religion.  The people of England have no desire to interfere with your property, but with your oppression.  It is probable that your property would be improved by the change.  But, to examine this right more minutely, I contend, first, that they have always a right to interfere in behalf of humanity and justice wherever their appeals can be heard.  I contend, secondly, that they have a more immediate right to interfere in the present case, because the oppressed persons in question, living in the British dominions and under the British Government, are their fellow subjects.  I contend again, that they have this right upon the ground that they are giving you, the West Indians, a monopoly for their sugar, by buying it from you exclusively at a much dearer rate than they can get it from other quarters.  Surely they have a right to say to you, as customers for your produce, Change your system and we will continue to deal with you; but if you will not change it, we will buy our sugar elsewhere, or we will not buy sugar at all.  The East Indian market is open to us, and we prefer sugar that is not stained with blood.  Nay, we will petition Parliament to take off the surplus duty with which East Indian sugar is loaded on your account.  What superior claims have you either upon Parliament or upon us, that you should have the preference?  As to the East Indians, they are as much the subjects of the British empire as yourselves.  As to the East India Company, they support all their establishments, both civil and military, at their own expense.  They come to our Treasury for nothing; while you, with naval stations, and an extraordinary military force kept up for no other purpose than to keep in awe an injured population, and with heavy bounties on the exportation of your sugar, put us to such an expense as makes us doubt whether your trade is worth having on its present terms.  They, the East India Company, again, have been a blessing to the Natives with whom they have been concerned.  They distribute an equal system of law and justice to all without respect of persons.  They dispell the clouds of ignorance, superstition, and idolatry, and carry with them civilization and liberty wherever they go.  You, on the other hand, have no code of justice but for yourselves.  You deny it to those who cannot help themselves.  You hinder liberty by your cruel restrictions on manumission; and dreading the inlet of light, you study to perpetuate ignorance and barbarism.  Which then of the two competitors has the claim to preference by an English Parliament and an English people?  It may probably soon become a question with the latter, whether they will consent to pay a million annually more for West India sugar than for other of like quality, or, which is the same thing, whether they will allow themselves to be taxed annually to the amount of a million sterling to support West Indian slavery.