orn;
The reason's clear--remove the veil,
Their trade and interest both must fail.

~160

I hold that being worse than blind,
Where bigotry usurps the mind;
And more abhor him who for pelf,
Denouncing others, damns himself.
Look round, observe creation's work,
From Afric's savage to the Turk;
Through polish'd Europe turn your eye,
To where the sun of liberty
On western shores illumes the wave,
That flows o'er many a patriot's grave;
As varied as their skin's the creed,
By which they hope they shall succeed
In presence of their God, to prove
Their claim to his eternal love;
A claim that must and will have weight,
No matter what their creed or state.
By modes of faith let none presume
To fix his fellow-creature's doom.'"

"A truce with religion, Horace," said I; "it is a controversy that
generally ends in making friends foes, and foes the most implacable of
persecutors: with the one it shuts out all hope of reconciliation, with
the other breeds a war of extermination; so come, lad, leave theology
to the fathers--we that have liberal souls tolerate all creeds. More
hollands, steward: here's a glass to all our college acquaintance, not
forgetting grandmamma and the pretty nuns of Saint Clement's. Where
the deuce is all that singing we hear above, steward?" "On board the
Transport, your honour." "Ay, I remember, I saw the poor devils
embark this morning, and a doleful sight it was--one hundred of my
fellow-creatures, in the prime of life, consigned to an early grave,
transported to the pestilential climate of Sierre Leone: inquire for
them three months hence, and you shall find them--not where they will
find you--but where whole regiments of their predecessors have been
sacrificed, on the unhealthy shores--victims to the false policy of
holding what is worse than useless, and of enslaving the original owners
of the soil.

~161~~Liquor, and the reflection of their desperate fortunes, have
driven them mad, and now they give vent to their feelings in a forced
torrent of wild mirth, in which they would bury the recollections
of those they are parted from for ever. On the beach this morning I
witnessed a most distressing scene: wives separated by force from their
husbands, and children torn from the fond embraces of parent