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na.,t on lst Augasi. lGi on the ANNIVERSARY OF


Rl.f n iSDiEs. By R VI E. EMsEsoy P90shed by re.


-, ,yp FELLOW CITIZENS:


H. are met to exchange congratulations on


.,uniyersary of an event singular in the his


|. oi civilization; day Of reason; of tho


\, fcbt of that which makes us better than


III Of birds and beasts: II day, which gave


!. ;mnense ratification of a fact-of gross his.
10 ethical distractions. 1t was the settle.
y. far as great Empire was concerned, OF
,,st question on which almost every leading
ne +rsu in it had taken care TO record his vote
(Which for many years absorbed The attention
he best and most eminent of mankind. l
IN vel hesitate, coming from other studies,
xithout the smallest claim to be a special


s,r in this work OF humanity, to undertake


!. this matter before you; which ought rather


N done by strict cooperation Of many well.
NED persons; but | shall not apologize for my
skpess. In this cause, no mans weakness is
prejudice; it has thousand sons; if one


q cannot speak, ten others can; and whether


he wisdom of its friends, or by the folly of
|, adversaries; by speech and by silence; by
dg and by emitting to do, it goes forward
rrefore will speaker, not /, but the might
Il ierty in my weakness. The subject is said
iYe the property Of making dull men elo.
en-


|. BIS been in all mems experience marked
istof the enterprise in behalf of the African,


,asrete an overbearing and defying spirit
Snsituton of Slavery seems to its opponent


an out one side, and he feels that none but
aiOr malignant person can hesitate on
Tsf the facts. Under such an impulse,
$ ,bOut to say, If any cannot speak, or can
Thar the words of freedom, let him go hence
Lad almost said, Creep into your grave, the
ggsehas no need of you But have thought
r: Let him not 60. When we consider
II remains to be done for this interest in this
uty, the dictates of humanity make us ten
.,i auch as are not yet persuaded. The hard
talfshness is to be borne with. Let us with
every rcproachful, and, if we can, every
dsnant remark. In this cause, we must re.
aac. our temper, and the risings of pride. If
ss be any man who thinks the ruin of race
insn small matter, compared with the last
sualon and competitions of his own comfort
tho would not SO much as part with his ice
I'm, to save them from rapine and manacles,
link must not hesitate to satisfy that man,
Il also his cream and vanilla are safer and
hsFr, by placing the negro nation on far
Hns than by robblng them. Ifthe Virginian
Ilahimself on the picturesque luxury of his
rsasge on the heavy Ethiopian manners of
uhoeeservants, their silent obedience, their
aai bronze, their turbaned heads, and would
auchange them for The more intelligent but
a,nous hired. service of whites, I shall not
Ea TO show him, that when their free. papers
d made out, it will still be their interest TO re-
in on his estate, and that the Oldest planters


hmaica are convinced that it is cheaper TO
Z wages than 10 own the slave.


The history Of mankind interests US only as it
|absa steady gain of truth and right, in the
asant conflict which it records, between the
.aial and the moral nature. From the earliest
huments, 1t appears That one race was victim,
L served the other races. In the oldest tenn
|soi Egypt, negro caPtives are painted on the
F'ta of kings, In such attitudes as to show
p they are on the point OF being executed;
b Herodolus, our Oldest historian, relates that
hunted the Ethiopians in four


as charlots From The earliest time, The ne
sas been an article of luxury to the CONNER
y nations. So has it been, down to the day
It.s just dawned on tue world. Language
'a' be iaked, the secrets of slaughter houses
4 infamous holes that cannot front the day,
'S be ransackcd, to tell what Negro Slavery
sheen. These men, our benefactors, as they
Producers of corn and wine, of coffee, of to
geo, oil cotton, of sugar, OF rum and brandy,
hlle and joyous themselves, and producers OF
nio't and luxury for the civilized world-the,e
nlsd In the finest climates of the globe, children


he SUM- am hcart-slck when ! read how
2 came there, and how they are kept there
s' case was left out OF the mind ard out of
e.sart Of their brothers. The prizes of socic-
Ss trumpet Of fame, the privileges of learn
|fof culture, of religion, the decencies and
|sof marriage, honor, obedience, personal au-
Fay, and perpetual meioration into finer
Esty, these were for all, but not for them
f'ae Negro, was the slave. ship to begin with,
F'hpse filthy hold he sat in irons, unable to lie
|n; bad food, and insufhciency of that; dis
Easement; no property in the rags that COW
3 him: no marriage, 10 right N the poor
II woman that cherished him in her bosom
'tsht to the children Of his body; no security
Z the humors, none from the crimes, none
P the appeti,es of his master: toll famine,
ldt and hogging; and, when he sunk in the
}OS, no wind OF good fame blew over him, no
p of salvation visited him with glad hdings;
fae went down to death, with ausky dreams
sncan shadow. catchers and Obeahs hunting
L Very sad was the Negro tradition that
Great Spirit, in the beginning, offered the
fsman. whom he loved better than the buckra
4 ENte, his choice of two boxes, g big and
i one. The black man was greedy, and
fe the largest, "The buckra box was full
In'h pen, paper, and whip, and the Negro box
hoe and bill; and hoe and bill for Negro TO
eaay."


iashe crude element of good in human al.
4 must work and ripen, spite of whips, and
l'eaon-laws, and West Indian interest. Con-
}see rolled on it's pillow, and could not sleep.
%npsthize very tenderty here with the poo,
tafcd planter, of whom so many unpleasant
4 are said; but if we saw the whip applied


men, 10 tender women; and, undeniably,
sa shsiak to say so-preguant women set


eeadmll for refusing to work, when, not
k"0etthe eternal law of animal nature refused
@s; If We saw mems backs fayed with


;1ae'' ana 81 not rum poured on, superinduced


'lns OF pickle, rubbed in with cornhusk,
scorching heat Of the sum-" if we saw


@sways hunted with blood hounds into


~a and hills; and, in cases of passion, a
Il 70 throwing his Negro into copper Of boil.