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Markeeta at Apr 22, 2024 06:42 AM

Pearson_ForensicDispute1773_16

16 their importation is to them a redemp- tion from a condition on the whole so much more miserable, we must, as I void before, justify the government in tolerating such importation; & with respect to the particular of abuse, we can only say, caveant qui sunt conscii. I have omitted the right sometimes pre- tended to be derived from purchase, be- cause I look upon the argument to be tri- fling. For tho' right of authority, if it be well founded, be possibly in some cases transferable, yet, it is well known that all the authority, that any one of these mi- serable creatures can pretend to over another, is founded merely in the fortune of a brutal, savage war, conducted with- out the least regard on either side, to any principles of equity, justice or national honor; and for authority so founded, I have no disposition to contend. But I think there is much more in their argument, who assert that by the purchase of the vic-times

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their importation is to them a redemp-
tion from a condition on the whole so much
more miserable, we must, as I void before,
justify the government in tolerating such
importation; & with respect to the particular
of abuse, we can only say, caveant qui
sunt conscii
.

I have omitted the right sometimes pre-
tended to be derived from purchase, be-
cause I look upon the argument to be tri-
fling. For tho' right of authority, if it be
well founded, be possibly in some cases
transferable, yet, it is well known that
all the authority, that any one of these mi-
serable creatures can pretend to over
another, is founded merely in the fortune
of a brutal, savage war, conducted with-
out the least regard on either side, to
any principles of equity, justice or national
honor; and for authority so founded, I
have no disposition to contend. But I
think there is much more in their argument,
who assert that by the purchase of the vic-times

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