They had suffered no statement in behalf of those interested in the continuance of the trade, to go unanswered.

Dr.
Dickson, the author of the Letters on Slavery before mentioned, had come forward again with his services on this occasion, and by his active cooperation with a sub-committee appointed for the purpose, the coast was so well cleared of our opponents, that, though they were seen the next year again, through the medium of the same papers, they appeared only in sudden incursions, as it were, during which they darted a few weapons at us; but they never afterward ventured upon the plain to dispute the matter, inch by inch, or point by point, in an open and manly manner.
But other circumstances occurred to keep up a hatred of the trade among the people in this interval, which, trivial as they were, ought not to be forgotten.

The amiable poet Cowper had frequently made the Slave-trade the subject of his contemplation.

He had already severely condemned it in his valuable poem The Task.

But now he had written three little fugitive pieces upon it.