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and who seem to go upon no fixed principle , some saying 801 ., some 401 ., and aome 251 . per head . If the estates be rendered utterly valueless , and the income entirely lost , then humanity would dictate compensation to that amount . But if it could be shown that under the present system no profit whatever were
accruing to the proprietors , then the proprietors would not be entitled to claim a single farthing on the score either of humanity or justice . They would be in a situation similar to that of a man who might wish to claim an enormous sum for a piece of worthless land standing in the line of a new road . If they get no profit by holding negroes in slavery , they would be no worse off in case
of emancipation . I believe it will be found in practice * that the principal profits of the estates go into the pockets of the people employed on the estates , from the attorney downwards , and that the system is of that nature which the owners cannot alter . It is a common saying that the agent or attorney of a West India
estate drinks champagne , but the owner must put up with small beer . If this be so , the matter would not be very difficult to solve . The attorney would scarcely have the impudence to talk of a vested right ; and the owner might reasonably be satisfied if he were no worse off than before . Let the actual losses of the owners be
proved ,, and payment made , not as a fictitious loan , but as a free gift , —not as a claim of right , but as a provision of humanity . The speech of Mr . Stanley , in which he propounded his plan , is remarkable for its profusion of pompous verbiage , and the absence of sound logical inference . A disposition to laud the charlatan Canning , and drag him in as a constant reference , is its
great peculiarity . Mr . Stanley seems inclined to swear by him on all occasions , and verily it is like master like man . So crude a concoction has rarely before been brought forward . The only good feature about it , with regard to adults , is , that it makes the slave at least one fourth free , but for that fourth the people of England are to pay a consideration of fifteen millions sterling , —
but mark the swindle—the Whig ' expedients t * It is not a payment but a loan . As if there were any security in the West Indies to enforce the repayment of the loan ! Dishonest pretext is remarkable in all that the Whigs do . Then again the negro is expected to pay the price of his own body before he can be free , and a tolerably high price it is set at . But he is no longer to be a slave forsooth ! Oh noi an apprentice is the term . Heaven
save the mark I It is true he must work his whole time for twelve years , or he will remain a slave at the end of that period , but not a vestige of his earnings becomes his own . 41 Three fourths of his time he is to work for his master in consideration of the food and necessaries with which he may be furnished , t . e . salt fish and
* Those who are learned in ministerial intention * tay that it ii intended to give the stare the profits of his earnings . This may or may not be . I can of coune only reason from the public documents , which da not seem to ma to warrant any such inference *
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1833, page 470, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2618/page/30/
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