or if this policy is not approved of, our Southern Legislators ought to endeavour to diminish the number of the coloured population by colonization."

The slaves multiply faster than the whites. First, because they come sooner to maturity. Secondly, because the young white men cohabit with the black and mulattoe women to an extent scarcely credible. Thirdly, because there is no restraint on unions among the slaves, whose masters encourage promiscuous intercourse, as their wealth increases with the increase of their negroes. Fourthly, and this perhaps is the most important reason of any, because the slaves are not affected by the climate as the whites are.

Every summer and autumn all the inhabitants of the Southern States that can possibly afford it, flee to the Northern, in order to avoid the excessive heat, and the pestilence that sweeps off hundreds of those that remain. Upon the blacks the climate has scarcely any effect. God, in his all-wise dispensations, has ordained that the black skin should belong to the human beings that are intended to live in a hot sultry climate. They perspire more freely, and like true children of the Sun, instead of being enfeebled, are strengthened and invigorated by his perpendicular rays. The Southern Americans and English West India Planters, very truly say, that white men could not labour and live, in the countries best adapted for the raising of Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco, Rice, &c.

Does not this plainly show, that Providence has intended the white skin for cold and temperate, and the black for sultry and tropical climes? The poor slave, bare-headed, bare-footed, naked to his middle, and without any clothing but a pair of cotton trowsers, works all day beneath the burning rays of the sun, and remains healthy. In the same climate, the white man, though avoiding the mid-day heat, taking what food he likes, and without labour, dies, being cut off by fever and pestilence. At a time when the earth appeared almost calcined by the heat, and when I myself, in common with all the whites, was almost gasping for breath, I have seen a poor negro, lying with his back to the earth, and sleeping with the burning mid-day sun full upon him. He appeared to enjoy the intense heat, like one of those large lizards I have seen on the sunny side of an old wall in Italy.

The Southerners turn a deaf ear to every thing that reminds them of their danger, saying, that the whites are so much more numerous in the United States than the blacks, that an insurrection could not be attended with any very fatal consequences. But surely the people of the Northern and New England States would be very slow in assisting the slave-holders; for so much do they abhor slavery, that I am myself convinced they would take no part whatsoever in the contest. The Blacks would say to them, "This is the cause

of Washington!will you hinder us from becoming free, you who made such efforts in that cause, you who threw off your allegiance to England because she wished to make you consent to some trifling taxes on tea and stamps? Only look at the beginning of your declaration of Independence! 6. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Will you then, because we differ from you in colour, aid our tyrants in reducing us again to slavery? Or do you say, that all men' means only those whose skin is white? If so, why not enslave the Spaniards and the Portuguese whose skin is darker than your own?" The army of the United States, in all 6,000 men, scattered over their immense frontier from Maine to the Gulf of Mexico, and in posts on the St. Lawrence, the great Lakes, the Missouri and Mississippi, would be quite unable to take any efficient part in the contest, which therefore would only exist between the slaves and their masters. The Blacks would have every thing for them that can animate men to great deeds-Justice-Liberty-Revenge-Despair" Who shall resist that proud Union ?"

I have heard it said that the Blacks are not brave, and will not fight. But ask the officers of the United States, how those behaved that were in the navy, and in the battles on the Lakes.

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Recollect also, that in St. Domingo, the slaves who made that noble defence against General le Clerc and his 25,000 veterans, were inferior in numbers to the slaves now existing in the United States.g

I must beg leave here to introduce part of a speech delivered at Washington by Dr. Thornton, at a meeting, called for the support of the Greeks, on the 22d October, 1822.

"When the Almighty operates, nothing can interrupt the work and behold an operation with which mankind are generally unacquainted. During the revolution in South America, when the arms of the Patriots had captured Laguira, Carac cas, Carthagena, and the countries adjacent; by a visitation of Almighty power, 10,000 of the inhabitants of Caraccas were destroyed in one day by an Earthquake. The Priests declared this dreadful visitation to proceed from the displeasure of the Most High, in consequence of the revolution. A counter revolution took place, and the chiefs of the Patriots were obliged to flee. Some came to this country; and more estimable, more worthy, and more enlightened men I never knew. Bolivar fled to Saint Domingo, and wandering in that country, lamenting the misfortunes of his own, he proposed to the Sable Chief, that if he would fur nish him with a few hundreds of his men, together with arms, ammunition, transport vessels, &c., he would immediately, on arriving in his own country, declare all the coloured people free.

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Christophe agreed-Bolivar arrived with his sable troops-he fulfilled his promise, and never afterwards lost a battle. In permitting the Blacks to remain in bondage in this country, think you, my fellow citizens, that their situation is to be endless??

Even supposing the Whites should be victorious, what would they gain ?-a territory without towns, gain?-a and without inhabitants! For when once the Blacks, held in the most cruel and abject bondage, do rise in their might, they will surely execute the plan determined upon by the Charleston Conspirators, who intended burning the town and putting the Whites to the sword. Dreadful indeed will be that day of retribution! But shall we blame their revenge? Only let the reader consider what he himself would do, if after enduring years of slavery, he should all at once find himself the conqueror of his Tyrants! It was with the greatest difficulty, and only by means of the most savage system of extermination, that the English put down the Maroons in Jamaica. In the United States, instead of regular troops there will only be a raw Militia to contend with. The Blacks therefore, notwithstanding the ill success of the late conspirators, must ultimately triumph.

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