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more than a pair
of oars against the falling ocean
at Niagara.
"
And what
is
the amount of the conclusion in
New England acquiesce ? It is that the Creator of the negro has given him up to stand as a victim, a caricature of the white man which the men of
beside
him
his whip.
He
;
under his pack, to bleed under
to stoop
If that be the doctrine, then I say,
has given up his cause,
if
He
has also given up But it is not so the
mine, who feel his wrong. universe is not bankrupt ; still stands the old heart ;
firm in right
is
its seat,
and
And what
is
and knows
shall
be
;
that,
come what
justice is forever
will,
and
the reply to this fatal allegation
the
ever. ?
I
believe there is a sound facts
argument derived from collected in the United States and in the
West
Indies in reply to this alleged hopeless infe-
riority of the colored race. it.
I concern myself
But
now with
I shall not touch
the morals of the
system, which seem to scorn a tedious catalogue of particulars on a question so simple as this.
The
sentiment of right, which is the principle of civilization and the reason of reason, fights against this
damnable atheism. The Persians have a proverb: Beware of the orphan for, when the orphan is ;
Almighty is shaken Whatever may appear at the
set a-crying, the throne of the
from
side to side.
moment, however contrasted the fortunes of the black and the white, yet is the planter's an unsafe