1821 July 19 Corrected Apr. 1822

Rid

Relinquishment honorable

Slave trade

Such disinterestedness not in practice

Witness U.S.

I have spoken of the jargon by which when carried on upon the largest

scale oppression and depredation oppression partly for the gratification of selfish

pride and the lust of power partly for the purpose of depredation are in use to be

defended: in use to be thus defended and for this plain reason that the nature of the

case affords not in the way of needs any thing better by which by possibility they

can be defended.

When the Slave trade is to be defended jargon in this form is no

longer applicable. In secrecy unoffending human beings and dealing by them as cattle

are dealt with though with [...?] more suffering to them, there is neither honour,

nor glory nor dignity: no natural /antique/ rights no antique distinction

sovereignty, supremacy in the case.

What then in this case, is the word? The vocabulary of the political

jargon. The vocabulary of the political branch of the [...?] language has been

searched and no more than one word applicable to this case has been found in it.

Necessity is the word is necessity: a word in and by which where it is rightly

applicable one argument of no mean cogency is expressed /conveyed/.

In this or that country the continuance of the slave trade that is the purchase of

men of black complection from who in their native climate have them in their power is

matter of necessity: it is necessary to the cultivation of the province to the

existence of its population their existence could not continue /go on/ without

it.