liberty? Deaf to the clamors of criticism, she feels no remorse,
and blindly pursues the object of her destruction; she encourages
the propagation of vice, and suffers her youth to be reared in the
habits of cruelty. Not even the sobs and groans of injured
innocence which reek from every state can excite her pity, nor
human misery bend her heart to sympathy. Cruel and oppressive she
wantonly abuses the rights of man, and willingly sacrifices her
liberty upon the altar of slavery.

"What an opportunity is here given for triumph among her enemies!
Will they not exclaim that, upon this very day, while the
Americans celebrate the anniversary of freedom and independence,
abject slavery exists in all her states but one?
[Note--Massachusetts.] How degenerately base to merit the rebuke!
Fellow countrymen, let the heart of humanity awake and direct your
councils. Combine to drive the fiend monster from your
territories.

"Your laborers are slaves, and they have no incentive to be
industrious; they are clothed and victualed, whether lazy or
hard-working; and, from the calculations that have been made, one
freeman is worth two slaves in the field, which make it in many
instances cheaper to have hirelings; for they are incited to
industry by hopes of reputation and future employment, and are
careful of their apparel and their implements of husbandry, where
they must provide them for themselves; whereas the others have
little or no temptation to attend to any of these circumstances.

"Fellow countrymen, let the hand of persecution be no longer
raised against you; act virtuously; 'do unto all men as you would
that they should do unto you,' and exterminate the pest of slavery
from the land."

The orator then goes on to hold up the horrors of an insurrection. He
reminds his hearers that in many parts of the South the number of
slaves exceeds that of the whites. He reminds them that these slaves
are naturally born free and have a right to freedom; that they will
not forever sweat under the yoke of slavery. "Heaven," he says, "will
not overlook such enormities. She is bound to punish impenitent
sinners, and her wrath is to be dreaded by all. What, then, if the
fire of liberty shall be kindled among them? What if some enthusiast
in their cause shall beat to arms and call them to the standard of
freedom? Led on by the hope