Presbyters Letters On the West India Question Addressed to the Right Honourable
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As I would gladly persuade myself that the colonial legislatures, in their increasing regard for a liberal and enlightened policy, will supersede the necessity of com- pulsory enfranchisement by the mother country, it seems needless to enter at present on the question of compensation, which has so violently agitated the con- tending parties; though it would be easy to shew that the British public are too far implicated with the colo- nists, to suffer it for a moment to be supposed that such a r...ight could be justly denied. It is more to our present purpose to repeat the remark, that whatever claim in equity the slave owners might have ag-ainst the nation, should the legislature determine to manumit the slaves, every individual of the enthralled African race has a claim for reparation against his master, which no law can annul, and to which justice and religion are equally bound to listen. * Let the West India proprietor look at the subject in this light. Let him remember that the only rational argument, as respects the slaves themselves, for delaying to strike off their chains, is their inca- pacity for freedom, and that the equitable duration of their bondage can therefore be measured by no other rule than the duration of that incapacity ; and let him remember, also, that he will not escape from culpa- bility by keeping these human beings in ignorance and barbarism, that their incapacity for freedom may be pro- longed.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
As I would gladly persuade myself that the colonial legislatures, in their increasing regard for a liberal and enlightened policy, will supersede the necessity of com- pulsory enfranchisement by the mother country, it seems needless to enter at present on the question of compensation, which has so violently agitated the con- tending parties; though it would be easy to shew that the British public are too far implicated with the colo- nists, to suffer it for a moment to be supposed that such a r...ight could be justly denied. It is more to our present purpose to repeat the remark, that whatever claim in equity the slave owners might have ag-ainst the nation, should the legislature determine to manumit the slaves, every individual of the enthralled African race has a claim for reparation against his master, which no law can annul, and to which justice and religion are equally bound to listen. * Let the West India proprietor look at the subject in this light. Let him remember that the only rational argument, as respects the slaves themselves, for delaying to strike off their chains, is their inca- pacity for freedom, and that the equitable duration of their bondage can therefore be measured by no other rule than the duration of that incapacity ; and let him remember, also, that he will not escape from culpa- bility by keeping these human beings in ignorance and barbarism, that their incapacity for freedom may be pro- longed.
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