Those Who Look Tenderly At The Slave
Owner, And With A Cold Heart At The Slave, Never Seem To Put
Themselves Into The Position Of The Latter; What A Cheerless
Prospect, With Not Even A Hope Of Change!
Picture to yourself
the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and
your little children - those objects which nature urges even
the slave to call his own - being torn from you and sold
like beasts to the first bidder!
And these deeds are done
and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbours
as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be
done on earth! It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble,
to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants,
with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so
guilty: but it is a consolation to reflect, that we at least
have made a greater sacrifice, than ever made by any nation,
to expiate our sin.
On the last day of August we anchored for the second time
at Porto Praya in the Cape de Verd archipelago; thence we
proceeded to the Azores, where we stayed six days. On the
2nd of October we made the shore, of England; and at Falmouth
I left the Beagle, having lived on board the good little
vessel nearly five years.
Our Voyage having come to an end, I will take a short
retrospect of the advantages and disadvantages, the pains
and pleasures, of our circumnavigation of the world.
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