ons in Africa but in a more secret, servile
and abject manner. Oh Heaven! I am full!!! I can hardly move my pen!!!
As I expect some one will try to put me to death, to strike terror
into others, and to obliterate from their minds the notion of freedom,
so as to keep my brethren the more secured in wretchedness where they
will be permitted to stay but a short time (whether tyrants believe it
or not,) I shall give the world a development of facts which are
already witnessed in the courts of heaven. My observer may see some of
those ignorant and treacherous creatures (colored people) sneaking
about in the large cities, endeavoring to find out all strange colored
people, where they work and where they reside, asking them questions
and trying to ascertain whether they are runaways or not, telling
them, at the same time, that they always have been, are, and always
will be, friends to their brethren; and perhaps, that they themselves
are absconders, and a thousand such treacherous lies to get the better
information of the more ignorant!! There have been and are at this day
in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, coloured men, who
are in league with tyrants, and receive a great portion of their daily
bread, of the moneys which they acquire from the blood and tears of
their more miserable brethren whom they scandalously delivered into
the hands of our _natural enemies!!!!_

To show the force of degraded ignorance and deceit among us some
further, I will give here an extract from a paragraph, which may be
found in the Columbian Centinel of this city, for September 9, 1829,
on the first page of which the curious may find an article, headed

"AFFRAY AND MURDER."

_Portsmouth, (Ohio) Aug. 22, 1829._

"A most shocking outrage was committed in Kentucky, about
eight miles from this place, on the 14th inst. A negro
driver, by the name of Gordon, who had purchased in Maryland
about sixty negroes, was taking them, assisted by an
associate named Allen and the wagoner who conveyed the
baggage, to the Mississippi. The men were hand-cuffed and
chained together, in the usual manner for driving these poor
wretches, while the women and children were suffered to
proceed without incumbrance. It appears that, by means of a
file the negroes unobserved had succeeded in separating the
irons which bound their hands, in such a way as to be a