A Review of the Principal Proceedings of the Parliament of 1784
A Review of the Principal Proceedings of the Parliament of 1784
Nathaniel Kent
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Seventy millions of pro- perty is computed to be veftcd in the Weil:-India iflands. Is Parliament pre- pared to flrike oft at once, or highly to endanger, this great mafs of the national capital ? to forego the induftry it fets in motion, the revenue it produces, the fea- men it employs ? " The motive muft be flrong indeed that can authorife fuch a breach of public faith to the planters, fuch a violation of the duty of Parliament to their country 3iid their conftitucnts. That m-otive is ^ u hum...anity, [ . 46 ] humnnity ; but the fauatlclfm of liuoia-. Nity, like the fanaticifm of religion, is deaf to reafon and to truth, and often deftruc- tive of the very virtue to which it pretends. Does pur humanity never think of the confequence of the wiihed-for abolition to the thoufands of our own countrymen, whom it will reduce to diflrefs and po- verty ? What crime have they committed, that their poiT^ilions (hould be laid wafle, ^nd their property confifcated ? Thefe per- fons, our national humanity, now awa- kened by a fociety of enthufiafts, after it had (lept for 200 years amidfl all the vir-.
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