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ployed in the South Indian Ocean in the suppres¬ 
sion of this hateful traffic. The real difficulty of 
the friends of the slave, however, commences with 
the release of so many thousands of helpless beings 
in an alien land, far away from their homes and old 
associations. The question is, What is to be done 
with and for them after they have been delivered 
from the bands of their captivity ? Successful 
attempts have been made by good people to solve 
this knotty problem, both in St Helena and Sierra 
Leone, where cargoes of liberated negroes were 
till very lately constantly being landed from the 
boats of her Majesty’s men-of-war. But so far 
on the east coast nothing in the way of an ade¬ 
quate provision has been made for the education 
and industrial training of liberated Africans. 
This appears to be the weak point in what is 
certainly the most humane and noble of all our 
national enterprises—the abolition of slavery. 
It is to England that the eye of the oppressed 
turns from every quarter of the world,—it is to 
her that the outcast appeals, no matter where his 
domicile may happen to be : it is her proud and 
glorious prerogative that she is the fountain of 
liberty, of mercy, and of justice—the arbiter of 
the nations, the nursing-mother of the races—and 
it is for her to continue to maintain this great 
position, to accept her magnificent destiny, and 
