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 in chains. Children fly from their own hadow, and rhetoricians are frighted by their own voices. Chains is undoubtedly a dreadful word; but perhaps the maters of civil widom may dicover ome gradations between chains and anarchy. Chains need not be put upon thoe who will be retrained without them. This contet may end in the ofter phrae of Englih Superiority and American Obedience.

are told, that the ubjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties: an event, which none but very perpicacious politicians are able to foreee. If lavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudet yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?

let us interrupt a while this dream of conquet, ettlement, and upremacy. Let us remember that being to contend, according