Shall I again hear arguments multiplied to violate truth, and insult humanity! Shall I again be told that the sufferings of the wretched Africans are indispensable for the culture of our sugar colonies; that white men are incapable of sustaining the heat of the climate! I have been in the West Indies.

I have lived there.

I know that it is a rare instance for the mercury in the thermometer to mount there above 90 degrees; and here I scarcely pass a week in summer without seeing it rise to 100 degrees; sometimes to 105; nay, beyond even that burning altitude.
But toil cannot be long supported without adequate refreshment.

The first step in every community which wishes to preserve honesty should be to set the people above want.

The throes of hunger will ever prove too powerful for integrity to withstand.