MINISTRY OF MANIFESTOS |
| DIRECTOR Tibor Ortoise |
ABOUT
You kindly ask after my domestic circle. Of myself I thank God I can give a very good account in point of health, hitherto; just now I am not quite so well, but not I trust materially otherwise. But if you ask me how I have improved the long interval of uninterrupted health which I have enjoyed since the beginning of our last recess, I am quite shocked at the answer I feel myself compelled to return. I know not how it is, I really have never meant to be idle, yet I can find no results from my occupation. I am now only beginning an undertaking which ought by this time to have been finished. It is a Manifesto on the present state of the negro slaves in our Trans-Atlantic colonies, calling on all good men (aye, and women too, so you are not to be left out) to concur with me in endeavouring to improve their condition, in order to fit them for the enjoyment of liberty. Really when I consider the heathenish state in which those poor creatures have been suffered to remain for two hundred years, wearing out their strength in a far more rigorous than Egyptian bondage to a Christian nation ; pity, anger, indignation, shame, create quite a tumult in my breast, and I feel myself to be criminal for having remained silent so long, and not having sooner proclaimed the wrongs of the negro slaves, and the injustice and oppression of our countrymen. Not but that I unaffectedly feel for those who inherit property of this sort. And it is one of my many subjects for gratitude