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The Daily Dispatch: August 13, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
rade was profitable, and they never thought then, nor have they thought since, of weighing profit against humanity. "Let Glasgow flourish" is the motto upon the town arms of that respectable city. And Glasgow did flourish. It flourished upon the bGlasgow did flourish. It flourished upon the blood and tears of some scores of thousands of Africans, torn annually from their homes by Glasgow traders, and sold into slavery in the West Indies and upon the Continent. Of course, now that the trade is no longer profitable, Glasgow sees the enorGlasgow sees the enormity of the sin as clearly as Liverpool, or any other community, which once found its profit in encouraging it. Glasgow and Liverpool — and all the maritime cities of Great Britain--according to their own showing, were great sinners at that day; butGlasgow and Liverpool — and all the maritime cities of Great Britain--according to their own showing, were great sinners at that day; but their sins were, in enormity, as white is to crimson, when compared with the crimes of the Yankees. They were the great man-stealers of the earth--"the felons of the human race"--as O'Connell once chose to call the slave States of this Confederacy