one flesh,
but that He hath also, without partiality, afforded us all
the same sensations, and endowed us all with the same
faculties; and that however variable we may be in society or
religion, however diversified in situation or in colour, we
are all of the same family, and stand in the same relation
to Him.

"If these are sentiments of which you are fully persuaded,
you cannot but acknowledge, that it is the indispensable
duty of those, who maintain for themselves the rights of
human nature, and who profess the obligations of
Christianity, to extend their powers and influence to the
relief of every part of the human race, from whatever burden
or oppression they may unjustly labour under: and this, I
apprehend, a full conviction of the truth and obligation of
these principles should lead all to.

"I have long been convinced, that if your love for
yourselves, and for those inestimable laws which preserved
to you the rights of human nature, was founded on sincerity
you could not but be solicitous, that every individual, of
whatever rank or distinction, might with you equally enjoy
the blessings thereof; neither could you rest satisfied
short of the most active effusion of your exertions, in
order to their promotion from any state of degradation, to
which the unjustifiable cruelty and barbarism of men may
have reduced them.

"I freely and cheerfully acknowledge, that I am of the
African race, and in that colour which is natural to them,
of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most
profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe,
that I now confess to you, that I am not under that state of
tyrannical thraldom, and inhuman captivity, to which too
many of my brethren are doomed, but that I have abundantly
tasted of the fruition of those blessings, which proceed
from that free and unequalled liberty with which you are
favoured; and which I hope you will willingly allow you have
mercifully received, from the immediate hand of that Being
from whom proceedeth every good and perfect gift.

"Suffer me to recall to your mind that time, in which the
arms of the British crown were exerted, with every powerful
effort, in order to reduce you to a state of servitude: look
back, I entreat you, on the variety