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then, and fight her with it on the Liverpool Exchange. Would 
you retaliate on the Carolinas the punishment that they have 
often inflicted on your friends ? The way is open. Tar and 
cotton them in England. Hayti will enable you to do it by 
producing both staples, and hemp enough to boot to hang every 
friend of Slavery in Missouri and Kentucky. Hayti, which 
could produce sugar enough to drive Louisiana out of every 
market in the world; which could raise cotton enough every 
year to corrupt the morals of a hundred generations of Ameri¬ 
can politicians; which could raise rice enough to bury Wilming¬ 
ton, Charleston, and Savannah out of sight; which, if properly 
and scientifically cultivated, could raise coffee enough to supply 
all the wants of Christendom, — Hayti, the home of the Black 
race, the only country in which it has successfully competed in 
arms against the Slavery to which Europe condemned, and in 
which America has held it, invites you, common children of her 
ancient Motherland, to become a part of her household, and 
share equally with her own sons the destiny which the Almighty 
Overruler has marked out from the beginning for her and for 
you ! 
May your answer be inspired by wisdom and a spirit of 
religious consecration ! 
For myself, firmly believing this work — which, dual in 
its nature, seeks at once the regeneration of one of the most 
beautiful Islands of our globe, and the elevation and perpetuity, 
or, rather, the creation of a coming race, adapted to it and 
worthy of it—to be one of the most noble and holy enterprises 
to which any man of our age can be called on to devote his 
energies and his talents, I accepted the trust confided to me 
by the Government of Hayti, with a feeling of gratitude to 
Heaven, which, I trust, will bless with its favor this project for 
extending civilization, and a true religion, and establishing 
justice in the Western World. 
James Redpath. 
