Suicide

,—self-murder, very prevalent in England, and which I think is wholly ascribable to Government. For when men have married, andfind they cannot support their wives and families, they are thereby driven to this act of desperation. Under a perfect form of government, a poor man would be an anomaly, a phenomenon. The character of a nation is certainly influenced and determined entirely according to the administration of the government. I never was so much affescted as at the erlation of a fact which took place a few years ago on the coast of Africa. Some English ships appeared on the coast. This amongst the tribes, was the signal for war. After the battle, upwards of forty victims, who had been taken prisoners, knowing their fate, burst from their chains, rushed into the woods, where they all committed suicide together.—Oh! Englishmen! have ye hearts to feel, and yet continue this traffic?