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Rh best of that worst part, leaving the worst without any leaven of good, to putrify and rankle amongst us? 12. If benevolence to that worst part, be our motive, can we send them away from our liberty, and our light, and our laws, and our power, and our benevolence, to a foreign uncivilized and heathen land?

13. If gratification of prejudice be our motive, how much better is it, to yield to prejudice than to crucify it?—to flatter, than to give it no quarter?

14. If it be true, that every sinner must repent or perish, what must be the fate of those who strive to put away the annoyance produced by an evil, without repenting of the sin which produces it?

15. How long will it take to abolish the slave trade, while slavery, its always prolific source and its giant support, keeps up the demand for slaves.

16. What country has ever got rid of trading in slaves, prior to the abolition of slavery?

17. What country has ever abolished the foreign slave trade, without substituting an internal slave trade, and without continuing to traffic internally in slaves, as long as slavery lasted?