TESTIMONY FROM GEORGIA — WM. PINKNEY.
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Mr. Adams returning home, informed her husband that a nd had made her a present of a female slave. Mr. Williams replied, in a firm, decided manner: "She may come, not as a slave, for a slave can not live in my house, if she comes, she must come free.' She came, and took her free de with the family of this great champion of American liberty, and there she continued free, and there she died there." — Rev. Mr. Allen, Uxbridge, Mass.
At a meeting in Darien, Georgia, in 1775, the following resolution was put forth:
"To show the world that we are not influenced by any contracted or interested motives, but by a general philantropy for all mankind, of whatever climate, language, or aplexion, we hereby declare our disapprobation and abhorence of the unnatural practice of slavery, (however the cultivated state of the country, or other specious arguments, may plead for it;) a practice founded in injustice and cruelty, and highly dangerous to our liberties as well as lives, placing part of our fellow creatures below men, and corrupt the virtue and morals of the rest, and laying the basis of that liberty we contend for, and which we pray the Almighty to continue to the latest posterity, upon a very wrong foundation. We therefore resolve, at all times to use our most endeavors for the manumission of our slaves in this ony, upon the most safe and equitable footing for the masters and themselves." — Am. Archives, Ath Series, Vol. I., 1135.
The patriotic, high-minded, and eloquent William Pinkney, in a speech in the Maryland House Delegates, in 1789, said:
