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 But from the texture of the very human heart ariſes the ſtrongeſt argument in behalf of the perſecuted creatures. Within us there exiſts a rooted repugnance to the ſpilling of blood; a repugnance which yields only to cuſtom, and which even the moſt inveterate cuſtom can never entirely overcome. Hence the ungracious taſk of ſhedding the tide of life for the gluttony of our table, has, in every country, been committed to the loweſt claſs of men; and their profeſſion is, in every Rh