up to the teachings of Christ.  “Even here in Boston,” we are informed, “pride and prejudice have got to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord they have built little places for the reception of colored people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house of God.”  Hypocrisy could hardly go further than that of preachers who could not see the evils at their door but could “send out missionaries to convert the heathen, notwithstanding.”  Article IV was headed “Our Wretchedness in Consequence of the Colonizing Plan.”  This was a bitter arraignment, especially directed against Henry Clay.  “I appeal and ask every citizen of these United States,” said Walker, “and of the world, both white and black, who has any knowledge of Mr. Clay’s public labors for these states—­I want you candidly to answer the Lord, who sees the secrets of your hearts, Do you believe that Mr. Henry Clay, late Secretary of State, and now in Kentucky, is a friend to the blacks further than his personal interest extends?...  Does he care a pinch of snuff about Africa—­whether it remains a land of pagans and of blood, or of Christians, so long as he gets enough of her sons and daughters to dig up gold and silver for him?...  Was he not made by the Creator to sit in the shade, and make the blacks work without remuneration for their services, to support him and his family?  I have been for some time taking notice of this man’s speeches and public writings, but never to my knowledge have I seen anything in his writings which insisted on the emancipation of slavery, which has almost ruined his country.”  Walker then paid his compliments to Elias B. Caldwell and John Randolph, the former of whom had said, “The more you improve the condition of these people, the more you cultivate their minds, the more miserable you make them in their present state.”  “Here,” the work continues, “is a demonstrative proof of a plan got up, by a gang of slaveholders, to select the free people of color from among the slaves, that our more miserable brethren may be the better secured in ignorance and wretchedness, to work their farms and dig their mines, and thus go on enriching the Christians with their blood and groans.  What our brethren could have been thinking about, who have left their native land and gone away to Africa, I am unable to say....  The Americans may say or do as they please, but they have to raise us from the condition of brutes to that of respectable men, and to make a national acknowledgment to us for the wrongs they have inflicted on us....  You may doubt it, if you please.  I know that thousands will doubt—­they think they have us so well secured in wretchedness, to them and their children, that it is impossible for such things to occur.  So did the antediluvians doubt Noah, until the day in which the flood came and swept them away.  So did the Sodomites doubt, until Lot had got out of the city, and God rained down fire and brimstone from heaven upon them and burnt them up.  So did the king of Egypt doubt the very existence of God, saying, ’Who is the Lord, that I should let Israel go?’ ...  So did the Romans doubt....  But they got dreadfully deceived.”