The reduction, or annihilation of the slave-trade, is opening the whole of these vast regions to science and legal commerce. Let America take her right share in them. It is throwing wide the portals of the continent for the entrance of Christian civilization. Let our country exert its full proportion of this influence; and thus recompense to Africa the wrongs inflicted upon her people, in which hitherto all nations have participated. THE END. Transcriber’s Notes In a few places, obviously missing punctuation has been added. Page 158: “some time under Amercan” changed to “some time under American” Page 182: “bearing the the Liberian” changed to “bearing the Liberian” Page 254: “PERRY AMD STEAMER” changed to “PERRY AND STEAMER”