1829.J and Iheir Calumniators. 529 



to take his miisquet, if he has one, and be a law unto himself. It is 

 not men meeting together, with certain forms, and calling themselves 

 the Honourable this, or the Worshipful that, — that can legalize what, 

 in its own nature, is contrary to the purposes for which human society is 

 formed." * * * ff jsjot a soldier or officer is sent to the 



colonies, who does not know that the only way of reconciling his 

 service with the duty of an honest man, or the honour of a gentleman, 

 is by considering himself as the guardian of the great acts of justice 

 which must speedily take place." 



Now this, it must be confessed, is speaking plainly ; " this looks re- 

 bellion !" this, from the agent of the Anti-Slavery Society, whose senti- 

 ments that society adopts, and whose opinions they circulate at their 

 own expence — for, cheaply as they may affect to sell them, they know, 

 and we know, that unless the publication in which they are contained 

 be given away, it will not be read at all — is better than twenty thousand 

 of their own milk and water productions, in which " they palter with us 

 in a double sense" and assume the language and tone of charity and 

 good-will to men, while they thirst for the blood of their fellow 

 creatures and fellow countrymen. There can be no mistaking this. Les 

 Amis des Noirs never uttered the cravings of their sanguinary hearts 

 more plainly in the Revolutionary Assemblies of France, when they 

 gave the signal for the atrocities which took place in St. Domingo ; the 

 memory of which is yet so recent that many men now living retain it in 

 all its original horror, and the history of which will make the hearts of 

 men yet unborn quake while they read it ! The Caliban of the West- 

 minster goes even fvn-ther than the mere utterance of such opinions : he 

 recommends their diffusion in the West Indies, among the slaves them- 

 selves ; and who can doubt that by means of the influence of the Anti- 

 Colonists, his recommendation will be put into practice ? Then, if their 

 wishes be accomplished, must be acted over again the same scenes of 

 atrocity and terror. Again that most dreadful of all wars, a bellum ser- 

 vile, will desolate the lands where plenty, and, in spite of all that Caliban 

 and his abettors would urge, contentment now smile ; and all that has 

 been done towards the improvement, moral and physical, of the slave 

 population, all the effects of religious and other instruction, by which, 

 in the process of time, that population would be raised to the proper rank 

 of intellectual beings, would be undone and blasted ! We speak of no 

 imaginary evils. Unhappily for human nature, and to the disgrace of 

 the present age, St. Domingo — or Hayti, as, in the vain hope of oblite- 

 rating the appalling recollections that are for ever associated with it, it has 

 since been called — furnishes a practical instance of the only effects that 

 can be produced by such measures as the Anti-Slavery Society, repu- 

 diating the exertions of the religious missionaries whom they first 

 employed, now recommend, under the advice and with the co-operation 

 of the Westminster Review ! 



To go through the detail of the atrocities, which under the same pre- 

 text were committed in St. Domingo, would be impossible on this occa- 

 sion ; but we extract a short statement of some of the most noted, from 

 a recent publication by one of the best informed and most able writers 

 on the questions connected with the Colonies. 



" A few of tlic horrors committed in St. Domingo may be here 

 noticed as a warning to those who have colonies peopled by African 

 slaves. 



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