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as descending originally from the
tribes of Monkeys or _Orang-Outangs_? O! my God! I appeal to every
man of feeling--is not this insupportable? Is it not heaping the most
gross insult upon our miseries, because they have got us under their
feet and we cannot help ourselves? Oh! pity us we pray thee, Lord
Jesus, Master.--Has Mr. Jefferson declared to the world, that we are
inferior to the whites, both in the endowments of our bodies and of
minds? It is indeed surprising, that a man of such great learning,
combined with such excellent natural parts, should speak so of a set of
men in chains. I do not know what to compare it to, unless, like putting
one wild deer in an iron cage, where it will be secured, and hold
another by the side of the same, then let it go, and expect the one in the

cage to run as fast as the one at liberty. So far, my brethren, were the
Egyptians from heaping these insults upon their slaves, that Pharaoh's
daughter took Moses, a son of Israel, for her own, as will appear by the
following.
"And Pharaoh's daughter said unto her, [Moses' mother] take this child
away, and nurse it for me and I will pay thee thy wages. And the
woman took the child [Moses] and nursed it.
"And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's daughter and
he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said
because I drew him out of the water."[6]
In all probability, Moses would have become Prince Regent to the
throne, and no doubt, in process of time but he would have been seated
on the throne of Egypt. But he had rather suffer shame, with the people
of God, than to enjoy pleasures with that wicked people for a season. O!
that the colored people were long since of Moses' excellent disposition,
instead of courting favor with, and telling news and lies to our natural
enemies, against each other--aiding them to keep their hellish chains of
slavery upon us. Would we not long before this time, have been
respectable men, instead of such wretched victims of oppression as we
are? Would they be able to drag our mothers, our fathers, our wives,
our children and ourselves, around the world in chains and hand-cuffs
as they do, to dig up gold and silver for them and theirs? This question,
my brethren, I leave for you to digest; and may God Almighty force it
home to your hearts. Remember that unless you are united, keeping
your tongues within your teeth, you will be afraid to trust your secrets
to each other, and thus perpetuate our miseries under the
_christians!!!!!_ [Hand->] ADDITION,--Remember, also to lay humble
at the feet of our Lord and Master Jesus Christ, with prayers and
fastings. Let our enemies go on with their butcheries, and at once fill up
their cup. Never make an attempt to gain our freedom or natural right,
from under our cruel oppressors and murderers, until you see your way
clear; when that hour arrives and you move, be not afraid or dismayed;
for be you assured that Jesus Christ the king of heaven and of earth
who is the God of justice and of armies, will surely go before you. And

those enemies who have for hundreds of years stolen our rights, and
kept us ignorant of Him and His divine worship, he will remove.
Millions of whom, are this day, so ignorant and avaricious, that they
cannot conceive how God can have an attribute of justice, and show
mercy to us because it pleased Him to make us black--which color, Mr.
Jefferson calls unfortunate!!!!!! As though we are not as thankful to our
God for having made us as it pleased himself, as they (the whites) are
for having made them white. They think because they hold us in their
infernal chains of slavery that we wish to be white, or of their
color--but they are dreadfully deceived--we wish to be just as it pleased
our Creator to have made us, and no avaricious and unmerciful
wretches, have any business to make slaves of or hold us in slavery.
How would they like for us to make slaves of, or hold them in cruel
slavery, and murder them as they do us? But is Mr. Jefferson's assertion
true? viz. "that it is unfortunate for us that our Creator has been pleased
to make us black." We will not take his say so, for the fact. The world
will have an opportunity to see whether it is unfortunate for us, that our
Creator has made us darker than the whites.
Fear not the number and education of our enemies, against whom we
shall have to contend