common blessing to all parties, still remains the great desideratum. Nor does the author mean, at present, to attempt to supply it by any speculations of his own upon the subject. Hundreds of writers might be referred to for opinions and information, as well as many important facts and successful experiments. Among the latter, the attention of the benevolent reader is particularly directed to the noble example recently set us by the Republic of Colombia; and to the system adopted by the late venerable Joshua Steele, for the improvement and eventual emancipation of the slaves on his own estates in Barbadoes. It is believed that no insuperable difficulty will lie in the way whenever men shall be disposed to engage heartily in this good work. "The love of justice and the love of country (says Mr. Jefferson) plead equally the cause of these people; and it is a mortal reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain, and should have produced not a single effort; nay, I fear, not much serious willingness to relieve them and ourselves from our present condition of moral and political reprobation." If it be our fixed purpose to keep them in bondage as long as possible, then do we act consistently and warily in withholding from them all manner of instruction. Enlightened men can never be retained in servitude except by a power so decidedly superior that resistance would be folly. Let knowledge be diffused throughout any community, and a speedy end will be put to all despotism, tyranny, and oppression. Any system of education, therefore, designed for the blacks, which comprehends even the simple art of reading, ought to look forward to their seasonable emancipation, and be preparatory to it. Otherwise we shall nurture in our own bosom an enemy who will eagerly seize the first opportunity to repay with a vengeance all our wellintended kindness. Let the light of science and of the Bible shine upon the slave, wherever he is to be found in large numbers, and he will rend in sunder the strongest fetters, and assume that attitude which the conscious dignity of his nature claims as his inherent indefeasible right. A COMPLETE INDEX TO THE THREE VOLUMES. A ABEL, being a shepherd, could not have Abolition, of existing institutions, all the Abolitionists, Quixotic objects of, i. 509 ; Aborigines, of America, had lost the Aborigines, of Greece and Italy, a savage ABRAHAM, his trial in the case of Isaac, ABSALOM, his democratic blandishments, Abstinence, total, the only remedy for in- Abuses, often exhibited in the pulpit, ii. Academical study, its great end, ii. 242. Accidency, in the presidential chair, iii. 348. Accountability to God, the nature of, ii. 619. Achievements, of the Americans, i. 581. Acts, external, cannot secure the Divine ADAIR and BOUDINOT, on the American ADAM, a teacher, trained in the university ADAMS, JOHN, his administration, iii. Addresses, public, of Dr. Lindsley, i. 31; Administration, of justice, its imperfec- Admission to college, defective qualifica- Advocates, numerous and learned, of man's original savageism, iii. 88. Affairs, state and national, should be 457. |