44 
years {at a very trivial expence to the 
proprietor), raise up a race of young 
Christian negroes, who will amply repay 
their kindness by the crease of their 
population, by their fidelity, industry, ho- 
nesty, Aemelity, submission, and oedi- 
ence, to their masters; all which virtues 
they are strictly enjoined, under pain of 
eternal punishment, oy the divine reli 
gion in which they wild have been edu- 
eated, and render them far superior to 
their unconverted fellow-labourers, 
‘“¢ Ibis proved, by fact and experience, 
that they are held by the planter 1 bigher 
estimation, and ave purchased ut a higher 
price, than their heathen brethren.” 
Restraming them to reading, he says, 
€¢ will be a wall of partition between them 
aud the whites, an insurmountable bar- 
rier against the approaching to any thing 
fike an equality with their masters.” 
Page 24, we are told that, “ every 
proprietor in Antigua is anxious to pro- 
eure them, and will give @ Aigher price 
fer them than for their heathen breth- 
rep,” And then, to prove to us “ how 
very humble the Christian doctrines of 
‘submission will render them, we have 
quotations from Peter, c. x1. v. 18; Titus, 
¢. xi. v. 9 and 10; Ephesians, c. vi. v. 6; 
Colossians, c. iil, v. 22; to which ‘he 
adds, at page 24, “If any one wished 
to form a slave exactly to his mind, could 
he possibly do it in terms more adapted 
to his purpose than these?” 
Again, at page 25, ‘ They are yours, 
the whole man, both bady and seul; they 
are your sole and intire property; to you 
they look up as their master, governor, - 
grardian, and protector; as the guides 
that are to open to them the way to a 
better world.” 
Page 26, “ That without any fault, 
they have been doomed to perpetuul ser- 
mtude (a servitude, too, which at. their 
death they leave, the only inheritance 
they have to leave), entailed to their 
Eatest posterity.” 
Again, at page 27 (speaking of the ef- 
fect of their conversion), he says, “ In- 
stead of lessening their labour, it will en- 
crease their industry, and their, desire (in 
conformity to the demands of the reli- 
gion they have embraced) to please their 
And, curiously | 
masters in all things.” 
enough, at summing up these benefits, is 
added, 
‘“« Let the great enemy of the repose 
and comfort of mankind (the devil, per-’ 
haps) place his glory in universal domi- 
nion—lct Britain place it in universal be- 
necolence J” 
Now what does this imply, but that 
1 
Remarks on the Bishop of Lontlon’s Address, 
[July ty 
slavery is not only lawful under the Chris- 
tian dispensation, but that we may con 
seientivusly make slaves of that muliix 
plied offspring, of which we have pro-. 
moted the breeding, by politically adopt~ 
iug the Christian religion’ as a moral ba 
sis on which to augment the species. 
What! does not his lordship know that 
if it is criminal to buy aslave in Africa, 
it is equally so to buy one in the islands ? 
that if itis wrong to buy men at all, it is 
equally so to seil them? His lordship 
does know, 1 assert it, that to sell a slave 
from Jamaica to a Tobago planter, would 
inflict a punishment as great in the eyes 
of any slave, as to transport a European 
to Botany Bay.. And can he contem- 
plate the idea of relations parted m_ this 
manner, at the caprice of their womi- 
nally Christian owners, without reproba- 
tion, and coolly talk of their augmented 
value in the market us Christians? Does 
he dare to talk of natural-born slaves in 
this age, when nothing can support the 
idea but arbitrary human law, and the 
least-instructed Christian shudders at 
the thought? When Russians are eman- 
cipating their serfs, and the cold northern 
morality thaws before the god-like truths 
ef the Gospel; when Providence has 
broken the chain of the tyrants of St. Do- 
mingo, and a deliverance as great as that 
of the Israelites is effected before our 
eyes; at such a time, shall a Protestant 
divine be suffered, without a check, to 
talk of natural-bora slaves, that is, erea~ 
tures born as cattle, and at the disposal of 
their masters, wherever they can find a 
market! And that the increase of this de-. 
voted race is to be promoted by making 
them Christians only, instead of making 
them Christians and freemen,.as an ex- 
piation for the injaries done to all their 
long, line of progenitors! \Yhe thought is 
horrible—and I should not wonder, if the 
motive should become known to the ine 
digent part of this abused race, if the 
fathers of families should, along with the 
prineiples of our religion, embrace the 
iscipline of St. Francis, and put an_end > 
to their hereditary dependence, by the 
practice of celibacy, or even, m despair, 
go the length of emasculating their male 
progeny; for what can be more dreadful: 
to a thinking mind, than the idea of ge- 
erating slaves, whose sole occapation 1s 
to till the earth, ike oxen, under a verti- 
eal sun. | 
But if this is painful to thought, what 
shall we say to a case, of which I could. 
name all the parties, and which is hy no» 
means uncommon, and may, under our 
present slave laws, be still practised to all: 
generations 
