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What though Elizabeth countenanced John Hawkins in stealing the natives of Africa? what though James, and Charles, and George, opened a market for them in the English colonies? what though modern Dracos have "framed mischief by law," in legalizing man-stealing and slaveholding? what though your ancestors, in preparing to go "to their own place," constituted you the owner of the "neighbors" whom they had used as cattle? what of all this, and as much more like this, as can be drawn from the history of that dreadful process by which men "are deemed, sold, taken, reputed, and adjudged in law to be chattels personal?"
For this infirmity of purpose many female Dracos would have ordered her off to instant execution very justly. That silly little Fanny only kissed her, and said, "She was a dear, kind darling." What can you expect of such irreclaimably weak-minded offenders? They ought to be sentenced to six months' hard labor, supervised by Miss Martineau; perhaps even this would not work a permanent cure.
These considerations have been suggested to me by the recollection of a wild adventure of some young men in Edinburgh, the circumstances of which, not belonging to fiction, will show better than a learned dissertation how easy it was for these Dracos to catch the fact and miss the motive.
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