The Congregationalist

HOW TO MAKE OUT A CASE.—The editor of the Emancipator, to show that the principles of Mr. Buxton do not coincide with those of the Colonization Society, quotes the statement of the Committee of Mr. Buxton's Society, made at the late meeting in London, as follows:

"The following sentence of the report, taken in connection with the recent bloody and murderous conflicts between the bandit settlement of Cape Mesurado and the natives, puts a period to the glorification of our zealous Colonizationists at the reported conversion of Mr. Buxton to their schemes.

The Present Society can take no part in Colonization or trade, its objects are and must be, exclusively pacific and benevolent.' It proposes, however, to pave the way for the successful efforts of others, by settlements, commerce, or missions for the elevation of Africa."

The paragraph from which the Emancipator professes to quote, is as follows:

"The present society can take part in no plan of colonization or trade. Its objects are and must be, exclusively pacific and benevolent; but it may by encouragement and by the diffusion of information, most materially aid in the civilization of Africa, and so pave the way for the successful exertions of others, whether they be directed to colonization and the cultivation of the soil, or to commercial intercourse, or to that which is immeasurably superior to them all, the establishment of the Christian faith on the continent of Africa."

It might with just as much truth be said that Mr. Buxton does not favor the "scheme" of Christian missions, as that he does not favor the scheme of Colonization. His Society, if we are to credit its own language, bears the same relation to one as to the other.

Whether Mr. Buxton is such a non-resistant that he would permit a pirate to take his life and the life of women and children under his care, without the interposition of force to save them—whether he would have the British ships of war on the coast of Africa submit to be taken possession of, and have their crews murdered by the slavers, rather than that they should shed the blood of those slavers in self-defence—whether he believes that a man in Mr. Harris' situation ought to have quietly permitted himself to be cut up and boiled for Goterah's breakfast in the pot which that cannibal had with him for the purpose, we do not profess to know any better than the editors of the Emancipator, the Voice of Freedom, and other papers that have seized on this event as if it were an outrage on the part of the Colonists.—Vt. Chronicle.