But how shall he deliver us from evil, who are daily invading the right of the injured African, and heaping misery on his head!" I attempted, lastly, to show, that, though the sin of the Slave-trade had been hitherto a sin of ignorance, and might therefore have so far been winked at, yet as the crimes and miseries belonging to it became known, it would attach even to those who had no concern in it, if they suffered it to continue either without notice or reproach, or if they did not exert themselves in a reasonable manner for its suppression.

I noticed particularly, the case of Tyre and Sidon, which were the Bristol and the Liverpool of those times.

A direct judgment had been pronounced by the prophet Joel against these cities, and, what is remarkable, for the prosecution of this same barbarous traffic.

Thus, "And what have ye to do with me O Tyre and Sidon, and all the coasts of Palestine?
Ye have cast lots for my people.

Ye have sold a girl for wine.