Heaven that ere long she may wash away her guilt in tears of repentance. I love the green-hills which my eyes first beheld in my infancy. I love every inch of soil which my feet pressed in my youth, and I mourn because the accursed shade of slavery rests upon it. I love my country’s flag, and I hope that soon it will be cleansed of its stains, and be hailed by all nations as the emblem of freedom and independence.

FOOTNOTES:

[A] Rev. Beriah Green.

[A]

[B] Numbers, 12 chap. 10 v.

[B]

[C] The whole number of slaves in the French Colonies were almost 300,000.

[C]

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