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poses of the Deity; they will not change this paradise into a hell, where every foul bird, and that that maketh a lie hovers and deceives! No, we will think better things of our neighbors, and trust, though we have at times had our faith shaken, that, since they have had their attention so thoroughly aroused by the thousand publications on the subject, they will repent, and restore their brother man to that dignity which our Constitution, nature, and God, hath designed him.

If, however, this is not to be the end, and our courts decide the descendants of Africa are to be thrown out of all government protection, that they are to be left to the mercy of irresponsible men to treat them as they list, or even to the tender mercies of a State, when that State can use the barbarity towards them that Alabama, Arkansas, and Missouri have done, in commanding all free colored people to leave their several States under heavy penalties, or making it impossible for them to be freed; better these United States be broken up at once; we see no object in their union! The purposes for which the union was designed is not the actuating one for which it is to be continued, and it should be so understood. In the original design, the liberty of all persons was to be secured; in the present, only a part; for if the descendants of the African race can now be made slaves without remorse, it cannot be long before the descendants of the Anglo-Saxon will be, if they are not already, under the same disabilities, with as little compunction of conscience, and the

fears of Patrick Henry will be more than realized. But, as we have remarked before, we do not believe this will be the case; and we trust we shall yet be able to say these United States will do what Mrs. Hannah More said England would, during the contest for destroying the legality of the slavetrade :

"Shall Britain, where the soul of freedom reigns,
Forge chains for others she herself disdains?
Forbid it, Heaven! O let the nations know
The liberty she tastes she will bestow;
Not to herself the glorious gift confined,
She spreads the blessing wide as human kind,
And, scorning narrow views of time and place,
Bids all be free in earth's extended space.
What page in human annals can record
A deed so bright as human rights restored?
O may that godlike deed, that shining page,
Redeem our fame and consecrate our age;
And let this glory mark our favored shore,
To curb false freedom, and the true restore!
And see the cherub MERCY, from above
Descending, softly quits the sphere of love!
On Britain's Isle she sheds her heavenly dew,
And breathes her spirit o'er the favored few;
From soul to soul the generous influence steals,
Till every breast the soft contagion feels.
She speeds exulting to the burning shore,
With the best message angels ever bore;
Hark! 't is the note that gave a Saviour's birth,
Glory to God on high, and peace on earth!

As the mild spirit hovers o'er the coast,
A fresher hue the withered landscape boasts:
Her healing smiles the ruined scenes repair,
And blasted nature wears a joyous air,
Whilst she proclaims through all her spicy groves,
Henceforth your fruits, your labors, and your loves,
All that your sires possessed or you have sown,
Sacred from plunder, all is now your own."

APPENDIX.

A.

The following are the resolutions passed at the Green Dragon, alluded to on page 161 of this work:

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"Boston, January 7, 1788. Agreeably to an advertisement inserted in the papers of this day, the tradesmen of this town met at Mason's Hall, Green Dragon, at 6 o'clock, P. M. when John Lucas, Esq. was chosen moderator; and, after some discussion, the moderator, Paul Revere, Esq. and Mr. Benjamin Russell, were chosen to draft certain resolutions expressive of the sense of this body. The committee, after having retired, returned, and reported the following, which, being read, was unanimously accepted, and voted to be printed in the several public papers, namely:

"Whereas some persons, intending to injure the reputation of the tradesmen of this town, have asserted that they were unfriendly and adverse to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America, as proposed on the 17th of September last, by the convention of the United States assembled in Philadelphia,— therefore, to manifest the falsehood of such assertions, and to discover to the world our sentiments of the proposed frame of government,

"Be it resolved,

"1. That such assertions are false and groundless,

and it is the sense of this body, that all those who propagate such reports have no other view than the injury of our reputation, or the attainment of their own wicked purposes, on base and false ground.

2, That, in the judgment of this body, the proposed frame of government is well calculated to secure the liberties, protect the property, and guard the rights, of the citizens of America; and it is our warmest wish and prayer that the same should be adopted by the commonwealth.

"3. That it is our opinion, if said Constitution should be adopted by the United States of America, trade and navigation will revive and increase, employment and subsistence will be afforded to many of our townsmen who are now suffering from want of the necessaries of life; that it will promote industry and morality, render us respectable as a nation, and procure us all the blessings to which we are entitled from the natural wealth of our country, our freedom, and independence.

"4. That it is the sense of this body, that, if the proposed frame of government should be rejected, the small remains of commerce yet left us will be annihilated; the various trades and handicrafts dependent thereon must decay; our poor will be increased, and many of our worthy and skilful mechanics compelled to seek employment and subsistence in strange lands.

"5. That, in the late election of delegates to represent this town in convention, it was our design, and, in the opinion of this body, the design of every good man in town, to elect such men, and such only, as would exert their utmost ability to promote the adoption of the proposed frame of government in all its parts, without any conditions, pretended amendments, or alterations whatever; and that such, and such only, will truly represent the feelings, wishes, and desires, of their con