Miserable as the roof might be, under which he slept, he slept in security.

He walked by the side of the stately ship, and he feared no dungeon in her hold.

Nor ought we, as Englishmen, to be less grateful to this distinguished individual than the African ought to be upon this occasion.

To him we owe it, that we no longer see our public papers polluted by hateful advertisements of the sale of the human species, or that we are no longer distressed by the perusal of impious rewards for bringing back the poor and the helpless into slavery, or that we are prohibited the disgusting spectacle of seeing man bought by his fellow-man.

To him, in short, we owe this restoration of the beauty of our constitution--this prevention of the continuance of our national disgrace.
I shall say but little more of Mr.Sharp at present, than that he felt it his duty, immediately after the trial, to write to Lord North, then principal minister of state, warning him in the most earnest manner, to abolish immediately both the trade and the slavery of the human species in all the British dominions, as utterly irreconcileable with the principles of the British constitution, and the established religion of the land.
Among other coadjutors, whom the cruel and wicked practices which have now been so amply detailed brought forward, was a worthy clergyman, whose name I have not yet been able to learn.