The Debt to Africa the Hope of Liberia (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Debt to Africa the Hope of Liberia The altar and the throne can only żourish by an equality in the contest for the supremacy of energy in the best means for the government of themselves severally, while they are alike ruinous to each other when either one takes it upon itself to govern both. The cruelty of the Spaniards in trying to subjugate a conquered nation to slavery, as applied to the Indians, and their subsequent cruelties to the Negro slaves, has no example except in the spread of the Roman Empire, and this was as much to be shunned as their policy of govern ment. The new wants for the full developement of American resources, required both new laws and new manners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.