Robert Southey

“ Thus ended the one attempt; it is not difficult to say why the other has failed; it is not difficult to say why the Minister has once found himself in the minority, and on the side of justice. Would to God that the interests of those who dispose of us as they please, had been as closely connected with the preservation of Peace and Liberty, as with the continuance of this traffic in human flesh! ”

“ When first the Abolition of the Slave-Trade was agitated in England, the friends of humanity endeavoured by two means to accomplish it—To destroy the Trade immediately by the interference of Government ”