Barbarians! will you persuade me, that a man can be the property of a sovereign, a son the property of a father, a wife the property of a husband, a domestic the property of a master, a Negro the property of a planter ?" But I have no time to follow this animated author, even by short extracts, through the varied strains of eloquence which he displays upon this occasion.

I can only say, that his labours entitle him to a high station among the benefactors to the African race.
The third was Dr.Paley, whose genius, talents, and learning have been so eminently displayed in his writings in the cause of natural and revealed religion.

Dr.Paley did not write any essay expressly in favour of the Africans.

But in his Moral Philosophy, where he treated on slavery, he took an opportunity of condemning, in very severe terms, the continuance of it.
In this work he defined what slavery was, and how it might arise consistently with the law of nature; but he made an exception against that which arose from the African trade.
"The Slave-trade," says he, "upon the coast of Africa, is not excused by these principles.

When slaves in that country are brought to market, no questions, I believe, are asked about the origin or justice of the vendor's title.