We supposed that when by the abolition of the slave trade the planters could get no more slaves, they would not only treat better those whom they then had in their power, but that they would gradually find it to their advantage to emancipate them.

A part of our expectations have been realized; ...

but, alas! where the heart has been desperately wicked, we have found no change.

We did not sufficiently take into account the effect of unlimited power on the human mind.

No man likes to part with power, and the more unbounded it is, the less he likes to part with it.