difect their owa eonduct and thai of their chUf
drML AUhoiig^ they may work like ofir alavef ,
and kxm worse thaa they do, still they are
accnsloiiied to saperinteiid their families; to
purchase and seU; to provide ier thems^es;
and to cope with that hydra^eaded mo nsli e r
called the world, without which experience a free-
man is little else than a prey le vog«ery, in all its
nomberless forms and disguises* They have also,
manyof them, if not aU^ at some time or other, held
property, real or penonal, and accustomed them*
•eWes to its management. They are likewise sup-
ported by the habitnai feeing, that notwithstanttt^
ike usurpations of aiistocracy , they are and always
have been equal as men, though their rights are
unequal. On the contrary, the bondman is in a
great measure destitute of this preparatory e^^rih
• enoe, as well as habitual feeling of equality. He
cannot dif est hinneir of the sense of inferiority,
mleas by an effort which makes him insolent
and ungovemaUe. Hence, in the States of Pena^
syhania and New-York, where ^ousands of ne*
gross, either runawi^ or TolUntarily emancipated,
■re adnutted to all the prtidleges oi frsemen, a
melanoh^ course of eaqperienoe has shown that
seaicely one in a huHdned is capable) of ratianali|r
umngthe Uisaing. Thi^ hAfe abused, net esyogF*



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ed it. A large portion has died miserably ; equal
numbers have become the habitual inmates of
bridewells, penitentiaries, hospitals, and state pris-
ons ; and of the remainder, few, very few, are
either moral in their conduct, decent in their
manners, or respectable in their situation. The
great mass remain sad monuments of hopes which
can never be realized ; victims to the grand ex-
periment of severing the relations between master
and slave, without investigating the capacity of the
latter to provide for himself and family, acting the
part of a good neighbour and useful citizen, or sus-
taining any one single duty thus cast upon him by
the misguided zeal of hot-brained fanaticism, or
assumed by his own temerity. 