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retort on the other, let Americans of the North and of the South unite in this holy cause. While the North employs its exertions in helping off the colored population within its own borders, and aiding them to emigrate to the home of their Withers, where alone they can be truly free — the South, while performing the same service to the free blacks there, should also be left to deliberate in freedom, and without undue interference from the North, on the best means of emancipating the slave, and of preparing him, at the same time, for that freedom which every one, surely, who loves his neighbor as himself, would wish him to enjoy. And, depend upon it, there are pure consciences and warm hearts enough at the South to undertake this high enterprise, if we will but leave them to them- selves. The instances already given of the numbers who have shown themselves ready to emancipate, the moment they could see the way opened, — is proof enough of this. And such emancipation, like "mercy,' will be "twice blessed:" it will benefit alike the freer and the freed. Individuals will take the first steps in the cause — and the noblest minded will be foremost. As the great Webster gave to the nation the motto — "Liberty and Union one and inseparable," so the motto of the friend of Liberty will be "Emancipation and Colonization." As the cause moves on, communities and States will take it up. Already Maryland, Mississippi, Louisiana, and other States have their own colonies on the African shores. More and more colonies will be formed, lining the whole coast, and extirpating the slave-trade for ever. State-treasuries will be opened in aid of the good work; and at length, perhaps, with