If you visit in the South,
you will find that African missions take the deepest hold on the hearts
of Southern Christians. The time will come, God hasten it! when they and
we will be united in plans and efforts for the good of the African race.
"But I am not in favor of stealing Africans from their native land to
bring them here, even though it were certain that the majority of them
would be converted to God. We are not to do evil that good may come. If
Providence makes it plain that tribes of them shall be removed to new
districts of our country, suitable measures can and will be devised for
that purpose. That they are better off here, even in slavery, than in
their own land, under present circumstances, I do not see how any one
can question; but that does not justify man-stealing. I remember to have
seen a letter from a Missionary in Africa, in which he says, speaking of
the slaves and of the South, 'Would that all Africa were there; would
that tribes of this unhappy people could be transferred to the
privileges which the slaves at the South enjoy. I would rather take my
chance of a good or bad master, and be a slave at the South, than be as
one of these heathen people.
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