England and America

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Excerpt from England and AmericaEngland, I repeat, bestowed these two gifts, Liberty and Slavery, on this new world. Liberty she gave reluctantly. The men who brought it hither were driven by persecution from her Shores. And that they were enabled to preserve the sacred gift amidst the horrors of the wilderness was owing to no fostering help of hers. She cared not if they perished. Not until they began to grow in numbers and in strength did She take any notice of them, and then she extended her arm to them only to make them feel its oppressive weight, and to crush the liberty which her outcast children had brought to these shores.