urn
what we intend for a blessing into a curse."

Let me ask this benevolent man, what he means by a blessing intended
for us? Did he mean sinking us and our children into ignorance and
wretchedness, to support him and his family? What he meant will appear
evident and obvious to the most ignorant in the world. [Hand->] See
Mr. Caldwell's intended blessings for us, O! my Lord!!!

"No," said he, "if they must remain in their present
situation, keep them in the _lowest state of degradation and
ignorance_. The nearer you bring them to the condition of
brutes, the better chance do you give them of possessing
their _apathy_."

Here I pause to get breath, having labored to extract the above clause
of this gentleman's speech, at that colonizing meeting. I presume that
every body knows the meaning of the word "_apathy_"--if they do not,
let him get Sheridan's Dictionary, where he will find it explained in
full. I solicit the attention of the world to the foregoing part of
Mr. Caldwell's speech, that they may see what man will do with his
fellow men, when he has them under his feet. To what length will not
man go in iniquity, when given up to a hard heart and reprobate mind,
in consequence of blood and oppression? The last clause of this
speech, which was written in a very artful manner and which will be
taken for the speech of a friend, without close examination and deep
penetration, I shall now present. He says,

"Surely Americans ought to be the last people on earth to
advocate such slavish doctrines, to cry peace and
contentment to those who are deprived of the privileges of
civil liberty, they who have so largely partaken of its
blessings, who know so well how to estimate its value, ought
to be among the foremost to extend it to others."

The real sense and meaning of the last part of Mr. Caldwell's speech
is, get the free people of colour away to Africa, from among the
slaves, where they may at once be blessed and happy, and our slaves
will be contented to rest in ignorance and wretchedness, to dig up
gold and silver for us and our children. Men have indeed, got to be
so cunning, these days, that it would take the eye of a Solomon to
penetrate and find them out.

Extract from the speech of Mr. John Randolph, of Roanoke.

Said he:--

"It had been properly observed by the Chairman, as well as
by the gentlemen from this District (meaning Messrs. C