 | Learned institutions and societies - 1856 - 358 pages
...from more bondage in their own country, and introduce* into a much happier state of life, especially when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish the trade •would be " ' to P! in t the gates of mercy on mankind.' " And I must add this : the opinions... | |
 | Amelia Matilda Murray - History - 1856 - 410 pages
...from worse bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish the trade would be to shut the gates of mercy on mankind.' And I must add this: the opinions I have... | |
 | Amelia Matilda Murray - Canada - 1856 - 422 pages
...fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from worse bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish the... | |
 | Art - 1856 - 602 pages
...but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savage, a portion of whom it saves from more hondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life, especially when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To aholish the... | |
 | Amelia Matilda Murray (hon.) - 1856 - 340 pages
...man has continued, would not only be robbing a numerous class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from worse bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially when... | |
 | James Boswell - 1873 - 620 pages
...continued, would not only be roUttry to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion...massacre, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduce« into a much happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West Indies... | |
 | 1874 - 382 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion...would be to — " Shut the gates of mercy on mankind." The political success of Edmund Burke induced Boswell to indicate his readiness to co-operate with... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects ; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...of life ; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to ' shut... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 584 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects ; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion...of life ; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to ' shut... | |
 | Elizabeth Kingsbury - 1882 - 144 pages
...continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellowsubjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion...and introduces into a much happier state of life. To abolish the slave trade,' he goes on to say, ' would be to shut the gates of mercy on mankind.'... | |
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To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre,... 
