The fierceness of it was doubtless restrained by an elevation of mind in many, as arising from a consciousness of superior rank and consequence: but, alas! it was too often exercised there by the base and vulgar.

The more liberal too of the planters were not resident upon their estates.

Hence a promiscuous censure of them would be unjust, though their system would undoubtedly be odious.
As for the cure of this monstrous evil, he had shown, last year, that internal regulations would not produce it.

These could have no effect, while the evidence of slaves was inadmissible.

What would be the situation of the bulk of the people of this country, if only gentlemen of five hundred a-year were admitted as evidences in our courts of law?
Neither was the cure of it in the emancipation of the slaves.