Africa, the planters will be obliged to ëncourage b j all mean's the
increase of the creoles. The great difficulties which have hitherto
occurred to impede this, plan are obvious* -But let us even suppose
that from this time the most effectual arrangements were made for
theincreasing of the crèole-negröes ; it will, notwithstanding, require
at least twenty years before the new offspring can be employed in
cultivating the ground. ■ Now, if till that time no new substitutes
for the aged negroes can be procured, what must be the Consequence
to the whole colony; the Wealth of Surinam, which has been made
by the inhabitants through their laborious industry for a whole century,
will not only vanish, but, what is worse, the land will relapse
into that state of wilderness and swamp which originally, by «exhaling
the most pestilential vapours, proved so destructive to the. first
settlers.
- The slave trade, when attentively considered, certainly fills the
mind with the most unpleasant sensations, and indeed imagination
itself cannot paint to itself any cruelties in darker and more fnght-
ful colours than those which have been proved to be really Committed
in the-course of this..degrading traffic: on which account
many persons of distinguished moral characters and talents united
their endeavours to procure the abolition of the slave trade in .thé
colonies belonging to Great Britain, and have at last succeeded.
The different African nations will no longer, from that quarter, be
instigated by the intrigues of slave traders to declare war ; and their
conduct towards each other in this respect will now,it is to be hoped,
be as just as it was before the traffic of slaves began. Nevertheless,
among uncivilized nations, the most trifling diagreements with their
neighbours, will frequently create new wars ;. and it is reported, that
the custom still prevails on the coast of Africa of making the prisoners
taken in war, slaves, and of treating them with the utmost
severity, out of revenge, while those for whom they find no employment
are sacrificed to their divinities. It is much to be wished,
have sh greatly interested
ttómMveèéb ysseumg hhe misery of the n egroes, would snake a
sttiecèwquw^ ^fethc^thefe bhrbanQMsltiimrticesereMly’pmvjailamong
thè<|tiib^ imAfric^as k«struag}yire^gffitedvandf,as ftheigesticUffetiOns
thè sfeewwhktithey expectM Wouldrfe® tfaelr life*;
whdn thpUSktineaffian wfedtefeeh h^thèlpirivht^ir: Migle,^ leads
me to dhiuktis therfaéKhd | Nfeerty éfhm reality? theseOBuelfusages ;aetm
ally^èvait amomg^tAh© ïAfwemii^róes^cit will > bejirfeundr?$q s $ ï
from bei agwc@®ig^that itibéemwes' meritqfiops; itpo isa$e* tJ^ejvmtiro^
fröm4hetr..sangdraaBynonq3TOE@Es;‘undh^ngtJh©m«h3iftiS:tate!ofiiiBryi-
$6 deIsin UW civifeednlJOnntryji where,! should* itheyj htii treated; with
inhumanity, the;laws have provided a. redress, i
hl ét i s n ot n ecessa ry to obtain those negroes fromitiae .coast: of
Africa by ‘the tiicans which were formerly in use, 5smoee<the JKuro-
peatt governments might; take them under .their own -better: ptor
tection. ' - ÜÉgi | ■'. : u ■ ■
Ü f Thejeomtaerbe'ibetween Etiropéan amdAfrican uationstisioeported
tooto in raany;ai^ietósfs®!®aiBiderablei'thaitimoSit likely^ripiincipUl
factories will ftestilh ‘kgpte«p. u To AeirUsidenttwofieèëSïjat. »those
places sit might he i ntrusted by their mspectivegcvct^nlent^to pror
eurëy asipropenocömio®s Jdffe®, h^roecffor the service
cbloni^i >In bh®osingtofiicers for thosejpiaces^tf, initead#f j5igard-
ing>thei qualification of >tdlenfe oiffiy; a!considerahte ,arttentk»was
also paid- to moral character, thewnti sospiciwiéould arise »of >fchek
feeing opéni to bribery. They who had been always acting upon,
principles JOf1 integrity |in their«native vébuétry *would not become
Corruption* residing iin> Africa^. ibéside^TO-the plan whiohjlihumbly
conceSiv© 'Worthy to be proposed;i the /'governor i (shoulds tidse ipo
profit jin * the^ nuaeffieFH4tf'm^gi®eiii'^l»w>ima^.s^a0pyBrnhe? *glight
ofetaininJthe;<name of b is owhugovernmeait. dlis tsalaéy.as; governor
ehouldfee in which thciteports
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