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deen, which stated, " That all the worst featurses,e°e
slavery existed in that country. That there
greatest degradation of intellect, and that even the law
assisted to transform the African man into the AmeriC
brute."—(Hear, hear.) He now came to the laset
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ment he should make. Before concluding, h
make allusion to what astonished him, notwithstane_nd
the experience he had had of fallacious reasoninC,'
unsound doctrine. The very party he was sPetaviut6fy,
had carried their arms into the enemy our
eus our
and said, " We, the true abolitionists, give ,litior.)
money and we shall soon abolish slavery."---Atzbe
This then was the argument which they used, irf.,the
slave trade in Africa would certainly be increased uY.
tb.
abolition of the duty on foreign sugars. That Iva!, by
argument. This was the monstrous argument u5neu,,,,,,,
the advocates for this new system of political ecoee
They allowed that this trade, for a time at least, ,bust, did
increased. The admission of foreign sugars Wow" dij
crease the horrors of the slave trade ; and this they 11
while perfectly aware of the consequences thatiod;
ensue from their conduct—this they did in cold
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and fully aware of the amount of misery that ije
ensue to the miserable victims of this horrid trade.',4
must say that in the whole course of investiationfa,
the annals of human presumption, he had never fire atr.
more gross act of presumption than that which tttbeit
vacates for this measure held out as a justification 0' woe
conduct. They asserted openly that they were 5,,f
that this measure would have the effect for a time
were
creasing the horrors of the slave trade, and they
ready, for the sake of carrying out their views' 'OO
dertake the great responsibility, he might say the.go the
responsibility, of increasing the slave trade ;
poor wretches who were its victims, were 160
captured, murdered whilst this experiment of PL"rri66
economy was being tried. Yet truly "","ribla
as was this aspect of the affair—truly as was the noted
future laid before the world by the future thus Pr4esia
—there was in it something ludicrous, whit.'" kale!
effect overlaid the terrible, and which even soft
the audacity of those by whom it was exhibited.
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been stated that free labour would supplant slave 'sit is
He agreed with the proposition that it would (Iv se, web
equal circumstances, because persons would wolboor
greater zeal when working under a system free is DO,
than when under the terrors of the lash ira, slaverl•oo
A B C of the abolition society was that facela,bour
supersede slave labour, but only
eir
cumstances. That principle had bell'
Pitt and Mr. Wilberforce. It .„,1 en recogniseroato e
work out the negroes. It was
fti ahstfir to talk ofb/ble
beings in that manner ; but, 'te,, gwere noot eons
for for that, the fault rested with
, the owners of slarmistt
to
Africa, take
andcare
couldof them.
ee
linty. ay siren wh en upon 11,1401,r,
The
ytain a fresh supply °f se'
had access to the c°-
-(Cheers.) I have now nearly done. I 11:.ell's„,11,
complished a tasl.c which I felt it 01.1
of to undertake. I Y,ave reminded your LordshiPsLtke,
general features of the case, and I have run °";,.
ground at more length than I wished to have d,.°1,11- 01"
I had had., more time to h ae
prepare my speech, 0,0
have reelue d •
e „ it to narrower bounds. I MaY,Flll°
have a future time to speak, in the meantime yr,
to say is this, I do most earnestly and ferven"J,,,,ole
that your Lordships will not treat the quostiotl"-oves
Ine'i•ely of commercial policy, but as one which 111Lisiii'
all the best interests of this country, and of 1111,—,,:ev„,
religion, justice, and humanity, and policy, and a'-fj °iv
the national character and credit and reputation been
country; and, using the language which had otie°
adopted by an eloquent advocate upon a former oee,t4 111
" that national honour is in our mind inferl tie
course of justice, humanity, and virtue." ,
honour and national credit is, I am sure, sate
Lordships' hands, and the prayer of the petition, ~#et 14e
society I represent, and their venerable
presidn'it.
