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Best will indeed say, and with reason, that we 

 are brutes." 



Words fail me to describe such a scene of 

 horror; my blood boiled with indignation when 1 

 was first informed of the treatment these poor 

 fellows were undergoing ; it chilled and froze in 

 my veins when I entered the prison, and looked 

 on their pale and emaciated features, their burnt 

 and mutilated bodies ; but I must confess that a 

 blush of shame for my own country came on my 

 cheek when I recollected that she, proud, civil- 

 ized England, who had voted twenty millions for 

 the extinction of slavery in the West Indies, was 

 at that moment straining every nerve in the East 

 to continue this very state of things — to perpe- 

 tuate the system which sanctioned abominations 

 such as these — by propping up with all her power 

 the tottering Turkish empire. 



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