We are to see them again subject to individual persecution, as anger, or malice, or any bad passion may suggest.

Hence the whip--the chain--the iron-collar.

Hence the various modes of private torture, of which so many accounts have been truly given.

Nor can such horrible cruelties be discovered so as to be made punishable, while the testimony of any number of the oppressed is invalid against the oppressors, however they may be offences against the laws.

And, lastly, we are to see their innocent offspring, against whose personal liberty the shadow of an argument cannot be advanced, inheriting all the miseries of their parents' lot.
The evil then, as far as it has been hitherto viewed, presents to us in its three several departments a measure of human suffering not to be equalled--not to be calculated--not to be described.