Mr. Pitt, in every discussion in which negro-emancipation was agitated, pronounced, that it was an act which must “flow from the master alone.” When that presiding genius of the country’s commercial greatness was no more—when Mr. Fox had coalesced with Lord Grenville,—and above all, when the whole anti-colonial party, with Mr. Wilberforce at its head, had joined his ranks, Mr. Fox, in the full tide of his popularity and his power, declared— “That the idea of an act of parliament to emancipate the slaves in the West Indies, _without the consent and concurrent feeling of all parties concerned_, BOTH IN THIS COUNTRY AND IN THAT, would not only be mischievous in its consequences, but totally extravagant in its conception, as well as impracticable in its execution.” THE END. LONDON: Printed by W. CLOWES, Stamford-street. ------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some hyphens in words have been silently removed (e.g., “West India” and “West Indian”) and added (e.g., “sugar-plantation” and “sugar-estate”), when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings and inconsistent or archaic usage in the text have been retained. Page 3: “particular acts ema nate” replaced by “particular acts emanate” Page 63: “announce to theslaves” replaced by “announce to the slaves” ------------------