travel as a slave to a white man (a servant is a slave to the man whom he serves,) or have your free papers (which if you are not careful they will get from you) if they do not take you up and put you in jail, and if you cannot give evidence of your freedom, sell you into eternal slavery, I am not a living man; or any man of color, immaterial who he is or where he came from, if he is not the 4th from the “Negro race,” (as we are called,) the white christians of America will serve him the same, they will sink him into wretchedness & degradation forever while he lives.  And yet some of you have the hardihood to say that you are free & happy!  May God have mercy on your freedom and happiness!  I met a colored man in the street a short time since, with a string of boots on his shoulder; we fell into conversation, and in course of which I said to him, what a miserable set of people we are!  He asked why?—­Said I, we are so subjected under the whites, that we cannot obtain the comforts of life, but by cleaning their boots and shoes, old clothes, waiting on them, shaving them, etc.  Said he, (with the boots on his shoulders,) “I am completely happy!!!  I never want to live any better or happier than when I can get a plenty of boots and shoes to clean!!!” Oh! how can those who are actuated by avarice only, but think that our creator made us to be an inheritance to them forever, when they see that our greatest glory is centered in such mean and low objects?  Understand me, brethren, I do not mean to speak against the occupations by which we acquire enough and sometimes scarcely that, to render ourselves and families comfortable through life.  I am subjected to the same inconvenience, as you all.  My objections are, to our glorying and being happy in such low employments; for if we are men, we ought to be thankful to the Lord for the past, and for the future.  Be looking forward with thankful hearts to higher attainments than wielding the razor and cleaning boots and shoes.  The man whose aspirations are not above, and even below these, is indeed, ignorant and wretched enough.  I advance it therefore to you, not as a problematical, but as an unshaken and forever immoveable fact, that your full glory and happiness, as well as all other colored people under heaven, shall never be fully consummated, but with the entire emancipation of your enslaved brethren all over the world.  You may therefore, go to work and do what you can to rescue, or join in with tyrants to oppress them and yourselves, until the Lord shall come upon you all like a thief in the night.  For I believe it is the will of the Lord that our greatest happiness shall consist in working for the salvation of our whole body.  When this is accomplished a burst of glory will shine upon you, which will indeed astonish you and the world.  Do any of you say this will never be done?  I assure you that God will accomplish it—­if nothing else will answer, he will hurl tyrants and devils into atoms and make way for his people.  But O my brethren!  I say unto you again, you must go to work and prepare the way of the Lord.