Becoming America - An Exploration of American Literature from Precolonial to Post-Revolution, 2018a

BECOMING AMERICA
REVOLUTIONARY AND EARLY NATIONAL PERIOD LITERATURE
they receive in continual succession, but on the pages of which, you will scarcely
ever nd a paragraph respecting slavery, which is ten thousand times more
injurious to this country than all the other evils put together; and which will be the
nal overthrow of its government, unless something is very speedily done; for their
cup is nearly full.—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 fullled on Christian Americans ? Hear it
Americans!! “He that is “ unjust, let him be unjust still:—and he which is “ lthy, let
him be lthy still: and he that is righteous, “ let him be righteous still: and he that
is holy, let “ him be holy still.” I hope that the Americans may hear, but I am afraid
that they have done us so much injury, and are so rm in the belief that our Creator
made us to be an inheritance to them for ever, 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 for ever, 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, Indelity, &c. &c. But the fountain head, compared with which, all
those other evils are comparatively nothing, and from the bloody and murderous
head of which, they receive no triing 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 aicting their fellow creatures.
God suers some to go on until they are ruined for ever!!!!! 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
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