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Show .F.ntcrc<l, nccor<ling to Act of Congress, in the yenr 1800, Dr ,JAMES HEDPATif, In lhc Clerk's OJllce of the District Court of the District of ~bssnchusett1. .. • DEDICATION. - To GENERAL FABRE GEFFRARD, President of the Republic of Ilayti: Jtfay it Please you1· E.r:cccllency: I dedicate this collection of ethical and political p:tpC1·s to you, as my first demurrer to the IIayticn indictment against American character. You have done justly, I think, in refusing, in your speeches, to recognize our Union as a free Republic. r~..,or, in fifteen of our Southern States, men and women of your race, many of them with the blood of their tyrants in their veins, arc held and reputed, by law and custom, :tnd universal practice, as chattel pcrson:tl or real c tate; and, as such, are sold and exchanged, mortgaged an<l bequeathed ! Professing to be Christian Con1monwcalthR, these States unblushingly traffic in humanity! Proicssing to be Republican Communitic , they deprive an entire race of every social, personal, and politic:tl right! Profe. sing to be civilized Societies, they h:tvc inhumanly forced free citizens of color to leave their States, or be sold into ctcrual and irremediable Slavery! And, in the Northern States, wllCrc Slavery has ceased to cxi t, a spirit of intolerance, alike unchristian and unrcpublican, politically disfi·anchises and socially cxc01nmn-llieates your race. . (3) UNIVERSITY OF UTAH lteRA~IES |