There is one consideration more, by which I would urge the claims of this subject. If the people of the United States cannot be extensively aroused to undertake the redress of African wrongs, from motives of humanity, and a sense of duty, the apprehension of personal danger may with propriety be awakened in their minds. God deals with nations, in this world, on a different principle from what he deals with individuals.—The wicked man is often permitted to prosper in his sins, and to die without pain; because the righteous retributions of justice await him in the eternal world.—But wicked nations exist, in their national capacity, only in this life. Therefore, if national sins are ever visited with the indignation of heaven, it must be in the present world. Hence, we may draw the conclusion, that if American slavery is offensive to God, the judgments of heaven are now impending over this guilty nation. And in what form they will descend, we need not the spirit of prophecy to prognosticate. In several of the slave-holding states, the black population is already nearly equal to the white; and the ratio of increase is so much in their favour, that, in the course of a few years, they will be far the most numerous. During the period of ten years intervening between the last United States’ census and the preceding, the following was the ratio of increase in several states: In Kentucky, the blacks increased 57 per cent, whites only 37 per cent. Tennessee, the blacks increased 80 per cent, whites only 57 per cent. Georgia, the blacks increased 40 per cent, whites only 30 per cent. North-Carolina, the blacks increased 22 per cent, whites only 11 per cent. South-Carolina, the blacks increased 26 per cent, whites only 8 per cent. And in Louisiana as early as 1810 there were 5 blacks to every four white men.