378 REMARKS ON 



Can any one believing in the justice of our 

 universal Creator — nay, any one merely conver- 

 sant with the history of the world, doubt that 

 for the blood and the sufferings — the misery and 

 the tears of these Africans, a day of retribution 

 will not sooner or later arrive ? The present 

 prosperity of our country is no proof to the con- 

 trary. We boast that the sun never sets upon 

 our dominions. Fifty-years ago, Spain did the 

 same ; and where is she now ? — her commerce al- 

 most annihilated, — her power as a nation despi- 

 cable, — her people priest-ridden, demoralised 

 and depraved, the very lees of a nation ; her ter- 

 ritory alternately scourged by domestic feuds or 

 foreign foes, — governed in succession by fools or 

 rogues. Let any one read the account of her 

 cruelties in the New World and her history for 

 the last half-century, and doubt, if he can, the 

 retributive justice that awaits the oppressor who, 

 blind to the consequences, perseveres in his op- 

 pression, neglects the opportunities offered by 

 Providence for the expiation of his guilt, and 

 whose punishment, though it may slowly, yet 

 surely overtakes and overwhelms him. 



On the principle of repairing the evil we have 

 done and avoiding its punishment, it is our in- 



