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have put into our hands !" What ideas of God and 

 nature that noble Lord may entertain, I know not ; but I 

 know, that such detestable principles are equally abhor- 

 rent to religion and humanity. What ! to attribute the 

 sacred sanction of God and nature, to the massacres of 

 the Indian scalping -knife ! to the cannibal savage, tor- 

 turing, murdering, devouring, drinking the blood of his 

 mangled victims ! Such notions shock every precept of 

 morality, every feeling of humanity, every sentiment of 

 honor. These abominable principles, and this more 

 abominable avowal of them, demand the most decisive 

 indignation. 



I call upon that Right Reverend, and this most 

 Learned Bench, to vindicate the religion of their GOD, 

 to support the justice of their COUNTRY. I call upon 

 the Bishops, to interpose the unsullied sanctity of their 

 lawn ; upon the Judges to interpose the purity of their 

 ermine, to save us from this pollution. I call upon the 

 honor of your Lordships to reverence the dignity of 

 your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon 

 the spirit and humanity of my country, to vindicate 

 the national character. I invoke the genius of the 



constitution. To send forth the merciless cannibal, 



thirsting for blood! against whom? our BRETHREN ! 

 to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and 

 extirpate their race and name, by the aid and instru- 

 mentality of these HORRIBLE HOUNDS OF WAR! 



Spain can no longer boast pre-eminence in barbarity. 

 She armed herself with blood-hounds, to extirpate the 

 wretched natives of Mexico ! We, more ruthless, loose 

 these dogs of war against our countrymen in America, 

 endeared to us by every tie that can sanctify humanity. 

 I solemnly call upon your Lordships, and upon every order 

 of men in the state, to stamp upon this infamous pro- 

 cedure, the indelible stigma of public abhorrence. More 

 particularly, I call upon the holy prelates of our religion 

 to do away this iniquity; let them perform a lustration, to 

 purify the country from this deep and deadly sin. My 

 Lords, I am old and weak, and at present unable to say 

 more ; but my feelings and indignation were too strong, 

 to have said less. I could not have slept this night in my 



