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Excerpt from Substance of the Speech Delivered at the Meeting of the Edinburgh Society for the Abolition of Slavery: On October 19, 1830
As another reason for distrusting His Majesty's. Government upon this vital question, I refer to the case of the Mauritius. A protecting duty had been laid on the sugar of the East, evidently for the benefit of the West India planters. But then the Mauritius, produced sugar by means of Slave labour. It was proposed to relieve thel Mauritius, thus situated, from the protecting duty, and continue to levyjt on In dia. Remonstrances against this were strongly urged but in vain. The Parliament and the Ministry, as if from an instinctive partiality to the produce of the labour and the blood of slaves, carried the measure into effect, and, in respect of the protecting duty, put the Mauritius on a footing with the colonies which are cultivated by slaves, and discour aged the cultivation in those parts only where it is carried on men! This fact by itself might evince that the Legislature {government are heterodox on the question of abolition altogether, . - that they are unworthy of any thing like implicit confidence in the matter, - that they must be instructed and addressed by their constitutentsaud by the people, in a tone which thev will feel it difficult or impossible to disregard.
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