Fragment of An Original Letter On the Slavery of the Negroes Written in the Ye
Fragment of An Original Letter On the Slavery of the Negroes Written in the Ye
Day Thomas
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With what face, Sir, can he who has never respected the rights of nature in another, pretend to claim them in his own favor ? How dare the inhabitants of the southern colonies speak of privileges and justice ? Is money of so much more importance than life? Or have the Americans shared the dispensing power of Saint Peter's successors, to excuse their own observance of those rules which they impose on others? If there be an object truly ridiculous in nature, it is an Amer- ican patriot, signing r...esolutions of independency with the one hand, and with the other brandishing a whip over his affrighted slaves. If men would be consistent, they must admit all the con- sequences of their own principles; and you and your coun- trymen are reduced to the dilemma of either acknowledging the rights of your negroes, or of surrendering your own. If there be certain natural and universal rights, as the Declara- tions of your Congress so repeatedly affirm, I wonder how the unfortunate Africans have incurred their forfeiture.
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