Beloved brethren—­here let me tell you, and believe it, that the Lord our God, as true as he sits on his throne in heaven, and as true as our Saviour died to redeem the world, will give you a Hannibal, and when the Lord shall have raised him up, and given him to you for your possession, O my suffering brethren! remember the divisions and consequent sufferings of Carthage and of Hayti.  Read the history particularly of Hayti, and see how they were butchered by the whites, and do you take warning.  The person whom God shall give you, give him your support and let him go his length, and behold in him the salvation of your God.  God will indeed, deliver you through him from your deplorable and wretched condition under the Christians of America.  I charge you this day before my God to lay no obstacle in his way, but let him go.

The whites want slaves, and want us for their slaves, but some of them will curse the day they ever saw us.  As true as the sun ever shine in its meridian splendor, my colour will root some of them out of the very face of the earth.  They shall have enough of making slaves of, and butchering, and murdering us in the manner which they have.  No doubt some may say that I write with a bad spirit, and that I being a black, wish these things to occur.  Whether I write with a bad or a good spirit, I say if these things do not occur in their proper time, it is because the world in which we live does not exist, and we are deceived with regard to its existence.  It is immaterial however to me, who believe, or who refuse—­though I should like to see the whites repent peradventure God may have mercy on them, some however, have gone so far that their cup must be filled.

But what need have I to refer to antiquity, when Hayti, the glory of the blacks and terror of tyrants, is enough to convince the most avaricious and stupid of wretches—­which is at this time, and I am sorry to say it, plagued with that scourge of nations, the Catholic religion; but I hope and pray God that she may yet rid herself of it, and adopt in its stead the Protestant faith; also, I hope that she may keep peace within her borders and be united, keeping a strict look out for tyrants, for if they get the least chance to injure her, they will avail themselves of it, as true as the Lord lives in heaven.  But one thing which gives me joy is, that they are men who would be cut off to a man, before they would yield to the combined forces of the whole world—­in fact, if the whole world was combined against them, it could not do any thing with them, unless the Lord delivers them up.