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public; St. Pomingo is alluded to, the devastation and ruin of 

 which is severely felt to this day, especially by the merchants 

 of Bourdeaux, That dreadful example of blood-shed and 

 slaughter, by a too sudden precipitation of the negroes into 

 freedom, is equalled but by similar occurrences which took 

 place in France at the same period; surely it ought to make 

 the avowed friends to the emancipation of our colonial culti- 

 vators tremble at the idea of the misery which they have been 

 tending to bring on our West India possessions. 



