ABSTRACT
Amongst the number of pamphlets on the subject of slavery, which have lately crowded the press, Mr. Clarkson’s has been selected, not on account of its superior claims to public notice; not for the liberality of its principles, the soundness of its reasoning, or for any other excellence which the distinguished name of its author gave us reason to expect; but for its very deficiency in these points, because the name of one of the earliest and most eminent champions of the abolition, which has disappointed our expectations, may impose upon others, less qualified by local information, to appreciate the doctrines developed in this pamphlet, and to expose their dangerous tendency.
