Excerpt from Lecture on Christianity and the Civil Laws About the 2otb of March last, some half dozen of the supposed pirated Africans, that had been smug gled into the country by the Wanderer, were brought within the hearing of the church bells of Columbus and offered for sale. This excited the disgust and indignation of many Of our citizens. The author of this Lecture, fearing that some of his friends, being uninformed of the true moral character of the act, might be tempted to become a party in the crime of those who offered them for sale, by purchase, thereby involving themselves in difficulty and disgrace, availed himself of the first opportunity that offered of putting his fellow-citizens, and especially young men for whom he feels the deepest interest, on their guard against such temptation. This opportunity was soon afforded at a public and promiscuous meeting of the citizens, assembled to hear a lecture on morals and manners in. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.