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acIs with lead at night, and steel i'll the
morning. This is the happy consumma-
ton of six hundred years of British authorl-
tv! And how can you, Sir, look any hu-
man being in the the face, and charge his
country with wrong, till you have strained
every effort TO redress this vast hereditary
guilt? Or, ifyou fail, how can you speak,
nationally, in the hearing ofearth, or heaven,
about human wrongs?
10. Look, for the last time, to the vast
plains of South Africa, wet with the blood
Of murdered nations. Read the clear and
mastery speech of DR.. Phillip, already
twice referred to. "If a traveller who had
visited that country twenty-five years ago,
were to take his stand on the banks Of the
Kciskamma river, and ask what had become
of the natives whom he saw there on his
former visit; if he took his stand on the
rocks of the Sondags river, and looked, he
might ask the same question; if he were
to take his stand again on the Fish river,
and then extend his views to Catfrarla, ne
might ask the same question; and were he
to take his stand on Snow mountain, called
Graaf Reinct, (he would have before him a
country containing 10000 square miles,
and ask where was the immense concourse
he saw there twenty-five years ago; no
man could tell him where they were %
Ask Lord GIenelg, his Majesty's principal
Secretary for the colonies, and hewlll admit
that the system of treachery, plumber and
butchery, by which these brave and upright
savages have been wasted in exterminatlng
oppression, constitutes perhaps the most
degrading of all the chapters Of the history
of mankind 1t is chapter written in the
tears and blood of slaughtered tribes-and
is hardly yet dry upon the paper that re-
cords it for the execration of posterity 1t
is chapter that had not been fully enacted
when you were concocting plans and ar
ranging agencies, by which to make Illus
trious the benign sway ofunversal freedom,
Justice, and benevolencc in your Monarchy
and to brand upon our Republic reproach.
es which all coming generations could not
eface. But why need | multiply particu-
lars? When these things are set right, and
YOU seek for US another list we will say to
you concerning your polity, in nearly all its
parts, things which you will then be better
able to bear. We will point out how you
may establish real freedom amongst YOUR
selves, and thereby show your acquaintance
with its sacred principles; how you can
make your laws just, equal, and humane,
and thereby manifest in practice your devo-
ton to principles commended for others.
At present such proceeding would only
irritate; and is the more readily forborne,
because it is not as sn American or Re-
publican, but as Christian, my mission
brought me to you. The assurance, too,
that the party with which you act, is, in
point of numbers, a very small minority Of
the British nation, makes me the more will
ling to adhere to this view Of my duty. In
deed it is chiefly because your party has
much of its strength in that sect to which |
was more particularly sent, that it seemed
clearly necessary for me to take part at all
in these discussions. ....E
readily admit that time, patience, sacrl'
fees, and much labor, are needful for the re.
dress of the evils | have pointed out. |
know that the present generation is not re-
sponsible in such sense, for most of them
as past generations have been. | am con.
vinced that multitudes of Englishmen de-
plore, and would gladly remove them. |
am satisfied that it is by the silent influence
of example, and the kind and clear exPosl-
ton of general principles, rather than rude
and personal, harsh or national assaults, that
we can do you good, in these or similar ca
ses. And | gladly declare my belief, that
the Christians of America, as such, can and
ought 10 hold christian intercourse and
sympathy with the Christians of Britain
Notwithstanding the British nation may be
responsible in the matters alleged; and that
we can and ought to do it--without perpet-
ual vituperation and insult, even for what is
true-not to say without gross perversions
of the facts and merits of the case. Such,
sir, are my views of the subject. | deeply
regret that yours are so widely different.
And humbly besecch you to imagine the
whole course OF your proceedings and ar
guments-embracing of course the mission
of Mr.. Thompson, and his conduct since
his return-made ours, and our case made
yours; and then decide what would by this
time have been the feelings of your people
towards us, if he had treated you as you
have treated us )? | declare, in the presence
of God, my firm belief, that if things 60 on
much longer as they have progressed tor
the last two years, there will not be founa
on earth men more estranged from each
other than the professors of religion in the
two countries. | have already witnessed
the spectacle Of a part of the religious press
in England, urging forward the government
of the country, to an Intervention, If neces-
z,, ,,;.b ,rr,e oroinct tho DropreSS OF