Add to which, that the nation had never deserted the cause during this whole period.
It is much to the honour of the English people, that they should have continued to feel for the existence of an evil which was so far removed from their sight.

But at this moment their feelings began to be insupportable.

Many of them resolved, as soon as parliament had rejected the bill, to abstain from the use of West Indian produce.

In this state of things a pamphlet, written by William Bell Crafton, of Tewksbury, and called "A Sketch of the Evidence, with a Recommendation on the Subject to the Serious Attention of People in general," made its appearance; and another followed it, written by William Fox, of London, "On the Propriety of abstaining from West India Sugar and Rum." These pamphlets took the same ground.

They inculcated abstinence from these articles as a moral duty; they inculcated it as a peaceable and constitutional measure; and they laid before the reader a truth, which was sufficiently obvious, that if each would abstain, the people would have a complete remedy for this enormous evil in their own power.
While these things were going on, it devolved upon me to arrange all the evidence on the part of the abolition under proper heads, and to abridge it into one volume.