Already much has been done, and if not persecuted, we should be able and willing to do much more." "The public mind in England is certainly much inflamed against you," said Berecroft.
"It is; or rather, I should say, the more numerous public composed of those persons unable to think for themselves, and in consequence, led by others styling themselves philanthropists, but appearing to have very jesuitical ideas with regard to truth.

This I have no hesitation in asserting, that if philanthropy had not been found to have been so very _profitable_, it never would have had so many votaries: true philanthropy, like charity, begins at home.

Observe how the papers teem with the misery of the lower classes in England, yet this affects not the West India philanthropist.

You perceive not their voices raised in behalf of their suffering countrymen.

They pass the beggar in the street; they heed not the cry of starvation at home; but everywhere raise petitions for emancipation; or, in fact, for the destruction of the property of others.