Address of Joseph R. Ingersoll at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, 1838 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Address of Joseph R. Ingersoll at the Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Colonization Society, 1838Yet the nice sensibility which feels the force of unrequited obligations, need not suffer long under the burthen of national benefits not directly paid for, while the great cause of civili zation affords a vent for gratitude. Improvement is not like the tide which ¿ows and ebbs in one unvaried channel, the recipient alike of its onward andits retiring course, but re sembling rather a continued current, it seeks new objects of association, and changing in perpetual novelty its directionand its bed, gives to remoter and remoter regions the afilu ence it began to gather at its source. The same Atlantic which forms no barrier to an easy intercourse with one see tion of the old world, ¿ows alike between us and another. But the separation, similar in its nature, and scarcely differ ing in extent is far different in its effects. Except for pur posespf trade the way that leads to Africa is comparatively de solate and solitary. Her own great desert, more dreary and terrible than any other on the'earth - the Only Sahara - is scarcely less traversed by the curious or scientific traveller than the path between western Africa and these United States. Rich as that country is in the productions of nature, and attractive to the spirit of speculation and commercial gain in ivory and gold, in dye woods, oils and precious gums, and not deficient in productions which science would profit by, it has little to offer as the reward of mere curiosity, or to tempt the visits of the votaries of fashion. Yet navigation is as easy, dangers are no less readily subdued, experience and skill equally point out the unerring course, the pole star shi es with undiminished brightness to guide the mariner, arlld breezes gentler and more balmy waft the wide spread sail to these almost forgotten shores. They are forgotten not be cause they are difficult of access or insusceptible of receiving benefits, but because to the pursuers of pleasure or of gene ral knowledge they have less attraction than is found else where. There fashion and taste have erected no temples science and art are almost literally unknown. No proud re cord of a glorious ancestry is to be found among the forests no historic monuments rise among the burning sands.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.