surmounting all the difficulties which may be thrown in our way. That we may expect, and that we shall have, difficulties, sore difficulties, yet to contend against in our progress to maturity, is certain; and, as the political happiness or wretchedness of ourselves and our children, and of generations yet unborn, is in our hands,—nay, more, the redemption of Africa from the deep degradation, superstition, and idolatry in which she has so long been involved,—it becomes us to lay our shoulders to the wheel, and manfully resist every obstacle which may oppose our progress in the great work which lies before us."
Mr. Roberts, we believe, is extensively engaged in commerce and agriculture, and, though out of office, makes himself useful in the moral, social, and intellectual elevation of his brethren. No one is more respected, or stands higher, in Liberia than he.
ALEXANDER CRUMMELL.
Among the many bright examples of the black man
which we present, one of the foremost is Alexander
Crummell. Blood unadulterated, a tall and manly
figure, commanding in appearance, a full and musical
voice, fluent in speech, a graduate of Cambridge University,
England, a mind stored with the richness of
English literature, competently acquainted with the
classical authors of Greece and Rome, from the grave
Thucydides to the rhapsodical Lycophron, gentlemanly
in all his movements, language chaste and refined, Mr.
Crummell may well be put forward as one of the best