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MISSIONARY LIFE. 
testify of the sufierings they endured, we would be 
filled with horror, and almost hate our race. But 
the injury done them involved vastly more than 
loss of life and physical sufierings. Other results, 
quite as prolific of suftering and injustice, grew 
out of the slave-trade. 
To get a cargo of fiesh, bone, and blood the 
trader would say to the head-man of a town, or 
the king of a country, ‘^You get me so many 
slaves, and I will give you so much powder, to- 
bacco, and rum.’’ To obtain them, war was made 
upon some weak, defenseless town in the night, 
and the required number captured. 
Thus petty wars were instigated, which to this 
day are carried on by some of the tribes for the 
procurement of slaves. By slave-traders the ele- 
' merits of hell were introduced; and they have been 
kept in motion, and still cause murder and rapine, 
with cruel and bloody hands and insatiate maw, 
to walk through that dark land, diffusing every- 
where distrust, hate, and misery. 
I will not further detail the injuries done them 
by the slave-traffic, for their name is legion. But 
if the blood of Abel cried to God from the ground 
for vengeance, surely the tears and blood which 
have been shed, and which are still being poured 
out in Africa on account of this inhuman trafl&c, 
are crying to God with a voice louder than thun- 
