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1822. April 12.

Rid Yourselves

has her American isles : of the populations of these
islands isles, by far the greater part is in this sad state
under the rest. Colour still determines whether, by man, a
man shall be dealt with by as a man or as a
beast. The owners of these unfortunates are not only inhabitants -
a large portion of them - of the soil of England,
but subjects, all of them, of the King of England. By
the King of England therefore, as well as so many of his subjects,
though the whip itself is not exercised, yet the produce
of it is enjoyed.

This would not be the case, or at least
this neither need, nor aught to be the case, if England were
rid of her Ultramaria, as you will be, I hope, of yours
This would will as little be the case with you, if by your rulers,
your Ultramarian kinsmen were are given up to themselves: In their cases with
benefit the good of independence would will be mixt in whatsoever
of good and evil,in this as in every other shape the nature of their situation may
have attached to it.. At But at any rate, this honour will, in
its effulgence, be yours; with them it would will rest to say whether
they will take to themselves any, and what, share in it:

But now for the crown to all your
glories. Look downwards around you, and, on this part of the field
of Government, you will behold stationed beneath
you even the Anglo-American United States. In the
endeavour to stop the traffic, they were, indeed it is true, the first
Yet still has the poison maintained possession of their
veins. No man, to whom either the rest of mankind, or
they themselves, are an object of regard - no such man
can either think so well of them, or hope so well for
them, while the poison remains there, as if it were expelled.
In any Assembly of Representatives, how long can
virtue in any shape dwell unimpaired, if in the
fields and the dwellings of so many of their Constituents
the vices of slavery and the correspondent despotism
are not only unexpelled, but left to acquire an unlimited
encrease? When, as I do without difficulty, I speak of a
Constitution such as theirs as being formed by its own
nature to last to the end of time, - conscience never fails
to whisper a proviso - provided always that, by some
means or other, this stain has at length been washed
out of the current of private life. Still, as that
great

Identifier: | JB/008/133/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Date_1	1822-04-12	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	008	Main Headings	rid yourselves of ultramaria
Folio number	133	Info in main headings field	rid yourselves
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] i&m 1818]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur wellesley, duke of wellington
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year	1818
Notes public	[[notes_public::"revised" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	3237
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