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he best way of settling the Irish question; and that the enslavement and forcible transportation of her poor, to labor under armed taskmasters in the Colonies, is the only rightful and proper remedy for the political and social evils of England. In the Discourse on Negro Slavery we see this devilish philosophy in full bloom. The gods, he tells us, are with the strong. Might has a divine right to rule,—blessed are the crafty of brain and strong of hand! Weakness is crime. Vae victis as Brennus said when he threw his sword into the scale,—Woe to the conquered! The negro is weaker in intellect than his born lord, the white man, and has no right to choose his own vocation. Let the latter do it for him, and,if need be, return to the beneficent whip. On the side of the oppressor there is power; let him use it without mercy, and hold flesh and blood to the grindstone with unrelenting rigor. Humanity is squeamishness; pity for the suffering mere rose-pink sentimentalism, maudlin and