The Slave Trade

: Patience.

In one of the last discussions on the slave trade, Sir
Charles Pole said, "while he deprecated the motion (for the abolition), he

rejoiced that it had been brought forward thus early, because it showed the

cloven foot which had been attempted to be concealed." To this remark Mr.

Sheridan very spiritedly replied, "An honourable baronet," said he, "has

talked of a cloven foot; I plead guilty to that cloven foot; but this I

will say, that the man who expresses pleasure at the hope of seeing so

large a portion of the human race freed from the shackles of tyranny rather

displays the pinions of an angel than the cloven foot of a demon."



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