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no **? good * * ee *» e it directly tends to reduce the human itfind to the j * iQ 3 t abject , disgraceful , a , nd pernicious thraldom . It is , therefore , ' of the highest importance , that all the real friends of
mankind should unite in resisting and opposing it ; not by force , but by reason ; not by penal statutes , but by every generous and Christian endeavour to assist the diffusion of light , and to facilitate the progress of moral and religious KNOWLEDGE . " '*^ Pp . 44—48 .
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Art . VI —England Enslaved by her own Slave Colonies . An Address to the Electors and People of the United Kingdom . By James Stephen , Esq . 2 nd edition , 8 vo . pp . 68 . 1826 .
Art . VII—Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery throughout the British . Dominions . Read at a Special
Meeting ° f the Members and Friends of the Society , held ( on the 21 st of December 9 1825 J for the purpose of petitioning' Parliament oh the Subject of Slavery . With Notes and an Appendix . 8 vo . pp , 3 & . Printfor the Society , JIatchard and Son . 1826 .
WE should sicken as we survey the miseries under which human nature groans , if we did -riot also behold the mighty mass of intellect which is at work for man ' s redemption . Negro - slavery is the darkest stain upon the character of modern times ; but this is relieved in the eye of Christian philanthropy by the noble efforts that have been and are
made , from motives of pure humanity , for wiping away the opprobrium from the face of civilized nations . These efforts may be as'ci-ifeed to the Society named in the second of thesti
articles , which is less known than it deserves to be ; , and is far from adequately supported in a pecuniary way by the professed friends of negroemancipation .
fhe abolition hf the Slave-trade wa& a signal triun&pk of humanity , achieved b y the short-lived adminis - tration under the ever-to-be honoured Charles forhes JFOx . It is mehtadKriy to reflect how little has been dtaxe since -thaf period for bettering' Hie con dition of the Blacfce . '
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' ¦ " ¦ No less than eighteen years have elapsed Since Parliament , rn voting tins Siave-tarad ^ to be contrary to justice and hmnacifcy , virtually ireeorded the moral title of those oppressed and degraded human beings to their freedom ; for it is plain , that a bondage iniquitously
imposed cannot be rightfully prolonged . Necessity alone could justify 4 he delaying for an hour the full restitution that was due to them ; and such a necessity w ®» accordingly alleged . It wias asserted ¦ j&aet a sudden enfraochisemettt was dangerous , and that therefore progressive meaus must be employed .
" But how did we fellow up those views ? Sixteen times had the sun run his annual course , and stnti beheld ail these victims of injustice tcfilimg like brutes under the drives , m aJl th ^
moral filth ox slavery , and all the darkness of pagan ignorance ; tortured at discretion with the tremeAdoua lasb of the cart-whip , sold like cattle in a market , and condemned at the owner ' s will to a
perpetual exile from their native homes , their wives , their Jiusbauds , their parents , aaad their children . A bandned thousand at least of hapless infants had in the mean time been bom of [ the enslaved feinales in our colonies ; # nd how had they been treated ? Exempted from
that state which it was held so hard and dangerous to alter ? Educated in Christian principles ? Prepared for exercising when adults the Tights and duties of free men?—No : but left to learu idolatry
from their parents , and their duties from the driver ' s whip ; and to hand down the vices and the miseries of slavery , with the alleged difficulties and dangers of correcting them to other generations . " England J 2 nslaved , r > . 4 .
In 1823 , ia consequence of the exertions of the Anti-Slavery Society , the casmof the Negroes was brought before tne Parliament , when His Majesty ' s Ministers moved Resdlittibtis , which were unanimously carried , pledging the country to measures of amelioration . Bat , alas I it ivas foreseen that the resolutions would be
nugatory , since the plan vf the government was merely t 0 recommend the improvements that were contemplated to the Colonial Assembles . * The experienced friends of the Slaves must have lost their memories or their
understandings , if they had entertained a hope that such a Course would produce &ny good effect . They saw in it , if not frustration and positive mischief , at least certain disappointment aud delay . Becoouoendation to the Assemblies !! Why >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1826, page 115, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2545/page/51/
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