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quare, and see if they will suit. We have no doubt, if either of the European gentlemen should buy, we could make very good terms. We should have to give up nothing but African slavery and our own independence. As to the first, we may have to give it up any way; as to the last, what is the birthright of freedom, after all, compared to a mess of pottage? In return, we should get rid of Yankees, and have plenty to eat and drink. Some of us might have a chance to become Earls, or even Dukes — a great consolation to their posterity, who could exhibit patents of nobility almost as old as those of the aristocracy of Hayti. Poor, forlorn, deserted foundlings that we are, we still might like a choice of masters. We do not want to belong, if it can be helped, to that fat old gentleman with the broad-brimmed hat, the rosy gills, the double-chin, and the unwieldy periphery. Having been his property once, and felt compelled, under a sense of duty to our personal comfort, to run a