The Monthly Magazine, or British Register of Literature, Sciences, and the Belles-Lettres, Vol. 1: January to June, 1826 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Phillips, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0259373591 ISBN 13: 9780259373599

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Excerpt from The Monthly Magazine, or British Register of Literature, Sciences, and the Belles-Lettres, Vol. 1: January to June, 1826

This is neither just nor liberal, and we cannot be sin-prized that the colo nists should require some guarantee before they dehver themselves and theiraproperties to the wild and visionary schemes of speculative indi vid 3. If the measure is a public measure, let its consequences rest upon public responsibility. As a great national work, every one must admit that it is worthy of the age in which we live, and of the country which it is our, pride to call our own but as it is a measure surrounded with difficulties it must be approached with caution. That it is prac ticable I firmly believe, and if undertaken by' the Government, and con ducted with temperance and prudence, it is perfectly reconcileable with the interests of the planters, and the security of the islands. That colonial property, unhampered by the continual agitation of this ques tion, retains its fair value in the estimation of European capitalists, is evident from the facility with which, we are told, the Commissioners of Hayti have negociated a loan for their government, to y the indemnity ed upon to the ancient proprietors of the island or the recognition 0 its independence. This payment denotes the feeling entertained by the blacks - that indemnity was due. Now this feeling, which has been acted upon, after a long lapse of years, by self-emancipated slaves, should be the ground-work of our own proceedings in the manumission of our negroes, and, before we commence any operations, we should seek an ample guarantee for the pro rty of the lanters and the safety of the colonies. The one is blende with the other. The dominion of Great Britain would fall with the annihilation of the whites: and the possession of our west-india Islands is now become of paramount im portance. The establishment of so many new ovemments in the American hemisphere has rendered them absolute y nece for the pfotection of our commerce and the extension of our tr e. The nited States of America have lon felt the inconveniency of having no harbour subject to their flag in the uro an seas, and frequent intrigues have been afloat to obtain one of the is da in the Mediterranean, but hitherto without success. The same, difficulties would attend our American commerce, if we suffered ourselves to lose our trans-atlantic possessions, either by the dissafl'ection of the whites, or the insurrection of the slaves.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• ISBN 10: 0259373591
• ISBN 13: 9780259373599
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 676