not before your Lordships have been urged in won'
Noble Lord sat down amid loud cheers. t
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE then sal", an
rising he was prepared only to offer a very few 1r
for he entertained an opinion in common, not °Wife
the majority of their Lordships present, but he 174 tbl'f
with the Noble and Learned Lord himself, the?'s'sini
was not the best time or the fit occasion for dis',e°6ooo
a measure which was at that moment introdte,!r
the other House of Parliament, and which vv"infte it
receive that full consideration that it must be " ifrof
came before their Lordships.—(Hear, hear.) If°
Noble and Learned Friend must have been hie3sefor
opinion that this was the least convenient period,. h'
debate on this great question, when he himsehto
placed on the order book of their Lordships' 11: ,
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notice for discussion on this question, and had
wards, in the course of a few days, postponed its! tothee
ground that it was not yet brought before 0,1 mt
House of Parliament. He, therefore, thous; oP
though his Lordship was unquestionably entitle" bee he.
t t
any opportunity, by giving forty-eight hours' 11‘) ;
fore his resolution should be received by the 11,,eilsi, and
he certainly thought that although the , is
Learned Lord had, with his usual eloquence sod iloiiriu"
introduced this question, still it was th,e wrong WI
to do so on that occasion, when every arg:.0001,
brought forward in the other House betir4
require to be met by anticipation.—(lleac' ~
But his Noble and Learned Friend, in the petition sir
he had presented, had bestowed a great Part' :4
speech, not in supporting the petition,
but in aro.' ptr;
the arguments of petitionere. The of the'
re°
prayer di
tion and the speech of the Noble Lord were in sse
contrast The petitioners called upon their Lorcblqo
a opt the policy of refrainin from all commoditieivo of
were slave Produce,ou but the whole tenor of the speeePti,
the Noble was to avoid the ground of the pe,4
tioners; to adopt the most untenable ground on w_l,si!is
any motion ever attempted to rest its policy, and to
.1c1.!,,
the consumption of slave produce only to certain article
Ile wished to tell his Noble and Learned Friend
~,iis
her Majesty's Government and himself, who,ig
Noble Friend knew, had been at every period of ',fere
zealous for the suppression of the slave-tracle!tiossge
still anxious for the extinction of it by evtrylegio the
means by which it might be effected by erul,,,,priir
high seas, where it could be done according be f
ciples of morality as well as the principles ° of the
But, at the same time, he must say, on the Pil:roattin
people of this country, who had a right to ilL:ebetrifr
with those of other nations, from whom wereof
those luxuries now almost become necessariesa ibelA
that the Government had no right to withhel,4ll'it
from the people, and thereby virtually eic`,„—ted
those principles which but lately had been sci„risev•
Parliament. They would certainly use all proper to 111:a
for putting down that trade, but they were averteitb.3,Ri
terfering with the interests of other States, or
principles of their policy; which, however a er,
their Lordships might deem them—hourefit '
roneous—these nations alone had a rigs ate
"
"
consider; and he was sure that by holding out .fliple;
with a view to leading them to adopt those nor the
which this country cherished, and has cherisheu otrr,
last twenty years, but in reference to which till& c° 50 fat
fifty years ago, was as much in error as theY'
from accomplishing the desired effect, they ogi''
only tend to perpetuate the system which theY:tstiin
to destroy. There were more horrors eomlor fori
Lousiana in one day than in Africa In a vfhed
When this question came to be alsenssed he truswfrles.
