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Show RETURN TO AMERICA· Unfathomable wonder, And mystery divine; The voice that speaks in thunder, Says, Christian, I AM THINE. We were now on soundings, near the coast of Georgia, and on the morrow, Fourth month (April) 20th, arrived in peace and safety at the city of Savannah. So ended, just five months after its commence· ment, our imtructive and interesting West Indian voyage. In concluding this series of letters, I feel disposed to remind thee of the declaration of scripture, tlmt the "heavens and the earth" shall "wax old as a garment," and that "as a vesture" God shall fold them up, and "they shall be changed." " All the host of heaven," says the prophet Isaiah, "shall he dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as the falling fig from the fig· tree." "But the day of the Lord," says the apostle Peter, "will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, and the earth also, and the works that are therein, shall be burned up." Again, "the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervcttt heat." Then, my dear friend, we shall all stand "before the judgment-seat of Christ." The steward sl1all render up the account of his stewardship; and every one of us must receive, at the holy hands of the Judge of all flesh, "according to the deeds done in his body, whether they he good, or whether they be bad." RETURN TO ,\MERICA Earnest and aftectionate are m d . . . h l . d. . y estres that the dis tmguts e( m tvtdnal to whom th 1 d ese etters are ad dresse , ma.y then he found to h ave cI eared hm. - 1self f. rom all stam of slavery. Ferve n tl Y d o I crave that m. that awful . day, . he may be kn own to h ave acted fatthfully . dur.m g h. ts declining yea rs' m· promotm. g t. ts total extmctwn, 111 all his several ,1 t. fi • c: re a Ions- rst, as t.h e bead. o. f a. p. n vate family.' second! y, as t 11 e most mfluentta.! mdlVldual in the state of Ke n t uc· k Y; t h.t rdl v as the. enhghtened statesman and patriot of the Nor;~ Amencan Federal Union; and lastly, as the friend of all mankind, the citizen of the world at 1a t.g e. J ust1 y applic.a ble to our whole race-to me,n o f every coun-try, chme, and color-is the fundamenh, l prm· ct· p1 e 0 f your noble constitution: " All men are created equal, and are endowed by thetr Creator with certain inalien able rights-among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." With much respect and deference, 1 now bid thee my last farewell. I am, &c. &c. |