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all the social, and many of the political relations of a whole people. They overlook in their zeal, that they assail rights, (for such they are claimed to be, and cemented by ages) of communities, who are in no wise accountable to them. Information, humanity, temperate and wise union of thought and action, among all who desire emancipation; and especially rational interest, more than all other things put together, are the only means by which the great purpose in view can be accomplished. The principle of slavery is one thing; the abolition of long continued slavery, is entirely another; and it may well be doubted whether discussions thereon, in non-slave holding states, are profitable to any purpose.

This is a subject which the most Christian heart, and the wisest head, must approach with great solemnity. Suppose a competent authority should declare to a Northern philanthropist You shall devote your life to the abolition of slavery, and your life shall be prolonged for fifty years, in full vigor of body and mind. You shall have an inexhaustible treasury. The national and state governments shall enact, and execute, every law which you see fit to propose. But you shall effect your purpose within the term of your life; and in effecting your purpose, you shall not violate any principle of conventional, natural, or divine law; and the manumitted shall not be in a worse condition from your labors.' What would be the successive steps of this philanthropist? Slavery will gradually recede far to the South, if rationally, and philosophically treated, and it is hoped, more for the sake of the white man than the colored, beyond the limits of our national republic. But, if this glorious achievement should ever be effected, it will not be through the honorable benevolence felt among those who dwell where slavery is not; but through the systematic and prospective measures which originate among those, where slavery is, and who are most interested to see its termination.

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