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182 SLATERT«

What then hare the United States dome to bo
thus singled out from the rest of the world as a t«r*
get for the great guns of philanthropy? The3r
tolerated the slave trade not a moment after
the constitution permitted them to abolish it;
they hare refused to allow the British cruisers to
board and search their vessels under pretence of
suppressing that trade — a privilege that would re*
vive and sanction the antiquated claim of England
which occasioned the late war ; and the people of
the South have declined to yield to the seductive
anathemas of English and American abolitionists,
and let loose upon themselves millions of ignorant,
helpless slaves, to become either a burden or a
curse to their masters. Last, and worst of all,
they have rejected the honour of mingling their
blood with that of their slaves, and debasing their
species by the favourite process of amalgamation.
