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Rid Yourselves. Part II

Letter 3. Appeals unendurable.

[verso]

1820-

Rid Yourselves

.2. Creoles unwilling

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1821 June 24 Omitt.

Rid Yourselves

.3. Appeal?

Tobago

Goldburn's unfailingness

Tobago cruelties Examiner 24 June 1821 from the Debates of the Week Read about the Ionia Islands: read about Tobago

Read of the Tobago tortures reported to a callous House of Commons. Remember the name of Goldburn. Read how with what unconcern all complaints are put aside all tortures injustice oppression barbary in all forms regularly and conferred and sanctioned, by the all - comprehensiveness and perpetually /regularly/ repeated observation that if Parliament were to lend an ear to them it would have nothing else to do than would be wanting for the business of it. Note then the days when business is at a stand for no other reason than because out of the 658 members not one of whom unless prevented by sickness can withhold attendance without an incontestable breach of duty not so many as 40 could prevail upon themselves to attend to it.

What think you of this? Is it that Englishmen /England/ is peopled by monsters instead of men? Is it that they are a depraved and degraded species? No - bad as we /they/ are we /they/ are still men. But the case is that distance from the seat of government and any thing better than to diffuse depredation and oppression a complication of dishonesty and cruelty are incompatible.