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occupy nearly the same extent of longitude embrace nearly the same number of square miles enjoy kindred advantages of climate, being equally removed from the cold of the North and the burning heat of the tropics; and also enjoy kindred boundaries of land and water, with kindred advantages of ocean and sea, with this difference, that the boundaries of the two regions are precisely reversed, so that where is land in one case is water in the other, while in both cases there is the same extent of ocean and the same extent of sea. Nor is this all. Algiers, for a long time the most obnoxious place in the Barbary States of Africa, once branded by an indignant chronicler as "the wall of the



barbarian world,"

is

situated near the parallel of 36° 30' north

being the line of the Missouri compromise, which once marked the " wall" of Slavery in our country west of the Mississippi, while Morocco, the chief present seat of Slavery in the latitude,

There are is on the parallel of Charleston. no two spaces on the surface of the globe, equal in extent, (and an examination of the map will verify what I am about to state,) which present so many distinctive features of resemblance whether we consider the common parallels of latitude on which

African Barbary,

they

lie,

the

common nature of their boundaries, their common common climate, or the common Barbarism

productions, their

I do not stop to inquire why from Europe, banished also from that part of this hemisphere which corresponds in latitude to Europe should have intrenched itself in both hemispheres between

which sought Slavery

shelter in both.

—banished at

last

—

the same parallels of latitude, so that Virginia, Carolina, Missis-

and Missouri, should be the American complement to Morocco, Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis. But there is one important point in the parallel which remains to be fulfilled. The barbarous Emperor of Morocco, in the words of a Treaty, has sippi,

expressed his desire that Slavery might pass from the memory of men, while Algiers, Tripoli, and Tunis, after cherishing

Slavery with a tenacity equaled only by the tenacity of SouthCarolina, have successively renounced it and delivered it over

mankind. In following this example the be complete, and our Barbary will become the com-

to the indignation of parallel will

plement in Freedom to the African Barbary, as it has already been its complement in Slavery, and is unquestionably its com-

plement in geographical character.