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on board the cargo of slaves for six weeks, 
by a man-of-war on the African coast. 
After the slaves were landed, the vessel 
was burned s but with the loss of it and of 
the three hundred slaves on the passage, 
five thousand dollars were still cleared for 
the owners. The captain was offered great 
wages to make a second trip, but refused, 
giving as a reason, that he could not be so 
inhuman, and cruel to any one, as those 
necessarily have to be, who traffic in slaves 
on the high seas. He also told us that he 
was closely pursued by officers in this coun- 
try, and would have been taken in all proba- 
bility had he not fled to another. 
The only reason why I refer to this cir- 
cumstance, is to show that cruelty is 
inseparably connected with the system of 
slavery, and that for gain, white men are 
quite as inhuman as are degraded heathens. 
Every day occurrences in Southern States 
attest the truthfulness of this statement. 
The love of power, and money, both on this 
and the other side of the great Atlantic, as 
connected with the system of slavery, have 
wrung groans, tears, and blood from many, 
