Once more, if we mean to keep the blacks as British subjects, we are bound to govern them, and to govern them well.
You will be apter to abuse your inferiors than well to govern them.
The redeemed are not masterless, but have still a Lord, who hath now a double right to govern them.
It is, then, the acknowledged right of the state to govern themby laws in the formation of which they have no voice.
Upon the other, we treat them as subjects; we govern them, and not they themselves; they will abhor us as masters, and break off from us in defiance.
I invert the question, and ask, shall two millions of people put it in the power of one million to govern them as they please?
It is asked, shall nine colonies put it into the power of four to govern them as they please?
If such a case could be proved, it would equally prove that those who govern are not fit to govern them, for they are a part of the same national mass.
While men could be persuaded they had no rights, or that rights appertained only to a certain class of men, or that government was a thing existing in right of itself, it was not difficult to govern them authoritatively.
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