a poet, a novelist, a composer, and
a philosophical writer.

[142] Revue Scientifique, Paris.

THE END.

APPENDIX.

Part 5.

_ANTI-SLAVERY AGITATION._

CHAPTER VI.

WALKER'S APPEAL.

One of the most remarkable papers written by a Negro during the
Anti-Slavery Agitation Movement was the Appeal of David Walker, of
Boston, Massachusetts. He was a shopkeeper and dealer in second-hand
clothes. He was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, September 28,
1785, of a free mother by a slave father. When quite young he said:
"If I remain in this bloody land, I will not live long. As true as God
reigns, I will be avenged for the sorrow which my people have
suffered. This is not the place for me--no, no. I must leave this part
of the country. It will be a great trial for me to live on the same
soil where so many men are in slavery; certainly I cannot remain where
I must hear their chains continually, and where I must encounter the
insults of their hypocritical enslavers. Go, I must!"

He went to Boston, Massachusetts, where he took up his residence. He
applied himself to study, and in 1827, capable of reading and writing,
he began business in Brattle Street. He was possessed of a rather
reflective and penetrating mind. And before Mr. William Lloyd Garrison
unfurled his flag for the Agitation Movement, David Walker wrote and
published his Appeal in 1829. It was circulated widely, and touched
and stirred the South as no other pamphlet had ever done. Three
editions were published. The feeling at the South was intense. The
following correspondence shows how deeply agitated the South was by
Walker's Appeal. The editor of the _Boston Courier_ observed: "It will
be recollected that some time in December last [1829] Gov. Giles sent
a message to the Legislature of Virginia complaining of an attempt to
circulate in the city of Richmond a seditious pamphlet, said to have
been sent there from Boston. We find in the _Richmond Enquirer_ of the
18th inst. [February, 1830] the following Message from the Governor,
enclosing a correspondence which unravels all the mystery which has
hitherto enveloped the transaction."

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Feb. 16th, 1830.

SIR: In compliance with the advice of the Executive Council, I do
myself the honor of transmitting herewith the copy of a letter
from the Honorable Harrison Gray Otis, Mayor of Boston, conveying
the copy of a letter from