alone, for them; notwithstanding we may appear cheerful, when we see them murdering our dear mothers and wives, because we cannot help ourselves.  Man, in all ages and all nations of the earth, is the same.  Man is a peculiar creature—­he is the image of his God, though he may be subjected to the most wretched condition upon earth, yet that spirit and feeling which constitute the creature man, can never be entirely erased from his breast, because the God who made him after his own image, planted it in his heart; he cannot get rid of it.  The whites knowing this, they do not know what to do; they are afraid that we, being men, and not brutes, will retaliate, and woe will be to them; therefore, that dreadful fear, together with an avaricious spirit, and the natural love in them to be called masters, (which term we will yet honour them with to their sorrow) bring them to the resolve that they will keep us in ignorance and wretchedness, as long as they possibly can[24] and make the best of their time while it lasts.  Consequently they, themselves, (and not us) render themselves our natural enemies, by treating us so cruel.  They keep us miserable now, and call us their property, but some of them will have enough of us by and by—­their stomachs shall run over with us; they want us for their slaves, and shall have us to their fill. (We are all in the world together!!) I said above, because we cannot help ourselves, (viz. we cannot help the whites murdering our mothers and our wives) but this statement is incorrect—­for we can help ourselves; for, if we lay aside abject servility, and be determined to act like men, and not brutes—­the murderers among the whites would be afraid to show their cruel heads.  But O, my God!—­in sorrow I must say it, that my colour, all over the world, have a mean, servile spirit.  They yield in a moment to the whites, let them be right or wrong—­the reason the whites are able to keep their feet on our throats.  Oh! my coloured brethren, all over the world, when shall we arise from this death-like apathy?—­And be men!!  You will notice, if ever we become men (I mean respectable men, such as other people are,) we must exert ourselves to the full.  For remember, that it is the greatest desire and object of the greater part of the whites, to keep us ignorant, and make us work to support them and their families.—­Here now, in the Southern and Western Sections of this country, there are at least three coloured persons for one white, why is it, that those few weak, good-for-nothing whites, are able to keep so many able men, one of whom, can put to flight a dozen whites, in wretchedness and misery?  It shows at once, what the blacks are, we are ignorant, abject, servile, and mean—­and the whites know it—­they know that we are too servile to assert our rights as men—­or they would not fool with us as they do.  Would they fool with any other people as they do with us?  No, they know too well that they would get themselves ruined.  Why do they not bring the inhabitants