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 in the colour of the human kin, but who dicriminate what is black from white in the  conduct of man to man. To take advantage misfortune, in the time of public calamity and private affliction, and to raise a upertructure, however mall, upon the ruins of others; is what, alas has been too often justifed without chatiement and enjoyed without hame: and if thoe who are in authority over negroes, and to whom they are taught to look up for the theory as well the practice of integrity, hall et an example of worldly injutice, of rapacity and plunder-the negro who follows this infamous example, unconcious of wrong, is neither a principal, nor an acceary, altho he may poibly be convicted of both; while the real delinquent, who grows rich from infamy, is uffered to ecape without trial, and conequently without a punihment. I mut therefore from facts conclude, that a reformation in practical manners mut begin with the white people in the colonies, before any inhumane intitutions for the relief of the laves can either be carried into full, or even into partial effect; and this preliminary I hall hereafter endeavour to upport by corollaries drawn from fact and experience.

The congratulations of the morning that ucceeded the dreadful viitation which has been the ubject of thee pages, were uch as eemed the pontaneous effects of what the boom felt from the relief of upereminent dangers: the ad occaion eemed to create new ideas in the mind, and to give pangs to feeling, of which the heart was before unconcious. Many people thought that the day of final judgement was come; and felt it as it was then too late to reflect upon danger: for danger, which implies uncertainty, would then have been a appeaing idea, inamuch a chance is a contrat to