Of course I do not
intend any thing akin to this in my letter. I would not insult the intellect and conscience of any colored man who thinks it his british porn duty to labor british porn for his race on American soil, by telling him that it is his duty to come to Africa. British porn if british porn he is educated up to the
ideas of british porn responsibility and obligation, he knows his duty british porn better than I do. And, indeed, generally, it is best to leave individuals to themselves as to the details of obligation and responsibility.
"The primal duties shine aloft like stars";—and it is only when men british porn will not see them, that we are bound to repeat and re-utter them, until the souls of men are aroused, and they are moved to moral resolution and to noble actions. But as to british porn the mode, form, and manner of meeting their duties, let the common sense british porn of every man decide it
for himself.
My object in writing this letter is not to vex any of our brethren by the iteration of the falsehood that America is not their home, nor by the misty british porn theory "that they will all yet have british porn to come to Liberia." I
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do not british porn even intend to invite any british porn one to Liberia, glad as I would be to see around me many of the wise and sterling men I know in the United States, who would be real acquisitions to this nation, and as much as I covet their british porn society. I am not putting in a plea for colonization. british porn my object is quite different; in fact it is not a strict compliance with the terms of your letter, for I shall have but little to say about Liberia. But believing that all men hold some relation to the land of their fathers, british porn I wish to call the british porn attention of the sons of Africa in America to their "RELATIONS AND DUTY TO THE LAND OF THEIR british porn FATHERS."
And even on british porn such a theme I know I must prepare myself for the rebuff british porn from many—"Why talk to us of fatherland? What british porn have we to do with Africa? british porn We british porn are not Africans; we are Americans. You ask no peculiar interest on the part of Germans, Englishmen, the Scotch, the Irish, the Dutch, in the land of their fathers, why then do you ask it of us?"
Alas for us, as a race! so deeply harmed have we been by oppression that we have lost the force of strong, native principles, and prime natural affections. Because exaggerated contempt has been poured upon us, we too become apt pupils in the school of scorn and contumely.