reflection, that they have no just power or authority to hold men in
slavery, and seeing that your actions are charitable and
disinterested, will cordially inlist under your banners, and aid your
benevolent exertions.

Already have you reason to suppose, that your good examples have been
influential; you humbly began with a few, and you now see your numbers
hourly encreasing.

It may be the effusions of a youthful fancy, solicitous of
aggrandizing your merit, but I fear not to say, that the operations of
similar institutions will date one of the most splendid aeras of
American greatness.

Go on then, my friends, pursue the dictates of an unsullied
conscience, and cease not until you have finished your work--but let
prudence guide you in all your undertakings, and let not an
enthusiastic heat predominate over reason. Your cause is a just one,
consistent with law and equity, and must finally be advocated by all
men of Humanity and Religion.

* * * * *

"_For, 'tis Liberty alone which gives the flower
of fleeting life its lustre and perfume,
And we are weeds without it._"

TASK.

FOOTNOTES:

[36] _A whip with nine tails._

[37] Massachusetts.

[38] This was thrown out as a conjecture of what possibly might
happen, and the insurrections in St. Domingo tend to prove the danger,
to be more considerable than has generally been supposed, and
sufficient to alarm the inhabitants of these States.

FINIS.

[Transcriber's Notes:

Every effort has been made to replicate this text as faithfully as
possible, including obsolete and variant spellings and other
inconsistencies.

The transcriber noted the following issues and made changes as
indicated to the text to correct obvious errors:

1. p. 15, "tendto" --> "tend to"
2. p. 18, "partiotism" --> "patriotism"
3. p. 30, Footnote #9, "Litterature" --> "Litterature"
4. p. 33, Footnote #10, Elliot's Debates, Va. p. 452:
(page number is indecipherable, possibly 452.)
5. p. 37, Footnote #11, "contray" --> "contrary"
6. p. 40, Footnote #12, April 23, 178?, (year is indecipherable)
7. p. 41, Both "Ralph Sandiford" and "Ralph Sandyford" appear in
main text and Footnote #13
8. p. 76, Both "Adam Fonerdon" and "Adam Fonerden" appear in
main text and Footnote #21
9. p. 99, "terrestial" --> "terrestri