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deterinift&i resolution , the greatw j |* ersion to every species of labour . la ^ fctitude , affection , fidelity , activityH ^ ii- courage , make no part of the dbte % cter of the West-India slave , and J § fc thousands and tens of thousands of them have been " received into the coftjp ^ ifation of Christ ' s flock , and signed with the sign of the
cross /* &c . Sec . I have been present , more than once , at the christening of two or three hundred of them , and repeatedly conversed witk individuals who have been thus regenerated * Need I add , that the whole is a solemn mockery of what the people are exhorted to regard as a Christian rite ?
No effort whatever , that I could ever learn , is made to prepare them for the ceremony , or , after it is perform ^ ed , to enforqe its design . The poor creatures get a new name , with which they are mightil y pleased , and some of them are said to fancy themselves out of the reach of obeah or
witchcraft . Within the last few years , it is true , curates have been sent out for the avowed purpose of instructing them in religion , but it is to be feared they meet with no adequate success . The Negroes cannot attend on their services on a Sunday ; and when I left Jamaica , no regulations had been
made or . I I believe , thouerht of . for made or , believe , thought of , for allowing them time in the week . These missionaries are expected to visit several estates every week , for the purpose of preaching to the slaves , if they can obtain leave of the
proprietor , or person acting in his place , to do so . But this they very seldom get : on some estates not at all , on others once or twice in the year ; so that their presence in the island can be of but little importance . I have heard it , indeed , repeatedly declared , that the Curate Act was intended for
England , not for Jamaica ; and this really appears ta me to be viewing the subject in its true light ; for it must have been known , before it was passed , that the planters would not
allow the slaves any opportunity for attending on their new instructors , and that consequently such a law could have no tendency to improve their condition . But I decline the
invidious task of dwelling on this extraordinary Act , which runs the island ° f Jamaica to aa expense of upwards
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a-year currency . In a thousand instances the clergy are rather to be pitied than blamed ; and I have not the least doubt that many a curate most deeply repents that ever he crossed the Atlantic .
I shall trouble you with one more letter . T . COOPER .
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No . CCCLXXXIX . Royal Mammoths . In the present state of the moral world , despotism , falsehood , injustice , and brute force , are not the preventatives of revolutions , but the seeds by which they are infallibly generated ; and the sovereigns who have recourse
to them , in order to stifle the spirit of the age , are only throwing water upon unslacked lime , and attempting to smother a fire with gunpowder . The re-action will be proportioned to the pressure—they will be upset by the recoil of theit own instrument ; but even then 1 would not have the friends
of liberty forget their proud pre-eminence of clemency and generosity . I would pare to the quick the nails of these royal tigers , and give them ano ^ ther trial . If they still attempted to fasten their fangs in the flesh of their preservers , I would remove them to some uninhabited island in the
Northern Ocean , where , if their thirst for blood and power remained inappeasable , they might have the privilege of knocking down one another with their respective crowns , and beating out each other ' s brains with their sceptres ; that so , when some future
traveller contemplated their bones v he might be told—these are the remains of the human Mammoths , who so cruelly harassed and devastated the world , that their subjects , in
self-defence , transported them to this island , where they exterminated each other , and the race is now happily extinct . —Morning Chronicle , May 23 , 1822 . ^ m
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to thieveandof ten thousand Gleanings . 495
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GLEANINGS ; OR , SELECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS MADE IN A COURSE OF GENERAL READING .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1822, page 495, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2515/page/39/
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