Note 176 — Chapter XIX
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Africans, like the lower Asiatics, ever drink to excess: “A glass or two” is a thing unknown to them. Consequently, rum has done more harm for them than the slave ship has. As there is a perspective in crime, making the farthest appear the smallest, so, as the world progresses, the present acts of honest men, such as selling spirits, weapons, and ammunition to savages, will be looked upon by their grandsons as the “sum of all villanies.”