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You know they are procured by means nothing near so innocent as picking of pockets, house-breaking, or robbery upon the highway. You know they are procured by a deliberate series of more complicated villainy, (of fraud, robbery and murder,) than was ever practised either by Mahometans or Pagans; in particular by murders of all kinds; by the blood of the innocent poured upon the ground like water. Now it is your money that pays the merchant, and through him the captain and African butchers. You therefore are guilty; Yea, principally guilty, of all these frauds, robberies, and murders. You are the spring that puts all the rest in motion; they would not stir a step without you. - Therefore the blood of all these wretches, who die before their time, whether in their country or else-where, lies upon your head. The blood of thy brother, (for whether thou wilt believe it or no, such he is in the sight of him that made him) crieth against thee from the earth, from the ship and from the waters. O! whatever it cost, put a stop to its cry, before it be too late. Instantly, at any price, were it the half of they goods, deliver thyself from blood-guiltiness! Thy hands, thy bed, thy furniture, thy house, thy land, are at present, stained with blood. Surely it is enough; accumulate no more guilt: Spill no more the blood of the innocent! Do not hire another to shed blood! Do not pay him for doing it! Whether thou art a Christian or no, shew thyself a man; be not more savage then a lion or a bear. 
"Perhaps thou wilt say, "I do not buy any ne " groes: I only use those left me by my father." But is it enough to satisfy you own conscience! Had your father, have you, has any man living, a right to use another as a slave? It cannot be, even settling revelation aside. It cannot be, that either war, or contract, can give any man, such a property in another as he has in his sheep and oxen: Much less is it possible
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possible, that any child of man, should ever be born a slave. Liberty is the right of every human creature, as soon as he breathes the vital air. And no human law can deprive him of that right, which he derives from the law of nature. If therefore you have any regard to justice, (to say nothing of mercy, nor of the revealed law of God,) render unto all their due. Give liberty to whom liberty is due, that is, to every child of man, to every partaker of human nature. Let none serve you but by his own act and deed, by his own voluntary choice. Away with whips, chains and all compulsion. Be gentle towards all men. And see that you invariably do unto every one, as you would he should do unto you."

The following LETTER was some months ago published, in a Philadelphia news-paper, by the author of the preceding work.

To the PRINTER

I would beg  leave to recommend, through the channel of the Freeman's Journal, a little tract which has been lately printed by Collins at Trenton. It is intitled "A ferious address to the rulers of America, on the inconsistency of their conduct respecting slavery: forming a contrast between the encroachments of England on American liberty, and American injustice in tolerating slavery." It is now also to be purchased at Claypoole's, printer in Market-street. I can declare, upon the word of a man of honour, that I have no pecuniary interest in the sale of this book, and only with from a love of mankind, that it was spread over the world. The author of this pamphlet very justly says, among other excellent things in favour of the negroes (extenuating perhaps the tyranny of Britain) "However