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Show [42] [43] Americans is alib on the lame unaltcrable bot~ tom with their religion. You cannot pcrliladc once, and'not without fuccefs, in a defpcrate lituation of their afifairs. them to burn their hail-1s of curious lcicnce; to baniih their lawvers from their courts of law,- or to quencn the lights of their aliemblies, by rcfirhng to choofe hole perfons who are belt read their privileges. it would be no lets im- prarfticahlc to tiini; of wholly annihilating the popular afiemblies, in which theic lawyers lit. The army, by which we mnfi govern 1n thcn‘ place, would be far more chargeable to us; not quite to etiefiual; and erhaps, 111 the end, full as difficult to be kept in obedience. With regard to the high arifiocratick fpirit of Virginia and the lbuthern Colonies, it has oeen propoled, 1 know, to reduce it, by declaring .a general enfrancl'rilEment of then‘ llaves. 'l‘lns Slaves as thefe unfortunate black people are, and dull as all men are from flavery, mutt they not a little fufpeé‘t the other of freedom from that very nation which has fold them to their prefent mailers? From that nation, one of whofe caufes of quarrel with thofe matters, is their refulal to deal any more in that inhuman traffick? An offer offieedorn from England, would come rather oddly, {hipped to them in an African vellel, which is refufed an entry into the ports of Virginia or Carolina, with a cargo of three hundred Angola negroes. It would be curious to fee the Guinea captain attempting at the fame infiant to publifh his proclamation of liberty, and to advertife his {ale of flaves. project has had its advocates and panegyrills; yet I‘never could argue myfelf into any opinion of it. Slaves are often much attached to their mailers. A general wild offer of liberty, would not always be accepted. Hiltory furnilhes few infiances of it. It is lbmetimes as hard to perfuade flaves to be free, as it is to compel freemen to be flaves; and in this aufpicious fcheme, we But let us fuppofe all thefe moral difi‘iculties got over. The Ocean remains. You cannot pump this dry; and as long as it continues in its prefent bed, fo long all the caules which weaken authority by diftance will continue. . " Ye gods, " annihilate but {pace and time, and make two " lovers happy l"-was a pious and pallionate ihould have both thefe pleating tatlts on our prayer; -- but jut): as realbnable, as many of the hands at once. But when we talk of entranchifem nt, do we not perceive that the American ferious wifhes of very grave and folemn polit1c1ans. miller may enfranchife too; and arm fervile hands in defence of freedom? A mealiu‘e to If then, Sir, it feems almofl defperate to think which other people hate had recourle more than ot any alterative courfe, for changing the moral 01103, ' caufes |