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Show 230 ON THE SLAVERY AND COMMERCE pleafures of the colonial dance, what mull: it be in their o~m1 country, where they may dance for ever; where there is no fl:ated hour to interrupt their felicity, no intolerable labour immediately to fucceed their recreations, and no overfeer to receive them under the difcipline of the lalh ?-If thefe therefore are the only circumfl:ances, by which the affertion can be proved, we may venture to fay, without fear of oppofition, that it can never be proved at all. But thefe are not the only circumfl:ances. It is [aid that they are barbarous at home.But do you r~ceivers civilize them ?-Your un'willingnefs to convert them to Chriil:ianity~ becaufe you fuppofe you mull: ufe them more kindly when converted, is but a bad argument in favour of the fact. · It is affirmed again, that their manner of life, and their fituation is fuch in their own country, that to fay they ar~ happy is a jell:. " *But who are you, who pretend to J. ud"e " o f anot hc r man's h appinefs ? That [tabt e • Bilhop of Glocefter's fermon~ preached before the fo~ iety forth~ propagation of the gofpcl, at the annivcrfary meeting, on ~he 21ft of February, 1766. " which OF THE H uMAN SPECIES. " which each man, under the guidance of his maker, forms for himfelf, and not one " man for another ? To know what confl: itutes mine or your happinefs, is the fole prerogative of him who created us, and call: us in fo various and different moulds. Did your llaves ever complain to you of their unhappinefs, amidfl: their native woods and defarts? Or, rather, let me alk, did they ever ceafe complaining of their condition under you their lordly ma!l:ers ? Where they fee, indeed, the accqmmodations of civil life, but fee them all pafs to others, themfelves unbenefited by them. Be fo gracious then, ye petty tyrants over human freedom, to Jet your llaves judge for themfelvcs, what it is which makes their own happinefs, and then fee whether they do not place it in the return to their o~vn country, rather than in ~he contemplation of your grandeur, of which their mifery makes fo large a part." But Iince you fpeak with fo much confidence on the fubject, let us alk you receivers again, if you have ever been informed by Pf your |