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cc That it is the opinion of this house, that as 

 there may be among the rebels a few who, by their 

 repentance, services, and good behaviour, since their 

 surrender, have merited protection and favour, it be 

 recommended to the lieutenant-governor to permit 

 such to remain in the island, together with their 

 wives and children ; and to distinguish them by any 

 other marks of favour he may think proper." 



Of the policy of ridding the country of such an ene- 

 my (admitting the justice of the war on the part of 

 the whites) there could not have been, I should have 

 thought, but one opinion. After such a war, carried 

 on in such a manner, it is impossible to believe, that 

 a cordial reconciliation between the White inhabitants 

 and the Maroons could ever have taken place. The 

 latter would probably have continued a sullen, sub- 

 jugated people, employed only in seducing the en- 

 slaved negroes from their fidelity, and ready to re- 

 volt themselves, whenever occasion should offer. 

 " No country on earth," says Rutherford, " would 

 suffer a body of men to live within its territories, un- 

 less they would agree to be accountable to its laws, 

 as far as the general security requires." To expect 

 such conduct from the Maroons was to manifest a 

 total ignorance of their disposition. The determina- 

 tion therefore of the legislature of the colony to 

 transport these people from the island being thus 

 fixed, it remains only to point out in what manner it 

 was enforced. 



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