even five did not know that their con dition here is infinitely preferable, to what 1t possibly could be among the bar .ren sands, and savage tribes of Africa; and it was wholly irreconcileable with all our notions of humanity to tear asun- der the tender ties which they had form | ed among us, to gratify the feelings of q false philanthropy. What a comment |ary on the wisdom, justice, and human- ity of the southern slave owner is pre- |sented by the example of certain benev- olent associations and charitable individ- uals elserherc. Shedding weak tears over SuffeTings which had existence only in their own sicdy imaginations, these ssfriends Humanity set themselves sys- tematicaily to work to seduce the slaves 1 of the South from their masters. By means of missionaries and politicaltracts, the scheme vas in 9 great measure successful. Thousands of these delud- ed victims of fanaticism were sedueed into the enjoyment of freedom in our northern cities. And what has been the consequence? Go to these cities now, and ask the question. Visit the dark and narrow lanes. and obscure recesses which have been assigned by common consent as the ahodes ofthose outcasts of the world-the free people of colour. Sir, there does not exist, on the face of the whole earth, a population so poor, so wretched, so vile, so loathsome, so ut terly destitute of all the comforts, con veniences, and decencies of life, as the

 unfortunate blacks of Philadelphia, and l New York, and Boston. Liberty has

 been to them the greatest of calamities, the heaviests of curses. Sir, l have had some opportunities of making com parisons between the condition of the free negroes of the North and the slaves of the South, and the comparison has left not only an indelible impression of the superior advantages of the latter but has gone far to reconcilemeto slave I ry itself. Never have felt so forcibiy

 that touching description, . the foxes

 have holes, and the birds of the air have

 nests, but the son of man hath not where l to lay his head" as when l have seen

 this unhappy race, nakedand houseless, almost starving in thestreets, and sbs.ii- doned by all the world.

 Sir, have seen in the neighborhood of one of fthc most moral, religious, and

 refined cities of the north, a family of free blacks, driven to the caves of the rock, and there obtaining a preearieus subsistence from charity aud plunder.

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