And when they dedicated thi country to be an asylum for the oppressed of all nations they undoubtedly meant all nations whence they came. peoples of character and conditions similar to their own. This will appear the more clearly when we consider the treatment of thm African by the very men who founded our Government. They never invited the African here as a voluntary immigrant. They neither endowed him with lands nor the ballot. nor did they grant him the right of citizenship. The black man was transported to these shores by old England and by New England. and sold into slavery. and he was in bonds when our immortal Declaration of Independence was signed.
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