text:  The point under consideration also important as it is becomes still more important when the fact is considered that if Great Britain does not set about the work to raise that produce in Africa and command the trade proceeding from it other nations most assuredly will; when she will lose not only the advantages which that cultivation and trade would give her but that trade also which she at present holds with her own colonies; for it is plain that the proceedings of foreign countries such as have been adverted to both in Africa America and other places would cover the British colonies with poverty and ruin