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the now stock of the Southern States there be added that 

 of the Brazilian slaves, and of South America, and their 

 increase, then there is an almost certainty of converting 

 America into an Africa. 



The introduction of more slaves into Brazils, or into 

 any portion of America, will magnify the evil ; and it 

 behooves Americans at once to resolve upon a determined 

 line of action, to suppress all further traffic with Africa 

 for slaves. In fact, to declare war in the most decided 

 manner against the further importation of the negro race. 

 England is really and truly now spending some 5,000,000 

 of dollars annually for no other interest than that of the 

 white race of America in the future day. 



At the same time, it must be well understood that 

 there is no one object, no one virtue, that cannot be car- 

 ried to excess. At present the emancipation of the slaves 

 in the Southern States would be a death blow to both 

 Northern and Southern States, and to the injury of Eng- 

 land herself. All true Americans must join in a practi- 

 cal and a humane object, for the good of both races and 

 their future well-being ; and wisely and generously and 

 in brotherhood devise the means of a future total separa- 

 tion of the black from the white, and yet to advance the 

 prosperity of both. 



The facility to effect that final separation, that advance- 

 ment of the two interests, is as easy as it is for Ameri- 

 ca's best scholar to read his ABC. I say easy ; there 

 would be labor, as there is in all things, but the profits 

 arising from that labor would be so great and extensive 

 that it would be like travelling in a spring-cushioned car- 

 _:e, of the latest improvement, on a well Macadumi/nl 

 road. 



