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Show 254 ExTRACT. response, arc held to be inapplic~blc to us. 'rho glorious doctrines of your revolutionary fathers, and the more glorious teachings of the Son of God, arc construed and applied against us. W c m·c literally scourged beyond the beneficent range of both authori· tics,-buman and divine. We plead for our rights, in the name of the immortal declaration of inUcpcmlcncc, and of the written constitution of government, and. we nrc answered with imprecations and curses. In the sacred name of J esus we beg fur mercy, and the slavewhip, red with blood, cracks over us in mockery. W c invoke the aid of the ministers of IIim who came" to preach deliverance to the captivc,n and to set at liberty them that arc bound, anJ from the lorticst sum· mits of tltis Jni ni ..: ;try comes tlJCinhuman and blasphcm· ous response, saying : if one prayer would move the Almigl1ty ann in mercy to break your galling ch:::tins, that prayer wou\J be withheld. IV c cry for help to humanity-a common humanity, and here too we are repulsed. American humanity hates us, scorns us, disowns and denies, in a thou:5anJ w;~.ys, our YC!J per· sonality. rrhc outspTead w_ing of ArnNi·~~Llt Uhristian· ity, apparently broad enough to give sheller to a perishing world, refuses to cover us. 'ro us, its bones EXTRACT. 255 are brass, and its feathers iron. In running thither for shelter and succor, we have only fled from the hungry bloodhound to the devouring wolf,-from a corrnpt and selfish world to a hollow and hypocritical church. |