merely in that country, but wherever it has been permitted to open its
Pandora's box of misery and crime.

Let the reader ponder on the following just remarks, and compare the facts
stated by the Author in illustration of them, with the circumstances
related at pages 6 and 7 of Mary's narrative:--

"If then we put out of the question the injury inflicted on
others, and merely consider the deterioration of feeling and
principle with which it operates on ourselves, ought it not
to be a sufficient, and, indeed, unanswerable argument,
against the permission of Slavery?

"The exemplary manner in which the paternal duties are
performed at home, may mark people as the most fond and
affectionate parents; but let them once go abroad, and come
within the contagion of slavery, and it seems to alter the
very nature of a man; and the father has sold, and still
sells, the mother and his children, with as little
compunction as he would a sow and her litter of pigs; and he
often disposes of them together.

"This deterioration of feeling is conspicuous in many ways
among the Brazilians. They are naturally a people of a
humane and good-natured disposition, and much indisposed to
cruelty or severity of any kind. Indeed, the manner in which
many of them treat their slaves is a proof of this, as it is
really gentle and considerate; but the natural tendency to
cruelty and oppression in the human heart, is continually
evolved by the impunity and uncontrolled licence in which