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vi the iniquity inseparable from the trade in human flesh, and shewing the inconsistency which marked the conduct of Christians, who held their fellow creatures in bondage, the opposition to their views and wishes was so general and so intense, that it is believed from that cause the intellect of those remarkable men became partially affected. But who will question that they were instrumental (at a great sacrifice indeed) in laying the foundation of the change of opinion, which afterward became universal in this commonwealth, and spread its benign influence through neighbouring states, and to remote nations?