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Rh in the world, except the whites "of all colors" in the United States, and a few hundreds of colonial slave masters and slave drivers, is matter of pity and abhorrence. Proud, unjust and cruel as in other respects they may be, in this, other nations have not yet departed so utterly, from God and their poor brother. And blessed be His holy name, this storm of all hypocritical and savage iniquity in the United States, is intermitting. Far off to leeward, I see the clear blue sky, breaking through the clouds. A voice of love is loudly sounding—a cry of justice is echoing through the land. Truth is rising in its peaceful, all conquering might. The press, is in a measure, rescued. The pulpit is casting off its shameful fetters. The institutions of learning are heaving away the incubus. Men—lovers of liberty, all glorious, impartial liberty. Republicans, not with a lying and boastful tongue merely, but in heart and in deed. The yeomen peasantry of the free states, wanting information only, to stir them up in love; as lovers of liberty, and not as idolaters of partial and despotic pride. White men; yes white men of the United States, most of them just cured of the color-phobia, uniting in a noble and rapidly increasing phalanx, are coming up, in peace, to the help of the Lord against the mighty, and the prospect is most cheering, that soon, the curse of Meroz shall no longer lower over this glorious land. 6th. What was the general character of the most congenial minds, in founding the two settlements in question? Need I repeat the character of the founder of Sierra Leone. It is before my readers. But who were the founders of Liberia? Mills, I cannot take into the account, for he was not a colonizationist, but a missionary. Finley, must be included; and highly interesting as his character seems to have been in other respects, in this, an independent and impartial mind, need only mark the first motive which he gives for his colonization zeal, "we should be cleared of them," to perceive at once, how deeply he was implicated in his country's wickedness. Of Caldwell, I am too ignorant to speak. And who were the rest? Most, if not all, slave masters! The Virginian