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-—- MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS OR, The Christian's Survey of the Political World.
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TS God a God of the Jews only and not of the heathen also ? Is he a God of the white men and not of the blacks ? The former question is readily answered in the affirmative , but late events shew a demur in some minds , where it ought least to have been expected to the latter . Europe is now expecting to see in a short time a million of people in arms , to lay waste its fertile regions—to burn its towns—to
destroy the infant at the breast—and to dash out the brains of the aged—in short , to produce every evil at which human nature shudders , and to create upon earth a hell , not to he exceeded in the imagination of
the poet . The spirit of the accursed Cain is to be again let loose , and after a short twelvemonth of peace , the horrors of those disgiaceful scenes , which within the last twenty-five years have been exhibited in Europe , are to be again renewed .
Such is civilized Europe , the seat of the arts , of the sciences , boasting in its superiority over the rest of the world in every improvement that can administer comfort to man , and particularly in its knowledge of the truths of revelation . By their fruits
shall ye know them , saith our Saviour , and the fruits of his kingdom are love , joj r , peace , tranquility , benevolence and beneficence ; to what kingdom do these nations belong , who are thus hurrying into the fields of slaughter , by what spirit are the actuated ?
But if Europe is thus to feel the scourge of divine wrath , Africa enjoys its breathing time . The chains and fetters that were manufacturing for its inhabitants , must remain useless . The slave ships are no longer wanted . Buonaparte has decreed , that the slave trade shall be no longer carried on by Frenchmen , and he has put an end to
that idle discussion at the Congress of Vienna , which terminated in the permission to France to carry on a five yeais * traffic of insult and injury , and rape and murder on the coa&ts of Africa . The return of the Emigrants to France carried back no sympathy for the sufferings of the blacks . It was coolly argued in their pamphlets how
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The subscription set on foot to enable the to build a chapel , has not made such p ^ gress as to preclude the necessity of n resg ing their case upon the attention of our Unitarian brethren . w j Manchester * April 2 , 1815 .
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many hundreds of thousands of Africans would be requisite to fill up the vacancies in their West India Islands , and partial larly to replace the inhabitants ofDomingu , the greater part of whom were to be extirpated , or to end their days in mines and
public works in Europe . The coolness with which all this was argued , demonstrated the greatest apathy as to the sufferings of human nature , and the utmost infidelity , however the authors might pretend to disguise themselves uuder a
Christian garb—complete unbelief in the words of the Apostle , God made of one blood all nations to dwell on the face of the earth . Yes , God is the God of the blacks as well as of the whiles ; and if Europe is destined to suffer again for its sins and its infidelity , Africa is released from her fears j her children will not be torn from her by the
Christian slave-dealer , and the day which this country loads with curses , she will hail with blessings . Napoleon is at least her benefactor . To the prodigies of last month are now to be added the results of them on the cabinets of Europe . A throne was overset without bioodslied . Buonaparte proceeded from the shores of the Mediterranean , with
the same ease with which Sovereigns were accustomed formerly to make their progress through this country . The Bourbon retired at his approach , and was iinmolested in his departure to Belgium . For some little time there was an appearance of opposition in the south of Fiance , but it soon subsided . The Duke of Angoulenie , who
headed the Royalists , was taken prisone r , but released by the order of Buonaparte , and conveyed to the nearest port , after a promise , it was said , not to bear ami * against his country , and to p rocure the t restoration of the national jewels , w hich had been carried away by the fug itive
king . A change naturally took r lace \ civil and military offices , which was efected in a very easy manner ; thoug h » excited some surprise to see Lucien Buonaparrte restored to the councils of his bother . Caraot also had a considerable p l »«
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whose understanding is sound and vigorous , but whose intellectual cultivation pre ^ ' a ^ es their deriving advantage from th ^ t which soars above their attainments . Two brethren from the infant Unitarian Society at Oldham attended the meeting .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1815, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1759/page/62/
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