Appeal to the British Nation On the Greatest Reform Yet Remaining to Be Accompl
Appeal to the British Nation On the Greatest Reform Yet Remaining to Be Accompl
James Silk Buckingham
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That the destruction of property, by sea and land, in ship- wrecks, fires, incendiary or accidental, robberies, plunderings, and waste or spoiling of goods in every department of industry is almost incalculable, amounting to many millions more. It would be easy for the Convention to add much more upon this painful subject ; but they trust they have said enough to justify the step they take in endeavouring to awaken the attention and enlist the sympathies of those entrusted with Sovereign Power ...in this great subject. If these Rulers, at least, to all those who are desirous of purifying the respective countries subject to their dominion from the greatest of all moral pestilences that ever afSicted the earth, sweeping annually to dishonoured graves more victims than ever were destroyed by war — visiting with disease a larger number of persons of all ages than either plague, pestilence, or famine combined. To such chiefly we address ourselves, in the spirit of Christian regard and Christian frankness, when we say, Rulers of Nations, and Protectors of the people committed to your care !
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