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Show 78 ON THE SLAVERY AND CoMMERCE this regard is, may be evidenced from our own feelings; from the tellimony of fome, who, when remote from their country, and in the hour of danger and dillrefs, have found their thoughts unufually direCted, by . fame impulfe or other, to their native fpot; · and from the example of others, who, having braved the fiorms and adverfities of life, either repair to it for the remainder of their days, or defire even to be conveyed to it, when exifience is no more. But feparately from thefe their local, they have alfo their petfonal attachments; their regard for particular men. There are ties of blood; there are ties of friendihip. In the former cafe, they mull: of neceffity be attached: the conil:itution of their nature demands it. In the latter, it is impoffible to be otherwife; Iince friendi11ip is founded on an harmony of temper, on a concordance of fentiments and manners, on habits of confidence, and a mutual exchange of f.wours. We may now mention, as perfeCtly diftinet both from their local and petjonal, the national attachments of mankind, their * regard Or' THE HUMAN SPECIES. 79 regard for the whole body of the people, among whom they were born and educated. This regard is particularly confpicuous in the conduCt of fuch, as, being thus nationally conneCted, relide in foreign parts • How anxioully do they meet together! how much do they enjoy the figh t of others of their countrymen, whom fortune places in their way! what an eagernefs do they iliew to ferve them, though not born on the fame particular fpot, though not conneCted by conf.1nguinity or friendll1ip, though unknown to them before ! Neither is this affeetio1:1 wonderful, Iince they are creatures of the fame education; of the fame principles; of the f.1mc manners and habits ; call:, as it were, in the fame mould; and marked with the fame impreffion. If men therefore are thus feparately attached to the feveral objeCts defcribed, it is evident that a feparate exclufion from either mull: afford them confiderable pain. What then mull: be their fufferings, to be forced for ever from their country, which includes them all? Which contains thejpot, in which they were born and nurtured; which con-t ains |