of caution against any advice contained in a pamphlet, which we have not seen, written by Hon. James G. Birney, in favor of Liberian emigration.  Mr. Birney is like the generality of white Americans, who suppose that we are too ignorant to understand what we want; whenever they wish to get rid of us, would drive us any where, so that we left them.  Don’t adhere to a word therein contained; we will think for ourselves.  Let Mr. Birney go his way, and we will go ours.  This is one of those confounded gratuities that is forced in our faces at every turn we make.  We dismiss it without further comment—­and with it Colonization in toto—­and Mr. Birney de facto.

But to return to emigration:  Where shall we go?  We must not leave this continent; America is our destination and our home.

That the continent of America seems to have been designed by Providence as an asylum for all the various nations of the earth, is very apparent.  From the earliest discovery, various nations sent a representation here, either as adventurers and speculators, or employed seamen and soldiers, hired to do the work of their employers.  And among the earliest and most numerous class who found their way to the New World, were those of the African race.  And it is now ascertained to our mind, beyond a peradventure, that when the continent was discovered, there were found in Central America, a tribe of the black race, of fine looking people, having characteristics of color and hair, identifying them originally of the African race—­no doubt being a remnant of the Africans who, with the Carthaginian expedition, were adventitiously cast upon this continent, in their memorable excursion to the “Great Island,” after sailing many miles distant to the West of the Pillars of Hercules.

We are not inclined to be superstitious, but say, that we can see the “finger of God” in all this; and if the European race may with propriety, boast and claim, that this continent is better adapted to their development, than their own father-land; surely, it does not necessarily detract from our father-land, to claim the superior advantages to the African race, to be derived from this continent.  But be that as it may, the world belongs to mankind—­his common Father created it for his common good—­his temporal destiny is here; and our present warfare, is not upon European rights, nor for European countries; but for the common rights of man, based upon the great principles of common humanity—­taking our chance in the world of rights, and claiming to have originally more right to this continent, than the European race.  And had we no other claims than those set forth in a former part of this work, they are sufficient to cause every colored man on the continent, to stand upon the soil unshaken and unmoved.  The aboriginee of the continent, is more closely allied to us by consanguinity, than to the European—­being descended from the Asiatic, whose alliance in matrimony with the African is very common—­therefore, we have even greater claims to this continent on that account, and should unite and make common cause in elevation, with our similarly oppressed brother, the Indian.