on the Virginian yoke, before the revolution; yet Britain reforms not from the same sin, while Virginia is foremost in checking that yet continual raging British enslaving torrent. We are indebted to virginia for the first resolve for independence, and the first motion for our constitution, and even for our very Washington, though Africans have not been thrown into the northern states, yet the Virginians very well know whot jeopardized them as well as a Fox, a Pitt and a Barre what jeopardized British slavery at home; all the republicans who are the only manumiters, know that the policy of the Butes, the Norths, the Sherburns, the Hamiltons, the Pickerings, the Morrises, the Castlereaghs and Cockburns, is liberty's grand enemy; there is but two policies, one for freedom and the other for kings of slavery, against which Virginian wisdom is watchfully directed, and can Virginia free her slaves easier than Britain can hers? the Butes, the Norths and Castlereaghs live in Virginia as well as in England; Washington and Jefferson, can no easier free their slaves, than a Fox and Chatham can set old England free; a king may be republican in heart, but he is in the devil's official capacity, and can no more throw off the yoke of his people than any other man, though he can help gradually or hazard his life suddenly, as the good king Louis the 16th, lost his life for doing good to his people; possibly, Louis like the good king of the jews, had a republican heart, but what good does a charitable master or king do? a king has no more power to act within his executive capacity, but in conformity with that aristocracy, which props him high upon the throne, than any other man; for that moment he acts honest, he is dethroned and perhaps beheaded; a good king may as well be a king as a rogue if a king there must be, but honest Washington would have nothing to do with the danger, his wisdom taught him that his influence could do more good towards freedom in a retired life, than in an elevated public capacity; he retired from the public stage of evil, and exhibited his advice as a guide amidst the human storm of ambitious state, nor did he dare to tell his opinion, but delicately treated the point, for the

common people's minds had been so contaminated, that they could not even bear the truth, except with danger but a little easier than can the people of England, or of southern blacks; what can be done with slaves, and masters who holds them, when aristocrats will hold slaves? if so, why not a christian who lives among them, also hold them if they have got to be held, some body must have them, and honest men will abuse them less than rogues, their ignorance cannot admit of sudden emancipation, no easier than the victims and paupers of old England, can economize and live without their masters, what else than death can free miserable ignorant slaves? supposing by law it was enacted, that all the slaves of Virginia, and slaves and paupers of England should be at once manumited, and all be nominally free in confusion, would that be freedom? is anarchy freedom? does freedom consist in ignorance? when let at large must all the property y of the wise tumble into the devouring arms of ignorance, strangers to econemy, are not all our lives endangered to ruin, in such a case as in St. Domingo, where experience proved the destruction of the lives of both masters and slaves. Who will clothe and feed so vast a number of slaves and paupers? pause a while, suppose one half of us were ignorant helpless paupers, as in the sudden emancipation of Virginia we would be, the other half must be slaves to maintain them, is this freedom where the lives of none are safe, freedom consists in the life, light and liberty of all, by gradual reformation.

Then why northern deluded, despise your Virgi nian friends, who seek that freedom, are they not the best friends you have on earth? by aristocrats good men are always calumniated, for no other purpose than for deluding you to be slaves also; does it make any difference where dwells the friend of man. Washing ton a slave-holder, was the only man that ever gained a popular sway entire over aristocracy for the freedom of man. Even our Saviour involved among slaves, could not get the upper hand of earthly corruption, but his spirit produced the Washington, which does the work delicately, and so indirectly that the devils are

at last defeated; and all the slaves of the world will be gradually liberated by divine wisdom; the millennium comes in only from western numbers of politi cians, increasing in freedom beyond aristocrats and slaves, is the only road to freedom, the new world's western woods form the paradise. Yet property innocently obtained, is too dear to lose; innocent aro people taught under wicked aristocracies to do wrong, but the wicked who pretend to rule are the guilty sinners, and nothing else than a republican government can gradually relieve them; individuals are not to blame for ignorantly obeying an aristocracy, but aristocrats collectively are the devil, who entangles man to man, and to kingly governments that will not gradually reform a revolution, for a sudden emancipation is the consequences; for by which the whole human family is twisted into a knot, by the foreign commerce of aristocracy, to be broken from revolutions only by the divine wisdom of a general whole, settling over the western woods.

