whose air is too pure for slavery to breathe, and on whose shores, if the captive’s foot but touch, his fetters of themselves fall off. (Cheers.) To the resistless progress of this great principle I look with a confidence which nothing can shake; it makes all improvement certain—­it makes all change safe which it produces; for none can be brought about, unless all has been accomplished in a cautious and salutary spirit.  So now the fulness of time is come; for our duty being at length discharged to the African captive, I have demonstrated to you that every thing is ordered—­every previous step taken—­all safe, by experience shown to be safe, for the long-desired consummation.  The time has come—­the trial has been made—­the hour is striking:  you have no longer a pretext for hesitation, or faltering, or delay.  The slave has shown, by four years’ blameless behavior and devotion, unsurpassed by any English peasant, to the pursuit of peaceful industry, that he is as fit for his freedom as any lord whom I now address.  I demand his rights—­I demand his liberty without stint, in the names of justice and of law—­in the name of reason—­in the name of God, who has given you no right to work injustice.  I demand that your brother be no longer trampled upon as your slave. (Hear, hear.) I make my appeal to the Commons, who represent the free people of England; and I require at their hands the performance of that condition for which they paid so enormous a price—­that condition which all their constituents are in breathless anxiety to see fulfilled!  I appeal to his house—­the hereditary judges of the first tribunal in the world—­to you I appeal for justice.  Patrons of all the arts that humanize mankind, under your protection I place humanity herself!  To the merciful Sovereign of a free people I call aloud for mercy to the hundreds of thousands in whose behalf half a million of her Christian sisters have cried aloud, that their cry may not have risen in vain.  But first I turn my eye to the throne of all justice, and devoutly humbling myself before Him who is of purer eyes than to behold any longer such vast iniquities—­I implore that the curse over our heads of unjust oppression be averted from us—­that your hearts may be turned to mercy—­and that over all the earth His will may at length be done!

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INDEX.

ABSCONDING from labor,
Accident in a boiling house,
Aged negro,
Allowance to Apprentices,
“Amalgamation,”
American Consul, (See Consul.)
American Prejudice,
Amity Hall Estate,
Anderson, Wm. II.  Esq.,
Anguilla,
Annual Meeting of Missionaries,
Antigua, Dimensions of,
  " Sugar Crop of,
Applewhitte, Mr.
Appraisement of Apprentices,
Apprentice, provisions respecting the,
Apprenticeship compared with slavery,
Apprenticeship System,
      " Design of,
      " Good effect of,
      " No preparation