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Perhaps they will laugh at or make light of this; but I tell you Americans! that unless you
speedily alter your course, you and your Country are gone!!!!!! For God Almighty will tear up
the very face of the earth!!! Will not that very remarkable passage of Scripture be fulfilled on
Christian Americans? Hear it Americans!! "He that is unjust, let him be unjust still:--and he
which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he
that is holy, let him be holy still" (see Revelation, chap. xxii. 11).
I hope that the Americans may hear, but I am afraid that they have done us so much injury, and
are so firm in the belief that our Creator made us to be an inheritance to them forever, that their
hearts will be hardened, so that their destruction may be sure. This language, perhaps is too harsh
for the American's delicate ears. But Oh Americans! Americans!! I warn you in the name of the
Lord, (whether you will hear, or forbear,) to repent and reform, or you are ruined!!! Do you think
that our blood is hidden from the Lord, because you can hide it from the rest of the world, by
sending out missionaries, and by your charitable deeds to the Greeks, Irish, &c.? Will he not
publish your secret crimes on the house top? Even here in Boston, pride and prejudice have got
to such a pitch, that in the very houses erected to the Lord, they have built little places for the
reception of coloured people, where they must sit during meeting, or keep away from the house
of God, and the preachers say nothing about it--much less go into the hedges and highways
seeking the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and try to bring them in to their Lord and Master.
There are not a more wretched, ignorant, miserable, and abject set of beings in all the world, than
the blacks in the Southern and Western sections of this country, under tyrants and devils. The
preachers of America cannot see them, but they can send out missionaries to convert the
heathens, notwithstanding. Americans! unless you speedily alter your course of proceeding, if
God Almighty does not stop you, I say it in his name, that you may go on and do as you please
forever, both in time and eternity--never fear any evil at all!!!!!!!!
Addition. The preachers and people of the United States form societies against Free Masonry and
Intemperance, and write against Sabbath breaking, Sabbath mails, Infidelity, &c. &c. But the
fountain head (slavery and oppression) compared with which, all those other evils are
comparatively nothing, and from the bloody and murderous head of which, they receive no
trifling support, is hardly noticed by the Americans. This is a fair illustration of the state of
society in this country--it shows what a bearing avarice has upon a people, when they are nearly
given up by the Lord to a hard heart and a reprobate mind, in consequence of afflicting their
fellow creatures. God suffers some to go on until they are ruined forever!!!!! Will it be the case
with the whites of the United States of America?--We hope not--we would not wish to see them
destroyed notwithstanding, they have and do now treat us more cruel than any people have
treated another, on this earth since it came from the hands of its Creator (with the exceptions of
the French and the Dutch, they treat us nearly as bad as the Americans of the United States.) The
will of God must however, in spite of us, be done.
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David Walker’s Appeal by David Walker
The Journal of Pan African Studies 2009 eBook