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 inconvenience. In case the Abolition should unfortunately take place, the English Planter, more active and more fertile at expedients of commerce than any other, would inevitably, upon those estates that increase in Negro population, turn Slave-breeder, and then supply different states and different islands. The consequences that have been so often drawn,—the tearing of the Slave from his country and family, would indeed, in this case, take effect, for the civilized and domiciliated Slave would be torn from his family and connections, to supply the deficiencies on those estates and islands where the Negro population does not increase.

To give, my Lords, the sentiments of foreigners, even upon the subject of Abolition, and to prove that they are congenial with those of the British Planter, I beg leave, to quote a memorial presented to the States General by the Dutch inhabitants of Essequibo