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    of such an anomaly ? If he found that this region was closely connected with one more powerful , where a continual war is waged with oppression and vice , would not his wonder increase ? If he farther saw that the oppressed were many , the oppressors few , and that these few were under the controul of a power which professed to advocate truth and justice , how could he account for the existence of such an abomination ? If Ensrland is

    free , how can she countenance slavery in her West Indian dependencies ? If England loves justice , why does she permit oppression ? If England is Christian , why does she encourage the temporal and spiritual degradation of her brethren ? The anomaly has long appeared no less strange to mortal than celestial eyes , and the question has been rung in the ears of men till many are heart-sick and some are weary : but it must be asked again and again , till the insolent bravado , the irrelevant " complaint , the contemptible

    excuse , are silenced ; till not a single minister of the gospel can be found ( we hope there is but one ) to declare that slavery is sanctioned by the law of liberty ; till the indignant remonstrance of millions ceases to be withstood by the puny insults of individuals ; till appeals to the heart are no longer answered by appeals to the purse . Let us not be told that enough has been said already , that men are disgusted with details of barbarity , and wearied

    with the repetition of facts which every body knows , and arguments which there are few to dispute . It is true , we are thus weary and disgusted , and therefore should we labour the more diligently till the abuses are removed of which we complain . It is most painful to think on the condition of our Negro brethren ; of their tortured bodies , their stunted intellects , their perverted affections , their extorted labour , their violated homes : but the more

    painful such thoughts , the more rapid and energetic should be our exertions to banish them for ever by extinguishing the evils which suggest them . Are the friends of the slave less disgusted than ourselves ? Having struggled for years against this enormous evil , are they less weary of it than we ? Have we a right to complain of discouragement , while they have persevered amidst difficulty , and hoped almost against hope ? They have pursued this pest of humanity with unremitting watchfulness , they have grappled with it , brought

    it to light and justice , and now , we are told , have prepared its death warrant . We hope it is so , for it is full time . We believe that it is so ; for if human prejudice can gainsay the arguments of such upright minds , if selfishness can withstand such appeals to natural sympathy , if the love of power can long maintain a struggle with such a holy spirit of justice , as have been employed

    in this cause , we shall not know where to repose our confidence , and our trust in the triumph of righteousness will be shaken . The time is , we trust , arrived , for which patriots and philanthropists have so long watched in vain . Many eyes have of late been opened ; many sleeping energies aroused ; many perverted views rectified ; and what wonder , when the subject has been presented to them as in the pamphlet before us ?

    This pamphlet consists of a republication of two articles of review on the topic of Colonial Slavery . The first of these articles appeared in the Edinburgh Review of October 1824 , and the other in the Westminster Review of October 1829 . They are of the first order of excellence both as to style and matter ; and a more efficacious service to the cause of the slave could not , we conceive , have been rendered , than by reissuing them in such a form as may make them accessible to every reader in the kingdom . Their

    object is not so much to set forth the wrongs and woes of the slave , ( which had before been done sufficiently , ) as to shew with whom lies the power of taming the tyrants and reinstating the oppressed , to point out how easily

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    Negro Slavery . 5

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1830, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2580/page/5/