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. . .take it into their heads to emancipate any of you, remember that your freedom is your natural right. You are men, as well as they, and instead of returning thanks to them for your freedom, return it to the Holy Ghost, who is our rightful owner. If they do not want to part with your labours, which have enriched them, let them keep you, and my word for it, that God Almighty, will break their strong band. Do you believe this, my brethren? 鈥擲ee my Address, delivered before the General Coloured Association of Massachusetts, which may be found in Freedom鈥檚 Journal, for Dec. 20, 1828.鈥擲ee the last clause of that Address. Whether you believe it or not, I tell you that God will dash tyrants, in combination with devils, into atoms, and will bring you out from your wretchedness and miseries under these Christian 笔别辞辫濒别!!!!!!听

Those philanthropists and lovers of the human family, who have volunteered their services for our redemption from wretchedness, have a high claim on our gratitude, and we should always view them as our greatest earthly benefactors.

 If any are anxious to ascertain who I am, know the world, that I am one of the oppressed, degraded and wretched sons of Africa, rendered so by the avaricious and unmerciful, among the whites.鈥擨f any wish to plunge me into the wretched incapacity of a slave, or murder me for the truth, know ye, that I am in the hand of God, and at your disposal. I count my life not dear unto me, but I am ready to be offered at any moment. For what is the use of living, when in fact I am dead. But remember, Americans, that as miserable, wretched, degraded and abject as you have made us in preceding, and in this generation, to support you and your families, that some of you, (whites) on the continent of America, will yet curse the day that you ever were born. You want slaves, and want us for your slaves!!! My colour will yet, root some of you out of the very face of the earth!!!!!! You may doubt it if you please. I know that thousands will doubt鈥攖hey think they have us so well secured in wretchedness, to them and their children, that it is impossible for such things to occur. So did the antideluvians doubt Noah, until the day in which the food came and swept them away. So did the Sodomites doubt, until Lot had got out of the city, and God rained down fire and brimstone from Heaven upon them, and burnt them up. So did the king of Egypt doubt the very existence of a God; he said, 鈥渨ho is the Lord, that I should let Israel go?鈥� Did he not find to his sorrow, who the Lord was, when he and all his mighty men of war, were smothered to death in the Red Sea? So did the Romans doubt, many of them were really so ignorant, that they thought the whole of mankind were made to be slaves to them; just as many of the Americans think now, of my colour. But they got dreadfully deceived. When men got their eyes opened, they made the murderers scamper. The way in which they cut their tyrannical throats, was not much inferior to the way the Romans or murderers, served them, when they held them in wretchedness and degradation under their feet. So would Christian Americans doubt, if God should send an Angel from Heaven to preach their funeral sermon. The fact is, the Christians having a name to live, while they are dead, think that God will screen them on that ground. 

See the hundreds and thousands of us that are thrown into the seas by Christians, and murdered by them in other ways. They cram us into their vessel holds in chains and in hand-cuffs鈥攎en, women and children, all together!! O! save us, we pray thee, thou God of Heaven and of earth, from the devouring hands of the white Christians !!! 

Oh! thou Alpha and Omega! 

The beginning and the end.

 Enthron鈥檇 thou art, in Heaven above,

 Surrounded by Angels there: 

Front whence thou seest the miseries 

To which we are subject; 

The whites have murder鈥檇 us, O God!

 And kept us ignorant of thee. 

Not satisfed with this, my Lord! 

They throw us in the seas: 

Be pleas鈥檇, we pray, for Jesus鈥� sake,

 To save us from their grasp. 

We believe that, for thy glory鈥檚 sake,

 Thou wilt deliver us; 

But that thou may鈥檚t effect these things, 

Thy glory must be sought. 

In conclusion, I ask the candid and unprejudiced of the whole world, to search the pages of historians diligently, and see if the Antideluvians鈥攖he Sodomites鈥� the Egyptians鈥攖he Babylonians鈥攖he Ninevites鈥攖he Carthagenians鈥攖he Persians鈥攖he Macedonians鈥攖he Greeks鈥攖he Romans鈥攖he Mahometans鈥攖he Jews鈥� or devils, ever treated a set of human beings, as the white Christians of America do us, the blacks, or Africans. I also ask the attention of the world of mankind to the declaration of these very American people, of the United States. 

A declaration made July 4, 1776.

 It says,* 鈥淲hen in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature鈥檚 God entitle them. A decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires, that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.鈥擶e hold these truths to be self evident鈥攖hat all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights: that among these, are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that when ever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate, that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.鈥� See your Declaration Americans!!! Do you understand your own language? Hear your language, proclaimed to the world, July 4th, 1776鈥�! 鈥淲e hold these truths to be self evident鈥攖hat ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL!! that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!! 鈥� Compare your own language above, extracted from your Declaration of Independence, with your cruelties and murders inflicted by your cruel and unmerciful fathers and yourselves on our fathers and on us鈥攎en who have never given your fathers or you the least provocation!!!!!! 

Hear your language further! 鈥淏ut when a long train of abuses and usurpation, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them  under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their  duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.鈥�

Now, Americans ! I ask you candidly, was your sufferings under Great Britain, one hundredth part as cruel and tyranical as you have rendered ours under you? Some of you, no doubt, believe that we will never throw off your murderous government and 鈥減rovide new guards for our future security.鈥� If Satan has made you believe it, will he not deceive you?*  Do the whites say, I being a black man, ought to be humble, which I readily admit? I ask them, ought they not to be as humble as I? or do they think that they can measure arms with Jehovah? Will not the Lord yet humble them? or will not these very coloured people whom they now treat worse than brutes, yet under God, humble them low down enough? Some of the whites are ignorant enough to tell us, that we ought to be submissive to them, that they may keep their feet on our throats. And if we do not submit to be beaten to death by them, we are bad creatures and of course must be damned, &c. If any man wishes to hear this doctrine openly preached to us by the American preachers, let him go into the Southern and Western sections of this country鈥擨 do not speak from hear say鈥攚hat I have written, is what I have seen and heard myself. No man may think that my book is made up of conjecture鈥擨 have travelled and observed nearly the whole of those things myself, and what little I did not get by my own observation, I received from those among the whites and blacks, in whom the greatest confidence may be placed. 

The Americans may be as vigilant as they please, but they cannot be vigilant enough for the Lord, neither can they hide themselves, where he will not find and bring them out.