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Company could be induced to endure this, and if that difticulty 
could be got over, we do not believe that our presence, under 
such circumstances, could effect any great advance in civi- 
lization. 
If the districts cultivated by the persons to whom we have 
alluded, are under the dominion of Great Britain, Slavery must 
be abolished. TJiis was done in Bulama, and is done at Liberia, 
and all persons resorting to those tracts of territory, have been 
declared to be free ; and it is remarkable that we have from 
Captain Beaver, on the one part, and Governor Buchanan on the 
other, the strongest acknowledgments of the benefits which they 
severally derived from refusing to tolerate Slavery under any 
form. But advantages of this kind are not the strongest argu- 
ments for our insisting upon free labour. The extended 
cultivation of the soil of Africa, if unaccompanied with precau- 
tions against Slavery, may even aggravate and perpetuate this 
lamentable system : and every step towards extending and 
improving the resources of these countries may with them, as 
with Egypt, prove a step towards promoting and encouraging 
predial bondage. In short, our paramount object is to establish 
free labour cultivation, and to prove its superiority, thus providing 
wholesome and profitable occupation, and undermining the Slave 
Trade. If the district cultivated be British territory, there can be 
no Slavery, and it is hardly too much to say, that, under 
native rule, there will be no such thing at present as free 
labour. 
Unless the territory which it is intended to till be subject to 
Great Britain, we shall be deprived of a large portion of the 
money which is to form the capital of our Agricultural Esta- 
blishment. We look to members of the Society of Friends, or 
Quakers, for a considerable portion of this capital. Some of 
them are ready to undertake Agriculture in Africa, provided that 
in that country they are circumstanced as they are already in 
England, The Government here finds them protection ; they 
have no act or part in the matter ; their scruples are not otFended 
by having to ask for the aid of an armed police ; they do not 
carry arms themselves, neither do they ask others to carry them. 
But unless we are sovereigns in the district we cultivate, our 
