Anniv Address Before The Amer

Author : Leighton Parks
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334955686
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Undiscovered Country written by Leighton Parks and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Undiscovered Country: The Seventy-Fourth Anniversary Address Before the American Colonization Society; Delivered in the Church of the Epiphany, Washington, D. C., January 18th, 1891 It was no wonder that good men hesitated to set their slaves free when such was the outlook. It need not puzzle us when we find that the slaves themselves were so apathetic. Freedom, as they saw it, had few attractions. They preferred to bear those ills they had than ee to others that they knew not of. It was this state of affairs which made the Colonization Society a blessing to the country. It provided an asylum for the freed man, and it encouraged the doubtful to take the heroic plunge of freeing their slaves. When true freedom came there was no apathy. When the blacks understood that life was before them to make or mar, exactly as it had been for their masters when the roving instinct of the savage, so long repressed by the patrol, was given scope, they rose as gladly as any people and rejoiced in the treasure they had found. It must have seemed to many of its friends then as if the work of the Colonization Society had been accomplished and that it might adjourn sine die, with the consciousness that it had acted the part of the Good Samaritan to the man lying by the wayside, beaten and robbed. But through all the years which have elapsed since the war, - so many that when we speak of it our children ask if we mean the Revolutionary War - through all these years there has been something to be done, a sort of paying the charges at the Inn, to return to our figure of the Good Samaritan, and yet a secret feeling that when those who had been the friends of the Society when it was ridiculed by fire-eater and denounced by fanatic had passed away no new men would be found to infuse new vigor into the work. Suddenly all this has been changed. The right of the Negro, the possibility of the Negro, the relation of the Negro to the white man, which was for so long the one question in American politics - which we had supposed was distinctly a local issue - has sud denly become the greatest of all questions for the civilized world. All eyes to-day are turned to Africa. The Opening of the Dark Continent has been the greatest achievement of the last quarter of the century now passing away. It needs no prophet to see that it is to be the cause of great searching of heart amid the nations of the earth in the new century which is drawing near. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."