If a man broke open his neighbour's house, he would feel the consequences.

There was an ally of virtue, who rendered it the interest of individuals to be moral, and he was called the executioner.

But as such punishment did not always await us in our national concerns, we should substitute honour as the guardian of our national conduct.

He hoped the West-Indians would consider the character of the mother-country, and the obligations to national as well as individual justice.

He hoped also they would consider the sufferings, which they occasioned both in Africa, in the passage, and in the West-Indies.