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is necessary to carry ontrade and commerce. The power 
that compels this, in whosever hand it lies, must create in 
the inferior grades that state of forced subservience 
‘which can only be denominated slavery. It signifies not 
whether England be herself the slave trader; as long as 
she uses coffee, sugar, cotton, rum, indigo, silver, gold, 
chocolate, rice, tobacco, so long must she virtually sup- 
port the system of slavery, for without slaves and their 
labour, either negroes, Indians or Hindus, Europe would 
never enjoy their luxuries. 
To what purpose then is this outcry against slavery 
that has blinded the eyes of politicians and nearly thrown 
the staff out of the hands of Great Britain. Ships, colo- 
nies and commerce; are they not the sinews of her 
strength, and how are they supported? Without freight 
how many fleets would train their crews in voyages to 
either India? And what is that freight? All that she 
procures from her own dominions is produced by the 
labour of her slaves. Nor can it be otherwise. The 
European labourer is unequal to the influence of the . 
tropical sun. Should he escape his seasoning, and labour 
to his utmost, even that utmost dwindles to a com- 
paratively small proportion, and a very few years reduces 
him, with relaxed habits and an emaciated frame, to the 
miseries of a premature old age. Under the same sun, 
the negro thrives and enjoys himself, and though he 
would willingly not work, yet his labour keeps him in 
health and temperance. The power that tempers the 
wind of heaven to the shorn lamb knows this, and has 
also declared to man in all his shades and colours “ In 
the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread,” | 
Even the stoppage of the slave trade of Great Britain 
