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unless the experiment be made in the first instance, on land 
belonging to the British Crown. 
We shall lose the aid of the Society of Friends, our Settle- 
ments will have to defend themselves, and thus be either weak 
and so tempt native cupidity, or if strong, themselves be tempted 
to aggression. We shall be unable to encourage it in its 
earlier stage, by favourable and light duties on its products. 
We shall lose the vast advantages which may be expected from 
the absence of Slavery. We must submit to witness, and almost 
to connive at those horrid rites which are practised in Africa 
under the name of religion. 
In short, the administration of just laws, security, free labour, 
fiscal encouragement to African agriculture, constitute the 
essence of the new preventive system; without these, the 
experiment is forlorn, no body of persons will be hardy enough 
to attempt it, and these essentials are only to be obtained on a 
territory attached to Great Britain. 
The practicability of obtaining such territory is sufficiently 
indicated by repeated instances of willingness on the part of the 
Chiefs and people of Africa, to dispose of territory (sovereignty 
and soil included), for adequate considerations. 
By far the greater number of treaties made with African 
nations contain stipulations for the cession of territory, either 
absolutely or with reservations, and upon condition either of 
receiving a subsidy, or of enjoying the advantages of British 
protection and commerce. The preamble to many of these 
treaties attests beyond any question the sense entertained 
by the natives of the insecurity of their own condition, and 
their ardent desire to find refuge under a regular form of Govern- 
ment. 
It is true that it has been the practice of the Government of 
late years to discourage arrangements of this description in 
Africa, and no doubt wisely. When the benefit contemplated 
was the extension of our dominions, the Government shewed 
their moderation by rejecting overtures which if they gratified 
ambition on the one band, entailed responsibility and expense on 
the other ; but the present plan suggests a definite object of a 
magnitude and importance which would seem fully to justify the 
