Volume 64: Emily Macarthur [Mrs. James Macarthur] correspondence and other papers, 1838-1879: No. 385
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execution of the black slave by those far famed & boasting people. Let us come nearer home & look at Greenacre in our enlightened day, not long back behold the [Tuthills?] - & what a scene of treachery & premeditated murder with the unfeeling conduct of the party under the title of friends. And what seems present to our eyes in the newspapers Even of the polished circles, that even the brute creation would not be guilty of the same. What devil could act worse than those characters, What was Greenacre, & others also as the newspapers notify can we not say that man in his natural character state is any other than a compound as stated
Both BL Reynolds the reformed & [BP Hebu?] assert the same
What tho' the spicy breezes,
Blow loft on Ceylon's isle,
Tho' every prospect pleases,
And only man is vile -