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, or intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.
Influence must ever be in proportion to property; and it is right it should.
I argued that the chastity of women was of much more consequence than that of men, as the property and rights of families depend upon it.
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