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Lands of the Slave and the Free

CHAPTER XI
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They are taught to believe these things by their newspapers, which, published under the eye of Government, allow no intelligence but of murders, bowie-knife fights, &c., coming from America, to appear in their columns.

By these, therefore, only is America known to their readers; and they are very careful to instil 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.


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