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Alas! for the oppressed and unprotected of our British helots, thrice unhappy is their lot! Truly, the wrongs of the poor political outcasts, even were they wholly deserved, which they are not, might well make every honest and benevolent heart bleed for them. A chain of cruel sequences binds them down to hapless and all but hopeless exclusion from the rights of citizenship. Left of the educated without guidance; looked upon by the wealthy without sjnn-pathy} doomed by hard necessity to an isolated position, unfavourable to the cultivation of intelligence, and almost certainly destructive of all kindly feeling—their mistakes, the natural result of this want of wise and prudent leaders, and their passionate resentments, the fruit of being abandoned by the classes above them, are first turned into arguments against them, and eventually lay them bare and exposed to the selfish designs of impostors. It is not the least evil of their depressed condition, not the least painful stripe inflicted upon their nakedness by those above them, that, whilst exiled from the privileges of manhood, any slave, with means and mind somewhat superior to their own, can, by a show of sympathy, and by fanning those passions which oppression never fails to light up, get possession of their hearts and lead them down to deeper ruin, under nretence of conducting them to victory and rest. Wholesale ty-
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Nonconformist
London, Middlesex, GB
Wed, Nov 23, 1842
Page 4
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Matthew R.
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