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have it imposed me Italy on order in Council and that the voluntary
weption at it, frills trteli cheeks and mad; fientihas as the Carves
ereerirece would oncost, rota crave the least of Mc Iwo erils.
Out these cadent:ewe foreet that Lord Bathurst bas precisely
painted nut the terms on %Ilea he would allow modifications, anti
Out it is not 1• ft to the Court to substitute such others as its ex- 1
rrimreereontd sagresi
F,I ins mice, eis laterdship *aye, that nothing can be fairer than
the Proposed ecirethri of arbitrators in the Trinidad Order, viz.
That in the every of the owner anti the stave not agreeing on the
price of the slive's Manumission. the owner shall nppoint one.
the protector of Aimee another, and that an timpi e. shall be ap-
pointed by the Chief Judge. It in clear, says his letniship, that
an wbierseion oe such .1 principle would protect the itettrests of the
owner; wad if mere were any ohjection. it would be that the bias
was In his favour. My the influence of two official characters in
ties appointment of the two arbitretors against only one named by
the owner cab CTINVe a hies in Me latter's favour 1 cennot natter.
scant'; and it (smell seem that Mr. President Wray I ' elf is not
ottelied with this mete of e Onetime, feet he olintitittr% in its
place !Ned !filar:all as Mc corset Wired fhink drairirlik. \V ether
his H moor has in view the Court of Justice, tw what might, per.
It fps. be as fair, a Jay alveoli, good men, is of little importance,
blear'* both are definite' free; his Lordship's rule, and of course
neither will be *Witted. . I
Under such einveistances I cannot feel the force of the argo.
hen. iise,eo as 3 fnatl..r of sentience. to intlece melt abandon my
ere lenicipne lateen.. there is ne nom left tar the exercise of die-
action even in prop slug sari oinilffi•attions as the Corset's arreei.
act might Ingirst.lf au ninth tut 'a hat any could be foetid.
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The ohjegtion ferenerly Mated of the defier, that individuals or
even anemias mile raise nt ney far a slave, with which to put.
chain his freedom. Is engt with this answer, that etc same throat
AV, won't( procnre lit money Pr est manairrirsion would pro.
hably secure the sieve'. well•heing tenerwerds. But how does this
meet the ease of females made fro for illicit purposes? I will not
exoatinte on this pier, as to the danger of looney being raised by
subscriptirm; the roseibility of it is not denied; but it is said met
eeteeees ,494 ed4f, br sateen to drpnt sad, a plan, it indeed pro-
vistets might nee be i,,M.1411e2.3 in the law it-elf to prevent it:
It isgreatli to he were ted that Mr. President Mt ray, who, it is
clear, well sees the danger, by eronnsing ye **Mode money thus
reenter:O. and therefore adopts the foregmng sentence front Earl
itathurst's destratch. has me been kind enough to take the trouble
of painting net a Oat are these easy measures su;d legislative pro-
visions it which tke plan can either he defeated or prevented. Ile
no nothiug of a anettfle Hater: to oire as a guard against the dan-
g..r which lie ninths to exist. This shows the insurtnnuntehle .
defealtiee with rental' the subjset is etinountied; and shall that be
tailed no act of prudence, tn which we abandon 3 wand and jest
prieriple with our eyes opt n to the dattgersatising front it and
hating all checks or remedies to every future choice?
indeed this system. of the slate raising money to purchase his
freedom. is fraught with every tendency to debese his moral chn.
raver hasped of domain* et. The beat disposed among them.
that is, ;haste stf orderly and peaceable oviduct, might in their pre-
sent iteedightetted slue he induced to room to vile stratagems in
order to obt tin the boon held nut to them of purchasing freedom,
t!.: gout blasting of which they consider to tottaist in itileneer
It is not an untrevent ReClllrferfe, even now, that slaves. and these
sat of a pnalligate thwarter, do oust mail wounds in their feet
IT legs, 'which they eurpowly neglect. to turn them into sores.
liar the sake of getting admitted to the afck.house. there to spend
their time its 'Wrong; eked if they were aware of the existence at
the enactment row contemplated, it is not unlikely that matt'
would use means 10 reduce thee:vine from a healthy to an t.
ottiteablay stateen order that from their epparent contlitientheit value
ntigi.et be lessened, and the price mit upon them be brought down
le n level with their tussahs of purchasing. Thrtr moral character, '
sash as it now is. w Mid in like manner be further eviengered by
a. as it would aired a temptation to lessen the value by its depre.
tattiest. One. leieterto industrious and eetupatatively sober, might
taus tom an Idler and a drun'eerd, merely to better his (fiance of
I•bu•ining freedom. those oft profligate character, although pro.
bahly able working people. could leave no vice unpractised to RC-
! eonipliah their end. It such are the consequences to which it may
lewd, would i nut directly defeat the protegee(' object of improving
the habits and die data. ter of the slave ?
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Ii I acre le to the principtet, independent of acting against a sense
olduty. which I cannot do, I make myself oven/tilde to my fel-
-117 Cohntists fur all the dangers an I losses which I foresee from
the 'mantle; stet should their ruin hereefter be the consospience,
teey aught by an act of mi7e then be barred front claiming and oh-
tsie:ng that full can:pens:ohm to which they are anti will remain
lentitled ; at lout there rights of compensation might be called in
egestion, if the enactment had originated with this Court in any
shape whatever. .