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der. And think you, reader, that this catalogue 
of crimes, so fearful and black, will go unpunish- 
ed? ^^Will not the Judge of all the earth do 
right ?^^ Guilty one, rest not easy. Because sen- 
tence against an evil work is not executed speed- 
ily,’’ do not ^^have your heart fully set in you to 
do evil.” “ Yengence is mine; I will repay, saith 
the Lord.” If you have, either directly or in- 
directly, by your influence or by your vote, en- 
couraged the holding of slaves or the traffic in 
them in any shape whatever, are you clear of the 
blood of men ? 
Second: Much has been done to degrade the 
people by the use of ardent spirits among them. 
Go where you will in heathen countries, and you 
may find the white man’s rum and tobacco, and 
indeed, almost every vice, and vice-producer of 
enlightened countries. 
Let those who try to screen themselves from the 
guilt of making ardent spirits, and who take to 
themselves praise because they do not keep a rum- 
shop on the ground where they distill the liquor, 
but barrel it up and send it to market without hav- 
ng any drank, or any injured by it, remember that 
the damning eftects of their distilleries are fearfully 
felt in Africa and all heathen countries, as well as 
in others. Think you that the Africans are better 
qualified to handle such a dangerous article with 