they shoUld hear from his -Noble and Learned rticel,
es c
what was that morality which looked to any
country, consistently ve'„it the principle upon wb Aft`
was based.—(Hear, hear.) OR the subject of 600'1;0
the discussion utysn discussion which had alreadY woraj
place,it would-appear almost unnecessary to add afrieo,,
Notwithstanding what his Noble and Learned the
had said in such contemptuous terms abaci tb°
sugai famine that subject had occoPietweill
attention of every Government for the last "01;
Years. Her Majesty's Government did not thi,,bjec
right, under these circumstances, to allow this 7;001
to float on the surface of legislation, but to fi:‘,,D",.bo,'
firm and permanent basis. If, however, the matter ell'
been brought forward on a motion, instead of 1/!areti
tion, there would have been an ample • 0 el it
discussion
to the matter, and when the time arrived for that
cussion it would be entered into.—(Hoar.) itifk
Lord BROUGHAM said h _„1
Cowl t
e rose mel•ely to b
that thou ,gh he was in intimate c, -exion wit 1
Anti-Slavery Society, lie was not aware of the faem' '
which his Noble Friend the Marquis of Lansdowlige tiotl
alluded. With respect to cottor, that was s 411-$
on which he was at issue with,. hi; Noble Friend. a tbe
Several Bills were then forwarded a stage, 5i1,1001('
House adjourned at Twenty minues after Seven 0'

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HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 27* of
THE SUGAR DUTIES. rcler e
Lord JOHN RUSSELL having moved the °,,itte
the day for the House resolving itself into a Coro-
o f Ways andt
iBo
nEMNwe thearhniiseNtkocnKmr a
oSisn7e.:i gtaahnredl)sus
pat
ell,
thate
s 02edo,91:000:
noGldu.ment to his leaving the chair, he,r,We frge
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tted,
at the eLaonirredes
while he asked the indulgence of the Ile;,- ',,,13-
the motion had not fallen into abler lls°",0-'015e
felt deeply the not
of being au advecg; iti 11-se
intererests of those great mercantile speculat°,„ri cause
East and West Indies, and that other gres;
shod
connected with the slaves of the African 1749.5h(41
regretted that on this occasion those interewa -a
have a less able advocate than they had l-friro
before. He felt confident that his Nobleid gibe,
at the head of the Government vv°l/#l,--at t'
him credit for truth when he said ling hi 9
brought forward this motion with no hostile feeoa fry wards her Majesty's Ministers.—(Hear, hear.)
.4 tioe,
occasion, the question of the sugar duties affideac_t
of slavery had been mixed up with a vote ofcwo th!,
in her Majesty's Ministers, but he could trulY t', 51.11,
on this occasion, though' he did not meate,fs lifsilso
that he could place his confidence in her Majesty queli.
ters, it was not his intention to mix up with t“, se .00
any considerations of confidence in her 1.1511 questiod
nisters.—(Cheers.) Indeed, he felt that, oi
iist 4
of such great interests as those of the tion whwee,
West India planters, and above all on a queserican Ors
concerned the liberty and happiness of the Au'
estioll Bap
it would not be proper to mix up with this ge hand,,,..
party consideration. But while, on the o°,,eaoYe.'"ch
disclaimed introducing any motion hostile to til WIJI
.1
ment, he must vindicate himself from the attacks heet.ii,
b I
had been made upon him and his party.—(fiet wean
r.
He could not deny, and he did not lava : 0
deny, that the effect of the emancipation
‘,„,..tisdi.eo,„
very much to diminish the produce of the
,Ile' `Ye during
durl.4 he could nut deny that whilst, for some 7, le' yes in I,jo
the six years previous to the emancipat;.on of si 0 190,9.4
West Indies, the average prodtv., was betysle:sisoestPto
and 200,000 tons of sugar, That producatr fallen oDed
eula. heiPatioll a slave: was completed, h.,:d not e 1.% of
gui3la an exturlt that at one period "I
14117e"gs tbns Indies w h
didiist itn
manner it was the natural consequ.esennce. "wor, 11.,".0,
off in sugar that the prices had
rl
avcrago a 1:41'00
He found, when he took the
~. by the
to nirleuirious to tbe
which had been furnished
ovtfaesxacdemedittle4dst,ilfoortot t_thfoltbllticiiiiil
slaves,
that
andthe
the
ex
twelve yew' Pienarnsoliehosefeeliho I;
emancipationGr oce r s ' Company,
fsl ii a
18s. per cwt. H. had peat V e
average differenceo the. pricesil
tvr9
periods

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