Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) to Thomas Pringle
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC00496.147 Author/Creator: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834) Place Written: s.l. Type: Autograph letter signed Date: 1833 Pagination: 3 p. : address ; 24.3 x 19.1 cm. Order a Copy
Discusses anti-slavery legislation and Pringle's Anti-Slavery Society.
Thomas Pringle was a Scottish abolitionist and poet. Coleridge was a British lyrical poet, critic, philosopher, and abolitionist.
[Draft Excerpt:]
But there is a larger, a might Third Party – the People...all in the high fever of the gross but most perilously influencive Delusion respecting Taxation. Whatever their Humanity may be, threaten them with a few Millions…& see what then Humanity will come to? To such prejudices a good man can present only the Truth whether the Truth shall prevail against the Delusion we must leave to God - But Hibbard ought to be answered. If the Planters, the Receivers of the Stolen Goods, had performed the conditions, under which the English Government…legitimated the Slavery, could the W. India plantations have been in their present condition of Bankruptcy and Peril?
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