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ment of capital to make it probable that it would 

 for many years come into competition with that 

 from the East or West Indies : even if it did, are 

 we not bound to encourage the cultivation of a 

 country we have rendered a desert ? We granted 

 bounties upon the importation of cargoes of hu- 

 man beings ! — surely we can afford to import the 

 produce of the soil duty free. 



The high prices of colonial produce for the last 

 few years have created throughout the country 

 a very general feeling against the prohibitory 

 duties upon the sugar and coffee of Brazils and 

 Cuba. The people are told that, having paid 

 twenty millions to the West Indians, they have 

 a right to get their sugar and coffee from the 

 cheapest market. Give the West Indians the 

 same option, and this is true ; — they can have no 

 claim then for the exclusive possession of the Bri- 

 tish market. 



What a splendid opportunity this gives the 

 British nation of throwing open their markets to 

 the produce of all free states, and keeping them 

 shut against the slave-holders ! thus proving to 

 the world that we deny ourselves cheap luxuries, 

 for the sake of granting a premium to those who 

 abolish slavery in their country. 



