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untold miseries on our sugar colonies, which were 

 just then emerging from a state of bondage into 

 liberty. The inconsistency of abolishing slavery in 

 the British domirdons is seen in the importation 

 of slave-grown sugar, and the levelling competition 

 with slave-employing countries, over which the 

 British Parliament has cast its shield. The present 

 Government appears disposed to do something for 

 our colonies ; and if our colonists would only put 

 their shoulders to the wheel, forgetting their pld 

 grievances and local differences, and looking upon 

 their interests as identical, they might excite the 

 favourable attention of the British Parliament. 

 Were the vox populi universally heard, no Govern- 

 ment could resist it. There is wisdom, benevolence, 

 courage, public spirit enough in England to wipe out 

 the foul blot of free trade, as affecting her colonies, 

 from British legislation. 



To go about the work in a business-like manner, 

 deputations from each colony should be sent to 

 England, where a regularly organized congress 

 might be held. And there is no doubt but that 

 our amiable Queen would give her royal assent 

 most gladly to any measure which should have for 

 its object to relieve the unprecedented injustice in- 



