. Autographs for freedom. r-able injury upon the community, and that to do hisduty to God and his fellow-creatures, under the cir-cumstances, he should bequeath to his survivingslaves the cruel alternative of either expatriation to afar-off^ pestilential clime, with the prospect of a prematuredeath, or perpetvMl slavery, with its untold horrors, in hisnative land. Against this most iniquitous system and proscription of an inoffensive people,for no other reason than that we wear the physicalexterior given us in infinite wisdom and benevolence,I would record, nay engrave with the
. Autographs for freedom. r-able injury upon the community, and that to do hisduty to God and his fellow-creatures, under the cir-cumstances, he should bequeath to his survivingslaves the cruel alternative of either expatriation to afar-off^ pestilential clime, with the prospect of a prematuredeath, or perpetvMl slavery, with its untold horrors, in hisnative land. Against this most iniquitous system and proscription of an inoffensive people,for no other reason than that we wear the physicalexterior given us in infinite wisdom and benevolence,I would record, nay engrave with the pen of adiamond, my most emphatic and solemn, protest;more especially would I do so, as the system, under 200 The Evils of Colonizatioi^. animadversion, is most inconsistently fostered, andshamelessly lauded, by ministers of the gospel in thenineteenth century, as a scheme of Christian philan-thropy ! ^0 my soul, come not thou into theirsecret; unto their assembly, mine honor, be not thouunited. Toronto, C. W., Oct. C|e f asis of tlje ^meritait Coiistitulioit ^^JJAPPY, (said Wasliington, wlieii annoimcingthe treaty of peace to the army,) thricehappy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who shallhave contributed anything, who shall have performedthe meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabric offreedom and empire on the broad basis of indepen-dency, who shall have assisted in protecting the Eightsof Human ISTature, and estabhshing an asylum for thepoor and oppressed of all nations and religions. You remember well that the Eevolutionary Con-gress in the declaration of independence placed themomentous controversy between the Colonies andGreat Britain on the absolute and inherent equalityof all men. It^ is not, however, so well understoodthat that body closed its existence on the adoption of the Federal Constitution with this solemn injunction, 9* 202 The Basis of the addressed to tlie people of tlie United States: Let itbe remembered tliat it lias ever been tlie pride
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