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people must protect themselves, and must be ready, on every 
occasion, to turn out against the enemy. 
Lastly. — The British Government proposes to engage for 
** the admission for consumption in this country, on favourable 
terms, of goods, the produce or manufacture of the territories 
subject to them.” And we readily admit that no inducement 
could be devised more efficacious for the purpose of leading the 
Native Powers to unite with us in the suppression of the Slave 
Trade ; it would provide for them the two things which they most 
require, a market for their own products and a liberal supply of 
European goods ; but we are at a loss to conceive how this 
boon can be conceded, unless the territory on wffiich these 
products are grown be British. In the latter case, the Duties 
we impose may be as light as we please, and there will be no 
restraint as to the measure of encouragement which we may 
choose to give to the infant cultivation of Africa. But if the 
district belong to a native power, we shall be controlled by all 
our treaties with other nations, engaging to receive their commo- 
dities upon the same terms as those of the most favoured 
nations. We propose, for example, to grow Sugar in Africa by 
free labour, to come into competition with the Sugar of Brazil ; 
we shall naturally be disposed to favour that which is intended 
as a blow against the Slave Trade, in preference to that which is 
produced by means of the Slave Trade. 
In short, if the territory on which our capital is to be expended 
be British, we have it in our power to offer the most effectual 
encouragement for its growth, but the contracts we have 
formed with other nations forbid us to give this natural and 
powerful stimulus to the industry of tribes who are under native 
dominion. 
Thus it seems that this great national experiment for awakening 
the people of Africa to a proper sense of their own degradation 
and misery, and for developing practically and before their eyes, 
the advantages which they might derive from the resources of 
their soil, and the pursuits of legitimate commerce, is liable to 
be defeated, and that system which it is declared affords the best, 
if not the only, prospect of accomplishing the suppression of 
the Slave Trade, will be exposed to difficulties at every step, 
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