miserable is Spanish America. She stands there a perpetual warning to us. One day the North will rise in her majesty, and put Slavery under our feet, and then we shall extend the area of freedom. The blessing of Almighty God will come down upon the noblest people the world ever saw who have triumphed over Theocracy, Monarchy, Aristocracy, Despotocracy, and have got a Democracy-a government of all, for all, and by all-à Church without a Bishop, a State without a King, a Community without a Lord, and a Family without a Slave.

AN ADDRESS

ON THE

CONDITION OF AMERICA,

BEFORE THE

NEW YORK CITY ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY,

AT ITS

FIRST ANNIVERSARY,

HELD AT THE BROADWAY TABERNACLE,

MAY 12, 1854.

ADDRESS.

I shall ask your atten

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: tion, this evening, to some few thoughts on the present condition of the United States in respect to Slavery. After all that has been said by wise, powerful, and eloquent men in this city, this week, perhaps I shall have scarce any thing to present that

is new.

As you look on the general aspect of America today, its main features are not less than sublime, while they are likewise beautiful exceedingly. The full breadth of the continent is ours, from sea to sea, from the great lakes to the great gulf. There are three million square miles, with every variety of climate, and soil, and mineral; great rivers, a static force, inclined planes for travel reaching from New Orleans to the Falls of St. Anthony, from the mouth of the St. Lawrence to Chicago; smaller rivers, a dynamic force, turning the many thousand mills of

the industrious North. There is a coast most richly indented, to aid the spread of civilization. The United States has more than twelve thousand miles of shore line on the continent; more than nine thousand on its islands; more than twenty-four thousand miles of river navigation. Here is the Material Groundwork for a great State - not an empire, but a Commonwealth.

another.

The world has not such

There are twenty-four millions of men; fifteen and a half millions with Anglo-Saxon blood in their veins strong, real Anglo-Saxon blood; eight millions and a half more of other families and races, just enough to temper the Anglo-Saxon blood, to furnish a new composite tribe, far better, I trust, than the old. What a Human Basis for a State to be erected on this material groundwork!

On the Eastern Slopes of the continent, where the high lands which reach from the Katahdin mountains in Maine to the end of the Appalachians in Georgia on the Atlantic slopes, where the land pitches down to the sea from the 48th to the 28th parallel, there are fifteen States, a million square miles, communicating with the ocean. In the South, rivers bear to the sea rice, cotton, tobacco, and the products of half-tropic agriculture; in the North, smaller streams toil all day, and sometimes all night, working wood, iron, cotton, and wool into forms of use and beauty, while iron roads carry to the sea the