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changed am I I that man is the object of my sincere pity ; I have Jong since forgiven him ; I have long since , in my heart , acquitted him of ferocity , tyranny , or cruelty ; I have learned how to direct my abhorrence more justly ; that was his education ; I have transferred all my hate to the system , and ' with all my soul
I hate it / He had been taught by it , —such a man was useful , necessary , in such a place , among such people , and in attainment of such objects . He was a capital disciplinarian of * old England ' s jolly tars . ' But the feelings of hate , and the imaginings of revenge with which I regarded that man , are not coexistent with my present notices of the proper objects and causes of my abhorrence . I would neither stab , shoot , strike , no , nor aid a
corporeal scourge of any one of them . I have no wish , no impulse of that character , whenever my thoughts turn to those objects : but I sicken with disgust , just as I should do in approaching and passing a mass of putrescence ; or , if I pause within the spread of its gases , it is with a courageous resolution to do violence to every sense , in the hope , and with an effort to remove it , and purify the spot and its vicinity . if I could , I
would utterly crush the system from which these mischiefs and these horrors spring . 1 will show the mischiefs and the horrors , come what may of it . It is only my own tale that I am here relating—true ; but , reader , it is also the tale of thousands who have had no historian ; whose advocates have been too feeble , or too circumspect , too cautious ; they whispered when they should
have thundered ; they should boldly have declared the facts , commanded attention , and clamoured for redress , if they really and truly felt the wrongs which were done to their fellow-countrymen ; but they complained , and lamented , and pitied , and were laughed at , despised , and forgotten . Narrated facts of palpable cruelty , and headlong ferocity , make no impression if they are gently breathed ; the voice must paint , words must be strong , or the picture will not be seen , and the facts will dwindle into doubts , and expire in indifference . You may be wise , perhaps , in calming your tones , and softening your phrases , when
you have a proselytism of opinion or principle to make ; but in stating facts of cruelt y , let your words be as apt , strong , biting , and your tones as intense , as your feelings of indignation can make them : whether this be a correct rule , or a prudent rule to follow , or not , I can assure you , reader , it shall be my guide . ies
, 1 should have been tried and hanged for murder had 1 remained a week longer on board that ship . I am quite sure that would have been my fate , —if that fellow had not killed me ; and at this moment , as my pen courses along the paper , I palpitate , while the cold perspiration stands on my forehead , in thinking on the narrowness of my escape . My foot was then on the verge of a fathomless abyss . I glare into the impenetrable murkiness , chilled and motionless , chained by horror !—I totter ,
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824 Autobiography of Pet . Verjuice ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1833, page 824, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2628/page/20/
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