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Show 202 THE LIDEH.T\' DELL. was in petitioning for tho repeal of a law wo didn't like, or for tho reception of an ambassador we did; as tho rest of tho world do; whether the negroes were not human, and, therefore, they too, our Southern brethren, without consulting 1\loses; or what was gained for Christ, lly representing his teachings to bo in opposition to every t:entimcnt of honor, and justice, and humanity ;-every dictate of benevolence, and common sense, and religion. I contented myself with asking whether " Steward," (the black cook and functionary-of-ali-work,) was not quite a clever follow, and a great comfort to the ship's eompnny;- Bible-commentary, ordi· nation of providence, natural repugnance, New England ministry, and the Colonization Society, notwithstanding. Taste and choice, I admitted, were rights, in all questions of Color, while they became tho deadliest wrongs in the question of Justice. I left him the last word, which was, that it was useless to talk- a white man couhl not help hating tho whole colored race, and that, like the 1'1H: YOUNO SAIJ,OH. 203 hatred of Go d against tho wick d . visited u 1 ° ' It must be pon t Jem oven to tho tl•ird generation. and fourth We were hero interrupted b th and soon saw tho bre k y e cry of 1and, a ers beating u th known shoal of tho M< h • pon e well ouc to~r Carre a d D I way through that splendid t . ' ' n e t our ropwal sea of h. l l bright transparent colors mak w IC t t lc o ono fancy that . was after seeing such, that h . d . ' It th . . ' PI arJCs first called err most precrous stones, jewels of the fi Tho land was 1 rst water. , no ess beautiful Umn th the tl e sea, and gen e and spirited pe I clime. op e worthy of their Among the families whose ac . made , < quamtanco we ' was that of 1\Ir. Dird, the protestant missiouar f . excellent He . . y rom tho Island of J orsc . WllS a mmtster of the 1\feth d. y and though at th t t' o ISt persuasion' a In10 unsuccessful . converts to his sect . m making ' lt was not for lack f or of excellence of character o zeal tended h" h . Whenever I at.. ISeape' li was greatly struck by the |