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cern, but each has his appropriate fpot of 

 ground, and his cottage, in which he feels a 

 right as facred as if fecured to him by all the 

 feals and parchments of the Lord High Chan- 

 cellor of England, and his court. 



Happy and contented, the flave of "Profit" 

 fees all his wants fupplied. Having never 

 been in a ftate of freedom, he has no defire 

 for it. Not having known liberty, he feels not 

 the privation of it ; nor is it within the powers 

 of his mind either to conceive or comprehend 

 the fenfe we attach to the term. Were free- 

 dom offered to him he would refufe to accept 

 It, and would only view it as a ftate fraught 

 with certain difficulties and vexations, but 

 offering no commenfurate good. Ct Who gib 

 me for gnyhaam Maffa," he alks " if me free ?" 

 " Who gib me clothes !" " Who fend me 

 do&or when me fick ?" 



With induftry a flave has no acquaint- 

 ance, nor has he any knowledge of the kind 

 of comfort and independence which derive 

 from it. Ambition has not taught him that, 

 in freedom, he might efcape from poverty— 

 nor has he any conception that by improving 



