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nil t.liciv experience tliero, tliey looked upon jMnancip:it.i(iii an a blessing." Ifeve ends oir cli;i)»ter on the West In- dies. "Vlmt inference eun be drawn IVoin all this •? We answer — I'irst: TImt ./•hiuoici'pfilA'oii in the Lhiitod iSfafcs is safa. If it was ho in fluinaiea, where the whites were as one to lif- teen, will it not be in Maryland, where they arc more than three to one, in Isentucky, wiierc they are netu'ly four to one, in Mis- souri, wlnn-e they are nearly ten to one '! iSecond : Jl v:ill he politic. ]f the froc- w of half a million of slaves in .ITi):'), saved St. Domingo from falling into the hands of l'^<ngland, the freeing of four mil- lions, in 1 iSG'i, may save the Cotton States from a like fare, which even our reeent and brilliant victories perhaps may hasten. Third : Jt ?iii.!st not be affended by forced colonization., if the great want of the West Indies is labor, with what expectation can we ship out of our Southern States two-thinls of the laboring jioj.ndation 'I I inmigrati(.>n is tiio denunul in the West indias, it ^'aultl be folly for us to try emigration. Fourth. It lYtni^t -twl be <;radu(d, hid im- mediate and coinplete. If the experience of Antigua and Jamaica tetujhes anything, it teaches that simultaneous and entire emanci- pation is the safest, the cheapest, and the wisest eoni'se. Fifth. It tcifl attract more ■}c]iitc men to the South than it vill .'icn.tl blael: mm to the NortJt. Tills is the opinion of a sensible fu- gitive, to whom we owe the statement; but the history of innnigration to the AVest In- dies, and to Mauritius and ]>ourbon ]iroves it true. Why should the negroes come here after emancipation? On the coiitrary, reasons both of climate and of political economy will carry them Soutli in great nundiers, not oidy from the border States, but from the North and from Canada. Finally, tiicse facts prove, wiiat no man of lofty virtie evei" can doubt, — 7'/iaf Jus.tire is alnunjs expedient ., Tiie (Irt'(.'lartaj root and branch." Centuries (earlier, the wise Athenian law- giver, in gi'ave verse, which Demosthenei? loved to (juote, had warned his countrynen of the same truth.*' My snni. .Atiixniiins. {irnni j^t.-! nic to ri'Iatt; Wlml, ir.isi'i'i'-s ii|i!in illjll^Ul•|■ wait. ilii'lu's l>y tlicf't, idiil ciiy.ciiaiic to piissi'SH, SMi'rcil lM>uni|s nC ,1 iistirc ^ c t.ran.-'t,'n'KS ; Willi silt'iit M'i'S til!' )in>si'iil , knows tlm piLSt, Ami will ri'V'MiL'" Ihi'.-f iiijnrii-s iil last. Itiit ,tii.-tici'all iliiiiics iiriii'riy ili'.i-iLrns, Ami in strict IVt li'i-.-' the un.jii.-t ciiiitiiu'S. NN'liMl'.-! siuir she ^v(.'i'ii.'ii<, aiiil alla.vs what clny.'.. I Wriin.n' Aw ri'i"'!.-, ill in tlii' tcf'Wth ilv.-trnys, ! Sdt'tiMis til',' stiililiiirii, tlic iii,'ni>i n'l'nriMS, ! Aii'l in rh>' S/iiti' ntlni.y nil m 'liliiii'.-: sliinns. ! UittiT ilissi'iisiiilis l>y inT riilr sii iiiifcsl , Willi wisijly ^^'iivt.'riis all thing's I'ur the licst. A nil earlier yet, the stern warnings of tlu.^ Uebrew sage, who led forth his despised peo- jtlc from the ojijiression of jxe,yi.)t, liad iin- noiuiced the eternal law with no doubtful voice : ■• Hinvani f liaf tlinii tVii-LTt li'it On- I.ori.l thy (inil, in lUU ki't'tiin^c his ciiiiiiiiMiiilnn'iit-- and his JmliriiM'nts. and his st;i- Intt's whii'li 1 ciMinnanil t his day ; h'st when thim hast. I'.atcn anil art t'till, and ha,-t luiilt u;iiiiilly hmiscs. and dwolt tlmrc- iii : 1 And when thy tUu'ks and tliy hurds nniltiiily. and thy j silver and thy .u'old is innltii;';('d. and all that thim ha.Nt ^ ninlti(ili('d ; I 'I'hcn thine h"art he lifii'd ii]!, and thnn I'lirm't, the hord ! fliyOiid. . . . And thnn sa in thinr hi-art. my power an'i the iui,i,'!it of my hand hath trntten me this wealth. And it sliali he. it' thiiiiiliiat all fnrjiet ihe Lord thy (iod. I testify a;;ainst _iin this d.'iy iha! ye .'•hall sncely perish. .s t he nations whieh the l.nrd destrnveth lieiiiri' your fai'e, so shall i'iierish; i eeanse sevniild not lie ohedient. into t.hi; viiieeiifihe l.ord vour dud." — [ l'i:iit(^roiioniv viii i il-2i). 1 'heinosthene-'. I'alsi' I,l'^.^•ltilln, 'i."i5. Stanley',* Trims- I llC^ion in the Uistnry nf I'hilosopli} .

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