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    s&eh < v pwer may bfrexescised , and lio . w contemptible is the utmost oppo sttion . which caR' be anticipated . - The # e is not a : heai ? t actuated by the common feel-ings '<* £ humanity ^ -we will BOt say ia / a ^ Christian country ,, but in any country ^ wjhich woutel Kot be caoMedby a recital © f the wrongs of the slaves irr our colonies ,

    and'thereforea baa ? e statement of the facts which , have been , perseveringly adduced by tlaeir aftaoeates form , a strong and universal appeal . Every man in every couatry feels that it can never be : right to torture women , to condemn mea to exile aj * d > toil * to separate children from their mothers , to subject the helpljess . to the ¦ yiolenee of Jhe strong :,, to make life one scene of hardship , pain , and degradation . The debasedi Hindoo and the contemplative Indian would here be > of one mdnd with the British , philanthropists Men in civilized countries who >

    regjEnd only the temporal condition of their race ( if such men there be ) are * ready to join inthe universal cry against the abase of unlawful power , and though they look no further than the toils and < sqfferings of a day , though tfcey believe that the consequences of oppression extend no further than the gf ? ave , they burn with indignation that that d $ y of life should be embittered

    beyond endurance , and that grave become the resting-place of beings more degraded and less happy than the brutes . But to those whp know any thiagof the life and beauty of religion , to those especially who have been made free in the liberty of the gospel , the whole matter assumes a new form and appears in different proportions . Like others , they burn to unlock the fetters which ; enchain theJUmbs ^ to restore the exile to his hom e , and the

    freedom to , his rights ; but they feel that there are worse fetters than those which confine the limbs—the iron which enters into , the soul . They feel $ > at the oppressed ; are , by oppression , rendered unfit for a better home than the hut beneath thft plantain ; that the highest rights are those which constitu ^ e man a citizjen o £ heaven * Thus feels every Christian * If he feels not tjajut ? ,. he ; usurps the . name . But there are yet other considerations which occur to those who believe themselves to be possessed of diwine truth in its purity ^ there am obligation ^ which p ress peculiarly upon them .

    ... " To the most enligpteneci is conficjed . a charge of surpassing ; importance * To thepci i ^ . appoiisifc cd the care of the universal mind of their race . Every spiritual privilege ; which they enjoy involves an obligation , ; ev ^ ry- gift itn * - poses a ^ oxrespondifig : responsibility . The same radiance of truths which displays the glories of the world , of mindy lights their path to the darkest abodes of ignorance and vice . The sairie hand which , presents the lever by which tfrey are to i » ove , the moral world , points out the spot where they may

    plant their foot * . The celestial life , by which their own frame is animated , they , are enabled and commissioned to imparb to all whq are fainting under oppression , or dead in ignorance and guilt . In proportion as truth is di&p covered 10 cbe ; beautiful ,, should fellow minds be awakened taits . eonteinpla ^ tion ; in proportion as virtuous pleasures swell high in the heart , should t ^ iu ove rflowings be poured into the bosoms , of others . For this cause is it tliat hum ^ n syiDpathies are imparted ; for this cause is it that they become

    tenderer arid ; waraaer as Ijhej mijnd is more fully inf 6 rraed by the wisdom wj > ich , isfram above . For this cause is . it that " asfece » answerethi to fe ^ e m wf ttsr * . SP is , tba heart of man ; " and that the tumults , of passion which agitate the bosoms of our Tiegro , brethrenv awraben an answering throb in . our Qpm ; and that the , deactaess of their despair casts a chill ov , er our hopes oa ^ bftir bjejjaJfc T ! o usy { foi > we ra ^ ti not , wihile appropriating ^ the privileges of pure rftUgion , evadfi tfce responsibility whijQh ' it imposes , ) to us is confided th ^ tjialfi of watching over whatejver is feeble m intj © ikct ,-r ^ of animating

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    6 Negro Slavery .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/6/