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has only had this effe&t, that it has thrown that trade 
into the hands of other powers, with whom it is notorious 
few of the scruples of humanity. exist that di€tated the 
comparative care of their unfortunate crews for which the 
British traders were famous.. Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, 
French, in ill-appointed ships, deficient in every con- 
venience, still drag the African from his native shores, 
~and enable other powers to undersell the British Colo- 
‘mies in every European market. WILBERFORCE, how- 
- ever good his motives, has only accomplished. this; he 
-has taken from: the negro a lenient master to give him 
“one with a hand of iron. He has destroyed an English 
monopoly and admitted the whole world. He has lite- 
rally, to use a coarse proverb, like the tinker, mended 
‘one’ hole, ‘but he has made ten. By raising a furious 
-outery, he has secured to himself the charaéter of an 
venthusiast, but future ages will for ever deny him either 
’that of a philanthropist, or a politician. 
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