ISren at this moment the news has arrived, that
they have massacred a colony of their own colour,
established for the most benevolent purposes, on
their shores, and on a plan which, if ultimately
successful, may free millions of their race from
bondage, while it introduces, if any means are ade-
quate to such a purpose, civilization and Christian-
ity into the bosom of their country.
They seem, indeed, like their own native des-
erts, to be incapable of cultivation, destitute of the
capacity of improvement. The dews that would
seem desirous to bless Uiem produce no verdure ;
the rains only descend to sink into the barren insa-
tiable soil, that gives back nothing in return.
The sun, which in happier climes warms into
maturity all the benificent products of nature, here
only scorches and consumes them; the breezes
which are elsewhere the harbingers of health and
pleasure, of coolness and refreshment, here come
freighted with disease and death ; the rivers, along
whose borders alone man can exist, and only the
Uack man, while they diffuse fertility, send forth
exhalations fatal to all others; and the white
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