Summary
THE labours of a self-constituted body in the metropolis, styling itself “The committee of the London Society, for mitigating and abolishing Slavery in the British dominions,” next require consideration. Who the individuals are who compose this society, it is not very material to inquire. Generally they are members of the African Institution, which society, Proteus like, assumes every shape as suits its purpose. Some passages, however, in the works of the society, such as “protecting duties andbo unties exclusively, afforded to the growers of Sugar in the West Indies” enable us to trace the interested pen of him who guides the “Committee” of this anti-colonial and dangerous society. Trampling upon every principle of truth, justice, and Christianity; this interested committee artfully adduce the most hideous calumnies against our West India Colonies, that they may get the support of the mother country withdrawn from these possessions, and bestowed upon our purer East India territories; but more especially upon that capacious grave of human life, and check to commercial enterprise in Africa—Sierra Leone.
The exertions of this unconstitutional society are so incessant, so persevering, and so fraught with danger, that it becomes the duty of every man who has any regard for his country, to develope and arrest them.
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- West India Colonies , pp. 244 - 307Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010