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1 National Dangers, and Means of Escape 1 (1821)

handle is hein.slavery/nadngmesc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AND MEANS OF ESCAPE. THF extraordinary success which attended the American exer- tions in favor of liberty and independence, With the unparalleled growth and prosperity of the United States, have left perhaps scarcely a doubt on the minds of our citizens, whether the Revo- lution will or will not be ultimately beneficial to the country. In the blessings which Providence has conferred on this land, all have reason to rejoice. That they may be continued and multiplied, is the ardent desire of the writer of this Article. But he apprehends that there are serious grounds, to fear, that our present privileges will be of shorter duration th~n is generally anticipated, unless the attention of our countrymen can be excited to the dangers which threaten them, and to 1 the things which belong to their peace. Some facts will therefore be stated, which he regards as a ground of alarm, notwithstanding all the present prosperity of the nation. -zLiberty will be taken to express a dissent, on some points, from opinions which are perhaps popular in all countries; but this, it is hoped, will be done in the spirit of candor and not of reproach, and accompanied with such :reasonings as may at least evince that the subject deserves a candid and thorough examination. The sources of danger will be comprised in the following particulars. First. In the Revolutionary war, our countrymen avowedly contended for liberty and the rights of man; yet they hold in slav- ery about half as many human beings as there were of white peo- ple in these States, when they were declared free and independ- ent. So huge a mass of oppression, injustice and degradation-ex posed as it is to the sunshine of liberty, cannot fail to ferment; ana, unless a remedy shall be provided, the fermentation will probably increase till it shall burst all the bands of restraint, and overwhelm the country with distress and horror.

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