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Rh letters and training, filled with, feverish greed, with hearts utterly alien from moral good and human well-being, and only regarding Africa as a convenient gold-field from which to extract emolument and treasure to carry off to foreign quarters. Such men would only reproduce the worst evils of the last three sad centuries of Africa's history; and quickly and inevitably so soil their character that the just imputation would be fastened upon them of that malignant lie which has recently been spread abroad through Europe and America against us: that is, of complicity with the slave trade."