That they are now under a curse, and have been so for
centuries, is apparent. When the curse is to be repealed, God only
knows. I like to cherish the idea that some development is to be made of
immense sources of wealth in Africa, that we have an embryo nation in
the midst of us, whom God has been educating for a great enterprise on
that continent, and when, like California and Australia, the voice of
the Lord shall shake the wilderness of Africa, and open its doors, it
may appear that American slavery has been the school in which God has
been preparing a people to take it into their possession.
"'EMIGRATION, then,' said he, 'is the second of the three ways in which
this problem of slavery may have its solution.
"'In preparation for this, I say, God may keep these Africans here much
longer. He may need more territory on which to educate still larger
numbers; and we may see Him extending slavery still further in our land
and on our continent. So that there may be one other way in which the
purposes of God will manifest themselves with regard to the colored race
here, and that is by EXTENSION.
"'It may be that still greater portions of this land and continent are
to be used, for ages to come, in the multiplication of the black race.
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