This does not
warrant you in perpetrating outrages on those who are still in Africa.
"But the result has been, through the mercy of God as though we had
taken millions of degraded savages out of Africa, and had made them
contribute greatly to the industrial interests of mankind.
"We have raised them from heathenish ignorance and barbarism to the
condition of intelligent beings. Look at them in their churches and
Sabbath-schools. Slavery has done this. See the colored population of
Charleston, S.C., voluntarily contributing, as they do, on an average,
three dollars apiece, annually, for the propagation of the Gospel at
home and abroad. See the meeting-house of the African Church at
Richmond, Va., a place selected for public speakers from the North to
deliver their addresses in it to the citizens of Richmond, because it is
more commodious than any other public building in the city. Think of the
membership of slaves in Christian Churches; of the multitudes of them
who have died in the faith and hope of the Gospel. Slavery has done
this. The question is whether slavery has been, or is, such a curse, on
the whole, to the African race, that we must now set free the whole
colored population? Please let us keep to the point.
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