Elizabeth-Town gazette. [volume] (Elizabeth-Town, N.J.) 1818-1821, 1820-03-07


could justify the deed.
liz vain should we resort to apologies,
grounded Oh The faiIacious suggestions OF
a cautious and timid policy. | would as
soon believe the iucoherent tale Of school
boy, who should tell ue, be had been
frightened by ghost. as that the grant OF
this permission ought in any degree to
alarm us. Are We apprehensive that these
men will become more dangerous by be-
coming tieemen? Are we alarmed, lest,
BY being admitted to the enjoyment Of
civil-rights, they will be Inspired with a
deadly enmity against the rights of others!
Strange, unac conntahle paradox Hog
much more rational would il be, to argue,
that the natural enemy of The privileges of
"a freeman, is he, who is robbed of them
himselfi Ia him the foul demon of jeal-
.onsy converts the sense of his own debase-
ment Into rancorous hatred for the more
anspicioas iate of otbers-while from him.
wbon' you have raised from the degrading
situation OF siave-whom YOU have re
stored 10 that rank, in The order OF the
universe, which the mslisnity Of his for
tune prevented him from attaining before
from such man (unless bis soul be ten
Thousand times blacker than bis complex
ion) you may reasonably hope for all the
happy effects of the warmest gratitude and
love.
Sir, let us not limit our views TO the
short period OF lie in being lei us ex-
tend them along the continuous line Of
endless generations yet TO come. How
will the millions, that low TEEN iD the
womb OF iuturity, and whom your present
laws would doom TO the curse of perpetual
bondage, feel the inspiration of gratitude
10 those, whose sacred love Of liberty shall
have opened the door, 10 their admission
within the pale OF freedom! Dishonora-
Die 10 the species is the idea, that they
would ever prove injurious TO our utter
e..s-released from the shackles of slave
~, by the justice OF government aud the
bounty OF INTERCHANGEABLE want of fidelity
and attachment would be next TO impossi-
ole.
Sir. when We talk of policy, it would b.
we'll for us to reflect, whether pride is moi
at the bottom Of it; whether we do 20
ieel our vanity and sell consequence woun
lded al the idea of dusky African part
lcipating equally with ourselves, in III
rights Of human nature, and rising 10
level with US, from the lowest point oides
radiation.
| Prejndices of this kind, sir, are often s.
powerful, as to persuade us, that whateve
IcouDtervails them, is the extremity of fol
| ly, aud that the peculiar path of wisdom
is that which leads to their qualification
but it is for us, to be superior TO the influ
Ience of such ungenerous motives; it is FL
us to reflect, that whatever the complex
ion, however igncble the ancestry, or un
cultivated the mind, one universal fathe
gave being to them and us; and, with tina
Ibeing, conferred the unbelievable rights o
1.-The species. But have heard it argued
that if you permit a master to manumI
Ibis slaves by his last will and testament
as soon as they discover he has done so
they will destroy him, 10 prevent revo
cation-never was a weaker defence at
tempted, 10 justify the severity of persecu
tion-uever did bigotted inquisition con
+ denim an hereto to torture and 10 death
upon grounds less adequate TO justify the
horrid sentence.
Sir, is it not obvious, that the argumen
applies equally against all devices what
soever, for any persons benefit. For, j
an advantageous bequest is made, even t.
a white man, has he not the same tempta
tion. 10 cut short the life of his benefactor
TO secure aud accelerate the enjoyment .
the benefit.
! AS the universally of this argumen
renders it completely ngatory, SO is il
cruelty palpahle, by lis being more appli
cable 10 other instances, TO which it ha
never been applied at all, than to the cas-
under consideration.
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