ury, the right to bear arms,
and the liberty of worshipping God agreeably to the dictates
of our own consciences, are rendered for ever inviolate by
the Constitution.

That we may not weary your patience or be suspected of a
desire to set forth matters in too favorable a light, we have
been thus brief in our statements. It will naturally be
supposed, brethren, that the object of this address is to
induce you to emigrate and join us. To deny this would be a
gross want of candor, and not in unison with our professions
at the outset. We do wish it, and we tender you both the
heart and hand of good fellowship.

But here again, let us be equally candid with you. It is not
every man we could honestly advise or desire to come to this
colony. To those who are contented to live and educate their
children as house servants and lackeys, we would say, stay
where you are; here we have no masters to employ you. To the
indolent, heedless and slothful, we would say, tarry among
the flesh pots of Egypt; here we get our bread by the sweat
of the brow. To drunkards and rioters, we would say, come not
to us; you can never become naturalized in a land where there
are no grog shops, and where temperance and order is the
motto. To the timorous and suspicious, we would say, stay
where you have protectors; here we protect ourselves. But the
industrious, enterprising and patriotic of what occupation or
profession soever; the merchant, the mechanic, and farmer,
(but more particularly the latter,) we would counsel, advise
and entreat to come and be one with us, and assist in this
glorious enterprise, and enjoy with us that liberty to which
we ever were, and the man of color ever must be, a stranger
in America. To the ministers of the gospel, both white and
colored, we would say, come to this great harvest, and
diffuse amongst us and our benighted neighbors, that light of
the gospel, without which liberty itself is but slavery, and
freedom but perpetual bondage.

Accept, brethren, our best wishes; and, praying that the
Great Disposer of events will direct you to that course,
which will tend to your happiness and the benefit of our race
throughout the world,

We subscribe ourselves

Yours, most affectionately,