Excerpt from Hints Regarding the East India Monopoly: Respectfully Submitted to the British Legislature
When an important and deeply interesting question has been long agitated and discussed, and the facts and circumstances by which it may be affected have been examined and considered in their various relations to, and bearings upon its object, we are not always best prepared for deciding upon its merits, or for acting conformably to its import. In many instances, investigation blunts our finest and highest perceptions, and the details which it brings to light overwhelm our clearest and most sublime views of duty and of interest. In this way, the animated feelings, which the prospect of a free trade to India had excited, have already been worn away, and our minds have been so exhausted and perplexed by the intricate labyrinth into which the Company"s affairs have brought the general question, that those paramount considerations, those insuperable obligations, which the question itself implies, are in danger of being, if not absolutely forgot, at least generally overlooked. It is for the purpose of recalling these first and paramount impressions that the following hints are respectfully offered.
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