They were the heathen at home, whose claims far outranked those in foreign lands; they were higher than those of the "Turks or Chinese, for they have the privileges of instruction; higher than the Pagans, for they are not dwellers in a Gospel land; higher than our red men of the forest, for we do not bind them with gyves, nor treat them as chattels." Then he turned hotly upon the Church, exclaiming: "What has Christianity done by direct effort for our slave population?
Comparatively nothing.
She has explored the isles of the ocean for objects of commiseration; but, amazing stupidity! she can gaze without emotion on a multitude of miserable beings at home, large enough to constitute a nation of freemen, whom tyranny has heathenized by law.

In her public services they are seldom remembered, and in her private donations they are forgotten.

From one end of the country to the other her charitable societies form golden links of benevolence, and scatter their contributions like rain drops over a parched heath; but they bring no sustenance to the perishing slave.

The blood of souls is upon her garments, yet she heeds not the stain.

The clanking of the prisoner's chains strike upon her ear, but they cannot penetrate her heart." Then, with holy wrath upon the nation, thus: "Every Fourth of July our Declaration of Independence is produced, with a sublime indignation, to set forth the tyranny of the mother country, and to challenge the admiration of the world.