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Show 256 ON THE SLAVERY AND CoMMERCI> that the fear of fympathy, which can hardly be refirained on other melancholy occafions, feems to forget to flow . at the relation of thefe; and that we can never, with any 1hadow of jufiice, wiih profperity to the undertakers of thofe, whofe fuccefs mu{l: be at the expence of the happinefs of millions of their fellow-creatures. But this is fufficient. For if liberty is only an adventitious right; if men are by no means fuperiour to brutes; if every facial duty is a curfe; if cruelty is highly to be efieemed ; if murder is fl:riCl:ly honourable, and Chriil:iuaity is a lye; then it is evident, that the Africa" llavery may be purfued, without either the remorfe of confcience, or the imputation of a crime. But if the contrary of this is true, which reafan mull: immediately evince, it is evident that no cull:om efl:abliihed among men was ever more impious; fince it is contrary to retifon,ju.Jlice, nature, the principles of /a,v and government, the 'vhole dotfrine, in jhort, if natural religion, and the revealed voice if God. F I N I S. |