The African Repository, Volume 4American colonization society., 1829 |
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Page 250 - The voluntary outpouring of the public feeling, made to-day, from the North to the South, and from the East to the West, proves this sentiment to be both just and natural.
Page 364 - MERCER, it was Resolved, That the thanks of this Society be presented to the Hon.
Page 307 - Dorcas, of whom it is written that she was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.
Page 4 - ... tails, waving like a small cloud before him, were spangled with gold, and large plumes of feathers were flourished amid them. His eunuch presided over these attendants, wearing only one massy piece of gold about his neck : the royal stool, entirely cased in gold, was displayed under a splendid umbrella, with drums...
Page 5 - He stopped to enquire our names a second time, and to wish us good night ; his address was mild and deliberate : he was followed by his aunts, sisters, and others of his family, with rows of fine gold chains around their necks. Numerous chiefs succeeded ; and it was long before we were at liberty to retire. We agreed in estimating the number of warriors at 30,000.
Page 2 - The caboceers, as did their superior captains and attendants, wore Ashantee cloths, of extravagant price from the costly foreign silks, which had been unravelled to weave them in all the varieties of colour, as well as pattern ; they were of an incredible size and weight, and thrown over the shoulder exactly like (he.
Page 175 - ... never, I suppose, were greater •tokens of respect shown by any community on taking leave of their head. Nearly the whole (at least" two-thirds,) of the inhabitants of Monrovia, men, women, and children, were out on this occasion, and nearly all parted from him with tears, and, in my opinion, the hope of his return in a few months, alone enabled them to give him up.
Page 110 - ... whether bond or free, as the subjects of a degradation inevitable and incurable. The African in this country belongs by birth to the very lowest station in society, and from that station he can never rise, be his talents, his enterprise, his virtues what they may. . . . They constitute a class by themselves, a class out of which no individual can be elevated, and below which none can be depressed.
Page 174 - ... citizen of the world, whatever may be the political aspect of his own times, will never despair of the fortunes of the human race; but will act upon the conviction, that prejudice, slavery, and corruption, must gradually give way to truth, liberty, and virtue; and that in the moral world, as well as jn the material, the farther our observations extend, and the longer they are continued, the more we shall perceive of order and of benevolent design in the universe.