Extreme foreign commercial speculation, is a stranger to the states of the south, consequently their commercial aristocrats are proportionably scarcer, and their interest being agricultural, of course is truly republican; the northern commerce has made farining beasts of Africans, and sold them to the forefathers of the south, and made the present generation hold them as property as the north hold oxen, to prevent the like slavery elsewhere in Columbia, these same inactive slaves by our constitution, carry sovereign justice over the same active enemy which enslaved them, and if every farmer north and south, had a vote for every ox and slave he owned, and the aristocrat had no vote, it would be impossible for kings to exist in the country; farmers have an interest in the welfare and freedom of doctors, preachers, lawyers and merchants, as well as of their wives and children, and women although they have no vote at all, in the government of men, yet the very women controul men; and so would the doctor, preacher, lawyer and merchant, indirectly controul the farmer, even had they not a single vote, nor a single office in government more than has women,

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for they like women though not in office, as much con, troul the farmers, by satan's cunning intrigue, which their imperceivable influence drives into their brains as an errand to the devil, as female cunning outstrips all moral government, which carries the serpent of civil compulsion directly over themselves, as does the folly of aristocrats crowd themselves into flames; if all the sovereign power of this people, was secured and bound down domestic and firm to our Columbian soil, by the voice of the farmer, to regulate commerce, we may de fy all the foreign influence of the old commercial world, for which is only brought in to our country, by the foreign lawyer, foreign merchant, and other for eign speculators, that is by such as are not mechanical laborers and farmers, but the idle consumers of their products. The sovereign power of the south, in consequence of slaves held by our constitution, five for two over the northern commercial speculator, maintains the very freedom of the northern farmer, for the interest of the richest southern planter in the European markets, is exactly the same with the poorest northern farmer or mechanical laborer, and in fact it is as much greater as he is richer. It is remarkably curious, how the ways of unseen Providence, destine the movements of his rising and falling nations, for bringing about his great ends, he has flattered the devil by giving him apparently a long chain of display, until in fact he defeats himself. The very salvation of Columbia, rises directly out of the mass of African corruption, which the British whale vomited up upon the shores of the new world, whereby the cunning of satan's spies among us, endeavoring to prejudice agricultural innocence against its own true interest, has crawled so shallow beneath the surface, as not to pass unseen before the eye of Columbian wisdom, and the evil of small devil falls. Yes, our very salvation, the revolution, the millennium, God produces with the deep discerning wisdom, which produces our western and southern policy, begun even sixty years ago.

Had the slaves of the south, been held in NewEngland with its commerce, as is British slaves and paupers held at home, mixed with her gun-ships and

tonnage which enslaved them, the world would continue in darkness, or had Britain so managed the new world, as to reject New-England and poured her commercial favoritism and spies of corruption, directly into Virginia instead of Massachusetts, her commercial aristocrats or tories, would have had the greater advantage of our constitution to destroy our indepen dence, for the five slaves then would count two for aristocrats, in the sovereign will of the devil; thought southern farmers of Virginia hold all the slaves, when if the Virginian lawyer and merchant even held no slaves, they may be voted into office, or may influence the election of such deluded farmers, as would enact lawyer laws, because slaves do not vote, neither do their masters vote for them, but one hundred and twenty-five thousand slaves, send one representative to Congress, and all the free people vote for him, whether slave holders or not. If every five oxen of the northern states, counted two in the sovereign will of all the northern commercial people, so as to balance the agricultural interest of the south, foreign commerce might by delusion, get the upper hand of the farmer, and subject the country to a foreign king, but if individually the fariner of the north, gained a sovereign voice over his neighboring aristocrats, in consequence of the oxen which he owned, it would be clear gain along the broad way to freedom; but when the farmers get their eyes open, our danger is over, and we will let our constitution remain as the influence of Washington, and other republican wisdom framed it in regard to sovereign power, and the northern farmer will always govern the northern aristocrat, and maintain his independence, and in time Africans set Africans entirely free, not only in the new world but in the old. Supposing the southern slaves were all free, the farm er would then have the sovereign power over the merchant, of at least fifteen representatives more than they now have; hence the northern merchant and lawyer, who so much clamor about nothing, have already a sovereign advantage, even according to the number of inhabitants over the farmer, besides all their Commercial influence of ruin; I think our constitution