It may be the case, no candid man and believer in revelation and divine providence will deny it to be possible, that this dispensation with regard to this colored race will continue for long ages to come, in the form of bondage.

That they are now under a curse, and have been so for centuries, is apparent.

When the curse is to be repealed, God only knows.

I like to cherish the idea that some development is to be made of immense sources of wealth in Africa, that we have an embryo nation in the midst of us, whom God has been educating for a great enterprise on that continent, and when, like California and Australia, the voice of the Lord shall shake the wilderness of Africa, and open its doors, it may appear that American slavery has been the school in which God has been preparing a people to take it into their possession.
"'EMIGRATION, then,' said he, 'is the second of the three ways in which this problem of slavery may have its solution.
"'In preparation for this, I say, God may keep these Africans here much longer.

He may need more territory on which to educate still larger numbers; and we may see Him extending slavery still further in our land and on our continent.