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coast of the vast continent of Africa , and with painful and tedious efforts , make some almost imperceptible progress in the com munication of knowledge , and in the general improvement of the natives who are immediately about them . Not thus slow and imperceptible is the transmission of the vices and bad passions
which the subjects of Christian states carry to the land . The Slave Trade having touched the coast , its influence aud its evils spread , like a pestilence , over the whole continent , making savage wars more savage and more frequent , and adding new and fierce passions to the contests of barbarians .
" I pursue this topic no further ; except again to say , that all Christendom being now blessed with peace , is bound by every thing which belongs to its character , and to the character of the present age , to put a stop to this inhuman aud disgraceful traffic . "—Pp . 91—95 .
The peroration to this Discourse is in a high strain of patriotism , morality and piety : " The hours of this day are rapidly flying , and this occasion will soon be passed . Neither we nor our children can expect to behold its return . They are in the distant regions of futurity ,
they exist only in the all-creating power of God , who shall stand here , a hundred years hence , to trace , through us , their descent from the Pilgrims , and to survey , as we have now surveyed , the progress of their country during the lapse of a century . We would anticipate their concurrence with us in our sentiments of
deep regard for our common ancestors . We would anticipate and partake the pleasure with which they will then recount the steps of New England ' s advancement . On the morning of that ( lay ,
although it will not disturb us in our repose , the voice of acclamation and gratitude , commencing on the Rock of Plymouth , shall be transmitted through millions of the sons of the Pilgrims , till it lose itself in the murmurs of the Pacific
seas . "We would leave for the consideration of those who shall then occupy our places , some proof that we hold the bJ ess ings transmitted from our fathers in just ^ tmiatioii ; some proof of our attachme nt to the cause of good government , and
of civil and religious liberty ; some proof of a sincere and ardent desire to promote every thing which may enlarge j understandings and improve the ie ( arts K of men . And when , from the > n distance of an hundred years , they Kha 11 lo « k back utfon us * thev shall know
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at least , that we possessed affections , which , running backward , and warming with gratitude for what our ancestors have done for our happiness , run forward also to our posterity , and meet them with cordial salutation , ere yet they have arrived on the shore of being .
" Advance , then , ye future generations We would hail you , as you rise in your long succession , to fill the places which we now fill , and to taste the blessings of existence , where we are passing , and soon shall have passed , our own human duration . We bid you welcome to this pleasant land of the fathers . We bid
you welcome to the healthful skies and the verdant fields of New England . We greet your accession to the great inheritance which we have enjoyed . We welcome you to the blessings of good government and religious liberty . We welcome you to the treasures of science and the delights of learning . We welcome you to the transcendent sweets of domestic
life , to the happiness of kindred and parents and children . We welcome you to the immeasurable blessings of rational existence , the immortal hope of Christianity , and the light of everlasting ? Truth ! " —Pp . 99—102 . From this account of Mr . Webster ' s Discourse , and from the few extracts that our limits have allowed us to
make , the reader will , we think , feel a strong desire to see the whole of it ; and we cannot help suggesting that the English bookseller would probably benefit himself , and largely serve the public , who should regularly reprint
such American publications as , like this , are valuable contributions to the history and the vindication of truth and liberty , although , perhaps , from their very excellence , they are not wont to fall into the channel of trade between the booksellers of the two countries . *
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Bristol , Sir , June 5 , 1 B 22 . rTHHR decisive tone of Chronos , in JL your last Number , ( pp . 257 , &c ., )
renders it desirable , perhaps , to shew that I am not mistaken in imagining , that , " independently of the Introduction to St . Matthew , there is no
chro-* The regular supply of American periodical works ( a desideratum ) would be naturally united with the plan here recommended .
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Dr . Carpenter on the introductory Chapters to Luke's GospeL 345
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1822, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2513/page/25/
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