World Weather Records
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781154893144
Paperback|9781154893144
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 edition. Excerpt: ... it is an enormous violation of that law; all nations have a right, all who safely can, are bound in duty to suppress it; and Africa is an object of this duty; the more because (he is barbarous and helpless; and not the less because she consents to the trade. " But admitting such to be the result, in reference to the ordinary rights and duties of independent nations, Great Britain, it may be said, is not one of the civilized Powers that can warrantably interfere by force to suppress the Spanish Slave Trade; because Great Britain was herself till a recent period deeply engaged in the same reproachful commerce. She carried it on even to a greater extent than all other nations. Her abandonment of it was a sacrifice for which her moral feelings were long appealed to in vain. She prosecuted it fcr many years, even after the representatives of the British people in parD liament Hament had solemnly pronounced it to be contrary to justice and humanity. With what consistency then can she presume to controul a foreign Power who means only to follow her own example, by persisting in the trade for a limited period after pronouncing its moral condemnation?" Foreign statesmen, and foreign courts, having urged this objection, it deserves to be treated with respect. Let us consider it, therefore, with as much attention as if it possessed intrinsic, or at least apparent, weight.-"-In the first place, the objection does not apply to Russia, to Austria, to Sweden, or to any European Power that does not possess colonies in the western world. To maintain the law of nature and of nations, to punish, or at least restrain, enormous violations of it, to succour an unhappy people oppressed by such offences, to promote by all the means in our power the social and...
| ISBN-13 | 9781154893144 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1154893146 |
| Weight | 0.48 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.33 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 140 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-03-01 |
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