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CHAPTER XXXIII. 
WHAT JUSTICE DEMANDS, GOD COMMANDS. 
Xow, if those from enlightened countries and 
of our own color have done so much to debase 
that people, ought we not to do something to 
elevate them ? Can justice demand less than this 
at our hands ? And is it not a reasonable demand ? 
Fellow-citizen, philanthropist, and Christian, 
what response do you make to these interroga- 
tions ? If there is a race of people on earth that 
should draw from us sympathy and benevolent 
deeds, that race is the African. For my part, I 
can not explain how we can be guiltless in the 
sight of high heaven unless we put forth our 
hands to raise them from the dreadful condition 
into which we placed them ? Is it not to be feared 
that the Savior will say to us, ^Tnasmuch as ye did 
it not unto one of the least of these, ye did it not 
unto me ? 
We are commanded to do good to all men as 
we have opportunity; and our opportunity to da 
