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length he is put to work, it is proportioned to his 

 strength. The heat of the sun is so far from beiiig 

 hurtful, he takes delight in it. This, too, is precisely 

 the case with his descendants." 



In another place, he compares the comforts and ad- 

 vantages enjoyed by his own immediate domestics, in 

 a situation where all the misery of bondage was miti- 

 gated and softened down, with the privations of food 

 and clothing, which are too often suffered by the la- 

 bouring poor of his native land ; and, again, by still 

 stronger contrast, he refers to the savage habits of the 

 naked African in a state of nature, many of whom 

 he describes as having seen, with their teeth mechani- 

 cally sharpened, the better to enjoy, according to their 

 own confession, an inhuman banquet on the bodies of 

 their captive foes. 



It is impossible to doubt the fact, that the situation 

 of the individuals who had providentally been rescued 

 from such a state of barbarism, and placed under the 

 guardianship of a man, whose heart overflowed with 

 the milk of human kindness, was immeasurably im- 

 proved. But, on a subject where reason is all on one 

 side, it is impossible to argue. In his original reproba- 

 tion of the practice of slavery, as well as in subsequent- 

 ly yielding to the prevailing habit of the country, Dr 

 Wright was equally guided by the influence of good 

 and honourable feelings, and permitted them to sup- 

 ply the place of arguments, which, to a mind like his, 

 must, under any other circumstances, have all arrang- 

 ed themselves in opposition to slavery in its most mi- 

 tigated form. 



