More Thoughts Still on the State of the West India Colonies, and the Proceedings of the African Institution: With Observations on the Speech of James Stephen, Esq., at the Annual Meeting of that Society, Held on the 26th of March, 1817Hughes & Baynes, Sold by J. M. Richardson, 1818 - 147 pàgines |
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Pàgina 118 - To press forward to a great principle by breaking through every other great principle that stands in the way of its establishment; to force the way to the liberation of Africa by trampling on the independence of other states in Europe; in short, to procure an eminent good by means that are unlawful ; is as little consonant to private morality as to public justice.
Pàgina 133 - Let me not be misunderstood, or misrepresented, as a professed apologist for this practice, when I state facts which no man can deny — that personal slavery, arising out of forcible captivity, is coeval with the earliest periods of the history of mankind — that it is found existing (and, as far as appears, without...
Pàgina 133 - ... without animadversion) in the earliest and most authentic records of the human race, — that it is recognized by the codes of the most polished nations of antiquity, — that under the light of Christianity itself, the possession of persons so acquired has been in every civilized country invested with the character of property, and secured as such by all the protections of law...
Pàgina 54 - The fact is, the governments of the smaller islands were formed in times when many of the proprietors lived upon their estates, and the white population was, in some instances, perhaps ten times as numerous as it now is. Of the few white inhabitants who remain, managers, overseers, self-created lawyers, self-educated physicians, and adventurous merchants, with little real capital and scanty credit, compose the greatest part.
Pàgina 54 - ... the greatest part. The acquirements of education among many of this description of persons, are very unequal to the task of taking a share in the governments. The prevalence of principle, either moral or religious, is also, I fear, not to be fairly calculated from the repetition of the...
Pàgina 29 - ... endearing relations which render it desirable; averse to labour, though frequently perishing of want: suspicious of each other and towards the rest of mankind: revengeful and faithless: remorseless and bloody-minded: pretending to be free while groaning beneath the capricious despotism of their chiefs and feeling all the miseries of servitude without the benefit of subordination.
Pàgina 115 - Trade in their own Hands. Since the Abolition, the War has prevented competition from Foreign Nations, but now the whole Coast is inundated with French, Dutch, American and other Flags, and they are abundantly supplied with arms and Powder which enables them to undersell our own Merchants, whose Trade is falling off rapidly, and...
Pàgina 54 - I fear, not to be fairly calculated from the repetition of the hacknied expressions of which an ostentatious use is frequently made in addresses, and on all occasions meant to meet the public eye at home. To collect from such a state of society...
Pàgina 43 - And they believe him !— oh ! the lover may Distrust that look which steals his soul away ; — The babe may cease to think that it can play With heaven's rainbow ;— alchymists may doubt The shining gold their crucible gives out ; — But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.
Pàgina 88 - In what light this transaction was regarded by the Judge who tried the case, the following sentences of his speech will sufficiently shew : — " It is insinuated, that this originated in a letter from the West Indies. There is no affidavit that any such letter existed. That somebody is very highly criminal in this case, no one who lias read the publication can at all doubt.