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yet they are
calling for _Peace!--Peace!!_ Will any peace be given unto them? Their
destruction may indeed be procrastinated awhile, but can it continue
long while they are oppressing the Lord's people? Has He not the hearts
of all men in His hand? Will he suffer one part of his creatures to go on
oppressing another like brutes always, with impunity? And yet those
avaricious wretches are calling for _Peace!!!!_ I declare it does appear
to me, as though some nations think God is asleep, or that he made the
Africans for nothing else but to dig their mines and work their farms, or

they cannot believe history, sacred or profane. I ask every man who has
a heart and is blessed with the privilege of believing--Is not God a God
of justice to all his creatures? Do you say he is? Then if he gives peace
and tranquility to tyrants, and permits them to keep our fathers, our
mothers, ourselves and our children in eternal ignorance and
wretchedness to support them and their families, would he be to us a
God of _justice_? I ask O ye _christians!!!_ who hold us and our
children, in the most abject ignorance and degradation, that ever a
people were afflicted with since the world began--I say, if God gives
you peace and tranquility, and suffers you thus to go on afflicting us
and our children, who have never given you the least
provocation,--Would he be to us _a God of justice_? If you will allow
that we are MEN, who feel for each other, does not the blood of our
fathers and of us their children, cry aloud to the Lord of Sabaoth
against you, for the cruelties and murders with which you have, and do
continue to afflict us. But it is time for me to close my remarks on the
suburbs, just to enter more fully into the interior of this system of
cruelty and oppression.

ARTICLE I.
OUR WRETCHEDNESS IN CONSEQUENCE OF SLAVERY.
My beloved brethren: The Indians of North and of South America--the
Greeks--the Irish subjected under the king of Great Britain--the Jews
that ancient people of the Lord--the inhabitants of the islands of the
sea--in fine, all the inhabitants of the earth, (except however, the sons
of Africa) are called men, and of course are, and ought to be free. But
we, (coloured people) and our children are _brutes!!_ and of course are
and ought to be SLAVES to the American people and their children
forever! to dig their mines and work their farms; and thus go on
enriching them, from one generation to another with our blood and our
tears!!
I promised in a preceding page to demonstrate to the satisfaction of the
most incredulous, that we, (colored people of these United States of

America) are the _most wretched, degraded_ and abject set of beings
that ever lived since the world began, and that the white Americans
having reduced us to the wretched state of slavery, treat us in that
condition more cruel (they being an enlightened and Christian people)
than any heathen nation did any people whom it had reduced to our
condition. These affirmations are so well confirmed in the minds of all
unprejudiced men who have taken the trouble to read histories, that
they need no elucidation from me. But to put them beyond all doubt, I
refer you in the first place to the children of Jacob, or of Israel in Egypt,
under Pharaoh and his people. Some of my brethren do not know who
Pharaoh and the Egyptians were--I know it to be a fact that some of
them take the Egyptians to have been a gang of devils, not knowing any
better, and that they (Egyptians) having got possession of the Lord's
people, treated them nearly as cruel as christians Americans do us, at
the present day. For the information of such, I would only mention that
the Egyptians, were Africans or colored people, such as we are--some
of them yellow and others dark--a mixture of Ethiopians and the
natives of Egypt--about the same as you see the colored people of the
United States at the present day,--I say, I call your attention then, to the
children of Jacob, while I point out particularly to you his son Joseph
among the rest, in Egypt.
"And Pharaoh, said unto Joseph, thou shalt be over my house, and
according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled; only in the throne
will I be greater than thou."[1]
"And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, see, I have set thee over all the land of
Egypt."[2]
"And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without thee shall
no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Egypt."[3]
Now I appeal