her, unfortunate for the other colonies, and thrice unfortunate for the poor Colored people, who from 1619 to 1863 yielded their liberty, their toil,—­unrequited,—­their bodies and intellects to an institution that ground them to powder.  No event in the history of North America has carried with it to its last analysis such terrible forces.  It touched the brightest features of social life, and they faded under the contact of its poisonous breath.  It affected legislation, local and national; it made and destroyed statesmen; it prostrated and bullied honest public sentiment; it strangled the voice of the press, and awed the pulpit into silent acquiescence; it organized the judiciary of States, and wrote decisions for judges; it gave States their political being, and afterwards dragged them by the fore-hair through the stormy sea of civil war; laid the parricidal fingers of Treason against the fair throat of Liberty,—­and through all time to come no event will be more sincerely deplored than the introduction of slavery into the colony of Virginia during the last days of the month of August in the year 1619!