Excerpt from The Jamaica Question: Papers Relative to the Condition of the Labouring Population of the West Indies, Presented to Parliament by Her Majesty's Command, 1839, From Edinburgh Review, July, 1839

Now, patience is a great virtue, but, when cultivated at other people's expense, it is apt to be abused and hope, indulged beyond a certain point, may become criminal as well as foolish. Let us review the history of our attempts to conciliate the co-operation of the Jamaica Assembly, since the beginning of the great quarrel with what forlorn prospects they were commenced, with what patient perseverance, under what manifold discouragements, they were renewed, in what mere failure they have all ended and let us then ask, whether we have any right to persist in the same course still.

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