Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 118 pages of information about Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life.

Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 118 pages of information about Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life.

  We believe that, for thy glory’s sake,
  Thou wilt deliver us;
  But that thou may’st effect these things,
  Thy glory must be sought.

* * * * *

In conclusion, I ask the candid and unprejudiced of the whole world, to search the pages of historians diligently, and see if the Antediluvians—­the Sodomites—­the Egyptians—­the Babylonians—­the Ninevites—­the Carthagenians—­the Persians—­the Macedonians—­the Greeks—­the Romans—­the Mahometans—­the Jews—­or devils, ever treated a set of human beings, as the white Christians of America do us, the blacks, or Africans.—­I also ask the attention of the world of mankind to the declaration of these very American people, of the United States.

A Declaration made July 4, 1776.

It says,[29]

“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.  We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.  Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.  But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”

See your declaration, Americans!!  Do you understand your own language?  Hear your language, proclaimed to the world, July 4, 1776—­

[Hand->] “We hold these truths to be self evident—­that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL! that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!!

Compare your own language above, extracted from your Declaration of Independence, with your cruelties and murders inflicted by your cruel and unmerciful fathers on ourselves on our fathers and on us, men who have never given your fathers or you the least provocation!!!

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