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the invader of America, not even in those of the Spaniards, since his argument goes the whole length of maintaining the rights of the agricultural communities of Europe, to dispossess, by force, the nomadic tribes of the western hemisphere. Let him not say that he condemns the Spaniards for their excesses in a just cause: those excesses were nothing more than the natural consequences of the principle which he asserts of expelling or subjugating, by physical force, the independent and warlike aborigines of any country. Nor let him attribute these cruelties to any peculiar ferocity of the Spaniards, nor to the manners of the dark age in which they carried on their sanguinary operations. Let him look at the operations in North America whenever brute force was applied by the British adventurers, to gain or keep their footing on these shores. Let him turn and follow the blood-deluged career of British conquest in the East Indies, in modern times; and the Satanic cruelties necessarily practiced, as it was alleged, by that refined scholar & poet, Warren Hastings, to satisfy, what was insatiable, the rapacious avarice of his polite employers, who were rolling, the while, amidst the Splendors, and pleasures, and luxuries of London. There is a just God in Heaven to whom vengeance belongs. The blood of the mild & peaceful children of Hindustan, cries, like Abel's, from the ground, and the day of reckoning will come. Let us take care that we do not, by adopting, in this age of light & humanity, these fierce & bloody doctrines which were not excusable even in the fifteenth century, swell the dreadful balance which already stands against us. But we have been drawn from our subject. Let us return. We have said that Abel, the favorite of Heaven, was a Shepherd. Abraham, too, the father of the faithful, and the Covenant friend of God, belonged, emphatically, to this nomadic caste, and wandered. with his family and his countless flocks, wherever the spontaneous productions of the earth invited him. Jacob, the immediate father of the Chosen people of God, was also a shepherd. So was David, the man after God's own heart. He