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 To conclude—the obſervations I have made are to the beſt of my knowledge ſincere. I have not ranged over a romantic field of fiction to bewilder the imagination, and to puzzle truth. As I have not been able to ſhower roſes, I have wiſhed to pluck the thorn from the foot of him who feels. I have not wiſhed to make any diſcrimination of climate, colour, chance, or feeling. My imagination, however feeble it may be, has conſidered the world as a garden, in which flowers of various ſhapes, of various colours, expand, decline, and fade. Some if foſtered will grow to beauty; and ſome if trodden upon will riſe no more. I could here apply the moral to the preſent ſubject; but that ſubject, and my taſk it is now time that I ſhould conclude. I ſhall therefore in my concluſion acknowledge that I am an advocate for humanity, and that in conſequence of this principle, I am not an advocate for the liberation of the ſlave. I am an advocate for all that can make him comfortable, I am an advocate for all that can make him happy; I am an advocate for his removal from his natal ſoil, that he may taſte the comforts of protection, the