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knd humane, as that which heats in the boforri 

 of " Jack Waith," this being the title by 

 •which that gentleman is beft known in the 

 ifland. The kind indulgence of the mafter 

 is amply repaid in the attachment of his 

 Haves ; and the history of Mr. Walth and 

 his gang, may ftand in everlafting re- 

 proach to the felf- arrogating opinion which 

 maintains that negroes know not the divine 

 fentiment of gratitude, but are raoft treache- 

 rous toward the matter who beft treats, and 

 moft indulges them. Were this the fa£t, as is 

 not unfrequently aflerted, it would offer itfelf 

 in dired oppofition to one great principle of 

 human nature, and would place the blacks 

 very far indeed below the whites, but, how- 

 ever much individual inftances might fecm to 

 countenance the opinion, thefe,perhaps, do not 

 occur more frequently among Africans, than 

 among Europeans, and furely cannot be con- 

 fidered to arife more from any defect of a great 

 and amiable principle of nature in them, than 

 we fhould be willing to admit that they djQ in 

 ourfelves. Such inftances are but the effedt of 

 depravity in either, and proceed from a 

 perverfiQ7i^ not from a genuine principle of 

 nature, and hence cannot in the one, more 



