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in a perpetual ftate of dépendance, of agitation and 

 penury, have difcovered ignorance of the nature of 

 Man, who attaches himfelf to the place which he 

 inhabits, only by the ties of the felicity which he 

 enjoys. By introducing into them the flavery of 

 the Negroes, they have formed a connedlion be- 

 tween them» and Africa, and have broken afunder 

 that which ought to have united them to their poor 

 fellow -citizens. They have, farther, difcovered 

 ignorance of the European charader, which is con- 

 tinually apprehenfive, under a warm climate, of 

 feeing it's blood degraded, like that of it's Haves ; 

 and whi(](j| fighs inceflantly after new alliances with, 

 it's compatriots, for keeping up, in the veins of 

 thofe little ones, the circulation of the clear and 

 lively colour of the European blood, and the fen- 

 timents of country, flill more interefting. By 

 giving them perpetually new civil and military 

 rulers, magiftrates entire ftrangers to them, who 

 keep them under a fevere yoke ; men, in a word, 

 eager to accumulate a fortune, they have betrayed 

 ignorance of the French charader, which had no 

 need of fuch barriers to reftrain it to the love of 

 country, feeing it is univerfally regretting it's pro- 

 ductions, it's honours, nay, it's very diforders. 

 They have, accordingly, fucceeded, neither in 

 forming colonifts for America, nor patriots for 

 France ; and they have miftaken, at once, the in- 



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