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I one of his smaller poems to the memory of the black sea captain, and his works contain fie-l~ queut allusions to hits African blood.We luve alluded U» this remarkable man ;s for ih J purpose of exposing the utter folly ’» find injustice of the commoh prejudice against 1 tlie colored race in this country. It is a prejudice incompatible with enlightened republicanism and true Christianity. It degrades the ’ possessor as well ns its victim. With ourfect • on the nock of the black man, wo have taunt-1 ed him with his inferiority; shutting him nut1 from seho il and tollege, we have denied hisCapacity for intellectual progress; spurned , him I ruin the ineoti ig house and church com* imu.i n»,—wo have reproached him as vicious,1 and incapable of moral elev Uion. What is this, in fact, but the common subterfuge oftyranny, seeking an cx«*ult;lt;» fur ib oppression by maligning its unhappy objects, and making tfic consequences of it* own cruelty upon | them an apology fur its continuance ? With such examples of the intellectual capacity of. the colored mutt ns are ml* tried by I/Ovor-turo and Pctiou. of lluyii; lbi:na-»,uf France,,| Pushkin, of Uusda; and Pku ido, the slavo pt*d and martyr of t’ulm, to : iy nothing of such meu as Juntos AlePum* Smith, Frederick Douglass, Ib nrv If. (iainett. and II»*nrv nil»hfin our own country,it iauarcoh in good taste for while mediocrity to taut it the colored man with natural inferiority. Du not Tuits-saint’s deeds for freedom, and Pushkin's song* of a great nation waken within all hearts the sympathies of a common nature?“ I'hcre *pokc our brother! i here our father's grave l»i*t niter forth it voice !In the colored man’s follies and crimes, his loves and hatreds,hi* virtues and weaknesses,( we lut rocogni/.o *1111' common humanity, and realise the truth of the inspired A postle.V language—*' t;oi» hath maim: of one hloouALL THE GJ.NUtATIOXS Of Mf.V.”1 J. G. W.
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Brandon Voice of Freedom
Brandon, Vermont, US
Thu, Feb 25, 1847
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