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exhibition of the effects which cultivation will produce, and the 
blessings it will bring with it. 
In these settlements, persons, property, and lawful occupations 
must be protected ; the produce of free labour must receive 
encouragement in the European market. Finally a fitting ex- 
ample must be presented to surrounding nations of the benefits 
of Christianity, and of the advantages to be derived from civilized 
institutions. The simple enumeration of these particulars may 
suffice to show the impossibility of combining or securing them 
under any known form of native Government. All that is knowm 
of Africa, whether from British officers, or missionaries, or 
scientific travellers seems to concur in proving that settlements 
of this description must be kept apart from the contamination 
of prevailing native practices, and that their internal pros- 
perity not less than their external security, can be maintained in 
no other way than by placing them under the protection of the 
British Crown. 
It is clear that in the districts where the experiment is made, 
the sovereign power must be held by the British Government, 
and the natives obey our laws, or we must be subject to their 
authority, and submit to such laws as they may impose. Our 
rule and our institutions will be a pure gain to the Africans. 
We might then insure security of person and property within 
the precincts of our settlement, and we might take care that, 
there at least, none of the native superstitions and bloody rites 
were practised. 
It is not too much to say, that wherever British Sovereignty 
shall be firmly established, there religious and civil liberty would 
instantly prevail, intestine wars and anarchy would cease ; the 
Aborigines would be protected, equal rights be enjoyed by all, 
and every motive, aid, and opportunity, which public or private 
benevolence, or enterprize, might contribute towards the civi- 
lization of Africa, would be most successfully brought into 
operation. 
But supposing the natives to be rulers, we must submit to all 
their abominations, and consent to see human sacrifices made, 
and to be thwarted by the evil influence which such sights 
exercise on all attempts at civilization. We believe that no 
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