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contemplate with calm composure the new principle engrafted upon the
association of the civilized race of man, the self-evident truth, the
natural equality of mankind and the rights of man." He then introduces
Anthony Benezet, a member of the society of Friends, and Granville
Sharp, an English philanthropist, "blowing the single horn of human
liberty and the natural equality of mankind against the institution of
slavery, practised from time immemorial by all nations, ancient and
modern; supported by the denunciation of the traffic in slaves by the
popular writers both in France and England,--by Locke, Addison, and
Sterne, as well as by Raynal, Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Voltaire;
succeeded by the association of Thomas Clarkson and two or three
Englishmen together, for the purpose of arraying the power of the
British empire for the total abolition of slavery throughout the earth."
The success of that association he next illustrates,--until this
"emanation of the Christian faith is now, under the cross of St. George,
overflowing from the white cliffs of Albion, and sweeping the
slave-trade and slavery from the face of the terraqueous globe." He
proceeds:

"People of that renowned island!--children of the land of our
forefathers!--proceed, proceed in this glorious career, till the
whole earth shall be redeemed from the greatest curse that ever has
afflicted the human race. Proceed until millions upon millions of
your brethren of the human race, restored to the rights with which
they were endowed by your and their Creator, but of which they have
been robbed by ruffians of their own race, shall send their choral
shouts of redemption to the skies in blessings upon your names. O,
with what pungent mortification and shame must I confess that in the
transcendent glories of that day our names will not be associated
with yours! May Heaven in mercy grant that we may be spared the
deeper damnation of seeing our names recorded, not among the
liberators, but with the oppressors of mankind!"

After inquiring what we have done in the United States to support "the
principle proclaimed to the world as that which was to be the vital
spark of our existence as a community among the nations of the earth,"
and declaring that we have done nothing, he thus enumerates the
proceedings which disqualify us from presuming to share in the
festivities and unite in the songs of triumph of the 1st o