The Pagans, Jews and Mahometans try to make proselytes to their religions, and whatever human beings adopt their religions, they extend to them their protection.  But Christian Americans not only hinder their fellow creatures, the Africans, but thousands of them will absolutely beat a coloured person nearly to death, if they catch him on his knees, supplicating the throne of grace.  This barbarous cruelty was by all the heathen nations of antiquity, and is by the Pagans, Jews and Mahometans of the present day, left entirely to Christian Americans to inflict on the Africans and their descendants that their cup which is nearly full may be completed.  I have known tyrants or usurpers of human liberty in different parts of this country take their fellow creatures, the colored people, and beat them until they would scarcely leave life in them; what for?  Why they say,

     “The black devils had the audacity to be found making
     prayers and supplications to the God who made them!!!”

Yes, I have known small collections of coloured people to have convened together, for no other purpose than to worship God Almighty, in spirit and in truth, to the best of their knowledge; when tyrants, calling themselves patrols, would also convene and wait almost in breathless silence for the poor coloured people to commence singing and praying to the Lord our God, and as soon as they had commenced the wretches would burst in upon them and drag them out and commence beating them as they would rattle-snakes—­many of whom, they would beat so unmercifully, that they would hardly be able to crawl for weeks and sometimes for months.—­Yet the American ministers send out missionaries to convert the heathen, while they keep us and our children sunk at their feet in the most abject ignorance and wretchedness that ever a people was afflicted with since the world began.  Will the Lord suffer this people to proceed much longer?  Will he not stop them in their career?  Does he regard the heathens abroad, more than the heathens among the Americans?  Surely the Americans must believe that God is partial, notwithstanding his Apostle Peter, declared before Cornelius and others that he has no respect to persons, but in every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted with him.—­

     “The word,” said he, “which God sent unto the children of
     Israel, preaching peace, by Jesus Christ, (he is the Lord of
     all.")[13]

Have not the Americans the Bible in their hands?  Do they believe it?  Surely they do not.  See how they treat us in open violation of the Bible!!  They no doubt will be greatly offended with me, but if God does not awaken them, it will be, because they are superior to other men, as they have represented themselves to be.  Our divine Lord and Master said

     “all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you,
     do ye even so unto them.”