William Eaton

(Tunissians had captured ninc hundred and twenty Sardiniati slaves, of whom General Eaton tliH3 makcs meiition.) "Many havo died with grief, and ihu oiheriïïingcr out a lifo less tolerable than deaítí. Alas - enrorse seizcs my wholc sou! wlien I reflect, tliat thia is indeed hut a eopy of the very barba rity v.-hich my eyes have aeen in my own nativo country. And yet we boayt of liberiy and nationa! justico. How frequently in the tíuuthern Slates of my own country, have Iseen w'eepüigmothers lemüng the guililess infant ïo tho siles vviih as deep angnish as il'lhey led tném to the slauhtor; and yet feit my bosom tranquil in the view uf these aggressiona on defendeless humauity. Uut whcn I see the same enor-j müioapractised upou heings whse complexioñ and blood claiinkitidred with my own, I curse the perpétralo.-?, and weep over tho wretched victima of their rapaci-Jly. indeed, truth nmJ justtco demnnd frorn tné the cohféssjbn, thai the chrisiian sluves amang the barburians of Áfrico, are ireated wilh more" humnnity than the Africao sluve-s among profes3ing christians of civiüzed America j and yet lierescnsibiüly bleedsat every [iore for tho wretch ea wliom fate luis doome.l to slavery.