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THE

African Observer,

FOURTH MONTH, 1827.

PROSPECTUS.

It is our privilege to live in an age of surpassing improvement. The sciences and the arts are deeply indebted to the genius and enterprise of our cotemporaries; and schemes, of extensive utility, are now in successful operation, which, half a century ago, would have been considered as fit only to supply a void in the brain of a maniac, or to exercise the idle ingenuity of a visionary projector. By new and efficacious experiments, principles in natural science, unknown to our fathers, have been developed, and new avenues opened to the enjoyment of man.

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we must subscribe to the sentiment, that no people have greater cause reverently to commemorate the goodness of a beneficent Creator than the people of these United States. No where have the choicest blessings of the all-bountiful Parent been spread with a more unsparing hand. To no other people, ancient or modern, has the cup of felicity been presented, with fewer bitter ingredients, or more completely purified from the lees of political thraldom.

If, judging of the future from the past, we endeavour to delineate our course through ages yet to come, a Of those improvements in physical || series of pleasing anticipations warms and political science, which have the reflecting mind. With a fertile stamped their character on the last soil, extending through every desiraand the passing age, the inhabitants of || ble variety of climate, and capable of the western world claim a distinguish- || affording all that luxury could deed share-There ingenuity has displayed its inventions to the gaze and imitation of the world, and there the principles of government have been traced to their source, and the laws of immutable justice solemnly proclaimed as the proper basis and support of political institutions.

If we review the periods of our national growth, and mark our unparalleled progress in the march of nations, VOL. I.-1

mand to supply the wants, or promote the comfort of man; with a population enlightened and free; with a government over which the laws are supreme, and the people the arbiters of the law; the way appears open to that national greatness which ambition could not wish to enhance, and to individual prosperity, in which discontent might blush to complain.

Are these the delusive prospects of

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