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Excerpt from The Works of William Robertson, D.D, Vol. 11 of 12
Humanity. After their possessions in the New World became so extensive, as might have excited some apprehensions of difficulty in re taining their dominion over them, the spirit of their regulations was as mild as when their settlements were confined to the islands alone. Their solicitude to protect the Indians seems rather to have augmented as their acquisitions increased: and from ardour to accomplish this, they enacted, and endeavoured to enforce the execution of laws, which excited a formidable rebellion in one of their colonies, and spread.
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