But you will say, a great many other Northerners tell us so, who can have no political motives.  The interests of the North, you must know, my friends, are very closely combined with those of the South.  The Northern merchants and manufacturers are making their fortunes out of the produce of slave labor; the grocer is selling your rice and sugar; how then can these men bear a testimony against slavery without condemning themselves?  But there is another reason, the North is most dreadfully afraid of Amalgamation.  She is alarmed at the very idea of a thing so monstrous, as she thinks.  And lest this consequence might flow from emancipation, she is determined to resist all efforts at emancipation without expatriation.  It is not because she approves of slavery, or believes it to be “the corner stone of our republic,” for she is as much anti-slavery as we are; but amalgamation is too horrible to think of.  Now I would ask you, is it right, is it generous, to refuse the colored people in this country the advantages of education and the privilege, or rather the right, to follow honest trades and callings merely because they are colored?  The same prejudice exists here against our colored brethren that existed against the Gentiles in Judea.  Great numbers cannot bear the idea of equality, and fearing lest, if they had the same advantages we enjoy, they would become as intelligent, as moral, as religious, and as respectable and wealthy, they are determined to keep them as low as they possibly can.  Is this doing as they would be done by?  Is this loving their neighbor as themselves?  Oh! that such opposers of Abolitionism would put their souls in the stead of the free colored man’s and obey the apostolic injunction, to “remember them that are in bonds as bound with them.”  I will leave you to judge whether the fear of amalgamation ought to induce men to oppose anti-slavery efforts, when they believe slavery to be sinful.  Prejudice against color, is the most powerful enemy we have to fight with at the North.

You need not be surprised, then, at all, at what is said against Abolitionists by the North, for they are wielding a two-edged sword, which even here, cuts through the cords of caste, on the one side, and the bonds of interest on the other.  They are only sharing the fate of other reformers, abused and reviled whilst they are in the minority; but they are neither angry nor discouraged by the invective which has been heaped upon them by slaveholders at the South and their apologists at the North.  They know that when George Fox and William Edmundson were laboring in behalf of the negroes in the West Indies in 1671 that the very same slanders were propogated against them, which are now circulated against Abolitionists.  Although it was well known that Fox was the founder of a religious sect which repudiated all war, and all