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were allowed the opportunity to do so, and to them the 

 state of slavery would be the greatest boon. Go, aboli- 

 tionist, and exercise your humanity and your love of free- 

 dom in England, release some millions of people from 

 the grasp of hell and starvation, make them slaves to 

 yourselves or others that may be charitably disposed to 

 receive them under protection, and remember, oh re- 

 member ! they are your own blood, and Christians, redeem 

 them, and God will crown you with blessings. Save their 

 souls. And when the English agents come over here to 

 create political capital by intefering in your domestic 

 institutions, by your example, show them the sphere 

 wherein their sympathies are required. Leave your 

 slaves in the enjoyment of a home and means of support, 

 until you can do better for them. You already see some 

 of the States passing laws prohibiting the freed negro 

 entrance amongst them. Let three millions of people be 

 exposed to want, spurned by most of the States, what 

 can they do ? They would flock to those States that 

 were so zealous for their interests ; Boston, New- York, 

 &c., &c., would be inundated with them. And in this 

 city the abolitionist has only to wander off Broadway 

 into Church street and its purlieus, and ask himself, 

 is this the place of the glorious free negro ? But let him 

 not wait until dark, for there the freed negro and the in- 

 famous reside. Emancipation would have the effect of 

 extending Church-street over one fourth of New- York, 

 and instead of a few thousands now easily controlled from 

 their paucity of numbers, after emancipation there would 

 be some 50,000 or 60,000 at least ; their cumber and 

 want would make them bold and daring, and the muni- 

 cipal taxation would be three-fold as heavy, to provide 

 more police, more prisons, and support for prisoners, and 



