The republic did a vast amount of good before the Great Rebellion in the United States, but since emancipation its population has been fed by the natives who have been educated and converted to Christianity. Professor David Christy, the great colonizationist, said in a lecture delivered in 1855,-- "If, then, a colony of colored men, beginning with less than a hundred, and gradually increasing to nine thousand, has in thirty years established an independent republic amidst a savage people, destroyed the slave-trade on six hundred miles of the African coast, put down the heathen temples in one of its largest counties, afforded security to all the missions within its limits, and now casts its shield over three hundred thousand native inhabitants, what may not be done in the next thirty years by colonization and missions combined, were sufficient means supplied to call forth all their energies?" The circumstances that led to the founding of the Negro Republic in the wilds of Africa perished in the fires of civil war. The Negro is free everywhere; but the republic of Liberia stands, and should stand until its light shall have penetrated the gloom of Africa, and until the heathen shall gather to the brightness of its shining. May it stand through the ages as a Christian Republic, as a faithful light-house along the dark and trackless sea of African paganism! FOOTNOTES: [106] Ethiope, p. 197. [107] Foreign Travel and Life at Sea, vol. ii. p. 359. [108] Bishop Scott's Letter in the Colonization Herald, October, 1853. [109] In Methodist Missionary Advocate, 1853. [110] Gammell's History of the American Baptist Missions, pp. 248, 249. [111] Edward W. Blyden, L.L.D., president of Liberia College, a West Indian, is a scholar of marvellous erudition, a writer of rare abilities, a subtle reasoner, a preacher of charming graces, and one of the foremost Negroes of the world. He is himself the best argument in favor of the Negro's capacity for Christian civilization. He ranks amongst the world's greatest linguists. [112] Report of Bishop Payne, June 6, 1853. [113] Colonization Herald, December, 1852. [114] Ethiope, pp. 207, 208. CHAPTER XI. RESUME. THE UNITY OF THE HUMAN FAMILY RE-AFFIRMED.--GOD GAVE ALL RACES OF MEN CIVILIZATION.--THE ANTIQUITY OF THE NEGRO BEYOND DISPUTE.--IDOLATRY THE CAUSE OF THE DEGRADATION OF THE AMERICAN RACES.--HE HAS ALWAYS HAD A PLACE IN HISTORY, THOUGH INCIDENTAL.--NEGRO TYPE CAUSED BY DEGRADATION.--NEGRO EMPIRES AN EVIDENCE OF CRUDE ABILITY FOR SELF-GOVERNMENT.--INFLUENCE OF THE TWO CHRISTIAN GOVERNMENTS ON THE WEST COAST UPON THE HEATHEN.--ORATION ON EARLY CHRISTIANITY IN AFRICA.--THE DUTY OF CHRISTIANITY TO EVANGELIZE AFRICA.