Sections 1 OUR WRETCHEDNESS IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE COLONIZING PLAN. 2 Before I proceed any further, I solicit your notice, brethren, to the foregoing part of Mr. 3 I presume, that every intelligent man of colour must have some idea of Mr. 4 The Americans of North and of South America, including the West India Islands—no trifling… 5 There are a series of these letters, all of which are to the same amount; some however… 6 "Did I involve my country in an unnecessary war?" 7 "Surely Americans ought to be the last people on earth to advocate such slavish doctrines,… 8 Here is a demonstrative proof, of a plan got up by a gang of slave-holders to select the… 9 "Dear Sir, I have been for several years trying to reconcile my mind to the Colonizing of… 10 "RICHARD ALLEN, "_Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States_." 11 Will not those who were burnt up in Sodom and Gomorrah rise up in judgment against Christian… 12 I have several times called the white Americans our natural enemies—I shall here define my… 13 They (the whites) know well if we are men—and there is a secret monitor in their hearts… 14 For remember, that it is the greatest desire and object of the greater part of the whites,… 15 But I do say, that no man can well be a despiser of Bishop Allen, for his public labors… 16 "Whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him… 17 But to return to the colonizing trick. 18 Do the colonizationists think to send us off without first being reconciled to us? 19 ([Hand->] See the African Repository and Colonial Journal, from its commencement to the… 20 The Americans may say or do as they please, but they have to raise us from the condition of… 21 If any are anxious to ascertain who I am, know the world, that I am one of the oppressed,… 22 Oh! 23 See your declaration, Americans!! 24 * * * * * 1 Thy presence why withdraw'st thou, Lord?
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