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    • MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS; OR, The Christianas Survey of the Political World.
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      -adequate support and countenance ; on the contrary , they will exert themselves to improve its present flourishing state . It is an Institution eminently well calculated lor the education of the gentleman and the divine . The business of the Lancashire and Cheshire Book und Tract Socity

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      When Greece had obtained that superiority over her neighbours , which has been so much celebrated in the literary world , all the nations around her were held in sovereign contempt . It was forgotten in what abject state this country lay a few centuries before ; and it was not

      anticipated that the descendants of these giants in literature , science and politics , would become the most abject and despicable slaves , unmindful of the fame of their andestors , and incapable of manly exertion . This is no uncommon error , each nation in its turn embraces a similar feeiinsr of

      contempt for those who are less distinguished , or less favoured by circumstances , calculated to improve our speeies . In our days it has been gravely discussed , whether the Blacks are not of an inferior race to ourselves * , and it has been argued , that nature designed them to be slaves to the v bite *; that is , that the God of Nature had distinguished the sons of Adam into two

      • lasses , and that one part of the family should inherently possess the right of maltreating the other part at its pleasure . Wihere , it was contended , are to be found *» y proofs of manly intellect under a black skin ? Their minds are low and grovelling , And their bodies to be inured to labour only lf under the lash of the task-master ? How

      could it be otherwise , when all the avenues to knowledge were shut up to them $ all the rewards of individual exertion were denied to them ? The experience of the last ten years is worth more than folios of controversy . We have geei * the Blacks in a different situation . They have broken their jbaing . They have asserted their rights . They have indeed committed murders and

      massacres ; but in these acts of cruelty * nd barbarity , they have only followed * t a humble distance the example of their White and more civilized brethren . The splendour of a court , the gorgeous parade of the prince ; the magnificent address , the pride of rank , the diss

      play of shews , distinguish the mansions ? f white royalty : how easily this is to *« done , and how fit the sable sovereigns * r * to vie with their brethren , ban been » e « n in the cpurt of the sovereign of Ifayti . * here remains another kind of comparison , *¦«* U this the ? sable court does not appear

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      was transacted the following morniag . -The state of its finances is flourshing , and there is a prospect of its proving very useful it * . promoting- its object—The knowledge . of Christian truth and the practice of virtue W . J .

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      to be at all inferior to any of those which are now displaying their talents at the Congress of Vienna . Hayti is expecting an attack from France . In these cases it is usual for courts to issue a manifesto , explaining the justice of their cause ; and the last month has exhibited to Europe a specimen of political views , as they are

      entertained by our brethren , whose skin is differently coloured from our own . * These are the men , who a few years back , groaned under the lash . They are new sensible of the benefits of freedom , and with their liberty they have acquired just notions of their rights . Amidst the numerous proclamations that have issued from the

      White courts , not one is supenoT to the manifesto of the Emperor of Hayti $ and , if we may judge of the probability of excellence in other branches of knowledge , from this specimen of diplomatic talent , we may anticipate researches in science , and

      productions of literature from our hitherto degraded brethren ^ that shall vie with the finest of those who have hitherto vainly conceived , that they were entitled to as manifest superiority over the Africans as the Greeks claimed over the Barbarians . Who

      knows , indeed , whether England herself may not sink to a state as base as that ot Greece , when in future black universities the tables may be turned , and the Whit * become the degraded colour . This reflection may be of use in the

      present times , when writers are so fond of feeding the pride and vanity of this nation , by displays of the greatness of its dominion , the strength of its navy , the number of its towns , the splendour of its wealth , the superiority of its skill in art * and manufactures . A volume has been

      lately published , in which all these thing * are brought under the nicest rules of calculation , and in reading the details of our greatness , we cannot but reflect on the message of the prophet to Hezekiah , after he had entertained the embassadors from

      Babylon . The true question on the situation of states is the use they have made of the advantages they have enjoyed - and here we shall , perhaps , find more cause for humility than pride . Great Brtiain , by the reformation , was placed in a more favourable situation than the Catholic coua-

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      Monthly Retrospect Of Public Affairs; Or, The Christianas Survey Of The Political World.

      MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS ; OR , The Christianas Survey of the Political World .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1815, page 61, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1756/page/61/