1821 July 20

Rid

Relinquishment honorable

Slave Trade

Casting from you this leprosy /Having healed yourselves/ you would thus be that

which so long as it cleaves to you you can not be - an object of respect as well as

sympathy to the whole of the English nation and the honest part of the French and

/but/ especially to the Anglo-American United States to that nation whose place in

the seat of moral and intellectual worth it stands so high above both.. Spaniards /My

friends/ why should I dissemble to /conceal from/ you those reproaches which so

incessantly wound my ears - those reproaches in which it is said that had it not been

for your nation and another which I can not bring my pen to trace this stain upon

Christianity /the religion of yours/ /civilised society/ would years ago have been

washed out. Such are the reproaches with which my ears are wounded: and what can I

say /find/ to clear myself of them? tell me I beseech you what, for with all my

affection for you with all partiality for your cause as often as this topic comes on

the carpet so often am I mute.