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lished at New York, and throughout the eastern 

 States ; yet, by an c Imperium in imperio,' in the 

 government of separate States, it exists from 

 the city of Washington throughout the south- 

 ern States. Its existence at all, must be 

 considered, by every honest mind, as a national 

 disgrace, and " forms a blot in the escutcheon 

 of America which all the waters of the Atlantic 

 cannot wash out." Difficulties may exist, and 

 emancipation may be gradual, but let it be 

 pursued both by England and America, as abso- 

 lutely necessary. " I tremble for my country," 

 said a late president of the United States, Mr. 

 Jefferson, " I tremble for my country, when I 

 reflect that God is just." Humanity may miti- 

 gate their sufferings, and habit render the 

 slaves less sensible of their degradation, but 

 their general state is truly pitiable, and that of 

 severe affliction. 



" Hark ! heard ye not that piercing cry 

 Which shook the waves and rent the sky ? 

 E'en now, e'en now, on yonder western shores 

 Weeps pale despair, and writhing anguish roars." 



It is a melancholy fact that they find it more 

 advantageous to breed slaves in the western 

 parts of Virginia and Georgia, than to raise the 

 appropriate produce of the soil, and there are 



