Yet, despite of law and of treaty, that infernal traffic is now destroyed, and its votaries put to death like other pirates. How came this change to pass ? Not, assuredly, by Parliament leading the way ; but the country at length awoke ; the indignation... Selections from the Speeches and Writings of the Right Honourable Henry ... - Page 196 by Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - 1832 - 259 pages Full view -
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