the belief, that if America is a land of murderers, it is so because
it has had the folly to establish a republican form of government.
"These ideas are very general in England, even where the hostility is
greater than it is on the Continent. To British avarice we owe slavery
in this country. To British hatred we owe the encouragement of
anti-slavery agitation now. The vile hypocrisy which has
characterised the whole proceeding is not the least objectionable part
of it. The English care not one farthing about slavery. If they did,
why do they keep it up in such a terrific form in their own country?
Where was there ever true charity that did not begin at home? It is