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46 power to attend our sick Negroes with the same 
“ assiduity and watchfulness as we do our wives 
44 and children ; but in the essential things, little 
44 difference is made. The frames and distempers 
44 are similar ; except that Negroes do not bear low 
44 diet so well as Whites.” 
Who but must admire the elegance and huma¬ 
nity of the following Extract! 
44 I now come,” says Laborie, “to old age.” 
4< Light employments (as has been seen) are 
44 given to Negroes as they fall into the decline of 
44 years. 
44 But as they sink into decrepitude, retirement 
44 and rest, with affectionate usage, to alleviate the 
44 pains and hardships of bodily infirmities, are a 
44 debt due to humanity, and an acknowledgment 
44 for past services. A man of reflection and sen- 
44 sibility cannot fail to be moved at the sight of 
44 that privileged creature, who, after fulfilling in 
44 an useful manner the functions of his station on 
44 earth, through all the periods of life, stands upon 
44 the brink of Eternity, about to be united to the 
44 Author of his being ! 
44 Take care, then, not to afflict the good old 
44 man, by dragging him from his old thatched and 
44 plastered mansion, his family, and his habits, 
44 under the mistaken idea of having him more 
44 within 
