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"Shall we then go unblushingly, and ask the 

 legislators of our country to pass legislative 

 acts to sanction and increase this trade — to 

 sign the death warrants of the strength, mo- 

 rals, and happiness of our fellow-creatures, 

 and not attempt to propose corrections for 

 the evils which it creates? Tf such be your 

 determination, I, for one, will not join in the 

 application — no, I will, with all the faculties 

 I possess, oppose every attempt made to ex- 

 tend the trade that, except in name, is more 

 injurious to those employed in it than is the 

 slavery of the poor negroes in the West In- 

 dies, for deeply as I am interested in the cot- 

 ton manufacture, highly as I value the ex- 

 tended political power of my country, yet 

 knowing as I do, from long experience both 

 here and in England, the miseries which this 

 trade, as it is now conducted, inflicts on those 

 to whom it gives employment, I do not hesi- 

 tate to say: Perish the cotton trade, perish 

 even the political superiority of our country, 

 if it depends on the cotton trade, rather than 

 that they shall be upheld by the sacrifice of 

 everything valuable in life." 



Compare these noble utterances of the great- 

 souled Utopian Socialist with the sneers at 

 the most unfortunate element of the working 

 class which disfigure the pages of "The Man 



