Seeing then that nothing has been done where it ought, it is the duty of the abolitionists to resume their labours.  If through the medium of the abolition of the slave trade they have not accomplished, as they expected, the whole of their object, they have no alternative but to resort to other measures, or to attempt by constitutional means, under that Legislature which has already sanctioned their efforts, the mitigation of the cruel treatment of the Negroes, with the ultimate view of extinguishing, in due time and in a suitable manner, the slavery itself.  Nor ought any time to be lost in making such an attempt; for it is a melancholy fact, that there is scarcely any increase of the slave population in our islands at the present moment.  What other proof need we require of the severity of the slavery there, and of the necessity of its mitigation? Severe punishments, want of sufficient food, labour extracted by the whip, and a system of prostitution, conspire, almost as much as ever, to make inroads upon the constitutions of the slaves, and to prevent their increase.  And let it be remembered here, that any former defect of this kind was supplied by importations; but that importations are now unlawful.  Unless, therefore, the abolitionists interfere, and that soon, our West Indian planters may come to Parliament and say, “We have now tried your experiment.  It has not answered.  You must therefore give us leave to go again to the coast of Africa for slaves.”  There is also another consideration worthy of the attention of the abolitionists, viz. that a public attempt made in England to procure the abolition of slavery would very much promote their original object, the cause of the abolition of the slave trade; for foreign courts have greatly doubted our sincerity as to the latter measure, and have therefore been very backward in giving us their assistance in it.  If England, say they, abolished the slave trade from moral motives, how happens it that she continues slavery?  But if this public attempt were to succeed, then the abolitionists would see their wishes in a direct train for completion:  for if slavery were to fall in the British islands, this event would occasion death in a given time, and without striking any further blow, to the execrable trade in every part of the world; because those foreigners, who should continue slavery, no longer able to compete in the markets with those who should employ free men, must abandon the slave trade altogether.

But here perhaps the planters will say, “What right have the people of England to interfere with our property, which would be the case if they were to attempt to abolish slavery?” The people of England might reply, that they have as good a right as you, the planters, have to interfere with that most precious of all property, the liberty of your slaves, seeing that you hold them by no right that is not opposed to nature, reason, justice, and