have made their colour subservient to their
purpose. This is a reason which proclaims
the logical faculties of its advocates, which
forms a mask for iniquity, and an hypocritic
cloak worthy those who have assembled un-
der its benignant shadow. Rules ought “^not” to
be admitted upon subjects of this nature ex-
cept those which will admit to become ge-
neral. Can we suppose mankind will ever
consent, that one who was formed with a
dark complexion is inferior to him, who pos-
sesses a complexion more light? This is a
theory which must either be admitted or re-
jected. Man must either enjoy freedom & Inde-
pendence or he must be curst with everlast-
ing slavery & oppression - Should a theory like
this be admitted as general, mankind would
be at once resolved into a universal mon-
archy, with some weak puny white-faced
creature for their sovereign, and those whose
colour was farthest removed from white
though a Newton or a Franklin, an Adams